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This paper presents a survey of microwave front-end receivers installed at radio telescopes throughout the World. This unprecedented analysis was conducted as part of a review of front-end developments for Italian radio telescopes,…

Instruments for radio astronomical observations have come a long way. While the first telescopes were based on very large dishes and 2-antenna interferometers, current instruments consist of dozens of steerable dishes, whereas future…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Stefan J. Wijnholds , Sebastiaan van der Tol , Ronald Nijboer , Alle-Jan van der Veen

A near-infrared telescope with an effective aperture diameter of thirty millimeters has been developed. The primary objective of the development is to observe northern bright stars in the $J$, $H$, and $K_{\rm s}$ bands and provide accurate…

ASTRO-F is the first Japanese satellite mission dedicated for large area surveys in the infrared. The 69cm aperture telescope and scientific instruments are cooled to 6K by liquid Helium and mechanical coolers. During the expected mission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hideo Matsuhara , Hiroshi Shibai , Takashi Onaka , Fumihiko Usui

We report the discovery of 19 new pulsars identified from archival observations of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) within Galactic latitudes $|b|<5\deg$ and declinations ${\rm Decl.}<-5\deg$. The dataset was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Shi-Jie Gao , Yi-Xuan Shao , Xiang-Dong Li

The Near Infrared Camera for the James Webb Space Telescope is delivering the imagery that astronomers have hoped for ever since JWST was proposed back in the 1990s. In the Commissioning Period that extended from right after launch to early…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Marcia J. Rieke , Douglas M. Kelly , Karl Misselt , John Stansberry , Martha Boyer , Thomas Beatty , Eiichi Egami , Michael Florian , Thomas P. Greene , Kevin Hainline

This paper presents an ultra-low noise L-band radio astronomical cryogenic receiver for FAST telescope. The development of key low noise microwave parts of Coupling-LNA and conical quad-ridge OMT and reasonable system integration achieve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Hong-Fei Liu , Chuan He , Jin Wang , Peng Jiang , Sheng-Wang Wang , Yang Wu , Hang Zhang , Jin-You Song , Xiang-Wei Shi , Ming-Lei Guo

The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) satellite, launched June 30, 2001, will produce full sky maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 5 frequency bands spanning 20 - 106 GHz. MAP contains 20 differential radiometers built with…

The Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope (FASR) has been strongly endorsed as a top community priority by both Astronomy & Astrophysics Decadal Surveys and Solar & Space Physics Decadal Surveys in the past two decades. Although it was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-21 Dale E. Gary , Bin Chen , James F. Drake , Gregory D. Fleishman , Lindsay Glesener , Pascal Saint-Hilaire , Stephen M. White

The Large Area Telescope on the recently launched Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST), with its large field of view and effective area, combined with its excellent timing capabilities, is poised to revolutionize the field of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 P. M. Saz Parkinson

We present the results of commissioning observations for a new digital beamforming back end for the Focal plane L-band Array for the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (FLAG), a cryogenically cooled Phased Array Feed (PAF) with the lowest…

A PC based high speed silicon microstrip beam telescope consisting of several independent modules is presented. Every module contains an AC-coupled double sided silicon microstrip sensor and a complete set of analog and digital signal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Treis , P. Fischer , L. Klingbeil , H. Krueger , N. Wermes , T. Lari

The Sun Watcher with Active Pixel System detector and Image Processing (SWAP) telescope was launched on 2 November 2009 onboard the ESA PROBA2 technological mission and has acquired images of the solar corona every one - two minutes for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jean-Philippe Halain , David Berghmans , Dan Seaton , Bogdan Nicula , Anik De Groof , Marilena Mierla , Alexandra Mazzoli , Jean-Marc Defise , Pierre Rochus

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will consist of two arrays of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) at the northern and southern hemispheres. CTA will feature IACTs with mirrors of three different sizes optimized to cover…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-25 Juan Cortina

Launch of the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) has been followed by an extensive period of calibration and characterization as part of the preparation for normal satellite operations. Major tasks carried out during this period…

With increasing interest in high-speed imaging should come an increased interest in the response times of our scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) detectors. Previous works have previously highlighted and contrasted performance…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-09 Tiarnan Mullarkey , Matthew Geever , Jonathan J. P. Peters , Ian Griffiths , Peter D. Nellist , Lewys Jones

3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object passing through the Solar System. In this work, we conduct narrowband radio technosignature search toward 3I/ATLAS using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) L-band…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Jian-Kang Li , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang

The Calar Alto Fiber-fed \'Echelle spectrograph (CAFE) is a high-resolution spectrographs with high-precision radial velocity capabilities mounted in the 2.2m telescope of Calar Alto Observatory. It suffered from strong degradation after 4…

ASTRO-F is the second Japanese space mission for infrared astronomy and is scheduled to be launched into a sun-synchronous polar orbit by the Japanese M-V rocket in February 2004. ASTRO-F has a cooled 67 cm telescope with two focal plane…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takao Nakagawa