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EUSO-TA fluorescence detector

EUSO-TA is a pathfinder experiment for the space based JEM-EUSO mission for the detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. EUSO-TA is an high-resolution fluorescence telescope installed in front of the Black Rock Mesa fluorescence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-26 Francesca Bisconti

SCExAO, a testbed for developing high-contrast imaging technologies for ELTs

To directly detect exoplanets and protoplanetary disks, the development of high accuracy wavefront sensing and control (WFS&C) technologies is essential, especially for ground-based Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs). The Subaru…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-30 Kyohoon Ahn , Olivier Guyon , Julien Lozi , Sébastien Vievard , Vincent Deo , Nour Skaf , Ruslan Belikov , Steven P. Bos , Michael Bottom , Thayne Currie , Richard Frazin , Kyle V. Gorkom , Tyler D. Groff , Sebastiaan Y. Haffert , Nemanja Jovanovic , Hajime Kawahara , Takayuki Kotani , Jared R. Males , Frantz Martinache , Benjamin A. Mazin , Kelsey Miller , Barnaby Norris , Alexander Rodack , Alison Wong

Field Camera Unit for WSO-UV: Phase A Study Report

World Space Observatory UltraViolet (WSO-UV) is a multipurpose space observatory, made by a 170 cm aperture telescope, capable of UV high-resolution spectroscopy, long slit low-resolution spectroscopy, and deep UV and optical imaging. With…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-07 I. Pagano , F. Bacciotti , L. Bedin , F. Bracciaferri , E. Brocato , A. Bulgarelli , L. Buson , C. Cacciari , A. Capetti , A. Cassatella , E. Cavazzuti , R. Claudi , D. De Martino , G. De Paris , F. Ferraro , M. Fiorini , L. Gambicorti , A. Gherardi , F. Gianotti , D. Magrin , S. Marchi , G. Mulas , M. Munari , M. Nonino , E. Pace , M. Pancrazzi , E. Pian , G. Piotto , C. Pompei , C. Pontoni , G. Preti , S. Scuderi , S. Shore , M. Trifoglio , M. Turatto , M. Uslenghi

FIREBall-2: flight preparation of a proven balloon payload to image the intermediate redshift circumgalactic medium

FIREBall-2 is a stratospheric balloon-borne 1-m telescope coupled to a UV multi-object slit spectrograph designed to map the faint UV emission surrounding z~0.7 galaxies and quasars through their Lyman-alpha line emission. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-29 Vincent Picouet , David Valls-Gabaud , Bruno Milliard , David Schiminovich , Drew M. Miles , Keri Hoadley , Erika Hamden , D. Christopher Martin , Gillian Kyne , Trent Brendel , Aafaque Raza Khan , Jean Evrard , Zeren Lin , Haeun Chung , Simran Agarwal , Ignacio Cevallos Aleman , Charles-Antoine Chevrier , Jess Li , Nicole Melso , Shouleh Nikzad , Didier Vibert , Nicolas Bray

IceCube-Gen2: The Window to the Extreme Universe

The observation of electromagnetic radiation from radio to $\gamma$-ray wavelengths has provided a wealth of information about the universe. However, at PeV (10$^{15}$ eV) energies and above, most of the universe is impenetrable to photons.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-06 Gen2 Collaboration , M. G. Aartsen , R. Abbasi , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , M. Ahrens , C. Alispach , P. Allison , N. M. Amin , K. Andeen , T. Anderson , I. Ansseau , G. Anton , C. Argüelles , T. C. Arlen , J. Auffenberg , S. Axani , H. Bagherpour , X. Bai , A. Balagopal V. , A. Barbano , I. Bartos , B. Bastian , V. Basu , V. Baum , S. Baur , R. Bay , J. J. Beatty , K. -H. Becker , J. Becker Tjus , S. BenZvi , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , D. Z. Besson , G. Binder , D. Bindig , E. Blaufuss , S. Blot , C. Bohm , M. Bohmer , S. Böser , O. Botner , J. Böttcher , E. Bourbeau , J. Bourbeau , F. Bradascio , J. Braun , S. Bron , J. Brostean-Kaiser , A. Burgman , R. T. Burley , J. Buscher , R. S. Busse , M. Bustamante , M. A. Campana , E. G. Carnie-Bronca , T. Carver , C. Chen , P. Chen , E. Cheung , D. Chirkin , S. Choi , B. A. Clark , K. Clark , L. Classen , A. Coleman , G. H. Collin , A. Connolly , J. M. Conrad , P. Coppin , P. Correa , D. F. Cowen , R. Cross , P. Dave , C. Deaconu , C. De Clercq , J. J. DeLaunay , S. De Kockere , H. Dembinski , K. Deoskar , S. De Ridder , A. Desai , P. Desiati , K. D. de Vries , G. de Wasseige , M. de With , T. DeYoung , S. Dharani , A. Diaz , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , H. Dujmovic , M. Dunkman , M. A. DuVernois , E. Dvorak , T. Ehrhardt , P. Eller , R. Engel , J. J. Evans , P. A. Evenson , S. Fahey , K. Farrag , A. R. Fazely , J. Felde , A. T. Fienberg , K. Filimonov , C. Finley , L. Fischer , D. Fox , A. Franckowiak , E. Friedman , A. Fritz , T. K. Gaisser , J. Gallagher , E. Ganster , D. Garcia-Fernandez , S. Garrappa , A. Gartner , L. Gerhardt , R. Gernhaeuser , A. Ghadimi , C. Glaser , T. Glauch , T. Glüsenkamp , A. Goldschmidt , J. G. Gonzalez , S. Goswami , D. Grant , T. Grégoire , Z. Griffith , S. Griswold , M. Gündüz , C. Haack , A. Hallgren , R. Halliday , L. Halve , F. Halzen , J. C. Hanson , K. Hanson , J. Hardin , J. Haugen , A. Haungs , S. Hauser , D. Hebecker , D. Heinen , P. Heix , K. Helbing , R. Hellauer , F. Henningsen , S. Hickford , J. Hignight , C. Hill , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , B. Hoffmann , R. Hoffmann , T. Hoinka , B. Hokanson-Fasig , K. Holzapfel , K. Hoshina , F. Huang , M. Huber , T. Huber , T. Huege , K. Hughes , K. Hultqvist , M. Hünnefeld , R. Hussain , S. In , N. Iovine , A. Ishihara , M. Jansson , G. S. Japaridze , M. Jeong , B. J. P. Jones , F. Jonske , R. Joppe , O. Kalekin , D. Kang , W. Kang , X. Kang , A. Kappes , D. Kappesser , T. Karg , M. Karl , A. Karle , T. Katori , U. Katz , M. Kauer , A. Keivani , M. Kellermann , J. L. Kelley , A. Kheirandish , J. Kim , K. Kin , T. Kintscher , J. Kiryluk , T. Kittler , M. Kleifges , S. R. Klein , R. Koirala , H. Kolanoski , L. Köpke , C. Kopper , S. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , P. Koundal , M. Kovacevich , M. Kowalski , C. B. Krauss , K. Krings , G. Krückl , N. Kulacz , N. Kurahashi , C. Lagunas Gualda , R. Lahmann , J. L. Lanfranchi , M. J. Larson , U. Latif , F. Lauber , J. P. Lazar , K. Leonard , A. Leszczyńska , Y. Li , Q. R. Liu , E. Lohfink , J. LoSecco , C. J. Lozano Mariscal , L. Lu , F. Lucarelli , A. Ludwig , J. Lünemann , W. Luszczak , Y. Lyu , W. Y. Ma , J. Madsen , G. Maggi , K. B. M. Mahn , Y. Makino , P. Mallik , S. Mancina , S. Mandalia , I. C. Mariş , S. Marka , Z. Marka , R. Maruyama , K. Mase , R. Maunu , F. McNally , K. Meagher , A. Medina , M. Meier , S. Meighen-Berger , J. Merz , Z. S. Meyers , J. Micallef , D. Mockler , G. Momenté , T. Montaruli , R. W. Moore , R. Morse , M. Moulai , P. Muth , R. Naab , R. Nagai , J. Nam , U. Naumann , J. Necker , G. Neer , A. Nelles , L. V. Nguyên , H. Niederhausen , M. U. Nisa , S. C. Nowicki , D. R. Nygren , E. Oberla , A. Obertacke Pollmann , M. Oehler , A. Olivas , E. O'Sullivan , Y. Pan , H. Pandya , D. V. Pankova , L. Papp , N. Park , G. K. Parker , E. N. Paudel , P. Peiffer , C. Pérez de los Heros , T. C. Petersen , S. Philippen , D. Pieloth , S. Pieper , J. L. Pinfold , A. Pizzuto , I. Plaisier , M. Plum , Y. Popovych , A. Porcelli , M. Prado Rodriguez , P. B. Price , G. T. Przybylski , C. Raab , A. Raissi , M. Rameez , L. Rauch , K. Rawlins , I. C. Rea , A. Rehman , R. Reimann , M. Renschler , G. Renzi , E. Resconi , S. Reusch , W. Rhode , M. Richman , B. Riedel , M. Riegel , E. J. Roberts , S. Robertson , G. Roellinghoff , M. Rongen , C. Rott , T. Ruhe , D. Ryckbosch , D. Rysewyk Cantu , I. Safa , S. E. Sanchez Herrera , A. Sandrock , J. Sandroos , P. Sandstrom , M. Santander , S. Sarkar , S. Sarkar , K. Satalecka , M. Scharf , M. Schaufel , H. Schieler , P. Schlunder , T. Schmidt , A. Schneider , J. Schneider , F. G. Schröder , L. Schumacher , S. Sclafani , D. Seckel , S. Seunarine , M. H. Shaevitz , A. Sharma , S. Shefali , M. Silva , D. Smith , B. Smithers , R. Snihur , J. Soedingrekso , D. Soldin , S. Söldner-Rembold , M. Song , D. Southall , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , J. Stachurska , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , R. Stein , J. Stettner , A. Steuer , T. Stezelberger , R. G. Stokstad , N. L. Strotjohann , T. Stürwald , T. Stuttard , G. W. Sullivan , I. Taboada , A. Taketa , H. K. M. Tanaka , F. Tenholt , S. Ter-Antonyan , A. Terliuk , S. Tilav , K. Tollefson , L. Tomankova , C. Tönnis , J. Torres , S. Toscano , D. Tosi , A. Trettin , M. Tselengidou , C. F. Tung , A. Turcati , R. Turcotte , C. F. Turley , J. P. Twagirayezu , B. Ty , E. Unger , M. A. Unland Elorrieta , J. Vandenbroucke , D. van Eijk , N. van Eijndhoven , D. Vannerom , J. van Santen , D. Veberic , S. Verpoest , A. Vieregg , M. Vraeghe , C. Walck , T. B. Watson , C. Weaver , A. Weindl , L. Weinstock , M. J. Weiss , J. Weldert , C. Welling , C. Wendt , J. Werthebach , N. Whitehorn , K. Wiebe , C. H. Wiebusch , D. R. Williams , S. A. Wissel , M. Wolf , T. R. Wood , K. Woschnagg , G. Wrede , S. Wren , J. Wulff , X. W. Xu , Y. Xu , J. P. Yanez , S. Yoshida , T. Yuan , Z. Zhang , S. Zierke , M. Zöcklein

The Solar Orbiter Mission: an Energetic Particle Perspective

Solar Orbiter is a joint ESA-NASA mission planed for launch in October 2018. The science payload includes remote-sensing and in-situ instrumentation designed with the primary goal of understanding how the Sun creates and controls the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-17 R. Gómez-Herrero , J. Rodríguez-Pacheco , R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber , G. M. Mason , S. Sánchez-Prieto , C. Martín , M. Prieto , G. C. Ho , F. Espinosa Lara , I. Cernuda , J. J. Blanco , A. Russu , O. Rodríguez Polo , S. R. Kulkarni , C. Terasa , L. Panitzsch , S. I. Böttcher , S. Boden , B. Heber , J. Steinhagen , J. Tammen , J. Köhler , C. Drews , R. Elftmann , A. Ravanbakhsh , L. Seimetz , B. Schuster , M. Yedla , E. Valtonen , R. Vainio

The Next-Generation Radio Neutrino Observatory -- Multi-Messenger Neutrino Astrophysics at Extreme Energies

RNO is the mid-scale discovery instrument designed to make the first observation of neutrinos from the cosmos at extreme energies, with sensitivity well beyond current instrument capabilities. This new observatory will be the largest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-13 J. A. Aguilar , P. Allison , S. Archambault , J. J. Beatty , D. Z. Besson , O. Botner , S. Buitink , P. Chen , B. A. Clark , A. Connolly , C. Deaconu , S. de Kockere , M. A. DuVernois , N. van Eijndhoven , C. Finley , D. Garcia , A. Hallgren , F. Halzen , J. Hanson , K. Hanson , C. Pérez de los Heros , K. D. Hoffman , B. Hokanson-Fasig , K. Hughes , K. Hultqvist , A. Ishihara , A. Karle , J. L. Kelley , S. R. Klein , M. Kowalski , I. Kravchenko , U. A. Latif , T. C. Liu , M. -Y. Lu , K. Mase , R. Morse , J. Nam , A. Nelles , E. Oberla , C. Pfendner , Y. Pan , I. Plaisier , S. Prohira , S. Robertson , J. Rolla , D. Ryckbosch , F. G. Schröder , D. Seckel , A. Shultz , D. Smith , D. Southall , E. O'Sullivan , S. Toscano , J. Torres-Espinosa , E. Unger , A. G. Vieregg , K. de Vries , S. -H. Wang , C. Welling , S. A. Wissel , S. Yoshida

The eOSSR library

The astronomy, astroparticle and particle physics communities are brought together through the ESCAPE (European Science Cluster of Astronomy and Particle Physics ESFRI research infrastructures) project to create a cluster focused on common…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-02 Thomas Vuillaume , Enrique Garcia , Christian Tacke , Tamas Gal

Measurement of UV light emission of the nighttime Earth by Mini-EUSO for space-based UHECR observations

The JEM-EUSO (Joint Experiment Missions for Extreme Universe Space Observatory) program aims at the realization of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) observation using wide field of view fluorescence detectors in orbit. Ultra-violet…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 K. Shinozaki , K. Bolmgren , D. Barghini , M. Battisti , A. Belov , M. Bertaina , F. Bisconti , G. Cambiè , F. Capel , M. Casolino , F. Fenu , A. Golzio , Z. Plebaniak , M. Przybylak , J. Szabelski , N. Sakaki , Y. Takizawa

FIREBall-2: advancing TRL while doing proof-of-concept astrophysics on a suborbital platform

Here we discuss advances in UV technology over the last decade, with an emphasis on photon counting, low noise, high efficiency detectors in sub-orbital programs. We focus on the use of innovative UV detectors in a NASA astrophysics balloon…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-06 Erika T. Hamden , Keri Hoadley , D. Christopher Martin , David Schiminovich , Bruno Milliard , Shouleh Nikzad , Ramona Augustin , Philippe Balard , Patrick Blanchard , Nicolas Bray , Marty Crabill , Jean Evrard , Albert Gomes , Robert Grange , Julia Gross , April Jewell , Gillian Kyne , Michele Limon , Nicole Lingner , Mateusz Matuszewski , Nicole Melso , Frederi Mirc , Johan Montel , Hwei Ru Ong , Donal O'Sullivan , Sandrine Pascal , Etienne Perot , Vincent Picouet , Muriel Saccoccio , Brian Smiley , Xavier Soors , Pierre Tapie , Didier Vibert , Isabelle Zenone , Jose Zorilla

Beyond the Second Generation of Laser-Interferometric Gravitational Wave Observatories

This article gives an overview of potential upgrades of second generation gravitational wave detectors and the required key technologies to improve the limiting noise sources. In addition the baseline design of the Einstein Telescope, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Stefan Hild

Ground Truth calibration for the JEM-EUSO Mission

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory is an experiment to investigate the highest energy cosmic rays by recording the extensive air showers they create in the atmosphere. This will be done by recording video clips of the development of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-26 J. H. Adams , M. J. Christl , S. E. Csorna , F. Sarazin , L. R. Wiencke

Data Analysis Software for the ESPRESSO Science Machine

ESPRESSO is an extremely stable high-resolution spectrograph which is currently being developed for the ESO VLT. With its groundbreaking characteristics it is aimed to be a "science machine", i.e., a fully-integrated instrument to directly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-17 Guido Cupani , Valentina D'Odorico , Stefano Cristiani , Jonay González-Hernández , Christophe Lovis , Sérgio Sousa , Eros Vanzella , Paolo Di Marcantonio , Denis Mégevand

EUV SpectroPhotometer (ESP) in Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE): Algorithms and Calibrations

The Extreme ultraviolet SpectroPhotometer (ESP) is one of five channels of the Extreme ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) onboard the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The ESP channel design is based on a highly stable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Leonid Didkovsky , Darrell Judge , Seth Wieman , Tom Woods , Andrew Jones

CUBES and its software ecosystem: instrument simulation, control, and data processing

CUBES (Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph) is the recently approved high-efficiency VLT spectrograph aimed to observe the sky in the UV ground-based region (305-400 nm) with a high-resolution mode (~20K) and a low-resolution mode…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-16 Giorgio Calderone , Roberto Cirami , Guido Cupani , Paolo Di Marcantonio , Mariagrazia Franchini , Matteo Genoni , Mikolaj Kaluszyński , Marco Landoni , Florian Rothmaier , Andrea Scaudo , Rodolfo Smiljanic , Ingo Stilz , Julian Stürmer , Orlando Verducci

Multi Object Spectrograph of the Fireball-II Balloon Experiment

Fireball-II is a NASA/CNES balloon-borne telescope and MOS to study faint diffuse emissions of galaxies in the space ultraviolet. The MOS is based on two identical reflective Schmidt systems sharing an plane-aspherized grating obtained by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-21 G Lemaitre , R. Grange , S Quiret , B. Milliard , S. Pascal , V Lamandé

Linking Publications and Observations - the ESO Telescope Bibliography

Bibliometric studies have become increasingly important in evaluating individual scientists, specific facilities, and entire observatories. In this context, the ESO Library has developed and maintains two tools: FUSE, a full-text search…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-23 Silvia Meakins , Uta Grothkopf

Stellar polarimetry with ESPaDOnS

ESPaDOnS is a new-generation cross-dispersed echelle spectropolarimeter, the commissioning phase of which is scheduled at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) for spring 2004. This instrument will provide full coverage of the optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Petit , J. -F. Donati , The ESPaDOnS project team

Hard and electromagnetic probes: plans for future measurements at the CERN SPS

The CERN SuperProtoSynchrotron (SPS) represents an ideal facility for fixed-target heavy-ion experiments exploring the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter in the region $200\le\mu_{\rm B}\le500$ MeV. It can deliver high-intensity…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-07-24 E. Scomparin

A mm and near-IR study of YSOs: from outbursting protostars to satellites

We are in a golden era observing Young Stellar Objects (YSOs), protoplanetary disks, and substellar objects, crucial for understanding their formation and evolution. This Ph.D. thesis explores two binary systems. Firstly, we study an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-22 Pedro H. Nogueira