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The small mission A-STAR (All-Sky Transient Astrophysics Reporter) aims to locate the X-ray counterparts to ALIGO and other gravitational wave detector sources, to study the poorly-understood low luminosity gamma-ray bursts, and to find a…

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SCORPIO at the 6-m telescope: current state and perspectivies for spectroscopy of galactic and extragalactic objects

A significant part of observations by Russian 6-m telescope is carried out using SCORPIO multi-mode focal reducer. A lot of scientific data have been collected using observations in direct imaging, slit spectroscopy and Fabry-Perot…

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VLT/NACO Deep imaging survey of young, nearby austral stars

Since November 2002, we have conducted the largest deep imaging survey of the young, nearby associations of the southern hemisphere. Our goal is detection and characterization of substellar companions at intermediate (10--500 AU) physical…

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The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) are expected to be complete by 2028,…

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A deep AAOmega survey of low-luminosity galaxies in the Shapley Supercluster: Stellar population trends

We present new optical spectroscopy for 342 R<18 galaxies in the Shapley Supercluster obtained with the AAOmega facility at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. We describe the observations and measurements of central velocity dispersion,…

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All-Sky-ASTROGAM: The MeV Gamma-Ray Companion to Multimessenger Astronomy

All-Sky-ASTROGAM is a gamma-ray observatory operating in a broad energy range, 100 keV to a few hundred MeV, recently proposed as the "Fast" (F) mission of the European Space Agency for a launch in 2028 to an L2 orbit. The scientific…

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Sensitivity and Performance of the Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Third Observing Run

On April 1st, 2019, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (aLIGO), joined by the Advanced Virgo detector, began the third observing run, a year-long dedicated search for gravitational radiation. The LIGO detectors…

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A new method to identify subclasses among AGB stars using Gaia and 2MASS photometry

Aims: We explore the wealth of high quality photometric data provided by data release 2 of the Gaia mission for long period variables (LPVs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Our goal is to identify stars of various types and masses along the…

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Solar ALMA Observations - A new view of our host star

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The Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey: Hardware, Observing Strategy, and Scanning Survey Catalog

The Australia Telescope 20GHz (AT20G) survey is a large area (2{\pi} sr), sensitive (40mJy), high frequency (20GHz) survey of the southern sky. The survey was conducted in two parts: an initial fast scanning survey, and a series of more…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-12 Paul J. Hancock , Paul Roberts , Michael J. Kesteven , Ronald D. Ekers , Elaine M. Sadler , Tara Murphy , Marcella Massardi , Roberto Ricci , Mark Calabretta , Gianfranco de Zotti , Philip G. Edwards , Jennifer A. Ekers , Carole A. Jackson , Mark Leach , Chris Phillips , Robert J. Sault , Lister Staveley-Smith , Ravi Subrahmanyan , Mark A. Walker , Warwick E. Wilson

An Atlas of FUSE Sight Lines Toward the Magellanic Clouds

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Margherita Hack's Astrophysics at the Asiago Astrophysical Observatory

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Active Galactic Nuclei and their role in Galaxy Formation and Evolution

There are several key open questions as to the nature and origin of AGN including: 1) what initiates the active phase, 2) the duration of the active phase, and 3) the effect of the AGN on the host galaxy. Critical new insights to these can…

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O CAESAR: The Optical CAtalogue of Extragalactic SupernovA Remnants

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Status Update and Closed-Loop Performance of the Magellan Adaptive Optics VisAO Camera

We present laboratory results of the closed-loop performance of the Magellan Adaptive Optics (AO) Adaptive Secondary Mirror (ASM), pyramid wavefront sensor (PWFS), and VisAO visible adaptive optics camera. The Magellan AO system is a…

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The Detection of Wind Variability in Magellanic Cloud O Stars

We present Far Ultraviolet Explorer (FUSE) spectra for three Magellanic Cloud O stars (Sk 80, Sk -67 05 and Sk -67 111) with repeated observations. The data demonstrate the capabilities of FUSE to perform time-resolved spectroscopy on…

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Physics potential of the International Axion Observatory (IAXO)

We review the physics potential of a next generation search for solar axions: the International Axion Observatory (IAXO). Endowed with a sensitivity to discover axion-like particles (ALPs) with a coupling to photons as small as…

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