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A 16-channel optical phased array is fabricated on a gallium arsenide photonic integrated circuit platform with a low-complexity process. Tested with a 1064 nm external laser, the array demonstrates 0.92{\deg} beamwidth, 15.3{\deg}…

We report the discovery of 19 new pulsars identified from archival observations of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) within Galactic latitudes $|b|<5\deg$ and declinations ${\rm Decl.}<-5\deg$. The dataset was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Shi-Jie Gao , Yi-Xuan Shao , Xiang-Dong Li

We describe the design and deployment of GREENBURST, a commensal Fast Radio Burst (FRB) search system at the Green Bank Telescope. GREENBURST uses the dedicated L-band receiver tap to search over the 960$-$1920 MHz frequency range for…

Photonic generation of radio-frequency signals has shown significant advantages over the electronic counterparts, allowing the high precision generation of radio-frequency carriers up to the terahertz-wave region with flexible bandwidth for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Ziqian Zhang , Yang Liu , Benjamin J. Eggleton

Some pulsars have their maximum observable energy output in the gamma-ray band, offering the possibility of using these high-energy photons as probes of the particle acceleration and interaction processes in pulsar magnetospheres. After an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 D. J. Thompson

Ultra-high dose rate radiation therapy (FLASH) based on proton irradiation is of major interest for cancer treatments but creates new challenges for dose monitoring. Amorphous hydrogenated silicon is known to be one of the most…

Pulsars are powerful sources of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. This paper highlights some theoretical insights into non-thermal, magnetospheric pulsar gamma-ray radiation. These advances have been driven by NASA's Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthew G. Baring

Phased array antennas (PAAs) possessing broadband beamforming capabilities are crucial for advanced radar and wireless communication systems. Nevertheless, traditional phase-shifter-based PAA beamformers frequently encounter the beam-squint…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-14 Mian Wang , Wenxin Zhang , Zeyu Ren , Shangyuan Li , Xiaoping Zheng , Xiaoxiao Xue

FAST, the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world, has a 500-meter diameter main reflector and a 300-meter diameter illumination area. It has a shape variable main reflector, which changes the shape of the illuminated area in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Ding-qiang Su , Hua Bai , Xiangqun Cui

The Gas Pixel Detector (GPD) is a new generation device which, thanks to its 50 um pixels, is capable of imaging the photoelectrons tracks produced by photoelectric absorption in a gas. Since the direction of emission of the photoelectrons…

The Very Large Array is undergoing a major upgrade that will attain an order of magnitude improvement in continuum sensitivity across 1 to 50 GHz with instantaneous bandwidths up to 8 GHz in both polarizations. The new WIDAR correlator…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 Sean M. Dougherty , Rick Perley

We present the data analysis pipeline, commissioning observations and initial results from the GREENBURST fast radio burst (FRB) detection system on the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) previously described by Surnis et al. which…

We are developing two-dimensional 16 x 25 pixel detector arrays of both unstressed and stressed Ge:Ga photoconductive detectors for far-infrared astronomy from SOFIA. The arrays, based on earlier 5 x 5 detector arrays used on the KAO, will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Rosenthal , J. W. Beeman , N. Geis , L. Looney , A. Poglitsch , W. K. Park , W. Raab , A. Urban

In this work, an innovative method for controlling the current distribution of the radiating patch by adjusting the input phase is investigated to achieve both pattern and polarization reconfigurable characteristics for the multifunction. A…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Guangwei Yang , Qiao Cheng , Jianying Li , Shuai Zhang , Steven Gao , Xiaodong Chen

The dramatic increase in the number of known gamma-ray pulsars since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST) offers the first opportunity to study a population of these high-energy objects. This catalog summarizes…

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This contribution reports on the status of LOFAR (the LOw Frequency ARray) in its ongoing commissioning phase. The purpose is to illustrate the progress that is being made, often on a daily basis, and the potential of this new instrument,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 R. Morganti , G. Heald , J. Hessels , M. Wise , A. Alexov , F. De Gasperin , V. Kondratiev , J. McKean , E. Orru` , R. Pizzo , R. van Weeren

The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer is a NASA-funded nulling and imaging instrument designed to coherently combine the two 8.4-m primary mirrors of the LBT for high-sensitivity, high-contrast, and high-resolution infrared imaging…

As a new two-dimensional layered material, black phosphorus (BP) is a promising material for nanoelectronics and nano-optoelectronics. We use Raman spectroscopy and first-principles theory to report our findings related to low-frequency…

The Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP) is an experiment that harvests the collective power of Europe's largest radio telescopes in order to increase the sensitivity of high-precision pulsar timing. As part of the ongoing effort of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 C. G. Bassa , G. H. Janssen , R. Karuppusamy , M. Kramer , K. J. Lee , K. Liu , J. McKee , D. Perrodin , M. Purver , S. Sanidas , R. Smits , B. W. Stappers

GAW, acronym for Gamma Air Watch, is a path-finder experiment to test the feasibility of a new generation of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes that join high flux sensitivity with large field of view capability. GAW is conceived as…

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