Related papers: HerMES: SPIRE Science Demonstration Phase Maps

Timing techniques applied to distributed modular high-energy astronomy: the HERMES project

The HERMES-TP/SP (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites -- Technologic and Scientific Pathfinder) is an in-orbit demonstration of the so-called distributed astronomy concept. Conceived as a mini-constellation of six 3U…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 A. Sanna , A. F. Gambino , L. Burderi , A. Riggio , T. Di Salvo , F. Fiore , M. Lavagna , R. Bertacin , Y. Evangelista , R. Campana , F. Fuschino , P. Lunghi , A. Monge , B. Negri , S. Pirrotta , S. Puccetti , the HERMES-TP , HERMES-SP Collaborations

HELP: The Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project

We present the Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP). This project collates, curates, homogenises, and creates derived data products for most of the premium multi-wavelength extragalactic data sets. The sky boundaries for the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 R. Shirley , K. Duncan , M. C. Campos Varillas , P. D. Hurley , K. Malek , Y. Roehlly , M. W. L. Smith , H. Aussel , T. Bakx , V. Buat , D. Burgarella , N. Christopher , S. Duivenvoorden , S. Eales , A. Efstathiou , E. A. Gonzalez Solares , M. Griffin , M. Jarvis , B. Lo Faro , L. Marchetti , I. McCheyne , A. Papadopoulos , K. Penner , E. Pons , M. Prescott , E. Rigby , H. Rottgering , A. Saxena , J. Scudder , M. Vaccari , L. Wang , S. J. Oliver

The Herschel Stripe 82 Survey (HerS): Maps and Early Catalog

We present the first set of maps and band-merged catalog from the Herschel Stripe 82 Survey (HerS). Observations at 250, 350, and 500 micron were taken with the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) instrument aboard the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. P. Viero , V. Asboth , I. G. Roseboom , L. Moncelsi , G. Marsden , E. Mentuch Cooper , M. Zemcov , G. Addison , A. J. Baker , A. Beelen , J. Bock , C. Bridge , A. Conley , M. J. Devlin , O. Doré , D. Farrah , S. Finkelstein , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Geach , K. Gebhardt , A. Gill , J. Glenn , A. Hajian , M. Halpern , S. Jogee , P. Kurczynski , A. Lapi , M. Negrello , S. J. Oliver , C. Papovich , R. Quadri , N. Ross , D. Scott , B. Schulz , R. Somerville , D. N. Spergel , J. D. Vieira , L. Wang , R. Wechsler

Herschel-ATLAS: First data release of the Science Demonstration Phase source catalogues

The Herschel-ATLAS is a survey of 550 square degrees with the Herschel Space Observatory in five far--infrared and submillimetre bands. The first data for the survey, observations of a field 4x4 sq. degrees in size, were taken during the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 E. E. Rigby , S. J. Maddox , L. Dunne , M. Negrello , D. J. B. Smith , J. González-Nuevo , D. Herranz , M. López-Caniego , R. Auld , M. Baes , S. Buttiglione , A. Cava , A. Cooray , D. L. Clements , A. Dariush , G. De Zotti , S. Dye , S. Eales , D. Frayer , J. Fritz , R. Hopwood , E. Ibar , R. J. Ivison , M. Jarvis , P. Panuzzo , E. Pascale , M. Pohlen , G. Rodighiero , S. Serjeant , P. Temi , M. A. Thompson

The HERMES-Technologic and Scientific Pathfinder

HERMES-TP/SP (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites Technologic and Scientific Pathfinder) is a constellation of six 3U nano-satellites hosting simple but innovative X-ray detectors, characterized by a large energy band and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-11 F. Fiore , L. Burderi , M. Lavagna , R. Bertacin , Y. Evangelista , R. Campana , F. Fuschino , P. Lunghi , A. Monge , B. Negri , S. Pirrotta , S. Puccetti , A. Sanna , the HERMES-TP , HERMES-SP Collaborations

The data processing pipeline for the Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer

We present the data processing pipeline to generate calibrated data products from the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer on the Herschel Space Observatory. The pipeline processes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 T. Fulton , D. A. Naylor , E. T. Polehampton , I. Valtchanov , R. Hopwood , N. Lu , J. -P. Baluteau , G. Mainetti , C. Pearson , A. Papageorgiou , S. Guest , L. Zhang , P. Imhof , B. M. Swinyard , M. J. Griffin , T. L. Lim

The Herschel-SPIRE instrument and its in-flight performance

The Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE), is the Herschel Space Observatory`s submillimetre camera and spectrometer. It contains a three-band imaging photometer operating at 250, 350 and 500 microns, and an imaging Fourier…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. J. Griffin , A. Abergel , A. Abreu , P. A. R. Ade , P. André , J. -L. Augueres , T. Babbedge , Y. Bae , T. Baillie , J. -P. Baluteau , M. J. Barlow , G. Bendo , D. Benielli , J. J. Bock , P. Bonhomme , D. Brisbin , C. Brockley-Blatt , M. Caldwell , C. Cara , N. Castro-Rodriguez , R. Cerulli , P. Chanial , S. Chen , E. Clark , D. L. Clements , L. Clerc , J. Coker , D. Communal , L. Conversi , P. Cox , D. Crumb , C. Cunningham , F. Daly , G. R. Davis , P. De Antoni , J. Delderfield , N. Devin , A. Di Giorgio , I. Didschuns , K. Dohlen , M. Donati , A. Dowell , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , L. Dumaye , R. J. Emery , M. Ferlet , D. Ferrand , J. Fontignie , M. Fox , A. Franceschini , M. Frerking , T. Fulton , J. Garcia , R. Gastaud , W. K. Gear , J. Glenn , A. Goizel , D. K. Griffin , T. Grundy , S. Guest , L. Guillemet , P. C. Hargrave , M. Harwit , P. Hastings , E. Hatziminaoglou , M. Herman , B. Hinde , V. Hristov , M. Huang , P. Imhof , K. J. Isaak , U. Israelsson , R. J. Ivison , D. Jennings , B. Kiernan , K. J. King , A. E. Lange , W. Latter , G. Laurent , P. Laurent , S. J. Leeks , E. Lellouch , L. Levenson , B. Li , J. Li , J. Lilienthal , T. Lim , J. Liu , N. Lu , S. Madden , G. Mainetti , P. Marliani , D. McKay , K. Mercier , S. Molinari , H. Morris , H. Moseley , J. Mulder , M. Mur , D. A. Naylor , H. Nguyen , B. O'Halloran , S. Oliver , G. Olofsson , H. -G. Olofsson , R. Orfei , M. J. Page , I. Pain , P. Panuzzo , A. Papageorgiou , G. Parks , P. Parr-Burman , A. Pearce , C. Pearson , I. Pérez-Fournon , F. Pinsard , G. Pisano , J. Podosek , M. Pohlen , E. T. Polehampton , D. Pouliquen , D. Rigopoulou , D. Rizzo , I. G. Roseboom , H. Roussel , M. Rowan-Robinson , B. Rownd , P. Saraceno , M. Sauvage , R. Savage , G. Savini , E. Sawyer , C. Scharmberg , D. Schmitt , N. Schneider , B. Schulz , A. Schwartz , R. Shafer , D. L. Shupe , B. Sibthorpe , S. Sidher , A. Smith , A. J. Smith , D. Smith , L. Spencer , B. Stobie , R. Sudiwala , K. Sukhatme , C. Surace , J. A. Stevens , B. M. Swinyard , M. Trichas , T. Tourette , H. Triou , S. Tseng , C. Tucker , A. Turner , M. Vaccari , I. Valtchanov , L. Vigroux , E. Virique , G. Voellmer , H. Walker , R. Ward , T. Waskett , M. Weilert , R. Wesson , G. J. White , N. Whitehouse , C. D. Wilson , B. Winter , A. L. Woodcraft , G. S. Wright , C. K. Xu , A. Zavagno , M. Zemcov , L. Zhang , E. Zonca

The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) Vector Magnetic Field Pipeline: SHARPs -- Space-weather HMI Active Region Patches

A new data product from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) called Space-weather HMI Active Region Patches (SHARPs) is now available. SDO/HMI is the first space-based instrument to map the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-08 Monica G. Bobra , Xudong Sun , J. Todd Hoeksema , Michael J. Turmon , Yang Liu , Keiji Hayashi , Graham Barnes , K. D. Leka

SPIRE Point Source Photometry

The different algorithms appropriate for point source photometry on data from the SPIRE instrument on-board the Herschel Space Observatory, within the Herschel Interactive Processing Environment (HIPE) are compared. Point source photometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 Chris Pearson , Tanya Lim , Chris North , George Bendo , Luca Conversi , Darren Dowell , Matt Griffin , Terry Jin , Nicolas Laporte , Andreas Papageorgiou , Bernhard Schulz , Dave Shupe , Anthony J. Smith , Kevin Xu

Using synthetic emission maps to constrain the structure of the Milky Way

We present the current standing of an investigation into the structure of the Milky Way. We use smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) to simulate the ISM gas in the Milky Way under the effect of a number of different gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Alex Pettitt , Clare Dobbs , David Acreman , Daniel Price

HerMES: point source catalogues from deep Herschel-SPIRE observations

We describe the generation of single-band point source catalogues from submillimetre Herschel-SPIRE observations taken as part of the Science Demonstration Phase of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES). Flux densities are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. J. Smith , L. Wang , S. J. Oliver , R. Auld , J. Bock , D. Brisbin , D. Burgarella , P. Chanial , E. Chapin , D. L. Clements , L. Conversi , A. Cooray , C. D. Dowell , S. Eales , D. Farrah , A. Franceschini , J. Glenn , M. Griffin , R. J. Ivison , A. M. J. Mortier , M. J. Page , A. Papageorgiou , C. P. Pearson , I. Pérez-Fournon , M. Pohlen , J. I. Rawlings , G. Raymond , G. Rodighiero , I. G. Roseboom , M. Rowan-Robinson , R. Savage , Douglas Scott , N. Seymour , M. Symeonidis , K. E. Tugwell , M. Vaccari , I. Valtchanov , L. Vigroux , R. Ward , G. Wright , M. Zemcov

The Herschel-SPIRE Legacy Survey (HSLS): the scientific goals of a shallow and wide submillimeter imaging survey with SPIRE

A large sub-mm survey with Herschel will enable many exciting science opportunities, especially in an era of wide-field optical and radio surveys and high resolution cosmic microwave background experiments. The Herschel-SPIRE Legacy Survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-23 Asantha Cooray , Steve Eales , Scott Chapman , David L. Clements , Olivier Dore , Duncan Farrah , Matt J. Jarvis , Manoj Kaplinghat , Mattia Negrello , Alessandro Melchiorri , Hiranya Peiris , Alexandra Pope , Mario G. Santos , Stephen Serjeant , Mark Thompson , Glenn White , Alexandre Amblard , Manda Banerji , Pier-Stefano Corasaniti , Sudeep Das , Francesco de_Bernardis , Gianfranco de_Zotti , Tommaso Giannantonio , Joaquin Gonzalez-Nuevo Gonzalez , Ali Ahmad Khostovan , Ketron Mitchell-Wynne , Paolo Serra , Yong-Seon Song , Joaquin Vieira , Lingyu Wang , Michael Zemcov , Filipe Abdalla , Jose Afonso , Nabila Aghanim , Paola Andreani , Itziar Aretxaga , Robbie Auld , Maarten Baes , Andrew Baker , Denis Barkats , R. Belen Barreiro , Nicola Bartolo , Elizabeth Barton , Sudhanshu Barway , Elia Stefano Battistelli , Carlton Baugh , Alexander Beelen , Karim Benabed , Andrew Blain , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , James~J. Bock , J. Richard Bond , Julian Borrill , Colin Borys , Alessandro Boselli , Francois R. Bouchet , Carrie Bridge , Fabrizio Brighenti , Veronique Buat , David Buote , Denis Burgarella , Robert Bussmann , Erminia Calabrese , Christopher Cantalupo , Raymond Carlberg , Carla Sofia Carvalho , Caitlin Casey , Antonio Cava , Jordi Cepa , Edward Chapin , Ranga Ram Chary , Xuelei Chen , Sergio Colafrancesco , Shaun Cole , Peter Coles , Alexander Conley , Luca Conversi , Jeff Cooke , Steven Crawford , Catherine Cress , Elisabete da Cunha , Gavin Dalton , Luigi Danese , Helmut Dannerbauer , Jonathan Davies , Paolo de Bernardis , Roland de Putter , Mark Devlin , Jose M. Diego , Herve Dole , Marian Douspis , Joanna Dunkley , James Dunlop , Loretta Dunne , Rolando Dunner , Simon Dye , George Efstathiou , Eiichi Egami , Taotao Fang , Patrizia Ferrero , Alberto Franceschini , Christopher C. Frazer , David Frayer , Carlos Frenk , Ken Ganga , Raphael Gavazzi , Jason Glenn , Yan Gong , Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares , Matt Griffin , Qi Guo , Mark Gurwell , Amir Hajian , Mark Halpern , Duncan Hanson , Martin Hardcastle , Evanthia Hatziminaoglou , Alan Heavens , Sebastien Heinis , Diego Herranz , Matt Hilton , Shirley Ho , Benne W. Holwerda , Rosalind Hopwood , Jonathan Horner , Kevin Huffenberger , David H. Hughes , John P. Hughes , Edo Ibar , Rob Ivison , Neal Jackson , Andrew Jaffe , Timothy Jenness , Gilles Joncas , Shahab Joudaki , Sugata Kaviraj , Sam Kim , Lindsay King , Theodore Kisner , Johan Knapen , Alexei Kniazev , Eiichiro Komatsu , Leon Koopmans , Chao-Lin Kuo , Cedric Lacey , Ofer Lahav , Anthony N. Lasenby , Andy Lawrence , Myung Gyoon Lee , Lerothodi L. Leeuw , Louis R. Levenson , Geraint Lewis , Nicola Loaring , Marcos Lopez-Caniego , Steve Maddox , Tobias Marriage , Gaelen Marsden , Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez , Silvia Masi , Sabino Matarrese , William G. Mathews , Shuji Matsuura , Richard McMahon , Yannick Mellier , Felipe Menanteau , Michal~J. Michalowski , Marius Millea , Bahram Mobasher , Subhanjoy Mohanty , Ludovic Montier , Kavilan Moodley , Gerald H. Moriarty-Schieven , Angela Mortier , Dipak Munshi , Eric Murphy , Kirpal Nandra , Paolo Natoli , Hien Nguyen , Seb Oliver , Alain Omont , Lyman Page , Mathew Page , Roberta Paladini , Stefania Pandolfi , Enzo Pascale , Guillaume Patanchon , John Peacock , Chris Pearson , Ismael Perez-Fournon , Pablo G. Perez-Gonz , Francesco Piacentini , Elena Pierpaoli , Michael Pohlen , Etienne Pointecouteau , Gianluca Polenta , Jason Rawlings , Erik~D. Reese , Emma Rigby , Giulia Rodighiero , Encarni Romero-Colmenero , Isaac Roseboom , Michael Rowan-Robinson , Miguel Sanchez-Portal , Fabian Schmidt , Michael Schneider , Bernhard Schulz , Douglas Scott , Chris Sedgwick , Neelima Sehgal , Nick Seymour , Blake~D. Sherwin , Jo Short , David Shupe , Jonathan Sievers , Ramin Skibba , Joseph Smidt , Anthony Smith , Daniel J. B. Smith , Matthew W. L. Smith , David Spergel , Suzanne Staggs , Jason Stevens , Eric Switzer , Toshinobu Takagi , Tsutomu Takeuchi , Pasquale Temi , Markos Trichas , Corrado Trigilio , Katherine Tugwell , Grazia Umana , William Vacca , Mattia Vaccari , Petri Vaisanen , Ivan Valtchanov , Kurt van der Heyden , Paul P. van der Werf , Eelco van_Kampen , Ludovic van_Waerbeke , Simona Vegetti , Marcella Veneziani , Licia Verde , Aprajita Verma , Patricio Vielva , Marco P. Viero , Baltasar Vila Vilaro , Julie Wardlow , Grant Wilson , Edward L. Wright , C. Kevin Xu , Min S. Yun

Super-resolution in map-making based on a physical instrument model and regularized inversion. Application to SPIRE/Herschel

We investigate super-resolution methods for image reconstruction from data provided by a family of scanning instruments like the Herschel observatory. To do this, we constructed a model of the instrument that faithfully reflects the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 F. Orieux , J. -F. Giovannelli , T. Rodet , A. Abergel , H. Ayasso , M. Husson

Sky visibility analysis for astrophysical data return maximization in HERMES constellation

HERMES is a scientific mission composed of 3U nano-satellites dedicated to the detection and localization of high-energy astrophysical transients, with a distributed space architecture to form a constellation in Earth orbits. The space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-13 Andrea Colagrossi , Jacopo Prinetto , Stefano Silvestrini , Michèle Lavagna

Design, integration, and test of the scientific payloads on-board the HERMES constellation and the SpIRIT mission

HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) is a space-borne mission based on a constellation of nano-satellites flying in a low-Earth orbit (LEO). The six 3U CubeSat buses host new miniaturized instruments hosting a hybrid…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Y. Evangelista , F. Fiore , R. Campana , F. Ceraudo , G. Della Casa , E. Demenev , G. Dilillo , M. Fiorini , M. Grassi , A. Guzman , P. Hedderman , E. J. Marchesini , G. Morgante , F. Mele , P. Nogara , A. Nuti , R. Piazzolla , S. Pliego Caballero , I. Rashevskaya , F. Russo , G. Sottile , C. Labanti , G. Baroni , P. Bellutti , G. Bertuccio , J. Cao , T. Chen , I. Dedolli , M. Feroci , F. Fuschino , M. Gandola , N. Gao , F. Ficorella , P. Malcovati , A. Picciotto , A. Rachevski , A. Santangelo , C. Tenzer , A. Vacchi , L. Wang , Y. Xu , G. Zampa , N. Zampa , N. Zorzi

The Herschel Point Source Catalogue

The Herschel Space Observatory was the fourth cornerstone mission in the European Space Agency (ESA) science programme with excellent broad band imaging capabilities in the sub-mm and far-infrared part of the spectrum. Although the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Gábor Marton , Bernhard Schulz , Bruno Altieri , Luca Calzoletti , Csaba Kiss , Tanya Lim , Nanyao Lu , Roberta Paladini , Andreas Papageorgiou , Chris Pearson , John Rector , David Shupe , Ivan Valtchanov , Erika Varga-Verebélyi , Kevin Xu

Herschel SPIRE FTS Spectral Mapping Calibration

The Herschel SPIRE Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) performs spectral imaging in the 447-1546 GHz band. It can observe in three spatial sampling modes: sparse mode, with a single pointing on sky, or intermediate or full modes with 1 and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Dominique Benielli , Edward Polehampton , Rosalind Hopwood , Ana Belén Griñón Marín , Trevor Fulton , Peter Imhof , Tanya Lim , Nanyao Lu , Gibion Makiwa , Nicola Marchili , David Naylor , Locke Spencer , Bruce Swinyard , Ivan Valtchanov , Matthijs van der Wiel

Spectral Map Making with SPHEREx

We present map-making methodologies and preliminary spectral data cubes for SPHEREx, a NASA Explorer mission that launched in March 2025 and has been performing an all-sky near-infrared spectral survey. The SPHEREx instrument observes from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Ari J. Cukierman , Shuang-Shuang Chen , Jae Hwan Kang , Mary H. Minasyan , Giulia Murgia , James J. Bock , Tzu-Ching Chang , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Brendan P. Crill , Olivier Doré , C. Darren Dowell , Andreas L. Faisst , Joseph L. Hora , Howard Hui , Miju Kang , Phil M. Korngut , Ho-Gyu Lee , Bomee Lee , Gary J. Melnick , Jordan Mirocha , Chi H. Nguyen , Zafar Rustamkulov , Volker Tolls , Michael W. Werner , Yujin Yang , Michael Zemcov

HELP: XID+, The Probabilistic De-blender for Herschel SPIRE maps

We have developed a new prior-based source extraction tool, XID+, to carry out photometry in the Herschel SPIRE maps at the positions of known sources. XID+ is developed using a probabilistic Bayesian framework which provides a natural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 P. D. Hurley , S. Oliver , M. Betancourt , C. Clarke , W. I. Cowley , S. Duivenvoorden , D. Farrah , M. Griffin , C. Lacey , E. Le Floc'h , A. Papadopoulos , M. Sargent , J. M. Scudder , M. Vaccari , I. Valtchanov , L. Wang

Hierarchical progressive surveys. Multi-resolution HEALPix data structures for astronomical images, catalogues, and 3-dimensional data cubes

Scientific exploitation of the ever increasing volumes of astronomical data requires efficient and practical methods for data access, visualisation, and analysis. Hierarchical sky tessellation techniques enable a multi-resolution approach…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. Fernique , M. G. Allen , T. Boch , A. Oberto , F-X. Pineau , D. Durand , C. Bot , L. Cambresy , S. Derriere , F. Genova , F. Bonnarel