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The INT Wide Field Imaging Survey(WFS)

The 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope(INT) is currently being used to carry out a major multi-colour, multi-epoch, CCD based wide field survey over an area of 100 square degrees. The survey parameters have been chosen to maximise scientific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Richard G. McMahon , N. A. Walton , M. J. Irwin , J. R. Lewis , P. S. Bunclark , D. H. P. Jones , R. G. Sharp

The Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time and the Low Surface Brightness Universe

The 8.4m Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will start a ten-year survey of the southern hemisphere sky in 2023. LSST will revolutionise low surface brightness astronomy. It will transform our understanding of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-31 Sarah Brough , Chris Collins , Ricardo Demarco , Henry C. Ferguson , Gaspar Galaz , Benne Holwerda , Cristina Martinez-Lombilla , Chris Mihos , Mireia Montes

Unidentified Moving Objects in Next Generation Time Domain Surveys

Existing and future wide-field photometric surveys will produce a time-lapse movie of the sky that will revolutionize our census of variable and moving astronomical and atmospheric phenomena. As with any revolution in scientific measurement…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-01 James R. A. Davenport

Can the James Webb Space Telescope detect isolated population III stars?

Isolated population III stars are postulated to exist at approximately z=10-30 and may attain masses up to a few hundred solar masses. The James Webb Space telescope (JWST) is the next large space based infrared telescope and is scheduled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-08 C. -E. Rydberg , E. Zackrisson , P. Scott

Observing Near-Earth Objects with the James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has the potential to enhance our understanding of near-Earth objects (NEOs). We present results of investigations into the observability of NEOs given the nominal observing requirements of JWST on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Cristina A. Thomas , Paul Abell , Julie Castillo-Rogez , Nicholas Moskovitz , Michael Mueller , Vishnu Reddy , Andrew Rivkin , Erin Ryan , John Stansberry