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We present 25 arcsecond resolution radio images of five Lynds Dark Nebulae (L675, L944, L1103, L1111 & L1246) at 16 GHz made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) Large Array. These objects were previously observed with the AMI Small…

We discuss the present performance and the future perspectives of VLBI in the 3 mm to 0.85 mm observing bands (so called mm-VLBI). The availability of new telescopes and the recent technical development towards larger observing bandwidth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-23 T. P. Krichbaum , U. Bach , D. A. Graham , W. Alef , A. Roy , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus , M. Bremer , S. Sanchez

The Atacama Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Phasing Project (APP) has developed and deployed the hardware and software necessary to coherently sum the signals of individual ALMA antennas and record the aggregate sum in Very Long…

Infrared interferometry has seen a revolution over the last few years. The advent of GRAVITY+ is about to enable high-contrast observations, all-sky coverage and faint science up to K=21, with the implementation on 8m-class telescope of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-30 G. Bourdarot , F. Eisenhauer

Due to feedback from accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs), Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are believed to play a key role in LambdaCDM cosmology and galaxy formation. However, AGNs' extreme luminosities and the small angular size…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 K. E. Saavik Ford , Barry McKernan , Anand Sivaramakrishnan , André R. Martel , Anton Koekemoer , David Lafrenière , Sébastien Parmentier

A new 10 meter diameter telescope is being constructed for deployment at the NSF South Pole research station. The telescope is designed for conducting large-area millimeter and sub-millimeter wave surveys of faint, low contrast emission, as…

We report the first detection of a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (S-Z) decrement with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI). We have made commissioning observations towards the cluster A1914 and have measured an integrated flux density of -8.61 mJy…

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array, or ALMA, is an international telescope project which will be built over the coming decade in Northern Chile. With over 7000 m^2 of collecting area comprised of 64 12m antennas arrayed over baselines up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alwyn Wootten

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an international radio telescope under construction in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. ALMA is situated on a dry site at 5000 m elevation, allowing excellent atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alwyn Wootten , A. Richard Thompson

We present 16-GHz Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations using the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) and subsequent Bayesian analysis of six galaxy clusters at redshift ($z \approx 1$) chosen from an X-ray and Infrared selected sample from…

We carried out a near- to mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopic observations of the patchy areas in the Small Magellanic Cloud using the Infrared Camera on board AKARI. Two 100 arcmin2 areas were imaged in 3.2, 4.1, 7, 11, 15, and 24 um…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Y. Ita , T. Onaka , T. Tanabe , N. Matsunaga , M. Matsuura , I. Yamamura , Y. Nakada , H. Izumiura , T. Ueta , H. Mito , H. Fukushi , D. Kato

With the ability to see into optically obscured regions with more than an order of magnitude better sensitivity and spatial resolution relative to current (sub)mm telescopes, ALMA will provide a unique look into the physics of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. L. Carilli

In less than a year, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will inherit the mantle of being the world's pre-eminent infrared observatory. JWST will carry with it an Aperture Masking Interferometer (AMI) as one of the supported operational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-06 A. Soulain , A. Sivaramakrishnan , P. Tuthill , D. Thatte , K. Volk , R. Cooper , L. Albert , É. Artigau , N. Cook , R. Doyon , D. Johnstone , D. Lafrenière , A. Martel

The imminent availability of large arrays of large light collectors deployed to exploit atmospheric Cherenkov radiation for gamma-ray astronomy at more than 100GeV, motivates the growing interest in application of intensity interferometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-30 M. Daniel , W. J. de Wit , D. Dravins , D. Kieda , S. LeBohec , P. Nunez , E. Ribak

ALMA is revolutionizing the way we study and understand the astrophysics of galaxies, both as a whole and individually. By exploiting its unique sensitivity and resolution to make spatially and spectrally resolved images of the gas and dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-12 Andrew W. Blain

Microwave impedance microscopy (MIM) is a near-field imaging technique that has been used to visualize the local conductivity of materials with nanoscale resolution across the GHz regime. In recent years, MIM has shown great promise for the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Leonard Weihao Cao , Chen Wu , Rajarshi Bhattacharyya , Ruolun Zhang , Monica T. Allen

Observations at far-infrared and submillimeter wavelengths promise to revolutionize the study of high redshift galaxies and AGN by providing a unique probe of the conditions within heavily extinguished regions of star formation and nuclear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David A. Neufeld

We discuss the discovery potential of the Dark-photons & Axion-Like particles Interferometer (DALI) in this letter. The apparatus, currently in a design and prototyping phase, will probe axion dark matter from the Teide Observatory, an…

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), to be installed on the International Space Station, will provide data on cosmic radiations in a large energy range. The main physics goals in the astroparticle domain are the antimatter and the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Diego Casadei