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The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomical Satellite is a scientific space mission carrying an astronomical telescope. The mission is led by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the Israel Space Agency, while the camera in the focal…

MUSTANG is a 90 GHz bolometer camera built for use as a facility instrument on the 100 m Robert C. Byrd Green Bank radio telescope (GBT). MUSTANG has an 8 by 8 focal plane array of transition edge sensor bolometers read out using…

The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is scheduled to be launched to geostationary orbit in 2026. It will carry a telescope with an unprecedentedly large field of view (204 deg$^2$) and NUV (230-290nm) sensitivity (22.5…

In 2018, the first prototype of the optical calibration system was installed in the Large Sized Telescopes, LST-1 at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, ORM, in La Palma, Canary Islands. We have almost completed the construction of…

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The Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA), sited on the high desert plains of Chajnantor in Chile, has opened a new window onto solar physics in 2016 by providing continuum observations at millimeter and sub-millimeter…

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First results of a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy experiment conducted at the Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife, Spain) are presented. The instrument is a four channel (3.1, 2.1, 1.3 and 1.1 mm) $^3$He bolometer system coupled…

Tunable narrow-band, emission-line surveys have begun to show the ease with which star forming galaxies can be identified in restricted redshift intervals to z ~ 5 with a 4m class telescope. These surveys have been carried out with imaging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 J. Bland-Hawthorn , W. van Breugel , P. R. Gillingham , I. K. Baldry , D. H. Jones

(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a single wide-deep-fast sky survey, and LSST will have unique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Željko Ivezić , Steven M. Kahn , J. Anthony Tyson , Bob Abel , Emily Acosta , Robyn Allsman , David Alonso , Yusra AlSayyad , Scott F. Anderson , John Andrew , James Roger P. Angel , George Z. Angeli , Reza Ansari , Pierre Antilogus , Constanza Araujo , Robert Armstrong , Kirk T. Arndt , Pierre Astier , Éric Aubourg , Nicole Auza , Tim S. Axelrod , Deborah J. Bard , Jeff D. Barr , Aurelian Barrau , James G. Bartlett , Amanda E. Bauer , Brian J. Bauman , Sylvain Baumont , Andrew C. Becker , Jacek Becla , Cristina Beldica , Steve Bellavia , Federica B. Bianco , Rahul Biswas , Guillaume Blanc , Jonathan Blazek , Roger D. Blandford , Josh S. Bloom , Joanne Bogart , Tim W. Bond , Anders W. Borgland , Kirk Borne , James F. Bosch , Dominique Boutigny , Craig A. Brackett , Andrew Bradshaw , William Nielsen Brandt , Michael E. Brown , James S. Bullock , Patricia Burchat , David L. Burke , Gianpietro Cagnoli , Daniel Calabrese , Shawn Callahan , Alice L. 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A 10 meter diameter submillimeter-wave telescope has been proposed for the NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Current evidence indicates that the South Pole is the best submillimeter-wave telescope site among all existing or proposed…

In this article we identify and discuss various statistical and systematic effects influencing the astrometric accuracy achievable with MICADO, the near-infrared imaging camera proposed for the 42-metre European Extremely Large Telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Trippe , R. Davies , F. Eisenhauer , N. M. Foerster Schreiber , T. K. Fritz , R. Genzel

The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) is one of the four candidate ESA M3 missions considered for launch in the 2022 time-frame. It is specifically designed to perform fast X-ray timing and probe the status of the matter near black…

(abridged) The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) project aims to build a 50-m-class submm telescope with $>1^\circ$ field of view, high in the Atacama Desert, providing fast and detailed mapping of the mm/submm sky. It…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-09 Christopher Groppi , Andrey Baryshev , Urs Graf , Martina Wiedner , Pamela Klaassen , Tony Mroczkowski

The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing (LOFT) was studied within ESA M3 Cosmic Vision framework and participated in the final down-selection for a launch slot in 2022-2024. Thanks to the unprecedented combination of effective area and…

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The extreme miniaturization of a cold-atom interferometer accelerometer requires the development of novel technologies and architectures for the interferometer subsystems. Here we describe several component technologies and a laser system…

Tunable focusing is a desired property in a wide range of optical imaging and sensing technologies but has tended to require bulky components which cannot be integrated on-chip and have slow actuation speeds. Recently, integration of…