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The Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) project is an unbiased Galactic plane CO survey for mapping regions of l=-10deg to +250deg and |b|<5.2deg with the 13.7 m telescope of the Purple Mountain Observatory. The legacy survey aims to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-08 Yang Su , Ji Yang , Shaobo Zhang , Yan Gong , Hongchi Wang , Xin Zhou , Min Wang , Zhiwei Chen , Yan Sun , Xuepeng Chen , Ye Xu , Zhibo Jiang

Characterisation of atmospheric optical turbulence is crucial for the design and operation of modern ground-based optical telescopes. In particular, the effective application of adaptive optics correction on large and extremely large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-02 Saavidra Perera , Richard W. Wilson , Tim Butterley , James Osborn , Ollie J. D. Farley , Douglas J. Laidlaw

The first six months of flight data from the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) were used to test MIPS reduction algorithms based on extensive preflight laboratory data and modeling. The underlying approach for the preflight…

The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is currently one of the most widely used instruments for observing exoplanetary atmospheres, especially with the use of the spatial scanning technique. An increasing number of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-09 A. Tsiaras , I. P. Waldmann , M. Rocchetto , R. Varley , G. Morello , M. Damiano , G. Tinetti

We present here the All Sky Transmission MONitor (ASTMON), designed to perform a continuous monitoring of the surface brightness of the complete night-sky in several bands. The data acquired are used to derive, in addition, a subsequent map…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Aceituno , S. F Sanchez , F. J. Aceituno , D. Galadi-Enriquez , J. J. Negro , R. C. Soriguer , G. Sanchez Gomez

We describe a system in use at the Lick Observatory 1-m Nickel telescope for near-simultaneous imaging at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. The combined availability of a CCD and a NICMOS-3 camera makes the system well-suited for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 James R. Graham , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Anthony A. Misch

The Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) is a new continuum camera operating on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. It consists of two arrays of bolometric detectors; a 91 pixel 350/450 micron array…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-29 Tim Jenness , John F. Lightfoot , Wayne S. Holland

We present near- and mid-infrared (IR) broadband imaging observations of the edge-on protoplanetary disk around HH 30 with the James Webb Space Telescope/Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). We combine these…

Enceladus is the Saturnian satellite known to have water vapor erupting from its south pole region called Tiger Stripes. Data collected by Cassini Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph during Enceladus transiting Saturn allow us to estimate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Jan Kotlarz , Katarzyna Kubiak , Natalia Zalewska

The thermal emission at sub-millimeter wavelengths carries unique information in many astronomical applications ranging from disks and planet formation around young stars, to galaxy evolution studies at cosmological distances. Advancing on…

The mid-infrared (5-16 micron) spectral energy distribution for an individual quiescent molecular cloud in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) was observed using ISOCAM. The spectrum is dominated by broad emission bands at 6.2, 7.7, and 11.3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 William T. Reach , Francois Boulanger , Alessandra Contursi , James Lequeux

A survey of the Milky Way disk and the Magellanic System at the wavelengths of the 21-cm atomic hydrogen (HI) line and three 18-cm lines of the OH molecule will be carried out with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope.…

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) has revolutionised the field of solar millimetre astronomy with its high angular resolution and cadence. However, with a limited field of view (FOV), targeted observations of highly dynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Mats Kirkaune , Sven Wedemeyer , Joshiwa van Marrewijk , Tony Mroczkowski , Thomas W. Morris

We present Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) 2mm continuum observations of a complete and unbiased sample of 99 870micron-selected sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ALESS). Our observations of each…

The microwave imaging system(MIS) stands out among prominent imaging tools for capturing images of concealed obstacles. Leveraging its capability to penetrate through heterogeneous environments MIS has been widely used for subsurface…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Mohammad Ramezaninia , Mohammad Zoofaghari

The Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) system consists of two 0.5m Schmidt telescopes with cameras covering 29 square degrees at plate scale of 1.86 arcsec per pixel. Working in tandem, the telescopes routinely survey the…

We describe the design, construction, and performance of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Telescope located at Apache Point Observatory. The telescope is a modified two-corrector Ritchey-Chretien design which has a 2.5-m, f/2.25 primary, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James E. Gunn , Walter A. Siegmund , Edward J. Mannery et al

The observation of the global 21 cm signal produced by neutral hydrogen gas in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn, and Epoch of Reionization requires measurements with extremely well-calibrated wideband…

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is one of its five key science objectives. We conducted a targeted…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Guang-Yuan Song , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Bo-Lun Huang , Yan Cui , Bo Yu , Tong-Jie Zhang

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-meter survey telescope continuously observing towards the zenith in the SDSS g', r', and i' bands. This survey telescope is designed to detect various astrophysical transients (for…