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We describe the operational capabilities of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network. We summarize our hardware and software for maintaining and monitoring network health. We focus on methodologies to utilize the automated…

IOP4 is a pipeline to perform photometry and polarimetry analysis of optical data from Calar Alto (CAHA) and Sierra Nevada (OSN) observatories. IOP4 implements Object Relational Mapping (ORM) to seamlessly integrate all information about…

Submillimeter Array observations of Orion-KL at 1'' resolution in the 440mu/690GHz band reveal new insights about the continuum and line emission of the region. The 440mu continuum flux density measurement from source I allows us to…

Science opportunities and recommendations concerning optical/infrared polarimetry for the upcoming decade in the field of extragalactic astrophysics. Community-based White Paper to Astro2010 in response to the call for such papers.

Observations of C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) comet were carried out on 7th February, 2015, at the observation station in Mayaki village (No. 583 -- Odesa-Mayaki observatory). The integrated-light photometry of the comet was conducted using RC-800…

Observations of 14 rotational transitions of hydroxylamine (NH2OH) using the NRAO 12 m Telescope on Kitt Peak are reported towards IRC+10216, Orion KL, Orion S, Sgr B2(N), Sgr B2(OH), W3IRS5, and W51M. Although recent models suggest the…

Some recent results of the ANTARES neutrino telescope are reviewed.

Presented here are the results of a broadband spectral line survey of the Sgr B2(N) - LMH region from 260 - 286 GHz using the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. The data were taken over the course of a single night (May 26, 2013) during the…

We present results from ongoing science projects conducted by members of the Faulkes Telescope (FT) team and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT). Many of these projects incorporate observations carried out and analysed by FT…

We have created a new autonomous laser-guide-star adaptive-optics (AO) instrument on the 60-inch (1.5-m) telescope at Palomar Observatory called Robo-AO. The instrument enables diffraction-limited resolution observing in the visible and…

Modern optical spectrographs and optical interferometers push the limits in the spectral and spatial regime, providing important new tools for the exploration of the universe. In this contribution I outline the complementary nature of…

The strategies for and the performance of the CMS tracker alignment during the 2021-2022 LHC commissioning preceding the Run 3 data-taking period are described. The results of the very first tracker alignment after the pixel reinstallation,…

This paper aims to evaluate mid-infrared (MIR) Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems as a tool to penetrate different materials and detect sub-surface irregularities. This is useful for monitoring production processes, allowing…

We designed and built a new Four-Stokes-Parameter spectral line Polarimeter (FSPPol) for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO). The simple design of FSPPol does not include any mirrors or optical components to redirect or re-image the…

We present the first astronomical observations of the Livermore Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrograph for visible-band astronomy using the 3.5-meter Apache Point Observatory.

Cornell, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) have joined together to study development of a 25 meter sub-millimeter telescope (CCAT) on a high peak in the Atacama region of northern Chile, where the…

We present geometrical and physical optics simulation results for the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope. This work was developed as part of the general design process for the telescope; allowing us to evaluate the impact of…

In this paper, we present a low-latency odometry system designed for spinning lidars. Many existing lidar odometry methods wait for an entire sweep from the lidar before processing the data. This introduces a large delay between the first…

This contribution summarizes the on-going activities connected to the evaluation of higher order radiative corrections in the context of a future international linear collider (ILC).

High-resolution observations by visible and near-infrared interferometers of both single stars and binaries have made significant contributions to the foundations that underpin many aspects of our knowledge of stellar structure and…