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The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) represents an important step forward in the study of extreme astrophysical processes in the universe. It combines the power of the atmospheric Cherenkov imaging technique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. C. Weekes

The VERITAS Cherenkov telescope array has been fully operational since Fall 2007 and has fulfilled or outperformed its design specifications. We are preparing an upgrade program with the goal to lower the energy threshold and improve the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 A. Nepomuk Otte

The Large Area Telescope, the primary instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, is an imaging, wide field-of-view gamma-ray telescope. After many improvements to the data acquisition and event analysis procedures, it now covers the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 R. Rando

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the radio telescope of the next generation, providing an increase in sensitivity and angular resolution of two orders of magnitude over existing telescopes. Currently, the SKA is expected to span the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. J. Green , W. A. Baan

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a proposed next generation radio telescope. Between now and 2005 this project is in a technology development and prototyping phase, with construction likely to begin in $\sim 2010$. This paper describes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. F. Bell

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) Core Array is a proposed extension of FAST, integrating 24 secondary 40-m antennas implanted within 5 km of the FAST site. This original array design will combine the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-26 Peng Jiang , Rurong Chen , Hengqian Gan , Jinghai Sun , Boqin Zhu , Hui Li , Weiwei Zhu , Jingwen Wu , Xuelei Chen , Haiyan Zhang , Tao An

In this paper we present the results of a survey for radio transients using data obtained from the Very Large Array archive. We have reduced, using a pipeline procedure, 5037 observations of the most common pointings - i.e. the calibrator…

We report on the first millisecond timescale radio interferometric search for the new class of transient known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). We used the Very Large Array (VLA) for a 166-hour, millisecond imaging campaign to detect and…

The East Asian VLBI Network (EAVN) is an international VLBI facility in East Asia and is operated under mutual collaboration between East Asian countries, as well as part of Southeast Asian and European countries. EAVN currently consists of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-15 Kazunori Akiyama , Juan-Carlos Algaba , Tao An , Keiichi Asada , Kitiyanee Asanok , Do-Young Byun , Thanapol Chanapote , Wen Chen , Zhong Chen , Xiaopeng Cheng , James O. Chibueze , Ilje Cho , Se-Hyung Cho , Hyun-Soo Chung , Lang Cui , Yuzhu Cui , Akihiro Doi , Jian Dong , Kenta Fujisawa , Wei Gou , Wen Guo , Kazuhiro Hada , Yoshiaki Hagiwara , Tomoya Hirota , Jeffrey A. Hodgson , Mareki Honma , Hiroshi Imai , Phrudth Jaroenjittichai , Wu Jiang , Yongbin Jiang , Yongchen Jiang , Takaaki Jike , Dong-Kyu Jung , Taehyun Jung , Noriyuki Kawaguchi , Dong-Jin Kim , Hyo-Ryoung Kim , Jaeheon Kim , Jeong-Sook Kim , Kee-Tae Kim , Soon-Wook Kim , Motoki Kino , Hideyuki Kobayashi , Shoko Koyama , Busaba H. Kramer , Jee-Won Lee , Jeong Ae Lee , Sang-Sung Lee , Sang Won Lee , Bin Li , Guanghui Li , Xiaofei Li , Zhixuan Li , Qinghui Liu , Xiang Liu , Ru-Sen Lu , Kazuhito Motogi , Masanori Nakamura , Kotaro Niinuma , Chungsik Oh , Hongjong Oh , Junghwan Oh , Se-Jin Oh , Tomoaki Oyama , Jongho Park , Saran Poshyachinda , Hyunwook Ro , Duk-Gyoo Roh , Wiphu Rujopakarn , Nobuyuki Sakai , Satoko Sawada-Satoh , Zhi-Qiang Shen , Katsunori M. Shibata , Bong Won Sohn , Boonrucksar Soonthornthum , Koichiro Sugiyama , Yunxia Sun , Mieko Takamura , Yoshihiro Tanabe , Fumie Tazaki , Sascha Trippe , Kiyoaki Wajima , Jinqing Wang , Na Wang , Shiqiang Wang , Xuezheng Wang , Bo Xia , Shuangjing Xu , Hao Yan , Wenjun Yang , Jae-Hwan Yeom , Kunwoo Yi , Sang-Oh Yi , Yoshinori Yonekura , Hasu Yoon , Linfeng Yu , Jianping Yuan , Youngjoo Yun , Bo Zhang , Hua Zhang , Yingkang Zhang , Guang-Yao Zhao , Rongbing Zhao , Weiye Zhong

The Telescope Array (TA) observatory, located in midwest Utah, USA, is designed to detect ultra high energy cosmic rays whose energy is greater than 1 EeV. TA mainly consists of two types of detector. The first type is the atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-03 Takeshi Okuda

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation of ground-based instrument for Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current telescopes by up to an order of magnitude and provide energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-04 P. Cumani , T. Hassan , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , G. Maier , A. Moralejo

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major ground-based gamma-ray observatory planned for the next decade and beyond. Consisting of two large atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays (one in the southern hemisphere and one in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 The CTA Consortium , represented by Rene A. Ong

VERITAS is an array of four 12-m imaging Cherenkov telescopes, sensitive to gamma rays in the energy range from 85 GeV to 30 TeV. VERITAS dedicates roughly 40% of its total observing time to blazars. We present recent highlights from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Jon Dumm

The 39-meter European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is expected to have very low throughput in the blue part of the visible spectrum. Because of that, a blue-optimised spectrograph at the 8-meter Very Large Telescope could potentially…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-09 Rodolfo Smiljanic

The concept of a Square Kilometre Array was developed to ensure that progress in Radio Astronomy in the early 21st Century continued at the same impressive pace as was achieved during the first 50 years. The SKA telescope is designed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-11 Lisa Harvey-Smith

We describe the design and performance of the Engineering Development Array (EDA), which is a low frequency radio telescope comprising 256 dual-polarisation dipole antennas working as a phased-array. The EDA was conceived of, developed, and…

VERITAS is an array of four 12-m atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, designed to observe the very-high-energy (VHE; E $\geq$100 GeV) sky. Since 2007, it has detected more than 20 extra-galactic sources, the majority of which are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Matteo Cerruti

We present the first results from the V-FASTR experiment, a commensal search for fast transient radio bursts using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). V-FASTR is unique in that the widely spaced VLBA antennas provide a discriminant against…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Randall B. Wayth , Steven J. Tingay , Adam T. Deller , Walter F. Brisken , David R. Thompson , Kiri L. Wagstaff , Walid A. Majid

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation of ground based gamma-ray telescopes allowing us to study very high energy phenomena in the Universe. CTA aims to gain about a factor of ten in sensitivity compared to current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-23 S. Mangano