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High-resolution absorption spectroscopy toward bright background sources has had a paramount role in understanding early galaxy formation, the evolution of the intergalactic medium and the reionisation of the Universe. However, these…

XEUS, the X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy mission, is at present an ESA-ISAS initiative for the study of the evolution of the hot Universe in the post-Chandra/XMM-Newton era. The key science objectives of XEUS are: Search for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Johan Bleeker , Mariano Mendez

Sky survey telescopes and powerful targeted telescopes play complementary roles in astronomy. In order to investigate the nature and characteristics of the motions of very faint objects, a flexibly-pointed instrument capable of high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Fabien Malbet , Céline Boehm , Alberto Krone-Martins , Antonio Amorim , Guillem Anglada-Escudé , Alexis Brandeker , Frédéric Courbin , Torsten Enßlin , Antonio Falcão , Katherine Freese , Berry Holl , Lucas Labadie , Alain Léger , Gary Mamon , Barbara Mcarthur , Alcione Mora , Mike Shao , Alessandro Sozzetti , Douglas Spolyar , Eva Villaver , Ummi Abbas , Conrado Albertus , João Alves , Rory Barnes , Aldo Stefano Bonomo , Hervé Bouy , Warren Brown , Vitor Cardoso , Marco Castellani , Laurent Chemin , Hamish Clark , Alexandre Correia , Mariateresa Crosta , Antoine Crouzier , Mario Damasso , Jeremy Darling , Melvyn Davies , Antonaldo Diaferio , Morgane Fortin , Malcolm Fridlund , Mario Gai , Paulo Garcia , Oleg Gnedin , Ariel Goobar , Paulo Gordo , Renaud Goullioud , David Hall , Nigel Hambly , Diana Harrison , David Hobbs , Andrew Holland , Erik Høg , Carme Jordi , Sergei Klioner , Ariane Lançon , Jacques Laskar , Mario Lattanzi , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte , Xavier Luri , Daniel Michalik , André Moitinho de Almeida , Ana Mourão , Leonidas Moustakas , Neil Murray , Matthew Muterspaugh , Micaela Oertel , Luisa Ostorero , Jordi Portell , Jean-Pierre Prost , Andreas Quirrenbach , Jean Schneider , Pat Scott , Arnaud Siebert , Antonio Da Silva , Manuel Silva , Philippe Thébault , John Tomsick , Wesley Traub , Miguel de Val-Borro , Monica Valluri , Nicholas Walton , Laura Watkins , Glenn White , Lukasz Wyrzykowski , Rosemary Wyse , Yoshiyuki Yamada

The recent detection of a very high energy (VHE) emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) above 100 GeV performed by the MAGIC and H.E.S.S. collaborations, has represented a significant, long-awaited result for the VHE astrophysics community.…

This paper briefly reviews some of the exciting studies of the local Universe that will be enabled with the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). As illustrative examples, it summarizes a few of the scientific goals that have been set…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-08-17 Michael R. Merrifield

This paper presents a review of the history, motivation and current status of high energy neutrino telescopes. Many years after these detectors were first conceived, the operation of kilometer-cubed scale detectors is finally on the horizon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 K. D. Hoffman

The EAGLE and EVE Phase A studies for instruments for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) originated from related top-level scientific questions, but employed different (yet complementary) methods to deliver the required…

Gravitational waves (GWs) are expected to play a crucial role in the development of multimessenger astrophysics. The combination of GW observations with other astrophysical triggers, such as from gamma-ray and X-ray satellites,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-28 Eric Chassande-Mottin , Martin Hendry , Patrick J. Sutton , Szabolcs Márka

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will open a discovery frontier for faint and fast transients with its ability to detect variable flux components down to $\sim$24.5 mag in a $\sim$30 second exposure. Spectroscopic follow-up of…

Cosmic gamma rays provide insight into some of the most dynamic processes in the Universe. At the dawn of a new generation of gamma-ray telescopes, this review summarizes results from the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D J Thompson

Einstein gravitational-wave Telescope (ET) is a design study funded by the European Commission to explore the technological challenges of and scientific benefits from building a third generation gravitational wave detector. The three-year…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-05 B. Sathyaprakash , M. Abernathy , F. Acernese , P. Amaro-Seoane , N. Andersson , K. Arun , F. Barone , B. Barr , M. Barsuglia , M. Beker , N. Beveridge , S. Birindelli , S. Bose , L. Bosi , S. Braccini , C. Bradaschia , T. Bulik , E. Calloni , G. Cella , E. Chassande-Mottin , S. Chelkowski , A. Chincarini , J. Clark , E. Coccia , C. Colacino , J. Colas , A. Cumming , L. Cunningham , E. Cuoco , S. Danilishin , K. Danzmann , R. De. Salvo , T. Dent , R. De. Rosa , L. Di. Fiore , A. Di. Virgilio , M. Doets , V. Fafone , P. Falferi , R. Flaminio , J. Franc , F. Frasconi , A. Freise , D. Friedrich , P. Fulda , J. Gair , G. Gemme , E. Genin , A. Gennai , A. Giazotto , K. Glampedakis , C. Gräf , M. Granata , H. Grote , G. Guidi , A. Gurkovsky , G. Hammond , M. Hannam , J. Harms , D. Heinert , M. Hendry , I. Heng , E. Hennes , S. Hild , J. Hough , S. Husa , S. Huttner , G. Jones , F. Khalili , K. Kokeyama , K. Kokkotas , B. Krishnan , T. G. F. Li , M. Lorenzini , H. Lück , E. Majorana , I. Mandel , V. Mandic , M. Mantovani , I. Martin , C. Michel , Y. Minenkov , N. Morgado , S. Mosca , B. Mours , H. Müller-Ebhardt , P. Murray , R. Nawrodt , J. Nelson , R. Oshaughnessy , C. D. Ott , C. Palomba , A. Paoli , G. Parguez , A. Pasqualetti , R. Passaquieti , D. Passuello , L. Pinard , W. Plastino , R. Poggiani , P. Popolizio , M. Prato , M. Punturo , P. Puppo , D. Rabeling , I. Racz , P. Rapagnani , J. Read , T. Regimbau , H. Rehbein , S. Reid , L. Rezzolla , F. Ricci , F. Richard , A. Rocchi , S. Rowan , A. Rüdiger , L. Santamaria , B. Sassolas , R. Schnabel , C. Schwarz , P. Seidel , A. Sintes , K. Somiya , F. Speirits , K. Strain , S. Strigin , P. Sutton , S. Tarabrin , A. Thüring , J. van den Brand , M van Veggel , C. Van Den Broeck , A. Vecchio , J. Veitch , F. Vetrano , A. Vicere , S. Vyatchanin , B. Willke , G. Woan , K. Yamamoto

The High Energy X-ray Probe is a proposed NASA probe-class mission that combines the power of high angular resolution with a broad X-ray bandpass to provide the necessary leap in capabilities to address the important astrophysical questions…

The EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory) project is developing a new mission concept for the scientific research of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) from space. The EUSO wide-field telescope will look down from space onto the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Enrico Bozzo , Thomas Burch , Alessandra Ciapponi , Clemens Heese , Arno Hoogerwerf , Nicholas Lan , Andrii Neronov , Vincent Revol , Ross Stanley

HERMES (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites) Technological and Scientific pathfinder is a space borne mission based on a LEO constellation of nano-satellites. The 3U CubeSat buses host new miniaturized detectors to probe the…

Einstein Telescope (ET) is a planned third generation gravitational waves detector located in Europe. Its design will be different from currently build interferometers, because ET will consist of three interferometers rotated by a 60 deg…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-25 I. Kowalska-Leszczynska , T. Bulik

Extremely large telescopes (ELTs) are considered worldwide to be one of the highest priorities in ground-based astronomy. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is developing an ELT that will have a 39 m main mirror and will be the largest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-08 Paolo Padovani , Michele Cirasuolo

The aim of the space mission concept \theseus~is to continue to collect and study the GRB events like \swift. It will allow us to study the early Universe. Moreover, it will offer us to study with unprecedented sensitivity GRB emission and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 A. Rossi , G. Stratta , E. Maiorano , L. Amati , L. Nicastro , E. Palazzi

The Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics (Athena) is the X-ray observatory mission selected by ESA within its Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme to address the Hot and Energetic Universe scientific theme. The ESO-Athena Synergy…

The multi-wavelength detection of GW170817 has inaugurated multi-messenger astronomy. The next step consists in interpreting observations coming from population of gravitational wave sources. We introduce saprEMo, a tool aimed at predicting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-24 Serena Vinciguerra , Marica Branchesi , Riccardo Ciolfi , Ilya Mandel , Coenraad Neijssel , Giulia Stratta