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The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough discoveries in fundamental physics, cosmology, and…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-10-10
The Simons Observatory Collaboration , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Shunsuke Adachi , Peter Ade , James Aguirre , Zeeshan Ahmed , Simone Aiola , Aamir Ali , David Alonso , Marcelo A. Alvarez , Kam Arnold , Peter Ashton , Zachary Atkins , Jason Austermann , Humna Awan , Carlo Baccigalupi , Taylor Baildon , Anton Baleato Lizancos , Darcy Barron , Nick Battaglia , Richard Battye , Eric Baxter , Andrew Bazarko , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Dominic Beck , Shawn Beckman , Benjamin Beringue , Tanay Bhandarkar , Sanah Bhimani , Federico Bianchini , Steven Boada , David Boettger , Boris Bolliet , J. Richard Bond , Julian Borrill , Michael L. Brown , Sarah Marie Bruno , Sean Bryan , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Paolo Calisse , Julien Carron , Fred. M Carl , Juan Cayuso , Anthony Challinor , Grace Chesmore , Yuji Chinone , Jens Chluba , Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho , Steve Choi , Susan Clark , Philip Clarke , Carlo Contaldi , Gabriele Coppi , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin Coughlin , Will Coulton , Devin Crichton , Kevin D. Crowley , Kevin T. Crowley , Ari Cukierman , John M. D'Ewart , Rolando Dünner , Tijmen de Haan , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Cody J. Duell , Shannon Duff , Adri Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Hamza El Bouhargani , Josquin Errard , Giulio Fabbian , Stephen Feeney , James Fergusson , Simone Ferraro , Pedro Fluxà , Katherine Freese , Josef C. Frisch , Andrei Frolov , George Fuller , Nicholas Galitzki , Patricio A. Gallardo , Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi , Jiansong Gao , Eric Gawiser , Martina Gerbino , Vera Gluscevic , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Joseph Golec , Sam Gordon , Megan Gralla , Daniel Green , Arpi Grigorian , John Groh , Chris Groppi , Yilun Guan , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , Peter Hargrave , Kathleen Harrington , Masaya Hasegawa , Matthew Hasselfield , Makoto Hattori , Victor Haynes , Masashi Hazumi , Erin Healy , Shawn W. Henderson , Brandon Hensley , Carlos Hervias-Caimapo , Charles A. Hill , J. Colin Hill , Gene Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Gary Hinshaw , Renée Hložek , Shirley Ho , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Thuong D. Hoang , Jonathan Hoh , Selim C. Hotinli , Zhiqi Huang , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Anna Ijjas , Margaret Ikape , Kent Irwin , Andrew H. Jaffe , Bhuvnesh Jain , Oliver Jeong , Matthew Johnson , Daisuke Kaneko , Ethan D. Karpel , Nobuhiko Katayama , Brian Keating , Reijo Keskitalo , Theodore Kisner , Kenji Kiuchi , Jeff Klein , Kenda Knowles , Anna Kofman , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Akito Kusaka , Phil LaPlante , Jacob Lashner , Adrian Lee , Eunseong Lee , Antony Lewis , Yaqiong Li , Zack Li , Michele Limon , Eric Linder , Jia Liu , Carlos Lopez-Caraballo , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Mathew Madhavacheril , Daisy Mak , Felipe Maldonado , Hamdi Mani , Ben Mates , Frederick Matsuda , Loïc Maurin , Phil Mauskopf , Andrew May , Nialh McCallum , Heather McCarrick , Chris McKenney , Jeff McMahon , P. Daniel Meerburg , James Mertens , Joel Meyers , Amber Miller , Mark Mirmelstein , Kavilan Moodley , Jenna Moore , Moritz Munchmeyer , Charles Munson , Masaaki Murata , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Martin Navaroli , Laura Newburgh , Ho Nam Nguyen , Andrina Nicola , Mike Niemack , Haruki Nishino , Yume Nishinomiya , John Orlowski-Scherer , Luca Pagano , Bruce Partridge , Francesca Perrotta , Phumlani Phakathi , Lucio Piccirillo , Elena Pierpaoli , Giampaolo Pisano , Davide Poletti , Roberto Puddu , Giuseppe Puglisi , Chris Raum , Christian L. Reichardt , Mathieu Remazeilles , Yoel Rephaeli , Dominik Riechers , Felipe Rojas , Aditya Rotti , Anirban Roy , Sharon Sadeh , Yuki Sakurai , Maria Salatino , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Lauren Saunders , Emmanuel Schaan , Marcel Schmittfull , Neelima Sehgal , Joseph Seibert , Uros Seljak , Paul Shellard , Blake Sherwin , Meir Shimon , Carlos Sierra , Jonathan Sievers , Cristobal Sifon , Precious Sikhosana , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Adrian Sinclair , Kendrick Smith , Wuhyun Sohn , Rita Sonka , David Spergel , Jacob Spisak , Suzanne T. Staggs , George Stein , Jason R. Stevens , Radek Stompor , Aritoki Suzuki , Osamu Tajima , Satoru Takakura , Grant Teply , Daniel B. Thomas , Ben Thorne , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Jesse Treu , Calvin Tsai , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Sunny Vagnozzi , Alexander van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Daniel D. Van Winkle , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Clara Vergès , Michael Vissers , Kasey Wagoner , Samantha Walker , Yuhan Wang , Jon Ward , Ben Westbrook , Nathan Whitehorn , Jason Williams , Joel Williams , Edward Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Siavash Yasini , Edward Young , Byeonghee Yu , Cyndia Yu , Fernando Zago , Mario Zannoni , Hezi Zhang , Kaiwen Zheng , Ningfeng Zhu , Andrea Zonca
The Mexico-UK Sub-millimetre Camera for AsTronomy (MUSCAT) is a large-format, millimetre-wave camera consisting of 1,500 background-limited lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) scheduled for deployment on the Large…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-07-24
Thomas L. R. Brien , Peter A. R. Ade , Peter S. Barry , Edgar Castillo-Domìnguez , Daniel Ferrusca , Thomas Gascard , Victor Gómez , Peter C. Hargrave , Amber L. Hornsby , David Hughes , Enzo Pascale , Josie D. A. Parrianen , Abel Perez , Sam Rowe , Carole Tucker , Salvador Ventura González , Simon M. Doyle
The World Space Observatory for Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) is an orbital optical telescope with a 1.7 m-diameter primary mirror currently under development. The WSO-UV is aimed to operate in the 115-310 nm UV spectral range. Its two major science…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-10-18
Alexander Tavrov , Shingo Kameda , Andrey Yudaev , Ilia Dzyuban , Alexander Kiselev , Inna Shashkova , Oleg Korablev , Mikhail Sachkov , Jun Nishikawa , Motohide Tamura , Go Murakami , Keigo Enya , Masahiro Ikoma , Norio Narita
The IceCube collaboration has built an in-ice neutrino telescope and a surface detector array, IceTop, at the South Pole. Over 5000 digital optical modules have been deployed in a cubic kilometer of ice between 1450 and 2450 m below the…
Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science objectives, providing state-of-the-art predictions for the…
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics
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Adrian Abac , Raul Abramo , Simone Albanesi , Angelica Albertini , Alessandro Agapito , Michalis Agathos , Conrado Albertus , Nils Andersson , Tomas Andrade , Igor Andreoni , Federico Angeloni , Marco Antonelli , John Antoniadis , Fabio Antonini , Manuel Arca Sedda , M. Celeste Artale , Stefano Ascenzi , Pierre Auclair , Matteo Bachetti , Charles Badger , Biswajit Banerjee , David Barba-Gonzalez , Daniel Barta , Nicola Bartolo , Andreas Bauswein , Andrea Begnoni , Freija Beirnaert , Michal Bejger , Enis Belgacem , Nicola Bellomo , Laura Bernard , Maria Grazia Bernardini , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Christopher P. L. Berry , Emanuele Berti , Gianfranco Bertone , Dario Bettoni , Miguel Bezares , Swetha Bhagwat , Sofia Bisero , Marie Anne Bizouard , Jose J. Blanco-Pillado , Simone Blasi , Alice Bonino , Alice Borghese , Ssohrab Borhanian , Elisa Bortolas , Maria Teresa Botticella , Marica Branchesi , Matteo Breschi , Richard Brito , Enzo Brocato , Floor S. Broekgaarden , Tomasz Bulik , Alessandra Buonanno , Fiorella Burgio , Adam Burrows , Gianluca Calcagni , Sofia Canevarolo , Enrico Cappellaro , Giulia Capurri , Carmelita Carbone , Roberto Casadio , Ramiro Cayuso , Pablo Cerda-Duran , Prasanta Char , Sylvain Chaty , Tommaso Chiarusi , Martyna Chruslinska , Francesco Cireddu , Philippa Cole , Alberto Colombo , Monica Colpi , Geoffrey Compere , Carlo Contaldi , Maxence Corman , Francesco Crescimbeni , Sergio Cristallo , Elena Cuoco , Giulia Cusin , Tito Dal Canton , Gergely Dalya , Paolo D'Avanzo , Nazanin Davari , Valerio De Luca , Viola De Renzis , Massimo Della Valle , Walter Del Pozzo , Federico De Santi , Alessio Ludovico De Santis , Tim Dietrich , Ema Dimastrogiovanni , Guillem Domenech , Daniela Doneva , Marco Drago , Ulyana Dupletsa , Hannah Duval , Irina Dvorkin , Nancy Elias-Rosa , Stephen Fairhurst , Anthea F. Fantina , Matteo Fasiello , Maxime Fays , Rob Fender , Tobias Fischer , Francois Foucart , Tassos Fragos , Stefano Foffa , Gabriele Franciolini , Jacopo Fumagalli , Jonathan Gair , Rossella Gamba , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Cecilio Garcia-Quiros , Laszlo Arpad Gergely , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Archisman Ghosh , Bruno Giacomazzo , Fabian Gittins , Ines Francesca Giudice , Boris Goncharov , Alejandra Gonzalez , Stephane Goriely , Luca Graziani , Giuseppe Greco , Leonardo Gualtieri , Gianluca Maria Guidi , Ish Gupta , Maria Haney , Mark Hannam , Jan Harms , Arus Harutyunyan , Brynmor Haskell , Andreas Haungs , Nandini Hazra , Gary Hemming , Ik Siong Heng , Tanja Hinderer , Alexander van der Horst , Qian Hu , Sascha Husa , Francesco Iacovelli , Giulia Illuminati , Gianluca Inguglia , David Izquierdo Villalba , Justin Janquart , Kamiel Janssens , Alexander C. Jenkins , Ian Jones , Balazs Kacskovics , Ralf S. Klessen , Kostas Kokkotas , Hao-Jui Kuan , Sumit Kumar , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Danny Laghi , Astrid Lamberts , Gaetano Lambiase , Francois Larrouturou , Paola Leaci , Michele Lenzi , Andrew Levan , T. G. F. Li , Yufeng Li , Dicong Liang , Marco Limongi , Boyuan Liu , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Eleonora Loffredo , Oliver Long , Eva Lope-Oter , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Elisa Maggio , Michele Maggiore , Michele Mancarella , Michela Mapelli , Pablo Marchant , Annarita Margiotta , Alberto Mariotti , Alisha Marriott-Best , Sylvain Marsat , Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo , Andrea Maselli , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Isabela Matos , Andrea Melandri , Raissa F. P. Mendes , Josiel Mendonca Soares de Souza , Giorgio Mentasti , Mar Mezcua , Philipp Mosta , Chiranjib Mondal , Michele Moresco , Tista Mukherjee , Niccolo Muttoni , Alessandro Nagar , Harsh Narola , Lara Nava , Pablo Navarro Moreno , Gijs Nelemans , Alex B. Nielsen , Samaya Nissanke , Martin Obergaulinger , Micaela Oertel , Gor Oganesyan , Francesca Onori , Costantino Pacilio , Giulia Pagliaroli , Cristiano Palomba , Peter T. H. Pang , Paolo Pani , Lucia Papalini , Barbara Patricelli , Alessandro Patruno , Alessandro Pedrotti , Albino Perego , Maria Angeles Perez-Garcia , Carole Perigois , Gabriele Perna , Celine Peroux , J. Perret , Delphine Perrodin , Alessandro Pesci , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Ornella Juliana Piccinni , Mauro Pieroni , Silvia Piranomonte , Lorenzo Pompili , E. K. Porter , Rafael A. Porto , Adam Pound , Jade Powell , Mathieu Puech , Geraint Pratten , Anna Puecher , Oriol Pujolas , Miguel Quartin , Adriana R. Raduta , Antoni Ramos-Buades , Aaron Rase , Massimiliano Razzano , Nanda Rea , Tania Regimbau , Arianna Renzini , Piero Rettegno , Angelo Ricciardone , Antonio Riotto , Alba Romero-Rodriguez , Samuele Ronchini , Dorota Rosinska , Andrea Rossi , Soumen Roy , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , J. Rubio , Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente , Violetta Sagun , Mairi Sakellariadou , Om Sharan Salafia , Anuradha Samajdar , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Andrea Sanna , Filippo Santoliquido , Bangalore Sathyaprakash , Patricia Schmidt , Stefano Schmidt , Fabian R. N. Schneider , Raffaella Schneider , Armen Sedrakian , Geraldine Servant , Alexander Sevrin , Lijing Shao , Hector O. Silva , Peera Simakachorn , Stephen Smartt , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Mario Spera , Antonio Stamerra , Daniele A. Steer , Jan Steinhoff , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Riccardo Sturani , Duvier Suarez , Jishnu Suresh , Shaun Swain , Matteo Tagliazucchi , Nicola Tamanini , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Thomas M. Tauris , Jacopo Tissino , Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Silvia Toonen , Alejandro Torres-Forne , Cezary Turski , Cristiano Ugolini , Elias C. Vagenas , Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi , Elena Valenti , Rosa Valiante , Chris Van Den Broeck , Maarten van de Meent , Lieke A. 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Wong , Stoytcho Yazadjiev , Garvin Yim , Fausto Acernese , Hojae Ahn , Annalisa Allocca , Alex Amato , Marc Andres-Carcasona , Guerino Avallone , Markus Bachlechner , Patrick Baer , Stefano Bagnasco , Gabriele Balbi , Fabrizio Barone , Eugenio Benedetti , Charlotte Benning , Simone Bini , Jose Luis Blazquez Salcedo , Valerio Bozza , Matteo Bruno , Timo Butz , Matteo Califano , Enrico Calloni , Giovanni Carapella , Alessandro Cardini , Shreevathsa Chalathadka Subrahmanya , Francesco Chiadini , Antonino Chiummo , Spina Cianetti , Giacomo Ciani , Eugenio Coccia , Andrea Contu , Robin Cornelissen , Andrea Cozzumbo , Lewis Croney , Mariateresa Crosta , Rocco D'Agostino , Stefan Danilishin , Sabrina D'Antonio , Jorden De Bolle , Jerome Degallaix , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Riccardo della Monica , Francesco De Marco , Ivan de Martino , Rosario De Rosa , Riccardo De Salvo , Roberta De Simone , Christophe Detavernier , Giovanni Diaferia , Martina Di Cesare , Luciano Di Fiore , Matteo Di Giovanni , Sibilla Di Pace , Jennifer Docherty , Domenico D'Urso , Oussama El Mecherfi , Luciano Errico , Federica Fabrizi , Viviana Fafone , Viviana Fanti , Rosalba Fittipaldi , Vincenzo Fiumara , Andreas Freise , Stefan Funk , Mika Gaedtke , Fabio Garufi , Oliver Gerberding , Edoardo Giangrandi , Carlo Giunchi , Victoria Graham , Massimo Granata , Veronica Granata , Anna Green , Karen Haughian , Lavinia Heisenberg , Margot Hennig , Stefan Hild , Van Long Hoang , Nathan Holland , Gerardo Iannone , Katharina-Sophie Isleif , Robert Joppe , Chang-Hee Kim , Chunglee Kim , Kyungmin Kim , Erika Korb , Mikhail Korobko , Luise Kranzhoff , Tim Kuhlbusch , Gregoire Lacaille , Angelique Lartaux-Vollard , Lia Lavezzi , Paul Laycock , Sumi Lee , Sumin Lee , Sungho Lee , Giovanni Losurdo , Leonardo Lucchesi , Harald Luck , Adrian Macquet , Ettore Majorana , Valentina Mangano , Filippo Martelli , Iain Martin , Mario Martinez , Alberto Masoni , Luca Massaro , Daniele Melini , Amata Mercurio , Lorenzo Mereni , Andrew L. 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Strong lensing gravitational time delays are a powerful and cost effective probe of dark energy. Recent studies have shown that a single lens can provide a distance measurement with 6-7 % accuracy (including random and systematic…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2013-06-07
T. Treu , P. J. Marshall , F. -Y. Cyr-Racine , C. D. Fassnacht , C. R. Keeton , E. V. Linder , L. A. Moustakas , M. Bradac , E. Buckley-Geer , T. Collett , F. Courbin , G. Dobler , D. A. Finley , J. Hjorth , C. S. Kochanek , E. Komatsu , L. V. E. Koopmans , G. Meylan , P. Natarajan , M. Oguri , S. H. Suyu , M. Tewes , K. C. Wong , A. I. Zabludoff , D. Zaritsky , T. Anguita , R. J. Brunner , R. Cabanac , E. E. Falco , A. Fritz , G. Seidel , D. A. Howell , C. Giocoli , N. Jackson , S. Lopez , R. B. Metcalf , V. Motta , T. Verdugo
In the past few years, cosmic-rays beyond the GZK cut-off ($E > 5 \times 10^{19}$ eV) have been detected by leading collaborations such as Pierre Auger Observatory. Such observations raise many questions as to how such energies can be…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-10-30
K. Almeida Cheminant , Ł Bratek , D. E. Alvarez-Castillo , N. Dhital , D. Góra , P. Homola , R. Kamiński , M. Kasztelan , K. Kopański , P. Kovacs , M. Krupiński , M. Magryś , M. Marek , V. Nazari , M. Niedźwiecki , W. Noga , K. Oziomek , M. Pawlik , K. Rzecki , J. Zamora-Saa , F. Simkovic , K. Smelcerz , K. Smolek , J. Staliesak , O. Sushchov , K. Woźniak
In Spring 2013, the LEECH (LBTI Exozodi Exoplanet Common Hunt) survey began its $\sim$130-night campaign from the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) atop Mt Graham, Arizona. This survey benefits from the many technological achievements of the…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-22
Andrew J. Skemer , Philip Hinz , Simone Esposito , Michael F. Skrutskie , Denis Defrere , Vanessa Bailey , Jarron Leisenring , Daniel Apai , Beth Biller , Mickael Bonnefoy , Wolfgang Brandner , Esther Buenzli , Laird Close , Justin Crepp , Robert J. De Rosa , Silvano Desidera , Josh Eisner , Jonathan Fortney , Thomas Henning , Karl-Heinz Hofmann , Taisiya Kopytova , Anne-Lise Maire , Jared R. Males , Rafael Millan-Gabet , Katie Morzinski , Apurva Oza , Jenny Patience , Abhijith Rajan , George Rieke , Dieter Schertl , Joshua Schlieder , Kate Su , Amali Vaz , Kimberly Ward-Duong , Gerd Weigelt , Charles E. Woodward , Neil Zimmerman
The observation of celestial objects is a fundamental activity in astronomy. Ground-based and space telescopes are used to gather electromagnetic radiation from space, allowing astronomers to study a wide range of celestial objects and…
Optimization and Control · Mathematics
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Thomas Rahab Lacroix , Pierre Lemaire , Anne-Marie Lagrange , Julien Milli , Nadia Brauner
The LAMOST-Kepler (LK-) project was initiated to use the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) to make spectroscopic follow-up observations for the targets in the field of the Kepler mission. The Kepler field is…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2018-10-24
Weikai Zong , Jian-Ning Fu , Peter De Cat , Jianrong Shi , Ali Luo , Haotong Zhang , A. Frasca , C. J. Corbally , J. Molenda- Żakowicz , G. Catanzaro , R. O. Gray , Jiangtao Wang , Yang Pan , Anbing Ren , Ruyuan Zhang , Mengqi Jin , Yue Wu , Subo Dong , Ji-Wei Xie , Wei Zhang , Yonghui Hou , LAMOST-Kepler collaboration
Galactic Exoplanet Survey Telescope (GEST) was proposed for a discovery mission to search for microlensing terrestrial planets toward the Galactic bulge and also Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) that are believed to hold vital information of the…
Because of the recent technological advances, the key technologies needed for precision space optical astrometry are now in hand. The Microarcsecond Astrometry Probe (MAP) mission concept is designed to find 1 Earth mass planets at 1AU…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-03-13
Michael Shao , Slava G. Turyshev , Eduardo Bendek , Debra Fischer , Olivier Guyon , Barbara McArthur , Matthew Muterspaugh , Chengxing Zhai , Celine Boehm
In this white paper, we propose an upgrade to the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) consisting of the addition of a new 8m Unit Telescope (UT5). The primary goal of this upgrade is to optimise the VLTI for exoplanet detection by…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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Óscar Carrión-González , Sylvestre Lacour , Mathias Nowak
The outer solar system provides a unique, quiet vantage point from which to observe the universe around us, where measurements could enable several niche astrophysical science cases that are too difficult to perform near Earth. NASA's New…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-10-03
Michael Zemcov , Iair Arcavi , Richard Arendt , Etienne Bachelet , Ranga Ram Chary , Asantha Cooray , Diana Dragomir , Richard C. Henry , Carey Lisse , Shuji Matsuura , Jayant Murthy , Chi Nguyen , Andrew R. Poppe , Rachel Street , Michael Werner
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) project was motivated by the need for an inexpensive 4 metre diameter optical telescope that could be devoted entirely to astronomical surveys. Its scientific programmes include the detection…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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Jean Surdej , Paul Hickson , Kuntal Misra , Dipankar Banerjee , Bhavya Ailawadhi , Talat Akhunov , Ermanno Borra , Monalisa Dubey , Naveen Dukiya , Sara Filali , Joschua Hellemeier , Manisha Kharayat , Brajesh Kumar , Hitesh Kumar , Mukesh Kumar , T. S. Kumar , Priyanshi Kumari , Vibhore Negi , Anna Pospieszalska-Surdej , Sarath Prabhavu , Bikram Pradhan , Kumar Pranshu , Himanshu Rawat , B. Krishna Reddy , Arun Sasidharan Pillai , Khushal Singh , Suzanne Tremblay , Saakshi Turakhia , Sahaana Vijay
We provide an overview of the robotic Super-LOTIS (Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System) telescope and present results from gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow observations using Super-LOTIS and other Steward Observatory telescopes. The…
Astrophysics · Physics
2009-06-23
G. G. Williams , P. A. Milne , H. S. Park , S. D. Barthelmy , D. H. Hartmann , A. Updike , K. Hurley
LXeGRIT is the first prototype of a novel concept of Compton telescope, based on the complete 3-dimensional reconstruction of the sequence of interactions of individual gamma rays in one position sensitive detector. This balloon-borne…
Astrophysics · Physics
2009-11-07
E. Aprile , A. Curioni , K. L. Giboni , M. Kobayashi , U. G. Oberlack , E. L. Chupp , P. P. Dunphy , T. Doke , J. Kikuchi , S. Ventura
Astrophotonics is a burgeoning field that lies at the interface of photonics and modern astronomical instrumentation. Here we provide a pedagogical review of basic photonic functions that enable modern instruments, and give an overview of…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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Simon Charles Ellis , Joss Bland-Hawthorn
The orbital observatory Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG), equipped with the grazing-incidence X-ray telescopes Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC and eROSITA, was launched by Roscosmos to the Lagrange L2 point of the Sun-Earth system on July 13, 2019.…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
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R. Sunyaev , V. Arefiev , V. Babyshkin , A. Bogomolov , K. Borisov , M. Buntov , H. Brunner , R. Burenin , E. Churazov , D. Coutinho , J. Eder , N. Eismont , M. Freyberg , M. Gilfanov , P. Gureyev , G. Hasinger , I. Khabibullin , V. Kolmykov , S. Komovkin , R. Krivonos , I. Lapshov , V. Levin , I. Lomakin , A. Lutovinov , P. Medvedev , A. Merloni , T. Mernik , E. Mikhailov , V. Molodtsov , P. Mzhelsky , S. Mueller , K. Nandra , V. Nazarov , M. Pavlinsky , A. Poghodin , P. Predehl , J. Robrade , S. Sazonov , H. Scheuerle , A. Shirshakov , A. Tkachenko , V. Voron
TAROT-1 is an automatic, autonomous ground based observatory whose primary goal is the rapid detection of the optical counterparts of cosmic gamma-ray burst sources. It will be able to begin imaging any GRB localization 8 seconds after…
Astrophysics · Physics
2009-10-30
Michel Boër , J. L. Atteia , M. Bringer , A. Klotz , C. Peignot , R. Malina , P. Sanchez , H. Pedersen , G. Calvet , J. Eysseric , A. Leroy , M. Meissonier , C. Pollas , J. de Freitas Pacheco