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A prototype for dedicated observations of pulsars and other astrophysical transients in the frequency range 50\,-\,80\,MHz has been recently commissioned at the Gauribidanur radio observatory near Bangalore in India. The antenna set-up,…

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We present thermal observations of Callisto's leading and trailing hemispheres obtained using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at 0.87 mm (343 GHz), 1.3 mm (233 GHz), and 3 mm (97 GHz). The angular resolution achieved…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Maria Camarca , Katherine de Kleer , Bryan Butler , Alexander Thelen , Cole Meyer , Alex Akins , Imke de Pater , Mark Gurwell

On August 21, 2017, the Airborne Infrared Spectrometer (AIR-Spec) observed the total solar eclipse at an altitude of 14 km from aboard the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V research aircraft. The instrument successfully observed the five coronal…

Solar radio bursts (SRBs) are the signatures of various phenomena that happen in the solar corona and interplanetary medium (IPM). In this article, we have studied the occurrence of Type III bursts and their association with the Sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-19 Theogene Ndacyayisenga , Jean Uwamahoro , K. Sasikumar Raja , Christian Monstein

Many of the transformative processes in the Universe have taken place in regions obscured by dust, and are best studied with far-IR spectroscopy. We present the Cryogenic-Aperture Large Infrared-Submillimeter Telescope Observatory…

The National Laboratory of Space Weather in Mexico (Laboratorio Nacional de ClimaEspacial: LANCE) coordinates instrumentation for monitoring the space-weatherimpact over Mexico. Two of these instruments are the Mexican Array Radio…

Thermal images at different wavelengths probe varying subsurface depths of planetary bodies, and therefore can inform us about their compositions, thermophysical properties, and impact histories. We identified six archival observations of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Cole Meyer , Maria Camarca , Katherine de Kleer , Alexander Thelen , Christopher Chyba , Bryan Butler

Radio waves are strongly scattered in the solar wind, so that their apparent sources seem to be considerably larger and shifted than the actual ones. Since the scattering depends on the spectrum of density turbulence, better understanding…

We have built and tested a compact, low-cost, but very-high-performance astronomical polarimeter based on a continuously rotating half-wave plate and a high-speed imaging detector. The polarimeter is suitable for small telescopes up to ~1 m…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jeremy Bailey , Daniel V. Cotton , Ain De Horta , Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer , Om Shastri

The observation and research of the solar radio emission have unique scientific values in solar and space physics and related space weather forecasting applications, since the observed spectral structures may carry important information…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Qing-Fu Du , Lei Chen , Yue-Chang Zhao , Xin Li , Yan Zhou , Jun-Rui Zhang , Fa-Bao Yan , Shi-Wei Feng , Chuan-Yang Li , Yao Chen

The Spectro-Polarimeter (SP) is a new instrument installed at the upgraded Andrei B. Severny Solar Tower Telescope (STT) at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. The instrument is a traditional echelle slit dual-beam spectropolarimeter…

Solar radio type II bursts serve as early indicators of incoming geo-effective space weather events such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). In order to investigate the origin of high-frequency type II bursts (HF type II bursts), we have…

We present initial results from the Radio Frequency Spectrometer (RFS), the high frequency component of the FIELDS experiment on the Parker Solar Probe (PSP). During the first PSP solar encounter (2018 November), only a few small radio…

A new astronomical photo-polarimeter that can measure linear polarization of point sources simultaneously in three spectral bands was designed and built in Indian Institute of Astrophysics. The polarimeter has a Calcite beam-displacement…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-30 A. V. Raveendran , G. Srinivasulu , S. Muneer , M. V. Mekkaden , N. Jayavel , M. R. Somashekar , K. Sagayanathan , S. Ramamoorthy , M. J. Rosario , K. Jayakumar

The Visible Spectro-Polarimeter (ViSP) is one of the first light instruments for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST). It is an echelle spectrograph designed to measure three different regions of the solar spectrum in three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alfred G. de Wijn , Roberto Casini , Peter G. Nelson , Pei Huang

A solar energetic particle event was detected by the Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (ISOIS) instrument suite on Parker Solar Probe (PSP) on 2019 April 4 when the spacecraft was inside of 0.17 au and less than 1 day before its…

LOFAR is a new and sensitive radio interferometer that can be used for dynamic high-resolution imaging spectroscopy at low radio frequencies from 10 to 90 and 110 to 250 MHz. Here we describe its usage for observations of the Sun and in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-22 Frank Breitling , Gottfried Mann , Christian Vocks , Matthias Steinmetz , Klaus G. Strassmeier

The Integrated Science Investigations of the Sun (IS$\odot$IS) instrument suite includes two Energetic Particle instruments: EPI-Hi, designed to measure ions from ~1-200 MeV/nuc, and EPI-Lo, designed to measure ions from ~20 keV/nuc to ~15…

The star-forming activity in the HII region RCW 42 is investigated using multiple wavebands, from near-infrared to radio wavelengths. Located at a distance of 5.8 kpc, this southern region has a bolometric luminosity of 1.8 $\times$ 10$^6$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-17 Vipin Kumar , S. Vig , V. S. Veena , S. Mohan , S. K. Ghosh , A. Tej , D. K. Ojha