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The HARPS search for Earth-like planets in the habitable zone: I -- Very low-mass planets around HD20794, HD85512 and HD192310

In 2009 we started an intense radial-velocity monitoring of a few nearby, slowly-rotating and quiet solar-type stars within the dedicated HARPS-Upgrade GTO program. The goal of this campaign is to gather very-precise radial-velocity data…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 F. Pepe , C. Lovis , D. Ségransan , W. Benz , F. Bouchy , X. Dumusque , M. Mayor , D. Queloz , N. C. Santos , S. Udry

Recent Results of the ATLAS Upgrade Planar Pixel Sensors R&D Project

To cope with the higher occupancy and radiation damage at the HL-LHC also the LHC experiments will be upgraded. The ATLAS Planar Pixel Sensor R&D Project (PPS) is an international collaboration of 17 institutions and more than 80…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Philipp Weigell

The SERENDIP III 70 cm Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

We employed the SERENDIP III system with the Arecibo radio telescope to search for possible artificial extraterrestrial signals. Over the four years of this search we covered 93% of the sky observable at Arecibo at least once and 44% of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-05 Stuart Bowyer , Michael Lampton , Eric Korpela , Jeff Cobb , Matt Lebofsky , Dan Werthimer

Recent development in high-precision high-fidelity spectrographs for exoplanet research and characterization

High-precision high-fidelity spectrographs are the most powerful instruments for exoplanets detection and characterization. The sub-m/s radial-velocity precision, required to detect Earth-mass exoplanets, necessitates tackling all the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 François Bouchy , Francesco Pepe , Xavier Dumusque , Tobias Schmidt , Christophe Lovis , Stéphane Udry

GASS: The Parkes Galactic All-Sky Survey. Update: improved correction for instrumental effects and new data release

The Galactic All-Sky Survey is a survey of Galactic atomic hydrogen emission in the southern sky observed with the Parkes 64-m Radio Telescope. The first data release (GASS I) concerned survey goals and observing techniques, the second…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-10 Peter M. W. Kalberla , Urmas Haud

A NECTAr-based upgrade for the Cherenkov cameras of the H.E.S.S. 12-meter telescopes

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is one of the three arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) currently in operation. It is composed of four 12-meter telescopes and a 28-meter one, and is sensitive to gamma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 Terry Ashton , Michael Backes , Arnim Balzer , David Berge , Julien Bolmont , Simon Bonnefoy , Francois Brun , Thomas Chaminade , Eric Delagnes , Gerard Fontaine , Matthias Füßling , Gianluca Giavitto , Berrie Giebels , Jean-Francois Glicenstein , Tobias Gräber , Jim Hinton , Albert Jahnke , Stefan Klepser , Marko Kossatz , Axel Kretzschmann , Valentin Lefranc , Holger Leich , Jean-Philippe Lenain , Hartmut Lüdecke , Iryna Lypova , Pascal Manigot , Vincent Marandon , Emmanuel Moulin , Thomas Murach , Mathieu de Naurois , Patrick Nayman , Stefan Ohm , Marek Penno , Duncan Ross , David Salek , Markus Schade , Thomas Schwab , Kleopas Shiningayamwe , Christian Stegmann , Constantin Steppa , Jean-Paul Tavernet , Julian Thornhill , Francois Toussnel , Pascal Vincent

Using ISS Telescopes for Electromagnetic Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Detections of NS-NS and NS-BH Mergers

The International Space Station offers a unique platform for rapid and inexpensive deployment of space telescopes. A scientific opportunity of great potential later this decade is the use of telescopes for the electromagnetic follow-up of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Jordan Camp , Scott D. Barthelmy , Lindy Blackburn , Kenneth Carpenter , Neil Gehrels , Jonah Kanner , Frank E. Marshall , Judith L. Racusin , Takanori Sakamoto

The Sooner: a Large Robotic Telescope

The approach of Observational Astronomy is mainly aimed at the construction of larger aperture telescopes, more sensitive detectors and broader wavelength coverage. Certainly fruitful, this approach turns out to be not completely fulfilling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-11 G. Chincarini , M. Zannoni , S. Covino , E. Molinari , S. Benetti , F. Vitali , C. Bonoli , F. Bortoletto , E. Cascone , R. Cosentino , F. D'Alessio , P. D'Avanzo , V. De Caprio , M. Della Valle , A. Fernandez-Soto , D. Fugazza , E. Giro , A. Gomboc , C. Guidorzi , D. Magrin , G. Malaspina , L. Mankiewicz , R. Margutti , R. Mazzoleni , L. Nicastro , A. Riva , M. Riva , R. Salvaterra , P. Spano , M. Sperandio , M. Stefanon , G. Tosti , V. Testa

Euclid. IV. The NISP Calibration Unit

The near-infrared calibration unit (NI-CU) on board Euclid's Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) is the first astronomical calibration lamp based on light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to be operated in space. Euclid is a mission in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Euclid Collaboration , F. Hormuth , K. Jahnke , M. Schirmer , C. G. -Y. Lee , T. Scott , R. Barbier , S. Ferriol , W. Gillard , F. Grupp , R. Holmes , W. Holmes , B. Kubik , J. Macias-Perez , M. Laurent , J. Marpaud , M. Marton , E. Medinaceli , G. Morgante , R. Toledo-Moreo , M. Trifoglio , Hans-Walter Rix , A. Secroun , M. Seiffert , P. Stassi , S. Wachter , C. M. Gutierrez , C. Vescovi , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , R. Bender , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , R. Casas , S. Casas , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , J. Dinis , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , F. Ducret , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , M. Fabricius , M. Farina , S. Farrens , F. Faustini , S. Fotopoulou , N. Fourmanoit , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , P. Franzetti , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , K. George , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , H. Hoekstra , I. Hook , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , M. Jhabvala , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , T. Kitching , R. Kohley , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , D. Le Mignant , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , S. Maurogordato , H. J. McCracken , S. Mei , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , J. J. Mohr , M. Moresco , P. W. Morris , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , R. C. Nichol , S. -M. Niemi , J. W. Nightingale , C. Padilla , K. Paech , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , B. Rusholme , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , A. G. Sánchez , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , M. Sauvage , J. A. Schewtschenko , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , E. Sefusatti , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , G. Smadja , L. Stanco , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , D. Tavagnacco , A. N. Taylor , H. I. Teplitz , I. Tereno , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , F. M. Zerbi , E. Zucca , A. Biviano , M. Bolzonella , A. Boucaud , E. Bozzo , C. Burigana , M. Calabrese , D. Di Ferdinando , J. A. Escartin Vigo , R. Farinelli , J. Gracia-Carpio , M. V. Kazandjian , N. Mauri , V. Scottez , M. Tenti , M. Viel , M. Wiesmann , Y. Akrami , V. Allevato , S. Anselmi , E. Aubourg , M. Ballardini , M. Bethermin , A. Blanchard , L. Blot , S. Borgani , A. S. Borlaff , E. Borsato , S. Bruton , R. Cabanac , A. Calabro , G. Canas-Herrera , A. Cappi , C. S. Carvalho , P. Casenove , T. Castro , K. C. Chambers , Y. Charles , S. Contarini , A. R. Cooray , O. Cucciati , S. Davini , B. De Caro , S. de la Torre , G. Desprez , A. Díaz-Sánchez , J. J. Diaz , S. Di Domizio , H. Dole , S. Escoffier , A. G. Ferrari , P. G. Ferreira , I. Ferrero , F. Finelli , A. Fontana , F. Fornari , L. Gabarra , K. Ganga , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , F. Giacomini , G. Gozaliasl , A. Hall , W. G. Hartley , H. Hildebrandt , J. Hjorth , M. Huertas-Company , O. Ilbert , J. Jacobson , A. Jimenez Muñoz , S. Joudaki , J. J. E. Kajava , V. Kansal , D. Karagiannis , C. C. Kirkpatrick , F. Laudisio , L. Legrand , G. Libet , A. Loureiro , G. Maggio , M. Magliocchetti , C. Mancini , F. Mannucci , R. Maoli , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Matthew , L. Maurin , R. B. Metcalf , M. Miluzio , C. Moretti , S. Nadathur , Nicholas A. Walton , L. Patrizii , A. Pezzotta , M. Pöntinen , V. Popa , C. Porciani , D. Potter , I. Risso , P. -F. Rocci , R. P. Rollins , M. Sahlén , C. Scarlata , A. Schneider , M. Schultheis , M. Sereno , A. Shulevski , A. Silvestri , P. Simon , A. Spurio Mancini , J. Stadel , C. Tao , G. Testera , R. Teyssier , S. Toft , S. Tosi , A. Troja , M. Tucci , C. Valieri , J. Valiviita , D. Vergani , G. Verza , L. Zalesky , M. Archidiacono , F. Atrio-Barandela , T. Bouvard , F. Caro , P. Dimauro , Y. Fang , A. M. N. Ferguson , A. Finoguenov , T. Gasparetto , A. M. C. Le Brun , J. Le Graet , T. I. Liaudat , A. Montoro , C. Murray , M. Oguri , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , E. Sarpa , K. Tanidis , F. Vernizzi , A. Viitanen , I. Kova{č}ić , J. Lesgourgues , J. Martín-Fleitas , A. Mora

Supernovae and Cosmology with Future European Facilities

Prospects for future supernova surveys are discussed, focusing on the ESA Euclid mission and the European Extremely Large Telescope(E-ELT), both expected to be in operation around the turn of the decade. Euclid is a 1.2m space survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 I. M. Hook

The Galactic O-Star Catalog (GOSC) and the Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey (GOSSS): current status

We present the updates of the Galactic O-Star Catalog (GOSC) that we have undertaken in the last two years: new spectral types, more objects, additional information, and coordination with CDS. We also present updates for the Galactic O-Star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 J. Maíz Apellániz , Á. Alonso Moragón , L. Ortiz de Zárate Alcarazo

Retrieving Instantaneous Field of View and Geophysical Information for Atmospheric Limb Sounding with USGNC Near Real-Time Orbit Data

The Limb-imaging Ionospheric and Thermospheric Extreme-ultraviolet Spectrograph (LITES) experiment is one of thirteen instruments aboard the Space Test Program Houston 5 (STP-H5) payload on the International Space Station. Along with the…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Laura Cui

Prospects for detecting anisotropies and polarization of the stochastic gravitational wave background with ground-based detectors

We build an analytical framework to study the observability of anisotropies and a net chiral polarization of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) with a generic network of ground-based detectors. We apply this formalism to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-14 Giorgio Mentasti , Carlo Contaldi , Marco Peloso

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) are expected to be complete by 2028,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 The Simons Observatory Collaboration , M. Abitbol , I. Abril-Cabezas , S. Adachi , P. Ade , A. E. Adler , P. Agrawal , J. Aguirre , Z. Ahmed , S. Aiola , T. Alford , A. Ali , D. Alonso , M. A. Alvarez , R. An , K. Arnold , P. Ashton , Z. Atkins , J. Austermann , S. Azzoni , C. Baccigalupi , A. Baleato Lizancos , D. Barron , P. Barry , J. Bartlett , N. Battaglia , R. Battye , E. Baxter , A. Bazarko , J. A. Beall , R. Bean , D. Beck , S. Beckman , J. Begin , A. Beheshti , B. Beringue , T. Bhandarkar , S. Bhimani , F. Bianchini , E. Biermann , S. Biquard , B. Bixler , S. Boada , D. Boettger , B. Bolliet , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , J. Borrow , C. Braithwaite , T. L. R. Brien , M. L. Brown , S. M. Bruno , S. Bryan , R. Bustos , H. Cai , E. Calabrese , V. Calafut , F. M. Carl , A. Carones , J. Carron , A. Challinor , P. Chanial , N. Chen , K. Cheung , B. Chiang , Y. Chinone , J. Chluba , H. S. Cho , S. K. Choi , M. Chu , J. Clancy , S. E. Clark , P. Clarke , J. Cleary , D. L. Clements , J. Connors , C. Contaldi , G. Coppi , L. Corbett , N. F. Cothard , W. Coulton , K. D. Crowley , K. T. Crowley , A. Cukierman , J. M. D'Ewart , K. Dachlythra , R. Datta , S. Day-Weiss , T. de Haan , M. Devlin , L. Di Mascolo , S. Dicker , B. Dober , C. Doux , P. Dow , S. Doyle , C. J. Duell , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , J. Dunkley , D. Dutcher , R. Dünner , M. Edenton , H. El Bouhargani , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , V. Fanfani , G. S. Farren , J. Fergusson , S. Ferraro , R. Flauger , A. Foster , K. Freese , J. C. Frisch , A. Frolov , G. Fuller , N. Galitzki , P. A. Gallardo , J. T. Galvez Ghersi , K. Ganga , J. Gao , X. Garrido , E. Gawiser , M. Gerbino , R. Gerras , S. Giardiello , A. Gill , V. Gilles , U. Giri , E. Gleave , V. Gluscevic , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. E. Golec , S. Gordon , M. Gralla , S. Gratton , D. Green , J. C. Groh , C. Groppi , Y. Guan , N. Gupta , J. E. Guðmundsson , S. Hagstotz , P. Hargrave , S. Haridas , K. Harrington , I. Harrison , M. Hasegawa , M. Hasselfield , V. Haynes , M. Hazumi , A. He , E. Healy , S. W. Henderson , B. S. Hensley , E. Hertig , C. Hervías-Caimapo , M. Higuchi , C. A. Hill , J. C. Hill , G. Hilton , M. Hilton , A. D. Hincks , G. Hinshaw , R. Hložek , A. Y. Q. Ho , S. Ho , S. P. Ho , T. D. Hoang , J. Hoh , E. Hornecker , A. L. Hornsby , S. C. Hotinli , Z. Huang , Z. B. Huber , J. Hubmayr , K. Huffenberger , J. P. Hughes , A. Idicherian Lonappan , M. Ikape , K. Irwin , J. Iuliano , A. H. Jaffe , B. Jain , H. T. Jense , O. Jeong , A. Johnson , B. R. Johnson , M. Johnson , M. Jones , B. Jost , D. Kaneko , E. D. Karpel , Y. Kasai , N. Katayama , B. Keating , B. Keller , R. Keskitalo , J. Kim , T. Kisner , K. Kiuchi , J. Klein , K. Knowles , A. M. Kofman , B. J. Koopman , A. Kosowsky , R. Kou , N. Krachmalnicoff , D. Kramer , A. Krishak , A. Krolewski , A. Kusaka , A. Kusiak , P. La Plante , A. La Posta , A. Laguë , J. Lashner , M. Lattanzi , A. Lee , E. Lee , J. Leech , C. Lessler , J. S. Leung , A. Lewis , Y. Li , Z. Li , M. Limon , L. Lin , M. Link , J. Liu , Y. Liu , J. Lonergan , T. Louis , T. Lucas , M. Ludlam , M. Lungu , M. Lyons , N. MacCrann , A. MacInnis , M. Madhavacheril , D. Mak , F. Maldonado , M. Mallaby-Kay , A. Manduca , A. Mangu , H. Mani , A. S. Maniyar , G. A. Marques , J. Mates , T. Matsumura , P. Mauskopf , A. May , N. McCallum , H. McCarrick , F. McCarthy , M. McCulloch , J. McMahon , P. D. Meerburg , Y. Mehta , J. Melin , J. Meyers , A. Middleton , A. Miller , M. Mirmelstein , K. Moodley , J. Moore , M. Morshed , T. Morton , E. Moser , T. Mroczkowski , M. Murata , M. Münchmeyer , S. Naess , H. Nakata , T. Namikawa , M. Nashimoto , F. Nati , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , S. K. Nerval , L. Newburgh , D. V. Nguyen , A. Nicola , M. D. Niemack , H. Nishino , Y. Nishinomiya , A. Orlando , J. Orlowski-Scherer , L. Pagano , L. A. Page , S. Pandey , A. Papageorgiou , I. Paraskevakos , B. Partridge , R. Patki , M. Peel , K. Perez Sarmiento , F. Perrotta , P. Phakathi , L. Piccirillo , E. Pierpaoli , T. Pinsonneault-Marotte , G. Pisano , D. Poletti , R. Puddu , G. Puglisi , F. J. Qu , M. J. Randall , C. Ranucci , C. Raum , R. Reeves , C. L. Reichardt , M. Remazeilles , Y. Rephaeli , D. Riechers , J. Robe , M. F. Robertson , N. Robertson , K. Rogers , F. Rojas , A. Romero , E. Rosenberg , A. Rotti , S. Rowe , A. Roy , S. Sadeh , N. Sailer , K. Sakaguri , T. Sakuma , Y. Sakurai , M. Salatino , G. H. Sanders , D. Sasaki , M. Sathyanarayana Rao , T. P. Satterthwaite , L. Saunders , L. Scalcinati , E. Schaan , B. Schmitt , M. Schmittfull , N. Sehgal , J. Seibert , Y. Seino , U. Seljak , S. Shaikh , E. Shaw , P. Shellard , B. Sherwin , M. Shimon , J. E. Shroyer , C. Sierra , J. Sievers , C. Sifón , P. Sikhosana , M. Silva-Feaver , S. M. Simon , A. Sinclair , K. Smith , W. Sohn , X. Song , R. F. Sonka , D. Spergel , J. Spisak , S. T. Staggs , G. Stein , J. R. Stevens , R. Stompor , E. Storer , R. Sudiwala , J. Sugiyama , K. M. Surrao , S. Sutariya , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , A. Takeuchi , I. Tansieri , A. C. Taylor , G. Teply , T. Terasaki , A. Thomas , D. B. Thomas , R. Thornton , H. Trac , T. Tsan , E. Tsang King Sang , C. Tucker , J. Ullom , L. Vacher , L. Vale , A. van Engelen , J. Van Lanen , J. van Marrewijk , D. D. Van Winkle , C. Vargas , E. M. Vavagiakis , I. Veenendaal , C. Vergès , M. Vissers , M. Viña , K. Wagoner , S. Walker , L. Walters , Y. Wang , B. Westbrook , J. Williams , P. Williams , H. Winch , E. J. Wollack , K. Wolz , J. Wong , Z. Xu , K. Yamada , E. Young , B. Yu , C. Yu , M. Zannoni , K. Zheng , N. Zhu , A. Zonca , I. Zubeldia

EXPRES I. HD~3651 an Ideal RV Benchmark

The next generation of exoplanet-hunting spectrographs should deliver up to an order of magnitude improvement in radial velocity precision over the standard 1 m/s state of the art. This advance is critical for enabling the detection of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 John M. Brewer , Debra A. Fischer , Ryan T. Blackman , Samuel H. C. Cabot , Allen B. Davis , Gregory Laughlin , Christopher Leet , J. M. Joel Ong , Ryan R. Petersburg , Andrew E. Szymkowiak , Lily L. Zhao , Gregory W. Henry , Joe Llama

Design of an IR Imaging Channel for the Keck Observatory SCALES Instrument

A next-generation instrument named, Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES), is being planned for the W. M. Keck Observatory. SCALES will have an integral field spectrograph (IFS) and a diffraction-limited…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Ravinder K. Banyal , Amirul Hasan , Reni Kupke , Hari Mohan Varshney , Ajin Prakash , T. Sivarani , Andy J. Skemer , Nick MacDonald , Steph Sallum , Will Deich , Michael P. Fitzgerald , K. V. Govinda , Chris Ratliff , Ramya Sethuram , Deno Stelter , Arun Surya , Eric Wang

GIARPS: the unique VIS-NIR high precision radial velocity facility in this world

GIARPS (GIAno & haRPS) is a project devoted to have on the same focal station of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) both the high resolution spectrographs HARPS-N (VIS) and GIANO (NIR) working simultaneously. This could be considered…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Riccardo Claudi , Serena Benatti , Ilaria Carleo , Adriano Ghedina , Emilio Molinari , Ernesto Oliva , Andrea Tozzi , Andrea Baruffolo , Massimo Cecconi , Rosario Cosentino , Daniela Fantinel , Luca Fini , Francesca Ghinassi , Manuel Gonzalez , Raffaele Gratton , Jose Guerra , Avet Harutyunyan , Nauzet Hernandez , Marcella Iuzzolino , Marcello Lodi , Luca Malavolta , Jesus Maldonado , Giusi Micela , Nicoletta Sanna , Jose Sanjuan , Salvo Scuderi , Alessandro Sozzetti , Hector Perez Ventura , Marcos Hernandez Diaz , Alberto Galli , Carlos Gonzalez , Luis Riverol , Carlos Riverol

Predictions for the FAST telescope's CRAFTS Extra-Galactic HI Survey

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has started the Commensal Radio Astronomy FasT Survey (CRAFTS). In this paper, we use the technical parameters of FAST derived from commissioning observations to simulate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-04 Kai Zhang , Jingwen Wu , Di Li , Chao-Wei Tsai , Lister Staveley-Smith , Jing Wang , Jian Fu , Travis McIntyre , Mao Yuan , FAST collaboration

A new approach to analysing HST spatial scans: the transmission spectrum of HD 209458 b

The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is currently one of the most widely used instruments for observing exoplanetary atmospheres, especially with the use of the spatial scanning technique. An increasing number of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-09 A. Tsiaras , I. P. Waldmann , M. Rocchetto , R. Varley , G. Morello , M. Damiano , G. Tinetti

The OGLE-III planet detection efficiency from six years of microlensing observations (2003 to 2008)

We use six years (2003 to 2008) of Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment III microlensing observations to derive the survey detection efficiency for a range of planetary masses and projected distances from the host star. We perform an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-09 Y. Tsapras , M. Hundertmark , Ł. Wyrzykowski , K. Horne , A. Udalski , C. Snodgrass , R. Street , D. M. Bramich , M. Dominik , V. Bozza , R. Figuera Jaimes , N. Kains , J. Skowron , M. K. Szymański , G. Pietrzyński , I. Soszyński , K. Ulaczyk , S. Kozłowski , P. Pietrukowicz , R. Poleski