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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will soon carry out an unprecedented wide, fast, and deep survey of the sky in multiple optical bands. The data from LSST will open up a new discovery space in astronomy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 A. S. Villarreal , Yadu Babuji , Tom Uram , Daniel S. Katz , Kyle Chard , Katrin Heitmann

The Large Zenith Telescope Survey whose construction is almost completed (first light expected in spring 2002) near Vancouver (Canada) is designed to observed a total strip of ~17' x 120 deg in 40 medium-band filters spanning 4000-10000 A.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Remi A. Cabanac , Paul Hickson , Valerie de Lapparent

The Large sky Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) General Survey is a spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately half of the celestial sphere and collect 10 million spectra of stars, galaxies and QSOs.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-22 A. -L. Luo , Y. -H. Zhao , G. Zhao , L. -C. Deng , X. -W. Liu , Y. -P. Jing , G. Wang , H. -T Zhang , J. -R. Shi , X. -Q. Cui , Y. -Q. Chu , G. -P. Li , Z. -R. Bai , Y. Cai , S. -Y. Cao , Z. -H Cao , J. L. Carlin , H. Y. Chen , J. -J. Chen , K. -X. Chen , L. Chen , X. -L. Chen , X. -Y. Chen , Y. Chen , N. Christlieb , J. -R. Chu , C. -Z. Cui , Y. -Q. Dong , B. Du , D. -W. Fan , L. Feng , J. -N Fu , P. Gao , X. -F. Gong , B. -Z. Gu , Y. -X. Guo , Z. -W. Han , B. -L. He , J. -L. Hou , Y. -H. Hou , W. Hou , H. -Z. Hu , N. -S. Hu , Z. -W. Hu , Z. -Y. Huo , L. Jia , F. -H. Jiang , X. Jiang , Z. -B. Jiang , G. Jin , X. Kong , X. Kong , Y. -J. Lei , A. -H. Li , C. -H. Li , G. -W. Li , H. -N. Li , J. Li , Q. Li , S. Li , S. -S. Li , X. -N. Li , Y. Li , Y. -B. Li , Y. -P. Li , Y. Liang , C. -C. Lin , C. Liu , G. -R. Liu , G. -Q. Liu , Z. -G. Liu , W. -Z. Lu , Y. Luo , Y. -D. Mao , H. Newberg , J. -J. Ni , Z. -X. Qi , Y. -J. Qi , S. -Y. Shen , H. -M. Shi , J. Song , Y. -H. Song , D. -Q. Su , H. -J. Su , Z. -H. Tang , Q. -S. Tao , Y. Tian , D. Wang , D. -Q. Wang , F. -F. Wang , G. -M. Wang , H. Wang , H. -C. Wang , J. Wang , J. -N. Wang , J. -L. Wang , J. -P. Wang , J. -X. Wang , L. Wang , M. -X. Wang , S. -G. Wang , S. -Q. Wang , X. Wang , Y. -N. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. -F. Wang , Y. -F. Wang , P. Wei , M. -Z. Wei , H. Wu , K. -F. Wu , X. -B. Wu , Y. Wu , Y. Z. Wu , X. -Z. Xing , L. -Z. Xu , X. -Q. Xu , Y. Xu , T. -S. Yan , D. -H. Yang , H. -F. Yang , H. -Q. Yang , M. Yang , Z. -Q. Yao , Y. Yu , H. Yuan , H. -B. Yuan , H. -L. Yuan , W. -M. Yuan , C. Zhai , E. -P. Zhang , H. W. Zhang , J. -N. Zhang , L. -P. Zhang , W. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. -X. Zhang , Z. -C. Zhang , M. Zhao , F. Zhou , X. Zhou , J. Zhu , Y. -T. Zhu , S. -C. Zou , F. Zuo

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will greatly improve upon sensitivities in the field of very-high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics. The CTAO northern site (CTAO-North, La Palma, Spain) currently hosts LST-1 with the remaining…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Luca Riitano , Justin Vandenbroucke , Zach Curtis-Ginsberg

An 8 m successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) would make incredible gains in the study of stellar populations, especially in the Local Group. If diffraction-limited at 0.5 microns, the "Next HST" could produce high-resolution imaging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas M. Brown

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray observatory. The observatory will consist of two arrays, one located in the southern hemisphere (Paranal,Chile) and the other in the northern hemisphere…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 Victor Barbosa Martins , Markus Garczarczyk

The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope that will observe from the Atacama Desert in Chile. In total, SO…

This paper describes a programme to map large-scale cosmic structures on the largest possible scales by using the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) to make a 21 cm (red-shifted) intensity map of the sky for the range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 George F. Smoot , Ivan Debono

Large digital sky surveys, over a broad range of wavelengths, both from the ground and from space observatories, are becoming a major source of astronomical data. Some examples include the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Digital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. George Djorgovski , Robert J. Brunner

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…

The Large Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) is a dedicated spectroscopic survey telescope being built in China, with an effective aperture of 4 meters and equiped with 4000 fibers. Using the LAMOST telescope, one could make…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-09 Xin Wang , Xuelei Chen , Zheng Zheng , Fengquan Wu , Pengjie Zhang , Yongheng Zhao

This paper summarizes a three night observing campaign aimed at achieving milli-magnitude precision photometry of bright stars (V < 9.0) with the 1-meter Swope telescope at Las Campanas Observatory. The test targets were the main sequence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mercedes Lopez-Morales

The Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) is the 4-metre wide-field survey telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory, equipped with the world's largest near-infrared imaging camera (VISTA IR Camera, VIRCAM), with 1.65…

This paper describes the design, operations, and performance of the Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA (MASCARA). Its primary goal is to find new exoplanets transiting bright stars, $4 < m_V < 8$, by monitoring the full sky. MASCARA consists of one…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 G. J. J. Talens , J. F. P. Spronck , A. -L. Lesage , G. P. P. L. Otten , R. Stuik , D. Pollacco , I. A. G Snellen

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) observatory consisting of three small aperture telescopes and one large aperture telescope. SO is located in the Atacama Desert in Chile at an elevation of 5180m.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Brian J. Koopman , Sanah Bhimani , Nicholas Galitzki , Matthew Hasselfield , Jack Lashner , Hironobu Nakata , Laura Newburgh , David V. Nguyen , Tai Sakuma , Kyohei Yamada

An LSST-like survey of the Galactic plane (deep images every 3-4 days) could probe the Galactic distribution of planets by two distinct methods: gravitational microlensing of planets beyond the snow line and transits by planets very close…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-04-15 Andrew Gould

The ESO Public Survey Southern H-ATLAS Regions Ks-band Survey (SHARKS) comprises 300 square degrees of deep imaging at 2.2 microns (the Ks band) with the VISTA InfraRed CAMera (VIRCAM) at the 4-metre Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-20 Helmut Dannerbauer , Aurelio Carnero , Nicholas Cross , Carlos M. Gutierrez

Abridged abstract: The Red MSX Source (RMS) survey is an ongoing effort to return a large, well-selected sample of massive young stellar objects (MYSOs) within our Galaxy. A series of ground-based follow-up observations are being undertaken…

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 square degrees of five-band (u g r i z) imaging data with photometry for over 88 million unique objects,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Abazajian et al.

Galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing (GGSL) is a powerful probe for the formation and evolution of galaxies and cosmology, while the sample size of GGSLs leads to considerable uncertainties and potential bias. The China Space Station…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-31 Xiaoyue Cao , Ran Li , Nan Li , Rui Li , Yun Chen , Keyi Ding , Huanyuan Shan , Hu Zhan , Xin Zhang , Wei Du , Shuo Cao