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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) array that comprises millimeter- and submillimeter-wavelength telescopes separated by distances comparable to the diameter of the Earth. At a nominal operating…

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This paper presents a review of the history, motivation and current status of high energy neutrino telescopes. Many years after these detectors were first conceived, the operation of kilometer-cubed scale detectors is finally on the horizon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 K. D. Hoffman

The Constellation X-ray Mission is a high throughput X-ray facility emphasizing observations at high spectral resolution (E/\Delta E \sim 300-3000), and broad energy bandpass (0.25-40 keV). Constellation-X will provide a factor of nearly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Azita Valinia , Nicholas White , Harvey Tananbaum , the Constellation-X Team

Thirteen exo-planets have been discovered using the gravitational microlensing technique (out of which 7 have been published). These planets already demonstrate that super-Earths (with mass up to ~10 Earth masses) beyond the snow line are…

The Argus Optical Array will be the first all-sky, arcsecond-resolution, 5-m class telescope. The 55 GPix Array, currently being prototyped, will consist of 900 telescopes with 61 MPix very-low-noise CMOS detectors enabling sub-second…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-01 Nicholas Law , Alan Vasquez Soto , Hank Corbett , Nathan Galliher , Ramses Gonzalez , Lawrence Machia , Glenn Walters

Euclid is a European Space Agency (ESA) mission designed to constrain the properties of dark energy and gravity via weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering. It will carry out a wide area imaging and spectroscopy survey in visible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Antonino Troja , Isaac Tutusaus , Jenny G. Sorce

Recent advancements in low-cost astronomical equipment, including high-quality medium-aperture telescopes and low-noise CMOS detectors, have made the deployment of large optical telescope arrays both financially feasible and scientifically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-19 Nathan W. Galliher , Nicholas M. Law , Hank Corbett , Ramses Gonzalez , Lawrence Machia , Alan Vasquez Soto

The development of the atmospheric Cherenkov imaging technique has led to significant advances in gamma-ray detection sensitivity in the energy range from 200 GeV to 50 TeV. The Whipple Observatory 10m reflector has detected the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. C. Weekes

The study of the universe at energies above 100 GeV is a relatively new and exciting field. The current generation of pointed instruments have detected TeV gamma rays from at least 10 sources and the next generation of detectors promises a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 G. Sinnis , A. Smith , J. E. McEnery

Mini-EUSO (Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a telescope observing the Earth in the ultraviolet band (290-430 nm) from the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station since…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-05 Giulia Romoli

In the ROSAT era of the mid-1990's, the problems facing deep X-ray surveys could be largely solved with 10 m class telescopes. In the first decade of this new millennium, with X-ray telescopes such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ann E. Hornschemeier

The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a project of a new-generation solar telescope. It has a large aperture of 4~m, which is necessary for achieving high spatial and temporal resolution. The high polarimetric sensitivity of the EST will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-05 Jan Jurcak , Manuel Collados , Jorrit Leenaarts , Michiel van Noort , Rolf Schlichenmaier

The EXTraS project (Exploring the X-ray Transient and variable Sky) will characterise the temporal behaviour of the largest ever sample of objects in the soft X-ray range (0.1-12 keV) with a complex, systematic and consistent analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 A. De Luca , R. Salvaterra , A. Tiengo , D. D'Agostino , M. G. Watson , F. Haberl , J. Wilms

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) experiment, a ground-based gamma-ray Cherenkov telescope array located in Namibia, has now detected many extragalactic objects, which redshifts range from z=0.00183 up to z=0.2, possibly more.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-12 Jean-Philippe Lenain

Euclid will observe 15 000 deg$^2$ of the darkest sky, in regions free of contamination by light from our Galaxy and our Solar System. Three "Euclid Deep Fields" surveys covering around 40 deg$^2$ in total will extend the scientific scope…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-17 Isaac Tutusaus , Jenny G. Sorce , Antonino Troja

All-Sky-ASTROGAM is a gamma-ray observatory operating in a broad energy range, 100 keV to a few hundred MeV, recently proposed as the "Fast" (F) mission of the European Space Agency for a launch in 2028 to an L2 orbit. The scientific…

The Atmospheric Cherenkov Imaging Technique has opened up the gamma-ray spectrum from 100 GeV to 50 TeV to astrophysical exploration. The development of the technique (with emphasis on the early days) is described as are the basic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Trevor C. Weekes

This white paper discusses the current landscape and prospects for experiments sensitive to particle dark matter processes producing photons and cosmic rays. Much of the gamma-ray sky remains unexplored on a level of sensitivity that would…

The Extrasolar Planet Search with PRIMA project (ESPRI) aims at characterising and detecting extrasolar planets by measuring the host star's reflex motion using the narrow-angle astrometry capability of the PRIMA facility at the Very Large…

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