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We present a pioneering achievement in the high-precision photometric calibration of CMOS-based photometry, by application of the Gaia BP/RP (XP) spectra-based synthetic photometry (XPSP) method to the mini-SiTian array (MST) photometry.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 Kai Xiao , Yang Huang , Haibo Yuan , Zhirui Li , Yongkang Sun , Timothy C. Beers , Min He , Jifeng Liu , Hong Wu , Yongna Mao , Bowen Huang , Mingyang Ma , Chuanjie Zheng , Hongrui Gu , Beichuan Wang , Lin Yang , Shuai Xu

High-resolution (5MP+) stereo vision systems are essential for advancing robotic capabilities, enabling operation over longer ranges and generating significantly denser and accurate 3D point clouds. However, realizing the full potential of…

We develop novel compressive coded rotating mirror (CCRM) camera to capture events at high frame rates in passive mode with a compact instrument design at the fraction of the cost compared to other high-speed imaging cameras. Operation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Amir Matin , Xu Wang

We describe the development, operation, and application of the 4D Camera -- a 576 by 576 pixel active pixel sensor for scanning/transmission electron microscopy which operates at 87,000 Hz. The detector generates data at approximately 480…

The idea of using stellar photometry for atmospheric monitoring for optical experiments in high-energy astrophysics is seemingly straightforward, but reaching high precision of the order of 0.01 in the determination of the vertical aerosol…

I study the importance of the accurate calibration of photometric systems in order to produce meaningful comparisons between the observed colors + magnitudes and model SEDs. Possible sources of errors are discussed and two examples are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Maíz Apellániz

Scientific complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) detectors have developed quickly in recent years thanks to their low cost and high availability. They also have some advantages over charge-coupled devices (CCDs), such as high frame…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Miguel R. Alarcon , Javier Licandro , Miquel Serra-Ricart , Enrique Joven , Vicens Gaitan , Rebeca de Sousa

We present a new method to measure the vertical aerosol optical depth (VAOD) during clear nights using a wide-field imager - a CCD camera with a photographic lens on an equatorial mount. A series of 30-second exposures taken at different…

The implementation of a monolithic fiber-optically coupled CMOS-based TemCam-XF416 camera into our ultra-high vacuum (UHV) ultrafast reflection high-energy electron diffraction setup is reported. A combination of a pumpable gate valve and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Jonas D. Fortmann , Alexander Kaßen , Christian Brand , Thomas Duden , Michael Horn-von Hoegen

Bright single and binary stars were observed at the 4.1-m telescope with a fast electron-multiplication camera in the regime of partial turbulence correction by the visible-light adaptive optics system. We compare the angular resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Tokovinin , R. Cantarutti , R. Tighe , P. Schurter , N. van der Bliek , M. Martinez , E. Mondaca

As the precision frontier of astrophysics advances towards the one millimagnitude level, flux calibration of photometric instrumentation remains an ongoing challenge. We present the results of a lab-bench assessment of the viability of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-24 Sasha Brownsberger , Lige Zhang , David Andrade , Christopher Stubbs

Herein, we describe the design, implementation and operation principles of an astronomical camera system, based on a large-format CCD261-84 detector with an extremely thick 200 mkm substrate. The DINACON-V controller was used with the CCD…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-07 Irina Afanasieva , Valery Murzin , Valery Ardilanov , Nikolai Ivaschenko , Maksim Pritychenko , Alexei Moiseev , Elena Shablovinskaya , Eugene Malygin

We summarize methods and plans to monitor and calibrate photometric observations with our autonomous, robotic network of 2m, 1m and 40cm telescopes. These are sited globally to optimize our ability to observe time-variable sources. Wide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-18 A. J. Pickles , W. E. Rosing

The advent of back-illuminated complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensors and their well-known advantages over charge-coupled devices (CCDs) make them an attractive technology for future X-ray missions. However, numerous…

This article experimentally examines different configurations of a novel multi-camera array microscope (MCAM) imaging technology. The MCAM is based upon a densely packed array of "micro-cameras" to jointly image across a large field-of-view…

Aims. We describe a pilot study to explore a new generation of fast and low noise CMOS image sensors for time domain astronomy, using two remote telescopes with a baseline of 1800 km. Methods. Direct imaging with novel qCMOS image sensor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Martin M. Roth , Paško Roje , Stella Vješnica , Stefan Cikota , Alex J. Brown , Mike Kretlow , Marco Azzaro , Santiago Reinhart , Jesús Aceituno , Thomas Kupfer

In recent years, the performance of Scientifc Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (sCMOS) sensors has been improved signifcantly. Compared with CCD sensors, sCMOS sensors have various advantages, making them potentially better devices…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Qinyu Wu , Zhenqing Jia , Wenxin Wang , Zhixing Ling , Chen Zhang , Shuangnan Zhang , Weimin Yuan

The detection of photons produced during the avalanche development in gas chambers has been the subject of detailed studies in the past. The great progresses achieved in last years in the performance of micro-pattern gas detectors on one…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-20 Michela Marafini , Vincenzo Patera , Davide Pinci , Alessio Sarti , A. Sciubba , Eleuterio Spiriti

A new analysis of CCD-based BVRI broad-band photometry for the globular cluster NGC2419 is presented, based on 340 CCD images either donated by colleagues or retrieved from public archives. The calibrated results have been made available…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter B. Stetson

Visual inspection of solar modules is an important monitoring facility in photovoltaic power plants. Since a single measurement of fast CMOS sensors is limited in spatial resolution and often not sufficient to reliably detect small defects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Mathis Hoffmann , Thomas Köhler , Bernd Doll , Frank Schebesch , Florian Talkenberg , Ian Marius Peters , Christoph J. Brabec , Andreas Maier , Vincent Christlein