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In the last years the Space Science community was confronted to a continuous increasing interest in Martian missions, extra-solar planet search and multi-satellite missions. The presented T.I.P.O. mission is a proposal for a research…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-24 Adrian Sabin Popescu

Supplemented with suitable buffering techniques, the low-frequency part of the SKA can be used as an ultra-precise detector for cosmic-ray air showers at very high energies. This would enable a wealth of scientific applications: the physics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-09 T. Huege , J. D. Bray , S. Buitink , R. Dallier , R. D. Ekers , H. Falcke , C. W. James , L. Martin , B. Revenu , O. Scholten , F. G. Schröder

EUSO-TA is a pathfinder experiment for the space based JEM-EUSO mission for the detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. EUSO-TA is an high-resolution fluorescence telescope installed in front of the Black Rock Mesa fluorescence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-26 Francesca Bisconti

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is uniquely sensitive to MeV neutrinos emitted during a core-collapse supernova. The Supernova Data Acquisition System (SNDAQ) monitors in real-time the detector rate deviation searching for bursts of MeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-20 Nora Valtonen-Mattila

Building a general robotic manipulation system capable of performing a wide variety of tasks in real-world settings is a challenging task. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in robotic manipulation tasks,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yiteng Chen , Wenbo Li , Shiyi Wang , Huiping Zhuang , Qingyao Wu

In 2016-2017, TUS, the world's first experiment for testing the possibility of registering ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) by their fluorescent radiation in the night atmosphere of Earth was carried out. Since 2019, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-06 Mikhail Zotov , Denis Sokolinskii

The World Space Observatory - Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) space telescope is equipped with high dispersion (55,000) spectrographs working in the 1150-3100 {\AA} spectral range. To evaluate the impact of the design on the scientific objectives of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 Pablo Marcos-Arenal , Ana I. Gómez de Castro , Belén Perea Abarca , Mikhail Sachkov

We present a status report on our search for multiple-image QSOs among southern radio sources. Our goal is to identify new lenses for use in studies of cosmology and galaxy structure. To date we have examined 3300 radio sources, identified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joshua N. Winn , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , Paul L. Schechter

The Cherenkov Telescopic Array (CTA), the next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory, will have unprecedented sensitivity, providing answers to open questions in gamma-ray cosmology and fundamental physics. Using simulations of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Ievgen Vovk , Jonathan Biteau , Humberto Martinez-Huerta , Manuel Meyer , Santiago Pita

The Virtual Observatory (VO) provides access to both, data and theory. Quality control is a general problem and the VO user needs partly some experience to judge the reliability of the VO products. As far as spectral analysis is concerned,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-24 Thomas Rauch , Ellen Ringat

Remote-sensing observations of Solar System objects with a space telescope offer a key method of understanding celestial bodies and contributing to planetary formation and evolution theories. The capabilities of Twinkle, a space telescope…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-26 Billy Edwards , Giorgio Savini , Giovanna Tinetti , Marcell Tessenyi , Claudio Arena , Sean Lindsay , Neil Bowles

In 2014 the number of active cell phones worldwide for the first time surpassed the number of humans. Cell phone camera quality and onboard processing power (both CPU and GPU) continue to improve rapidly. In addition to their primary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Justin Vandenbroucke , Silvia Bravo , Peter Karn , Matthew Meehan , Matthew Plewa , Tyler Ruggles , David Schultz , Jeffrey Peacock , Ariel Levi Simons

The Virtual Research Environment is an analysis platform developed at CERN serving the needs of scientific communities involved in European Projects. Its scope is to facilitate the development of end-to-end physics workflows, providing…

Object detection on VHR remote sensing images plays a vital role in applications such as urban planning, land resource management, and rescue missions. The large-scale variation of the remote-sensing targets is one of the main challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Tao Chen , Ruirui Li , Jiafeng Fu , Daguang Jiang

One of the main objectives of cosmic-ray studies are precise measurements of energy and chemical composition of particles with extreme energies. Large and sophisticated detectors are used to find events seen as showers starting in the…

A Virtual Observatory (VO) will enable transparent and efficient access, search, retrieval, and visualization of data across multiple data repositories, which are generally heterogeneous and distributed. Aspects of data mining that apply to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kirk D. Borne

TUS (Tracking Ultraviolet Set-up), the first orbital detector of extreme energy cosmic rays (EECRs), those with energies above 50 EeV, was launched into orbit on April 28, 2016, as a part of the Lomonosov satellite scientific payload. The…

Thorne-\.Zytkow objects (T\.ZOs) are a class of stellar object comprised of a neutron star core surrounded by a large and diffuse envelope. Their exterior appearance is identical to red supergiants; the distinctive electromagnetic signature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Lindsay DeMarchi , J. R. Sanders , Emily M. Levesque

Many robotic manipulation tasks require sensing and responding to force signals such as torque to assess whether the task has been successfully completed and to enable closed-loop control. However, current Vision-Language-Action (VLA)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Zongzheng Zhang , Haobo Xu , Zhuo Yang , Chenghao Yue , Zehao Lin , Huan-ang Gao , Ziwei Wang , Hao Zhao