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The Wide-Field X-ray Telescope (WFXT) is a proposed NASA mission dedicated to performing surveys of the sky in the soft X-ray band (0.3-6 keV). The key characteristics of this missions are a constant point spread function with Half Energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-04 Sergio Campana

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is conceived as an 8.4-m telescope with CCD or CMOS focal plane covering most of a field 0.6 m in diameter, the latter exceeding the size of the largest photographic plates ever used in astronomy.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 Alistair R. Walker

We present the Near-Ultraviolet eXplorer (NUX), which will consist out of 4 small (36 cm diameter) ground-based telescopes that are optimized for the shortest wavelengths that are detectable from Earth (i.e., the near-UV [NUV] wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 Rudy Wijnands , Steven Bloemen , Rasjied Sloot , Rik ter Horst , Andre Young , Mattijs Bakker , Paul Groot , Paul Vreeswijk

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared space telescope that has recently started its science program which will enable breakthroughs in astrophysics and planetary science. Notably, JWST will provide the very first…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Michael W. McElwain , Lee D. Feinberg , Marshall D. Perrin , Mark Clampin , C. Matt Mountain , Matthew D. Lallo , Charles-Philippe Lajoie , Randy A. Kimble , Charles W. Bowers , Christopher C. Stark , D. Scott Acton , Ken Aiello , Charles Atkinson , Beth Barinek , Allison Barto , Scott Basinger , Tracy Beck , Matthew D. Bergkoetter , Marcel Bluth , Rene A. Boucarut , Gregory R. Brady , Keira J. Brooks , Bob Brown , John Byard , Larkin Carey , Maria Carrasquilla , Sid Celeste , Dan Chae , David Chaney , Pierre Chayer , Taylor Chonis , Lester Cohen , Helen J. Cole , Thomas M. Comeau , Matthew Coon , Eric Coppock , Laura Coyle , Rick Davis , Bruce H. Dean , Kenneth J. Dziak , Michael Eisenhower , Nicolas Flagey , Randy Franck , Benjamin Gallagher , Larry Gilman , Tiffany Glassman , Gary Golnik , Joseph J. Green , John Grieco , Shari Haase , Theodore J. Hadjimichael , John G. Hagopian , Walter G. Hahn , George F. Hartig , Keith A. Havey , William L. Hayden , Robert Hellekson , Brian Hicks , Sherie T. Holfeltz , Joseph M. Howard , Jesse A. Huguet , Brian Jahne , Leslie A. Johnson , John D. Johnston , Alden S. Jurling , Jeffrey R. Kegley , Scott Kennard , Ritva A. Keski-Kuha , J. Scott Knight , Bernard A. Kulp , Joshua S. Levi , Marie B. Levine , Paul Lightsey , Robert A. Luetgens , John C. Mather , Gary W. Matthews , Andrew G. McKay , Kimberly I. Mehalick , Marcio Meléndez , Ted Messer , Gary E. Mosier , Jess Murphy , Edmund P. Nelan , Malcolm B. Niedner , Darin M. Noël , Catherine M. Ohara , Raymond G. Ohl , Eugene Olczak , Shannon B. Osborne , Sang Park , Kevin Patton , Charles Perrygo , Laurent Pueyo , Lisbeth Quesnel , Dale Ranck , David C. Redding , Michael W. Regan , Paul Reynolds , Rich Rifelli , Jane R. Rigby , Derek Sabatke , Babak N. Saif , Thomas R. Scorse , Byoung-Joon Seo , Fang Shi , Norbert Sigrist , Koby Smith , J. Scott Smith , Erin C. Smith , Sangmo Tony Sohn , John Spina , H. Philip Stahl , Randal Telfer , Todd Terlecki , Scott C. Texter , David Van Buren , Julie M. Van Campen , Begoña Vila , Mark F. Voyton , Mark Waldman , Chanda B. Walker , Nick Weiser , Conrad Wells , Garrett West , Tony L. Whitman , Eric Wick , Erin Wolf , Greg Young , Thomas P. Zielinski

The Solar Submillimeter Telescope (SST) is an unique instrument that has been observing the Sun daily since 2001 bringing a wealth of information and raising new questions about the particle acceleration and transport, and emission…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-17 C. Guillermo Giménez de Castro , Jean-Pierre Raulin , Adriana Valio , Emilia Correia , Paulo J. A. Simoes , Sergio Szpigel

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is optimized for observations in the near and mid infrared and will provide essential observations for targets that cannot be conducted from the ground or other missions during its lifetime. The state…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-11 Stefanie N. Milam , John A. Stansberry , George Sonneborn , Cristina Thomas

(Abridged) The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is currently by far the most ambitious proposed ground-based optical survey. Solar System mapping is one of the four key scientific design drivers, with emphasis on efficient Near-Earth…

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission, launched on 13 June 2012, is the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit. NuSTAR operates in the band from 3 -- 79 keV, extending the sensitivity of focusing far beyond…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Fiona A. Harrison , William W. Craig , Finn E. Christensen , Charles J. Hailey , Will W. Zhang , Steven E. Boggs , Daniel Stern , W. Rick Cook , Karl Forster , Paolo Giommi , Brian W. Grefenstette , Yunjin Kim , Takao Kitaguchi , Jason E Koglin , Kristin K. Madsen , Peter H. Mao , Hiromasa Miyasaka , Kaya Mori , Matteo Perri , Michael J. Pivovaroff , Simonetta Puccetti , Vikram R. Rana , Niels J. Westergaard , Jason Willis , Andreas Zoglauer , Hongjun An , Matteo Bachetti , Nicolas M. Barriere , Eric C. Bellm , Varun Bhalerao , Nicolai F. Brejnholt , Felix Fuerst , Carl C. Liebe , Craig B. Markwardt , Melania Nynka , Julia K. Vogel , Dominic J. Walton , Daniel R. Wik , David M. Alexander , Lynn R. Cominsky , Ann E. Hornschemeier , Allan Hornstrup , Victoria M. Kaspi , Greg M. Madejski , Giorgio Matt , Silvano Molendi , David M. Smith , John A. Tomsick , Marco Ajello , David R. Ballantyne , Mislav Balokovic , Diddier Barret , Franz E. Bauer , Roger D. Blandford , W. Niel Brandt , Laura W. Brenneman , James Chiang , Deepto Chakrabarty , Jerome Chenevez , Andrea Comastri , Martin Elvis , Andrew C. Fabian , Duncan Farrah , Chris L. Fryer , Eric V. Gotthelf , Jonathan E. Grindlay , David J. Helfand , Roman Krivonos , David L. Meier , Jon M. Miller , Lorenzo Natalucci , Patrick Ogle , Eran O. Ofek , Andrew Ptak , Stephen P. Reynolds , Jand R. Rigby , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Stephen E. Thorsett , Ezequiel Treister , C. Megan Urry

The Wide Field X-Ray Telescope (WFXT) is a medium-class mission designed to be 2-orders-of-magnitude more sensitive than any previous or planned X-ray mission for large area surveys and to match in sensitivity the next generation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-01 P. Rosati , S. Borgani , R. Gilli , M. Paolillo , P. Tozzi , S. Murray , R. Giacconi , A. Ptak , M. Weisskopf , W. Forman , C. Jones , the WFXT Team

The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated photometric surveying facility built jointly by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO). Since many of its scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Minxuan Cai , Zelin Xu , Lulu Fan , Zhen Wan , Binyang Liu , Xu Kong , Weida Hu , Lei Hu , Qing-feng Zhu , Guoliang Li , Jie Lin , Min Fang , Ji-an Jiang , Yongquan Xue , Xianzhong Zhen , Tinggui Wang

The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is a 2.6m aperture, wide field, UV to I facility, to be installed at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on the Cerro Paranal Chile. VST was primarily intended to complement the observing capabilities of…

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is the next-generation Stage~IV survey telescope. It can simultaneously perform multi-band imaging and slitless spectroscopic wide- and deep-field surveys in ten years and an ultra-deep field (UDF)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Yan Gong , Haitao Miao , Xingchen Zhou , Qi Xiong , Yingxiao Song , Yuer Jiang , Minglin Wang , Junhui Yan , Beichen Wu , Furen Deng , Xuelei Chen , Zuhui Fan , Yipeng Jing , Xiaohu Yang , Hu Zhan

The James Webb Space Telescope will enable a wealth of new scientific investigations in the near- and mid-infrared, with sensitivity and spatial/spectral resolution greatly surpassing its predecessors. In this paper, we focus upon Solar…

Selected by NASA for an Astrophysics Science SmallSat study, The Virtual Telescope for X-Ray Observations (VTXO) is a small satellite mission being developed by NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and New Mexico State University…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-21 Kyle Rankin , John Krizmanic , Neerav Shah , Steven Stochaj , Asal Naseri

The New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) has been releasing its novel winged Ha data (WHD) since April 2021, namely the Ha imaging spectroscopic data. Compared with the prior released version, the new data are further co-aligned among the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Yun-Fang Cai , Xu Yang , Yong-Yuang Xiang , Xiao-Li Yan , Zhen-Yu Jin , Hui Liu , Kai-Fan Ji

Solar flares signify the sudden release of magnetic energy and are sources of so called space weather. The fine structures (below 500 km) of flares are rarely observed and are accessible to only a few instruments world-wide. Here we present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-29 Ju Jing , Yan Xu , Wenda Cao , Chang Liu , Dale Gary , Haimin Wang

(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a single wide-deep-fast sky survey, and LSST will have unique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Željko Ivezić , Steven M. Kahn , J. Anthony Tyson , Bob Abel , Emily Acosta , Robyn Allsman , David Alonso , Yusra AlSayyad , Scott F. Anderson , John Andrew , James Roger P. Angel , George Z. Angeli , Reza Ansari , Pierre Antilogus , Constanza Araujo , Robert Armstrong , Kirk T. Arndt , Pierre Astier , Éric Aubourg , Nicole Auza , Tim S. Axelrod , Deborah J. Bard , Jeff D. Barr , Aurelian Barrau , James G. Bartlett , Amanda E. Bauer , Brian J. Bauman , Sylvain Baumont , Andrew C. Becker , Jacek Becla , Cristina Beldica , Steve Bellavia , Federica B. Bianco , Rahul Biswas , Guillaume Blanc , Jonathan Blazek , Roger D. Blandford , Josh S. Bloom , Joanne Bogart , Tim W. Bond , Anders W. Borgland , Kirk Borne , James F. Bosch , Dominique Boutigny , Craig A. Brackett , Andrew Bradshaw , William Nielsen Brandt , Michael E. Brown , James S. Bullock , Patricia Burchat , David L. Burke , Gianpietro Cagnoli , Daniel Calabrese , Shawn Callahan , Alice L. Callen , Srinivasan Chandrasekharan , Glenaver Charles-Emerson , Steve Chesley , Elliott C. Cheu , Hsin-Fang Chiang , James Chiang , Carol Chirino , Derek Chow , David R. Ciardi , Charles F. Claver , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Joseph J. Cockrum , Rebecca Coles , Andrew J. Connolly , Kem H. Cook , Asantha Cooray , Kevin R. Covey , Chris Cribbs , Wei Cui , Roc Cutri , Philip N. Daly , Scott F. Daniel , Felipe Daruich , Guillaume Daubard , Greg Daues , William Dawson , Francisco Delgado , Alfred Dellapenna , Robert de Peyster , Miguel de Val-Borro , Seth W. Digel , Peter Doherty , Richard Dubois , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann , Josef Durech , Frossie Economou , Michael Eracleous , Henry Ferguson , Enrique Figueroa , Merlin Fisher-Levine , Warren Focke , Michael D. Foss , James Frank , Michael D. Freemon , Emmanuel Gangler , Eric Gawiser , John C. Geary , Perry Gee , Marla Geha , Charles J. B. Gessner , Robert R. Gibson , D. Kirk Gilmore , Thomas Glanzman , William Glick , Tatiana Goldina , Daniel A. Goldstein , Iain Goodenow , Melissa L. Graham , William J. Gressler , Philippe Gris , Leanne P. Guy , Augustin Guyonnet , Gunther Haller , Ron Harris , Patrick A. Hascall , Justine Haupt , Fabio Hernandez , Sven Herrmann , Edward Hileman , Joshua Hoblitt , John A. Hodgson , Craig Hogan , Dajun Huang , Michael E. Huffer , Patrick Ingraham , Walter R. Innes , Suzanne H. Jacoby , Bhuvnesh Jain , Fabrice Jammes , James Jee , Tim Jenness , Garrett Jernigan , Darko Jevremović , Kenneth Johns , Anthony S. Johnson , Margaret W. G. Johnson , R. Lynne Jones , Claire Juramy-Gilles , Mario Jurić , Jason S. Kalirai , Nitya J. Kallivayalil , Bryce Kalmbach , Jeffrey P. Kantor , Pierre Karst , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Heather Kelly , Richard Kessler , Veronica Kinnison , David Kirkby , Lloyd Knox , Ivan V. Kotov , Victor L. Krabbendam , K. Simon Krughoff , Petr Kubánek , John Kuczewski , Shri Kulkarni , John Ku , Nadine R. Kurita , Craig S. Lage , Ron Lambert , Travis Lange , J. Brian Langton , Laurent Le Guillou , Deborah Levine , Ming Liang , Kian-Tat Lim , Chris J. Lintott , Kevin E. Long , Margaux Lopez , Paul J. Lotz , Robert H. Lupton , Nate B. Lust , Lauren A. MacArthur , Ashish Mahabal , Rachel Mandelbaum , Darren S. Marsh , Philip J. Marshall , Stuart Marshall , Morgan May , Robert McKercher , Michelle McQueen , Joshua Meyers , Myriam Migliore , Michelle Miller , David J. Mills , Connor Miraval , Joachim Moeyens , David G. Monet , Marc Moniez , Serge Monkewitz , Christopher Montgomery , Fritz Mueller , Gary P. Muller , Freddy Muñoz Arancibia , Douglas R. Neill , Scott P. Newbry , Jean-Yves Nief , Andrei Nomerotski , Martin Nordby , Paul O'Connor , John Oliver , Scot S. Olivier , Knut Olsen , William O'Mullane , Sandra Ortiz , Shawn Osier , Russell E. Owen , Reynald Pain , Paul E. Palecek , John K. Parejko , James B. Parsons , Nathan M. Pease , J. Matt Peterson , John R. Peterson , Donald L. Petravick , M. E. Libby Petrick , Cathy E. Petry , Francesco Pierfederici , Stephen Pietrowicz , Rob Pike , Philip A. Pinto , Raymond Plante , Stephen Plate , Paul A. Price , Michael Prouza , Veljko Radeka , Jayadev Rajagopal , Andrew P. Rasmussen , Nicolas Regnault , Kevin A. Reil , David J. Reiss , Michael A. Reuter , Stephen T. Ridgway , Vincent J. Riot , Steve Ritz , Sean Robinson , William Roby , Aaron Roodman , Wayne Rosing , Cecille Roucelle , Matthew R. Rumore , Stefano Russo , Abhijit Saha , Benoit Sassolas , Terry L. Schalk , Pim Schellart , Rafe H. Schindler , Samuel Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , Michael D. Schneider , William Schoening , German Schumacher , Megan E. Schwamb , Jacques Sebag , Brian Selvy , Glenn H. Sembroski , Lynn G. Seppala , Andrew Serio , Eduardo Serrano , Richard A. Shaw , Ian Shipsey , Jonathan Sick , Nicole Silvestri , Colin T. Slater , J. Allyn Smith , R. Chris Smith , Shahram Sobhani , Christine Soldahl , Lisa Storrie-Lombardi , Edward Stover , Michael A. Strauss , Rachel A. Street , Christopher W. Stubbs , Ian S. Sullivan , Donald Sweeney , John D. Swinbank , Alexander Szalay , Peter Takacs , Stephen A. Tether , Jon J. Thaler , John Gregg Thayer , Sandrine Thomas , Vaikunth Thukral , Jeffrey Tice , David E. Trilling , Max Turri , Richard Van Berg , Daniel Vanden Berk , Kurt Vetter , Francoise Virieux , Tomislav Vucina , William Wahl , Lucianne Walkowicz , Brian Walsh , Christopher W. Walter , Daniel L. Wang , Shin-Yawn Wang , Michael Warner , Oliver Wiecha , Beth Willman , Scott E. Winters , David Wittman , Sidney C. Wolff , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Xiuqin Wu , Bo Xin , Peter Yoachim , Hu Zhan

Our observations of the quiet Sun with the NST have yielded unanticipated results on smal-scale solar dynamic. Althought small-scale solar dynamic have been well-studied, the NST is enabling us to probe finer scale dynamic exploiting higher…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-23 Aleksandra Andic

The Near-UV-eXplorer (NUX) is a proposed ground-based, wide-field telescope array with a field of view of $\sim$70 square degrees, designed to operate over the 300-350 nm wavelength range and to achieve a target sensitivity of 20 mag in 150…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Rasjied Sloot , Rudy Wijnands , Steven Bloemen , Rik ter Horst , Hans Ellermeijer , Alexander Hoogerbrug

Expected to be of the highest survey power telescope in the northern hemisphere, the Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) will begin its routine observations of the northern sky since 2023. WFST will produce a lot of scientific data to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Lei Lei , Qing-Feng Zhu , Xu Kong , Ting-Gui Wang , Xian-Zhong Zheng , Dong-Dong Shi , Lu-Lu Fan , Wei Liu