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Systems design, assembly, integration and lab testing of WALOP-South Polarimeter

Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP)-South is the first wide-field and survey-capacity polarimeter in the optical wavelengths. On schedule for commissioning in 2024, it will be mounted on the 1 m SAAO telescope in Sutherland…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Siddharth Maharana , A. N. Ramaprakash , Chaitanya Rajarshi , Pravin Khodade , Bhushan Joshi , Pravin Chordia , Abhay Kohok , Ramya M. Anche , Deepa Modi , John A. Kypriotakis , Amit Deokar , Aditya Kinjawadekar , Stephen B. Potter , Dmitry Blinov , Hans Kristian Eriksen , Myrto Falalaki , Hitesh Gajjar , Tuhin Ghosh , Eirik Gjerløw , Sebastain Kiehlmann , Ioannis Liodakis , Nikolaos Mandarakas , Georgia V. Panopoulou , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Timothy J. Pearson , Vincent Pelgrims , Anthony C. S. Readhead , Raphael Skalidis , Konstantinos Tassis , Namita Uppal , Ingunn K. Wehus

The focal-plane instruments on board WSO-UV

Dedicated to spectroscopic and imaging observations of the ultraviolet sky, the World Space Observatory for Ultraviolet Project is a Russia led international collaboration presently involving also China, Germany, Italy, Spain and Ukraine.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 I. Pagano , M. Sachkov , A. I. Gomez de Castro , M. Huang , N. Kappelmann , S. Scuderi , B. Shustov , K. Werner , G. Zhao

SAINT (Small Aperture Imaging Network Telescope) -- a wide-field telescope complex for detecting and studying optical transients at times from milliseconds to years

(Abridged) In this paper, we present a project of multi-channel wide-field optical sky monitoring system with high temporal resolution -- Small Aperture Imaging Network Telescope (SAINT) -- mostly built from off-the-shelf components and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 Grigory Beskin , Anton Biryukov , Alexey Gutaev , Sergey Karpov , Gor Oganesyan , Gennady Valyavin , Azamat Valeev , Valery Vlasyuk , Nadezhda Lyapsina , Vyacheslav Sasyuk

LSST: Comprehensive NEO Detection, Characterization, and Orbits

(Abridged) The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is currently by far the most ambitious proposed ground-based optical survey. Solar System mapping is one of the four key scientific design drivers, with emphasis on efficient Near-Earth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Ivezic , J. A. Tyson , M. Juric , J. Kubica , A. Connolly , F. Pierfederici , A. W. Harris , E. Bowell , the LSST Collaboration

Optical aspects of Near-Infrared Imager Spectrometer and Polarimeter instrument (NISP)

As a Near-IR instrument to PRL's upcoming 2.5 m telescope, NISP is designed indigeniously at PRL to serve as a multifaceted instrument. Optical, Mechanical and Electronics subsystems are being designed and developed in-house at PRL. It will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 Archita Rai , Shashikiran Ganesh , Sukamal K. Paul , Prashanth K. Kasarla , Prachi V. Prajapati , Deekshya R. Sarkar , Alka Singh , Pitambar S. Patwal , Hitesh K L Adalja , Satya N. Mathur , Sachindra Naik , Amish B. Shah , Kiran S. Baliyan

SETI at FAST in China

Since the commencement of the first SETI observation in 2019, China's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence program has garnered momentum through domestic support and international collaborations. Several observations targeting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-21 Tong-Jie Zhang , Bo-Lun Huang , Jian-Kang Li , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Xiao-Hang Luan , Zhi-Song Zhang , Yu-Chen Wang

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) are expected to be complete by 2028,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 The Simons Observatory Collaboration , M. Abitbol , I. Abril-Cabezas , S. Adachi , P. Ade , A. E. Adler , P. Agrawal , J. Aguirre , Z. Ahmed , S. Aiola , T. Alford , A. Ali , D. Alonso , M. A. Alvarez , R. An , K. Arnold , P. Ashton , Z. Atkins , J. Austermann , S. Azzoni , C. Baccigalupi , A. Baleato Lizancos , D. Barron , P. Barry , J. Bartlett , N. Battaglia , R. Battye , E. Baxter , A. Bazarko , J. A. Beall , R. Bean , D. Beck , S. Beckman , J. Begin , A. Beheshti , B. Beringue , T. Bhandarkar , S. Bhimani , F. Bianchini , E. Biermann , S. Biquard , B. Bixler , S. Boada , D. Boettger , B. Bolliet , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , J. Borrow , C. Braithwaite , T. L. R. Brien , M. L. Brown , S. M. Bruno , S. Bryan , R. Bustos , H. Cai , E. Calabrese , V. Calafut , F. M. Carl , A. Carones , J. Carron , A. Challinor , P. Chanial , N. Chen , K. Cheung , B. Chiang , Y. Chinone , J. Chluba , H. S. Cho , S. K. Choi , M. Chu , J. Clancy , S. E. Clark , P. Clarke , J. Cleary , D. L. Clements , J. Connors , C. Contaldi , G. Coppi , L. Corbett , N. F. Cothard , W. Coulton , K. D. Crowley , K. T. Crowley , A. Cukierman , J. M. D'Ewart , K. Dachlythra , R. Datta , S. Day-Weiss , T. de Haan , M. Devlin , L. Di Mascolo , S. Dicker , B. Dober , C. Doux , P. Dow , S. Doyle , C. J. Duell , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , J. Dunkley , D. Dutcher , R. Dünner , M. Edenton , H. El Bouhargani , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , V. Fanfani , G. S. Farren , J. Fergusson , S. Ferraro , R. Flauger , A. Foster , K. Freese , J. C. Frisch , A. Frolov , G. Fuller , N. Galitzki , P. A. Gallardo , J. T. Galvez Ghersi , K. Ganga , J. Gao , X. Garrido , E. Gawiser , M. Gerbino , R. Gerras , S. Giardiello , A. Gill , V. Gilles , U. Giri , E. Gleave , V. Gluscevic , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. E. Golec , S. Gordon , M. Gralla , S. Gratton , D. Green , J. C. Groh , C. Groppi , Y. Guan , N. Gupta , J. E. Guðmundsson , S. Hagstotz , P. Hargrave , S. Haridas , K. Harrington , I. Harrison , M. Hasegawa , M. Hasselfield , V. Haynes , M. Hazumi , A. He , E. Healy , S. W. Henderson , B. S. Hensley , E. Hertig , C. Hervías-Caimapo , M. Higuchi , C. A. Hill , J. C. Hill , G. Hilton , M. Hilton , A. D. Hincks , G. Hinshaw , R. Hložek , A. Y. Q. Ho , S. Ho , S. P. Ho , T. D. Hoang , J. Hoh , E. Hornecker , A. L. Hornsby , S. C. Hotinli , Z. Huang , Z. B. Huber , J. Hubmayr , K. Huffenberger , J. P. Hughes , A. Idicherian Lonappan , M. Ikape , K. Irwin , J. Iuliano , A. H. Jaffe , B. Jain , H. T. Jense , O. Jeong , A. Johnson , B. R. Johnson , M. Johnson , M. Jones , B. Jost , D. Kaneko , E. D. Karpel , Y. Kasai , N. Katayama , B. Keating , B. Keller , R. Keskitalo , J. Kim , T. Kisner , K. Kiuchi , J. Klein , K. Knowles , A. M. Kofman , B. J. Koopman , A. Kosowsky , R. Kou , N. Krachmalnicoff , D. Kramer , A. Krishak , A. Krolewski , A. Kusaka , A. Kusiak , P. La Plante , A. La Posta , A. Laguë , J. Lashner , M. Lattanzi , A. Lee , E. Lee , J. Leech , C. Lessler , J. S. Leung , A. Lewis , Y. Li , Z. Li , M. Limon , L. Lin , M. Link , J. Liu , Y. Liu , J. Lonergan , T. Louis , T. Lucas , M. Ludlam , M. Lungu , M. Lyons , N. MacCrann , A. MacInnis , M. Madhavacheril , D. Mak , F. Maldonado , M. Mallaby-Kay , A. Manduca , A. Mangu , H. Mani , A. S. Maniyar , G. A. Marques , J. Mates , T. Matsumura , P. Mauskopf , A. May , N. McCallum , H. McCarrick , F. McCarthy , M. McCulloch , J. McMahon , P. D. Meerburg , Y. Mehta , J. Melin , J. Meyers , A. Middleton , A. Miller , M. Mirmelstein , K. Moodley , J. Moore , M. Morshed , T. Morton , E. Moser , T. Mroczkowski , M. Murata , M. Münchmeyer , S. Naess , H. Nakata , T. Namikawa , M. Nashimoto , F. Nati , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , S. K. Nerval , L. Newburgh , D. V. Nguyen , A. Nicola , M. D. Niemack , H. Nishino , Y. Nishinomiya , A. Orlando , J. Orlowski-Scherer , L. Pagano , L. A. Page , S. Pandey , A. Papageorgiou , I. Paraskevakos , B. Partridge , R. Patki , M. Peel , K. Perez Sarmiento , F. Perrotta , P. Phakathi , L. Piccirillo , E. Pierpaoli , T. Pinsonneault-Marotte , G. Pisano , D. Poletti , R. Puddu , G. Puglisi , F. J. Qu , M. J. Randall , C. Ranucci , C. Raum , R. Reeves , C. L. Reichardt , M. Remazeilles , Y. Rephaeli , D. Riechers , J. Robe , M. F. Robertson , N. Robertson , K. Rogers , F. Rojas , A. Romero , E. Rosenberg , A. Rotti , S. Rowe , A. Roy , S. Sadeh , N. Sailer , K. Sakaguri , T. Sakuma , Y. Sakurai , M. Salatino , G. H. Sanders , D. Sasaki , M. Sathyanarayana Rao , T. P. Satterthwaite , L. Saunders , L. Scalcinati , E. Schaan , B. Schmitt , M. Schmittfull , N. Sehgal , J. Seibert , Y. Seino , U. Seljak , S. Shaikh , E. Shaw , P. Shellard , B. Sherwin , M. Shimon , J. E. Shroyer , C. Sierra , J. Sievers , C. Sifón , P. Sikhosana , M. Silva-Feaver , S. M. Simon , A. Sinclair , K. Smith , W. Sohn , X. Song , R. F. Sonka , D. Spergel , J. Spisak , S. T. Staggs , G. Stein , J. R. Stevens , R. Stompor , E. Storer , R. Sudiwala , J. Sugiyama , K. M. Surrao , S. Sutariya , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , A. Takeuchi , I. Tansieri , A. C. Taylor , G. Teply , T. Terasaki , A. Thomas , D. B. Thomas , R. Thornton , H. Trac , T. Tsan , E. Tsang King Sang , C. Tucker , J. Ullom , L. Vacher , L. Vale , A. van Engelen , J. Van Lanen , J. van Marrewijk , D. D. Van Winkle , C. Vargas , E. M. Vavagiakis , I. Veenendaal , C. Vergès , M. Vissers , M. Viña , K. Wagoner , S. Walker , L. Walters , Y. Wang , B. Westbrook , J. Williams , P. Williams , H. Winch , E. J. Wollack , K. Wolz , J. Wong , Z. Xu , K. Yamada , E. Young , B. Yu , C. Yu , M. Zannoni , K. Zheng , N. Zhu , A. Zonca , I. Zubeldia

The Science Case for PILOT I: Summary and Overview

PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed 2.5 m optical/infrared telescope to be located at Dome C on the Antarctic plateau. Conditions at Dome C are known to be exceptional for astronomy. The seeing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. S. Lawrence , M. C. B. Ashley , J. Bailey , D. Barrado y Navascues , T. Bedding , J. Bland-Hawthorn , I. Bond , F. Boulanger , R. Bouwens , H. Bruntt , A. Bunker , D. Burgarella , M. G. Burton , M. Busso , D. Coward , M. -R. Cioni , G. Durand , C. Eiroa , N. Epchtein , N. Gehrels , P. Gillingham , K. Glazebrook , R. Haynes , L. Kiss , P. O. Lagage , T. Le Bertre , C. Mackay , J. P. Maillard , A. McGrath , V. Minier , A. Mora , K. Olsen , P. Persi , K. Pimbblet , R. Quimby , W. Saunders , B. Schmidt , D. Stello , J. W. V. Storey , C. Tinney , P. Tremblin , J. C. Wheeler , P. Yoc

Training of Instrumentalists and Development of New Technologies on SOFIA

This white paper is submitted to the Astronomy and Astrophysics 2010 Decadal Survey (Astro2010)1 Committee on the State of the Profession to emphasize the potential of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-26 Edwin F. Erickson , Louis J. Allamandola , Jean-Paul Baluteau , Eric E. Becklin , Gordon Bjoraker , Michael Burton , Lawrence J. Caroff , Cecilia Ceccarelli , Edward B. Churchwell , Dan P. Clemens , Martin Cohen , Dale P. Cruikshank , Harriet L. Dinerstein , Edward W. Dunham , Giovanni G. Fazio , Ian Gatley , Robert D. Gehrz , Reinhard Genzel , Paul Graf , Matthew A. Greenhouse , Doyal A. Harper , Paul M. Harvey , Martin Harwit , Roger H. Hildebrand , David J. Hollenbach , Adair P. Lane , Harold P. Larson , Steven D. Lord , Suzanne Madden , Gary J. Melnick , David A. Neufeld , Catherine B. Olkin , Christopher C. Packham , Thomas L. Roellig , Hans-Peter Roeser , Scott A. Sandford , Kristen Sellgren , Janet P. Simpson , John W. V. Storey , Charles M. Telesco , Alexander G. G. M. Tielens , Alan T. Tokunaga , Charles H. Townes , Christopher K. Walker , Michael W. Werner , Stanley E. Whitcomb , Juergen Wolf , Charles E. Woodward , Erick T. Young , Jonas Zmuidzinas

The Fly's Eye Camera System -- an instrument design for large \'etendue time-domain survey

In this paper we briefly summarize the design concepts of the Fly's Eye Camera System, a proposed high resolution all-sky monitoring device which intends to perform high cadence time domain astronomy in multiple optical passbands while…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-10 Gergely Csépány , András Pál , Krisztián Vida , Zsolt Regály , László Mészáros , Katalin Oláh , Csaba Kiss , László Döbrentei , Attila Jaskó , György Mező , Ernő Farkas

The RAPTOR Experiment: A System for Monitoring the Optical Sky in Real Time

The Rapid Telescopes for Optical Response (RAPTOR) experiment is a spatially distributed system of autonomous robotic telescopes that is designed to monitor the sky for optical transients. The core of the system is composed of two telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 W. T. Vestrand , K. Borozdin , S. Brumby , D. Casperson , E. Fenimore , M. Galassi , K. McGowan , S. Perkins , W. Priedhorsky , D. Starr , R. White , P. Wozniak , J. Wren

NIMBUS: The Near-Infrared Multi-Band Ultraprecise Spectroimager for SOFIA

We present a new and innovative near-infrared multi-band ultraprecise spectroimager (NIMBUS) for SOFIA. This design is capable of characterizing a large sample of extrasolar planet atmospheres by measuring elemental and molecular abundances…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Michael W. McElwain , Avi Mandell , Bruce Woodgate , David S. Spiegel , Nikku Madhusudhan , Edward Amatucci , Cullen Blake , Jason Budinoff , Adam Burgasser , Adam Burrows , Mark Clampin , Charlie Conroy , L. Drake Deming , Edward Dunham , Roger Foltz , Qian Gong , Heather Knutson , Theodore Muench , Ruth Murray-Clay , Hume Peabody , Bernard Rauscher , Stephen A. Rinehart , Geronimo Villanueva

Far-Infrared double-Fourier interferometers and their spectral sensitivity

Double-Fourier interferometry is the most viable path to sub-arcsecond spatial resolution for future astronomical instruments that will observe the universe at far-infrared wavelengths. The double transform spatio-spectral interferometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Maxime J. Rizzo , Lee G. Mundy , Stephen A. Rinehart , Arnab Dhabal , Dale J. Fixsen , Roser Juanola-Parramon , Dominic J. Benford , David T. Leisawitz , Robert F. Silverberg , Todd J. Veach

PANet: LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation with Sparse Instance Proposal and Aggregation

Reliable LiDAR panoptic segmentation (LPS), including both semantic and instance segmentation, is vital for many robotic applications, such as autonomous driving. This work proposes a new LPS framework named PANet to eliminate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Jianbiao Mei , Yu Yang , Mengmeng Wang , Xiaojun Hou , Laijian Li , Yong Liu

North Ecliptic Pole multi-wavelength survey : new optical data with Hyper Suprime-Cam and near-future prospects with eROSITA

The AKARI North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) survey consists of two survey projects: NEP-Deep (0.5 sq.deg) and NEP-Wide (5.4 sq.deg), providing with tens of thousands of galaxies. A continuous filter coverage in the mid-infrared wavelengths (7, 9,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-07 Nagisa Oi , Hideo Matsuhara , Tomotsugu Goto , Yousuke Utsumi , Rieko Momose , Ting-Chi Huang , Yoshiki Toba , Myungshin Im , Hyung Mok Lee , Seong Jin Kim , Takamitsu Miyaji , Mirko Krumpe , Kazumi Murata , Youichi Ohyama , Steve Serjeant , Chris Pearson , Takao Nakagawa , Takehiko Wada , Toshinobu Takagi , Shuji Matsuura , Ayano Shogaki , NEP team

Testing the near-infrared optical assembly of the space telescope Euclid

Euclid is a space telescope currently developed in the framework of the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Program. It addresses fundamental cosmological questions related to dark matter and dark energy. The lens system of one of the two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Christof Bodendorf , Norbert Geis , Frank Grupp , Jennifer Kaminski , Reinhard Katterloher , Ralf Bender

Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation and the National Science Foundation

Over its more than thirty-year history, the Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) program has provided grants to support technology development for ground-based astronomy. Research from this program has advanced adaptive optics,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Peter Kurczynski , James E. Neff

Characterising the optical response of ultra-low-noise far-infrared 60-110 $\mu$m transition edge sensors

Far-infrared Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) are being developed for the SAFARI grating spectrometer on the cooled-aperture space telescope SPICA. In support of this work, we have devised a cryogenic (90 mK) test facility for carrying out…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Emily A. Williams , Stafford Withington , David J. Goldie , Christopher N. Thomas , Peter A. R. Ade , Rashmi Sudiwala

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE): Mission Description and Initial On-orbit Performance

The all sky surveys done by the Palomar Observatory Schmidt, the European Southern Observatory Schmidt, and the United Kingdom Schmidt, the InfraRed Astronomical Satellite and the 2 Micron All Sky Survey have proven to be extremely useful…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Edward L. Wright , Peter R. M. Eisenhardt , Amy Mainzer , Michael E. Ressler , Roc M. Cutri , Thomas Jarrett , J. Davy Kirkpatrick , Deborah Padgett , Robert S. McMillan , Michael Skrutskie , S. A. Stanford , Martin Cohen , Russell G. Walker , John C. Mather , David Leisawitz , Thomas N. Gautier , Ian McLean , Dominic Benford , Carol J. Lonsdale , Andrew Blain , Bryan Mendez , William R. Irace , Valerie Duval , Fengchuan Liu , Don Royer , Ingolf Heinrichsen , Joan Howard , Mark Shannon , Martha Kendall , Amy L. Walsh , Mark Larsen , Joel G. Cardon , Scott Schick , Mark Schwalm , Mohamed Abid , Beth Fabinsky , Larry Naes , Chao-Wei Tsai

Optical throughput and sensitivity of JWST NIRSpec

To achieve its ambitious scientific goals, the Near-Infrared Spectrograph, NIRSpec, on board the Webb Space Telescope, needs to meet very demanding throughput requirements, here quantified in terms of photon-conversion efficiency (PCE).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 G. Giardino , R. Bhatawdekar , S. M. Birkmann , P. Ferruit , T. Rawle , C. Alves de Oliveira , T. Boeker , P. Jakobsen , N. Kumari , M. Lopez-Caniego , N. Luetzgendorf , E. Manjavacas , C. Proffitt , M. Sirianni , M. Te Plate , P. Zeidler