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Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2024-05-22
Gordon Chin , Carrie M. Anderson , Jennifer Bergner , Nicolas Biver , Gordon L. Bjoraker , Thibault Cavalie , Michael DiSanti , Jian-Rong Gao , Paul Hartogh , Leon K. Harding , Qing Hu , Daewook Kim , Craig Kulesa , Gert de Lange , David T. Leisawitz , Rebecca C. Levy , Arthur Lichtenberger , Daniel P. Marronh , Joan Najita , Trent Newswander , George H. Rieke , Dimitra Rigopoulou , Peter Roefsema , Nathan X. Roth , Kamber Schwarz , Yancy Shirley , Justin Spilker , Antony A. Stark , Floris van der Tak , Yuzuru Takashima , Alexander Tielens , David J. Willner , Edward J. Wollack , Stephen Yates , Erick Young , Christopher K. Walker
The Australian Space Eye is a proposed astronomical telescope based on a 6U CubeSat platform. The Space Eye will exploit the low level of systematic errors achievable with a small space based telescope to enable high accuracy measurements…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2016-08-09
Anthony Horton , Lee Spitler , Naomi Mathers , Michael Petkovic , Douglas Griffin , Simon Barraclough , Craig Benson , Igor Dimitrijevic , Andrew Lambert , Anthony Previte , John Bowen , Solomon Westerman , Jordi Puig-Suari , Sam Reisenfeld , Jon Lawrence , Ross Zhelem , Matthew Colless , Russell Boyce
The advent of Extremely Large Telescopes ELTs, ground-based optical or infrared observatories with primary mirrors exceeding 20 m heralds a transformative epoch in observational astronomy. This article examines the dawn of this new era and…
Some 400 years after Galileo, modern telescopes have enabled humanity to "see" what the natural eye cannot. Astronomical images today contain information about incredibly large objects located across vast distances and reveal information…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2010-09-07
Lisa F. Smith , Jeffrey K. Smith , Kimberly K. Arcand , Randall K. Smith , Jay Bookbinder , Kelly Keach
The objective of neutrino astronomy, born with the identification of thermonuclear fusion in the sun and the particle processes controlling the fate of a nearby supernova, is to build instruments which reach throughout and far beyond our…
Neutrino astrophysics offers new perspectives on the Universe investigation: high energy neutrinos, produced by the most energetic phenomena in our Galaxy and in the Universe, carry complementary (if not exclusive) information about the…
Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be NASA's flagship space telescope of the 2040s, designed to search for life on other planets and to transform broad areas of astrophysics. NASA are seeking international partners, and the UK is…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2025-12-19
Vincent Van Eylen , Richard Massey , Saeeda Awan , Jo Bartlett , Louisa Bradley , Andrei Bubutanu , Kan Chen , Andrew Coates , Mark Cropper , Ross Dobson , Fabiola Antonietta Gerosa , Emery Grahill-Bland , Leah Grant , Daisuke Kawata , Tom Kennedy , Minjae Kim , Adriana Adelina Mihailescu , Jan-Peter Muller , Georgios Nicolaou , Mathew Page , Paola Pinilla , Louisa Preston , Ted Pyne , Hamish Reid , Santiago Velez Salazar , Jason L. Sanders , Giorgio Savini , Ralph Schoenrich , George Seabroke , Alan Smith , Philip J. Smith , Nicolas Tessore , Marina Ventikos , Esa Vilenius , Francesca Waines , Silvia Zane , James Betts , Sownak Bose , Cyril Borgsom , Shaun Cole , Jessica E. Doppel , Vincent Eke , Carlos Frenk , Leo W. H. Fung , Qiuhan He , Mathilde Jauzac , Owen Jessop , Zane Deon Lentz , Gavin Leroy , Simon Morris , Yuan Ren , Jurgen Schmoll , Ray Sharples , Fionagh Thomson , Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta , Kai Wang , Stephane V. Werner , Subhajit Sarkar , Jacob Kegerreis , James Kirk , Subhanjoy Mohanty , John Southworth , John Philip Stott , Ashley King , James W. Nightingale , David Rosario , Paola Tiranti , Edward Gillen , Cynthia S. K. Ho , Christopher Watson , Andrzej Fludra , Chris Pearson , Yun-Hang Cho , Yu Tao , Joanna Barstow , James Bowen , Chris Castelli , Chiaki Crews , Angaraj Duara , Mark Fox-Powell , David Hall , Carole Haswell , Kit-Hung Mark Lee , Joan Requena , Anabel Romero , Jesper Skottfelt , Konstantin Stefanov , Olivia Jones , Sean McGee , Annelies Mortier , Graham P. Smith , Amalie Stokholm , Amaury Triaud , Becky Alexis-Martin , Malcolm Bremer , Katy L. Chubb , Joshua Ford , Ben Maughan , Daniel Valentine , Hannah Wakeford , Juan Paolo Lorenzo Gerardo Barrios , Chandan Bhat , Xander Byrne , Gregory Cooke , Natalie B. Hogg , Nikku Madhusudhan , Maximilian Sommer , Sandro Tacchella , Georgios N. Vassilakis , Nicholas Walton , Mark Wyatt , Manoj Joshi , Beth Biller , Mariangela Bonavita , Trent Dupuy , Aiza Kenzhebekova , Brian P. Murphy , Vincent Okoth , Cyrielle Opitom , Larissa Palethorpe , Paul Palmer , Mia Belle Parkinson , Ken Rice , Sarah Rugheimer , Colin Snodgrass , Ben J. Sutlieff , Souradeep Bhattacharya , Emma Curtis-Lake , Jan Forbrich , Darshan Kakkad , David J. Lagattuta , Brian Ongeri Momanyi Bichang'a , Peter Scicluna , Richard Booth , Martin Barstow , Sarah Casewell , Leigh Fletcher , Anushka Sharma , Christopher J. Conselice , Suzanne Aigrain , Jayne Birkby , Claire Guimond , Carly Howett , Mei Ting Mak , Richard Palin , Chris Pattison , Richard Robinson , Samantha Youles , Andrew Collier Cameron , Justin Read , David John Armstrong , David J. A. Brown , Mikkel N. Lund , Andrew Robertson , Pierre-Olivier Lagage , Lígia F. Coelho , Preethi R. Karpoor , Enric Palle , Leen Decin , Denis Defrère , Kaustubh Hakim , Swara Ravindranath , Jason Rhodes , Marc Postman , Iain Neill Reid , Fabien Malbet , Amirnezam Amiri , Marrick Braam , Qiuhan He , Haakon Dahle , Angharad Weeks
(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. Callen , Srinivasan Chandrasekharan , Glenaver Charles-Emerson , Steve Chesley , Elliott C. Cheu , Hsin-Fang Chiang , James Chiang , Carol Chirino , Derek Chow , David R. Ciardi , Charles F. Claver , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Joseph J. Cockrum , Rebecca Coles , Andrew J. Connolly , Kem H. Cook , Asantha Cooray , Kevin R. Covey , Chris Cribbs , Wei Cui , Roc Cutri , Philip N. Daly , Scott F. Daniel , Felipe Daruich , Guillaume Daubard , Greg Daues , William Dawson , Francisco Delgado , Alfred Dellapenna , Robert de Peyster , Miguel de Val-Borro , Seth W. Digel , Peter Doherty , Richard Dubois , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann , Josef Durech , Frossie Economou , Michael Eracleous , Henry Ferguson , Enrique Figueroa , Merlin Fisher-Levine , Warren Focke , Michael D. Foss , James Frank , Michael D. Freemon , Emmanuel Gangler , Eric Gawiser , John C. Geary , Perry Gee , Marla Geha , Charles J. B. Gessner , Robert R. Gibson , D. Kirk Gilmore , Thomas Glanzman , William Glick , Tatiana Goldina , Daniel A. Goldstein , Iain Goodenow , Melissa L. Graham , William J. Gressler , Philippe Gris , Leanne P. Guy , Augustin Guyonnet , Gunther Haller , Ron Harris , Patrick A. Hascall , Justine Haupt , Fabio Hernandez , Sven Herrmann , Edward Hileman , Joshua Hoblitt , John A. Hodgson , Craig Hogan , Dajun Huang , Michael E. Huffer , Patrick Ingraham , Walter R. Innes , Suzanne H. Jacoby , Bhuvnesh Jain , Fabrice Jammes , James Jee , Tim Jenness , Garrett Jernigan , Darko Jevremović , Kenneth Johns , Anthony S. Johnson , Margaret W. G. Johnson , R. Lynne Jones , Claire Juramy-Gilles , Mario Jurić , Jason S. Kalirai , Nitya J. Kallivayalil , Bryce Kalmbach , Jeffrey P. Kantor , Pierre Karst , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Heather Kelly , Richard Kessler , Veronica Kinnison , David Kirkby , Lloyd Knox , Ivan V. Kotov , Victor L. Krabbendam , K. Simon Krughoff , Petr Kubánek , John Kuczewski , Shri Kulkarni , John Ku , Nadine R. Kurita , Craig S. Lage , Ron Lambert , Travis Lange , J. Brian Langton , Laurent Le Guillou , Deborah Levine , Ming Liang , Kian-Tat Lim , Chris J. Lintott , Kevin E. Long , Margaux Lopez , Paul J. Lotz , Robert H. Lupton , Nate B. Lust , Lauren A. MacArthur , Ashish Mahabal , Rachel Mandelbaum , Darren S. Marsh , Philip J. Marshall , Stuart Marshall , Morgan May , Robert McKercher , Michelle McQueen , Joshua Meyers , Myriam Migliore , Michelle Miller , David J. Mills , Connor Miraval , Joachim Moeyens , David G. Monet , Marc Moniez , Serge Monkewitz , Christopher Montgomery , Fritz Mueller , Gary P. Muller , Freddy Muñoz Arancibia , Douglas R. Neill , Scott P. Newbry , Jean-Yves Nief , Andrei Nomerotski , Martin Nordby , Paul O'Connor , John Oliver , Scot S. Olivier , Knut Olsen , William O'Mullane , Sandra Ortiz , Shawn Osier , Russell E. Owen , Reynald Pain , Paul E. Palecek , John K. Parejko , James B. Parsons , Nathan M. Pease , J. Matt Peterson , John R. Peterson , Donald L. Petravick , M. E. Libby Petrick , Cathy E. Petry , Francesco Pierfederici , Stephen Pietrowicz , Rob Pike , Philip A. Pinto , Raymond Plante , Stephen Plate , Paul A. Price , Michael Prouza , Veljko Radeka , Jayadev Rajagopal , Andrew P. Rasmussen , Nicolas Regnault , Kevin A. Reil , David J. Reiss , Michael A. Reuter , Stephen T. Ridgway , Vincent J. Riot , Steve Ritz , Sean Robinson , William Roby , Aaron Roodman , Wayne Rosing , Cecille Roucelle , Matthew R. Rumore , Stefano Russo , Abhijit Saha , Benoit Sassolas , Terry L. Schalk , Pim Schellart , Rafe H. Schindler , Samuel Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , Michael D. Schneider , William Schoening , German Schumacher , Megan E. Schwamb , Jacques Sebag , Brian Selvy , Glenn H. Sembroski , Lynn G. Seppala , Andrew Serio , Eduardo Serrano , Richard A. Shaw , Ian Shipsey , Jonathan Sick , Nicole Silvestri , Colin T. Slater , J. Allyn Smith , R. Chris Smith , Shahram Sobhani , Christine Soldahl , Lisa Storrie-Lombardi , Edward Stover , Michael A. Strauss , Rachel A. Street , Christopher W. Stubbs , Ian S. Sullivan , Donald Sweeney , John D. Swinbank , Alexander Szalay , Peter Takacs , Stephen A. Tether , Jon J. Thaler , John Gregg Thayer , Sandrine Thomas , Vaikunth Thukral , Jeffrey Tice , David E. Trilling , Max Turri , Richard Van Berg , Daniel Vanden Berk , Kurt Vetter , Francoise Virieux , Tomislav Vucina , William Wahl , Lucianne Walkowicz , Brian Walsh , Christopher W. Walter , Daniel L. Wang , Shin-Yawn Wang , Michael Warner , Oliver Wiecha , Beth Willman , Scott E. Winters , David Wittman , Sidney C. Wolff , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Xiuqin Wu , Bo Xin , Peter Yoachim , Hu Zhan