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A cosmic ray detection system, consisting of standardized detector stations connected through the Internet, is described. The system can be used for detecting air showers that arrive over a wide area with correlated time. The data at each…

We review some of the scientific opportunities and technical challenges posed by the exploration of the large digital sky surveys, in the context of a Virtual Observatory (VO). The VO paradigm will profoundly change the way observational…

VERITAS is a ground-based gamma-ray observatory that uses the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique and operates in the very high-energy (VHE) region of the gamma- ray spectrum from 100 GeV to 50 TeV. The observatory consists of an array…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-01 T. C. Weekes , the VERITAS Collaboration

Nowadays, Virtual Observatory standards, resources, and services became powerful enough to help astronomers making real science on everyday basis. The key to the VO success is its entire transparency for a scientific user. This allows an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-21 Igor Chilingarian , Ivan Zolotukhin

Here we discuss advances in UV technology over the last decade, with an emphasis on photon counting, low noise, high efficiency detectors in sub-orbital programs. We focus on the use of innovative UV detectors in a NASA astrophysics balloon…

In the last years we have witnessed a dramatic change in the research infrastructures: Advances in communication networks, computational resources and data storage devices are fostering new and more efficient science. In this new scenario,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-14 J. C. Suárez , E. Solano , C. Rodrigo , A. Moya , A. García-Hernández

Radio observations are currently the only way to explore accelerated particles in cool stellar environments. We describe how a next generation VLA can contribute to the understanding of the stellar contribution to exo-space weather. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-15 Rachel A. Osten , Michael K. Crosley , Manuel Gudel , Adam F. Kowalski , Joe Lazio , Jeffrey Linsky , Eric Murphy , Stephen White

The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) is a proposed ground-based gamma-ray detector that will be located in the Southern Hemisphere and is currently in its design phase. In this contribution, we will outline the prospects for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 R. López-Coto , A. Mitchell , E. O. Angüner , G. Giacinti

Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models for multi-task robot manipulation often rely on fixed camera setups and shared visual encoders, which limit their performance under occlusions and during cross-task transfer. To address these…

Thermal Infrared (TIR) technology involves the use of sensors to detect and measure infrared radiation emitted by objects, and it is widely utilized across a broad spectrum of applications. The advancements in object detection methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jinke Li , Yue Wu , Xiaoyan Yang

A forward-looking facility such as the next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) requires forward-looking science. The ngVLA will enable stellar wind detections or robust constraints on upper limits sufficient to bridge the gap between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Rachel A. Osten , Michael K. Crosley

The goal of this talk is to give an overview of the current status of the development of the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer ground based gravitational wave (GW) detectors and of their foreseen scientific goals. These detectors will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Matteo Di Giovanni

In the era of big data astronomy, next generation telescopes and large sky surveys produce data sets at the TB or even PB level. Due to their large data volumes, these astronomical data sets are extremely difficult to transfer and analyze…

Construction was completed during summer 2013 on the Telescope Array RAdar (TARA) bi-static radar observatory for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR). TARA is co-located with the Telescope Array, the largest "conventional" cosmic ray…

The Telescope Array (TA) observatory, located in midwest Utah, USA, is designed to detect ultra high energy cosmic rays whose energy is greater than 1 EeV. TA mainly consists of two types of detector. The first type is the atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-03 Takeshi Okuda

Detector and event visualization are crucial components of high-energy physics~(HEP) experimental software. Virtual Reality~(VR) technologies and multimedia development platforms such as Unity offer enhanced display effects and flexible…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-23 Kai-Xuan Huang , Tian-Zi Song , Yu-Ning Su , Cheng-Xin Wu , Xue-Sen Wang , Yu-Mei Zhang , Zheng-Yun You

The scientific potential of a wide field-of-view, and very-high duty cycle, ground-based gamma-ray detector has been demonstrated by the current generation of instruments, such as HAWC and ARGO, and will be further extended in the Northern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Ulisses Barres de Almeida

The da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) is a teleoperated surgical robotic system. For dynamic simulations and model-based control, the dynamic model of the dVRK is required. We present an open-source dynamic model identification package for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Yan Wang , Radian Gondokaryono , Adnan Munawar , Gregory S. Fischer

GRANDProto300 is a 300-antenna prototype array of the envisioned GRAND (Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection) project. The goal of GRANDProto300 is to detect radio signals emitted by cosmic ray-induced air showers, with energies ranging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Kai-Kai Duan , Peng-Xiong Ma , Ke-Wen Zhang , Xiao-Yuan Huang , Yi Zhang

The TeV gamma ray sky is observable by recording footprints of extensive air showers with an array of particle detectors. In the northern hemisphere there are currently two projects employing this technique: The HAWC gamma ray observatory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Harm Schoorlemmer , Rubén López-Coto , Jim Hinton