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TolTEC is a new camera being built for the 50-meter Large Millimeter-wave Telescope (LMT) in Puebla, Mexico to survey distant galaxies and star-forming regions in the Milky Way. The optical design simultaneously couples the field of view…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Sean Bryan , Jason Austermann , Daniel Ferrusca , Philip Mauskopf , Jeff McMahon , Alfredo Montana , Sara Simon , Giles Novak , David Sanchez-Arguelles , Grant Wilson

Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey (CRTS) is a synoptic sky survey uses data streams from 3 wide-field telescopes in Arizona and Australia, covering the total area of ~30,000 deg2, down to the limiting magnitudes ~ 20 - 21 mag per…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-25 S. G. Djorgovski , A. J. Drake , A. A. Mahabal , M. J. Graham , C. Donalek , R. Williams , E. C. Beshore , S. M. Larson , J. Prieto , M. Catelan , E. Christensen , R. H. McNaught

The upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) ground-based gamma-ray observatory will open up our view of the very high energy Universe, offering an improvement in sensitivity of 5-10 times that of previous experiments. NectarCAM is one of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 Thomas Armstrong , Heide Costantini , Jean-François Glicenstein , Jean-Philippe Lenain , Ullrich Schwanke , Thomas Tavernier

Gamma-ray astronomy holds a great potential for Astrophysics, Particle Physics and Cosmology. The CTA is an inter- national initiative to build the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray observatories, which will represent a factor of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Ulisses Barres de Almeida

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST), a two-meter aperture astronomical space telescope under China's manned space program, is equipped with multiple back-end scientific instruments. As an astronomical precision measurement…

The Cherenkov Telescopes Array (CTA) is planned to be an Observatory for very high energy gamma ray astronomy and will consist of several tens of telescopes which account for a reflective surface of more than 10000 m$^2$. The mirrors of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. C. Medina , B. Garcia , J. Maya , A. Mancilla , J. J. Larrarte , E. Rasztocky , M. Benitez , J. Dipold , M. Platino

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) is an upcoming Stage-IV sky survey telescope, distinguished by its large field of view (FoV), high image quality, and multi-band observation capabilities. It can simultaneously conduct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 CSST Collaboration , Yan Gong , Haitao Miao , Hu Zhan , Zhao-Yu Li , Jinyi Shangguan , Haining Li , Chao Liu , Xuefei Chen , Haibo Yuan , Jilin Zhou , Hui-Gen Liu , Cong Yu , Jianghui Ji , Zhaoxiang Qi , Jiacheng Liu , Zigao Dai , Xiaofeng Wang , Zhenya Zheng , Lei Hao , Jiangpei Dou , Yiping Ao , Zhenhui Lin , Kun Zhang , Wei Wang , Guotong Sun , Ran Li , Guoliang Li , Youhua Xu , Xinfeng Li , Shengyang Li , Peng Wu , Jiuxing Zhang , Bo Wang , Jinming Bai , Yi-Fu Cai , Zheng Cai , Jie Cao , Kwan Chuen Chan , Jin Chang , Xiaodian Chen , Xuelei Chen , Yuqin Chen , Yun Chen , Wei Cui , Subo Dong , Pu Du , Wenying Duan , Junhui Fan , LuLu Fan , Zhou Fan , Zuhui Fan , Taotao Fang , Jianning Fu , Liping Fu , Zhensen Fu , Jian Gao , Shenghong Gu , Yidong Gu , Qi Guo , Zhanwen Han , Bin Hu , Zhiqi Huang , Luis C. Ho , Linhua Jiang , Ning Jiang , Yipeng Jing , Xi Kang , Xu Kong , Cheng Li , Chengyuan Li , Di Li , Jing Li , Nan Li , Yang A. Li , Shilong Liao , Weipeng Lin , Fengshan Liu , Jifeng Liu , Xiangkun Liu , Zhuokai Liu , Ruiqing Mao , Shude Mao , Xianmin Meng , Xiaoying Pang , Xiyan Peng , Yingjie Peng , Huanyuan Shan , Juntai Shen , Shiyin Shen , Zhiqiang Shen , Sheng-Cai Shi , Yong Shi , Siyuan Tan , Hao Tian , Jianmin Wang , Jun-Xian Wang , Xin Wang , Yuting Wang , Hong Wu , Jingwen Wu , Xuebing Wu , Chun Xu , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Yongquan Xue , Ji Yang , Xiaohu Yang , Qijun Yao , Fangting Yuan , Zhen Yuan , Jun Zhang , Pengjie Zhang , Tianmeng Zhang , Wei Zhang , Xin Zhang , Gang Zhao , Gongbo Zhao , Hongen Zhong , Jing Zhong , Liyong Zhou , Wei Zhu , Ying Zu

The proposed next generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) concept envisions the imaging of various astronomical sources on scales of microarcseconds in unprecedented detail with at least two orders of magnitude improvement in the image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-20 Kazunori Akiyama , Jens Kauffmann , Lynn D. Matthews , Kotaro Moriyama , Shoko Koyama , Kazuhiro Hada

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) telescope array surveys 75% of the sky from the Atacama desert in Chile at frequency bands centered near 40, 90, 150, and 220 GHz. CLASS measures the largest-angular-scale CMB polarization…

We report the development of a 4-color simultaneous camera for the 1.52~m Telescopio Carlos S\'anchez (TCS) in the Teide Observatory, Canaries, Spain. The new instrument, named MuSCAT2, has a capability of 4-color simultaneous imaging in…

VERITAS is a new, major ground-based gamma-ray observatory designed to significantly advance our understanding of extreme astrophysical processes in the universe. The observatory comprises seven large-aperture (12m diameter) Cherenkov…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Rene A. Ong

The Multi-adaptive optics Imaging CamerA for Deep Observations (MICADO) will image a field of view of nearly 1 arcminute at the diffraction limit of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), making use of the adaptive optics correction provided…

We present the Completely Hackable Amateur Radio Telescope (CHART), a project that provides hands-on radio instrumentation and design experience to undergraduates while bringing accessible radio astronomy experiments to high school students…

The Mexico-UK Submillimetre Camera for AsTronomy (MUSCAT) is a 1.1 mm receiver consisting of 1,500 lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) for the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT; Volc\'an Sierra Negra in Puebla, M\'exico).…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the first ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. With more than a hundred of 4th generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) distributed in two large arrays, CTA will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-05 Thomas Tavernier , Jean-François Glicenstein , François Brun

MICADO will be the first-light wide-field imager for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) and will provide difiraction limited imaging (7mas at 1.2mm) over a ~53 arcsecond field of view. In order to support various consortium…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Kieran Leschinski , Oliver Czoske , Rainer Köhler , Michael Mach , Werner Zeilinger , Gijs Verdoes Kleijn , Joao Alves , Wolfgang Kausch , Norbert Przybilla

A conceptual design of an advanced Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope with a 23 m diameter mirror and of 50 tons weight will be presented. A system photon detection efficiency of 15-17%, averaged over 300-600 nm, is aimed at to lower the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Eckart Lorenz , Daniel Ferenc , M. Victoria Fonseca , Robert Wagner

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will be deployed over two sites in the two hemispheres. Both sites will be equipped with four Large Size Telescopes (LSTs), which are crucial to achieve the science goals of CTA in the 20-200…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 D. Mazin , J. Cortina , M. Teshima , the CTA Consortium

A common optical design for a coma-corrected, 6-meter aperture, crossed-Dragone telescope has been adopted for the CCAT-prime telescope of CCAT Observatory, Inc., and for the Large Aperture Telescope of the Simons Observatory. Both are to…