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Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes have long been viewed as potential light collectors to be used for long baseline optical intensity interferometry observations. Intensity interferometry, as implemented with Cherenkov telescopes, is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 N. Matthews , S. LeBohec

The MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST) is a 6.5-meter telescope under development. Dedicated to highly-multiplexed, wide-field spectroscopic surveys, MUST observes over 20,000 targets simultaneously using 6.2-mm pitch positioning robots…

Since September 2018, LAMOST starts a new 5-year medium-resolution spectroscopic survey (MRS) using bright/gray nights. We present the scientific goals of LAMOST-MRS and propose a near optimistic strategy of the survey. A complete footprint…

This chapter: o Motivates the clinical use of robotic tele-echography o Introduces the TER system o Describes technical and clinical evaluations performed with TER

The hunt for cosmic TeV particle accelerators is prospering through Imaging Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes. We face challenges such as low light levels and MHz trigger rates, and the need to distinguish between particle air showers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Bradbury

The study of the universe at energies above 100 GeV is a relatively new and exciting field. The current generation of pointed instruments have detected TeV gamma rays from at least 10 sources and the next generation of detectors promises a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 G. Sinnis , A. Smith , J. E. McEnery

Mini-EUSO is a telescope launched on board the International Space Station in 2019 and currently located in the Russian section of the station. Main scientific objectives of the mission are the search for nuclearites and Strange Quark…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based gamma-ray observatory that will provide unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution for the detection of gamma rays with energies above a few tens of GeV. In comparison to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Victor Barbosa Martins , Markus Garczarczyk , Gerrit Spengler , Ullrich Schwanke

The internet has brought about great change in the astronomical community, but this interconnectivity is just starting to be exploited for use in instrumentation. Utilizing the internet for communicating between distributed astronomical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. R. White , J. Wren , H. Davis , M. Galassi , D. Starr , W. T. Vestrand , P. Wozniak

The Global Exploration Roadmap indicates the need for increased human exploration of under-sampled regions of our solar system in order to make new scientific discoveries. The high costs and dangers of sending humans deeper into our solar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 Benjamin Mellinkoff , Matthew Spydell , Wendy Bailey , Jack O. Burns

Interferometry is a powerful technique for making sensitive, high-fidelity images of the sky, but is limited in its ability to measure extended or diffuse emission. Better images of extended astronomical objects can be obtained by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-12 Brian S. Mason

Scores of on-going microlensing events are now announced yearly by the microlensing discovery teams OGLE, MACHO and EROS. These early warning systems have allowed other international microlensing networks to focus considerable resources on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Penny D. Sackett

The purpose of this paper is to review the most popular deep learning methods used to analyze astroparticle data obtained with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes and provide references to the original papers.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 A. P. Kryukov , A. P. Demichev , V. A. Ilyin

The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), scheduled to be launched in fall 2007, is the next generation satellite for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The Large Area Telescope (LAT), GLAST main instrument, with a wide field of view…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 E. Nuss

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international initiative to build the next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. Full sky coverage will be assured by two arrays, one located on each of the northern and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Maria Concetta Maccarone , Dan Parsons , Markus Gaug , Raquel de los Reyes

Very high-energy gamma-ray measurements of distant blazars can be well explained by secondary gamma rays emitted by cascades induced by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. The secondary gamma rays will enable one to detect a large number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Oleg E. Kalashev , Alexander Kusenko

There are now hundreds of publicly available supernova spectral time series. Radiative transfer modeling of this data gives insights into the physical properties of these explosions such as the composition, the density structure, or the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 C. Vogl , W. E. Kerzendorf , S. A. Sim , U. M. Noebauer , S. Lietzau , W. Hillebrandt

Here we describe the first light of the novel 9-channel wide-field optical monitoring system with sub-second temporal resolution, Mini-MegaTORTORA, which is being tested now at Special Astrophysical Observatory on Russian Caucasus. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 A. Biryukov , G. Beskin , S. Karpov , S. Bondar , E. Ivanov , E. Katkova , A. Perkov , V. Sasyuk

The Ground Wide Angle Camera Network (GWAC-N) is a robotic telescope network. It consists of ten wide-field core telescopes (GWAC-A) and two 60cm narrow-field rapid follow-up telescopes (GWAC-F60A/B). The primary scientific goal of GWAC-N…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Xu-hui Han , Pin-pin Zhang , Yu-jie Xiao , Li-ping Xin , Ruo-song Zhang , Lei Huang , Xiao-meng Lu , Hong-bo Cai , Yang Xu , Wen-long Dong , Hua-li Li , Ya-tong Zheng , Jian-yan Wei

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is the first focusing high energy (3-79 keV) X-ray observatory operating for four years from low Earth orbit. The X-ray detector arrays are located on the spacecraft bus with the optics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Karl Forster , Kristin K. Madsen , Hiromasa Miyasaka , William W. Craig , Fiona A. Harrison , Vikram R. Rana , Craig B. Markwardt , Brian W. Grefenstette