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Most neighboring stars are still detected as point sources and are beyond the angular resolution reach of current observatories. Methods to improve our understanding of stars at high angular resolution are investigated. Air Cherenkov…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-07 Paul D. Nunez

We have extended the range of the high-pressure optical spectroscopy to the far-infrared region keeping the accuracy of ambient-pressure experiments. The newly-developed method offers a powerful tool for the study of pressure-induced phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-15 I. Kezsmarki , R. Gaal , C. C. Homes , B. Sipos , H. Berger , S. Bordacs , G. Mihaly , L. Forro

High precision astrometry aims at source position determination to a very small fraction of the diffraction image size, in high SNR regime. One of the key limitations to such goal is the optical response variation of the telescope over a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-08 Alberto Riva , Mario Gai , Alberto Vecchiato , Deborah Busonero , Mario G. Lattanzi , Federico Landini , Zhaoxiang Qi , Zhenghong Tang

Synchrotron radiation facilities provide highly polarized X-ray beams across a wide energy range. However, the exact type and degree of polarization varies according to the beamline and experimental setup. To accurately determine the angle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-31 L. Manzanillas , J. M. Ablett , M. Choukroun , F. J. Iguaz , J. P. Rueff

Millimetre-wave observations represent an important tool for Cosmology studies. The Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) technique has been proposed to map in three dimensions the specific intensity due to line (e.g. [CII], CO) emission, for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Usasi Chowdhury , Florence Levy-Bertrand , Martino Calvo , Johannes Goupy , Alessandro Monfardini

A development in modern neutron spectroscopy is to avoid the need of large samples. We demonstrate how small samples together with the right choice of analyser and detector components makes distance collimation an important concept in…

Electron diffraction through a thin patterned silicon membrane can be used to create complex spatial modulations in electron distributions by varying the intensity of different reflections using parameters such as crystallographic…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 L. E. Malin , W. S. Graves , M. Holl , J. C. H. Spence , E. A. Nanni , R. K. Li , X. Shen , S. Weathersby

Context. Recently our ability to study stars using asteroseismic techniques has increased dramatically, largely through the use of space based photometric observations. Work has also been done using ground based spectroscopic observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 Jesper Schou

In the past decade, several neutron reflectometry methods for determining the modulus and phase of the complex reflection coefficient of an unknown multilayer thin film have been worked out among which the method of variation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-09-06 Seyed Farhad Masoudi , Saeed S. Jahromi

In recent years, intensity interferometry has seen renewed interest and successful application at Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope arrays. These measurements are usually performed during bright moon periods while the instruments'…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Christopher Ingenhütt , Pedro Batista , Gisela Anton , Alison Mitchell , Naomi Vogel , Adrian Zink , Andreas Zmija , Stefan Funk

We describe a spin-resolved electron spectrometer capable of uniquely efficient and high energy resolution measurements. Spin analysis is obtained through polarimetry based on low-energy exchange scattering from a ferromagnetic thin-film…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-21 C. Jozwiak , J. Graf , G. Lebedev , N. Andresen , A. K. Schmid , A. V. Fedorov , F. El Gabaly , W. Wan , A. Lanzara , Z. Hussain

PASCO scientific 012-05187C Precision Interferometer is used in Michelson mode to investigate wavelengths and refractive indices. From varying the distance of the movable mirror in the Michelson setup the wavelength of the HeNe laser beam…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-08 Kamyar Modjtahedzadeh

Mainly due to their outstanding performance the position sensitive silicon detectors are widely used in the tracking systems of High Energy Physics experiments such as the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb at LHC, the world's largest particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-16 Timo Peltola

We present a concept of the X-ray imaging system with high angular-resolution and moderate sensitivity. In this concept, a two-dimensional detector, i.e., imager, is put at a slightly out-of-focused position of the focusing mirror, rather…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Yoshitomo Maeda , Ryo Iizuka , Takayuki Hayashi , Toshiki Sato , Nozomi Nakaniwa , Mai Takeo , Hitomi Suzuki , Manabu Ishida , Shiro Ikeda , Mikio Morii

Resolving fine details of astronomical objects provides critical insights into their underlying physical processes. This drives in part the desire to construct ever-larger telescopes and interferometer arrays and to observe at shorter…

We present near-field radio holography measurements of the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver optics. These measurements demonstrate that radio holography of complex millimeter-wave optical systems comprising cryogenic…

By adjusting the incidence angle of incoming X-ray near the critical angle of X-ray total reflection, the photoelectron intensity is strongly modulated due to the variation of X-ray penetration depth. Photoelectron spectroscopy (PES)…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-23 Julien E. Rault , Cheng-Tai Kuo , Henrique P. Martins , Giuseppina Conti , Slavomir Nemšák

The SABRE (Sodium iodide with Active Background REjection) experiment aims to detect an annual rate modulation from dark matter interactions in ultra-high purity NaI(Tl) crystals which will provide a model independent test of the signal…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-21 L. J. Milligan

We introduce a novel reflection-mode diffraction tomography technique that enables simultaneous recovery of forward and backward scattering information for high-resolution 3D refractive index reconstruction. Our technique works by imaging a…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-12 Tongyu Li , Jiabei Zhu , Yi Shen , Lei Tian

Optical rotation, a form of optical activity, is a phenomenon employed in various metrological applications and industries including chemical, food, and pharmaceutical. In naturally-occurring, as well as structured media, the integrated…