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Imaging Spectropolarimetry -- A New Observing Mode on the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys

Imaging spectropolarimetry is a new observing mode on the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that was commissioned in Cycle 30 and is available to HST observers starting in Cycle 31 (i.e., from 2023).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Nimish P. Hathi , Dean C. Hines , Yotam Cohen , Norman A. Grogin , Marco Chiaberge

Spectro-polarimetric Observations at the NVST: I. Instrumental Polarization Calibration and Primary Measurements

This paper is devoted to the primary spectro-polarimetric observation performed at the New Vacuum Solar Telescope of China since 2017, and our aim is to precisely evaluate the real polarimetric accuracy and sensitivity of this polarimetry…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Jun-Feng Hou , Zhi Xu , Shu Yuan , Yu-Chao Chen , Jian-Guo Peng , Dong-Guang Wang , Jun Xu , Yuan-Yong Deng , Zhen-Yu Jin , Kai-Fan Ji , Zhong Liu

The ultraviolet continuum slopes ($\mathbf{\beta}$) of galaxies at $\mathbf{z\simeq8-16}$ from JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging

We study the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) continuum slopes ($\beta$) of galaxies at redshifts $8 < z < 16$, using a combination of JWST ERO and ERS NIRcam imaging and ground-based near-infrared imaging of the COSMOS field. The combination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 F. Cullen , R. J. McLure , D. J. McLeod , J. S. Dunlop , C. T. Donnan , A. C. Carnall , R. A. A. Bowler , R. Begley , M. L. Hamadouche , T. M. Stanton

Euclid. III. The NISP Instrument

The Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) on board the Euclid satellite provides multiband photometry and R>=450 slitless grism spectroscopy in the 950-2020nm wavelength range. In this reference article we illuminate the…

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Borsato , L. Caillat , F. Cogato , C. Colodro-Conde , P. -E. Crouzet , V. Conforti , M. D'Alessandro , Y. Copin , J. -C. Cuillandre , J. E. Davies , S. Davini , A. Derosa , J. J. Diaz , S. Di Domizio , D. Di Ferdinando , R. Farinelli , A. G. Ferrari , F. Fornari , L. Gabarra , C. M. Gutierrez , F. Giacomini , P. Lagier , F. Gianotti , O. Krause , F. Madrid , F. Laudisio , J. Macias-Perez , G. Naletto , M. Niclas , J. Marpaud , N. Mauri , R. da Silva , F. Passalacqua , K. Paterson , L. Patrizii , I. Risso , B. G. B. Solheim , M. Scodeggio , P. Stassi , J. Steinwagner , M. Tenti , G. Testera , R. Travaglini , S. Tosi , A. Troja , O. Tubio , C. Valieri , C. Vescovi , S. Ventura , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , J. Amiaux , S. Andreon , H. Aussel , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , A. Basset , A. Bonchi , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , P. -Y. Chabaud , A. Cimatti , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , J. -G. Cuby , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , A. M. Di Giorgio , J. Dinis , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , M. Fabricius , M. Farina , S. Farrens , F. Faustini , P. Fosalba , S. Fotopoulou , N. Fourmanoit , M. Frailis , P. Franzetti , S. Galeotta , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , P. Gómez-Alvarez , B. R. Granett , A. Grazian , L. Guzzo , M. Hailey , S. V. H. Haugan , J. Hoar , H. Hoekstra , I. Hook , P. Hudelot , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , T. Kitching , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , O. Lahav , V. Lindholm , J. Lorenzo Alvarez , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , J. Martignac , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , D. C. Masters , S. Maurogordato , H. J. McCracken , S. Mei , M. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , J. J. Mohr , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , R. C. Nichol , S. -M. Niemi , T. Nutma , K. Paech , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , J. A. Peacock , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Refregier , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , C. Rosset , E. Rossetti , H. J. A. Rottgering , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , M. Sauvage , R. Scaramella , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , S. Serrano , P. Tallada-Crespí , D. Tavagnacco , A. N. Taylor , H. I. Teplitz , I. Tereno , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , A. Veropalumbo , D. Vibert , Y. Wang , J. Weller , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , F. M. Zerbi , J. Zoubian , E. Zucca , P. N. Appleton , C. Baccigalupi , A. Biviano , M. Bolzonella , A. Boucaud , E. Bozzo , C. Burigana , M. Calabrese , P. Casenove , M. Crocce , G. De Lucia , J. A. Escartin Vigo , G. Fabbian , F. Finelli , K. George , J. Gracia-Carpio , S. Ilić , P. Liebing , C. Liu , G. Mainetti , S. Marcin , M. Martinelli , P. W. 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Le Graet , L. Legrand , G. Libet , S. J. Liu , A. Loureiro , M. Magliocchetti , C. Mancini , F. Mannucci , R. Maoli , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Matthew , L. Maurin , C. J. R. McPartland , R. B. Metcalf , M. Migliaccio , M. Miluzio , P. Monaco , C. Moretti , S. Nadathur , L. Nicastro , Nicholas A. Walton , J. Odier , M. Oguri , V. Popa , D. Potter , A. Pourtsidou , P. -F. Rocci , R. P. Rollins , B. Rusholme , M. Sahlén , A. G. Sánchez , C. Scarlata , J. Schaye , J. A. Schewtschenko , A. Schneider , M. Schultheis , M. Sereno , F. Shankar , A. Shulevski , G. Sikkema , A. Silvestri , P. Simon , A. Spurio Mancini , J. Stadel , S. A. Stanford , K. Tanidis , C. Tao , N. Tessore , R. Teyssier , S. Toft , M. Tucci , J. Valiviita , D. Vergani , F. Vernizzi , G. Verza , P. Vielzeuf , J. R. Weaver , L. Zalesky , I. A. Zinchenko , M. Archidiacono , F. Atrio-Barandela , C. L. Bennett , T. Bouvard , F. Caro , S. Conseil , P. Dimauro , P. -A. Duc , Y. Fang , A. M. N. Ferguson , T. Gasparetto , I. Kova{č}ić , S. Kruk , A. M. C. Le Brun , T. I. Liaudat , A. Montoro , A. Mora , C. Murray , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , M. Radovich , E. Sarpa , E. Tommasi , A. Viitanen , J. Lesgourgues , M. E. Levi , J. Martín-Fleitas

Science with the World Space Observatory - Ultraviolet

The World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) will provide access to the UV range during the next decade. The instrumentation on board will allow to carry out high resolution imaging, high sensitivity imaging, high resolution (R~55000)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Ana I. Gomez de Castro , Isabella Pagano , Mikhail Sachkov , Alain Lecavelier , Giampaolo Piotto , Rosa Gonzalez , Boris Shustov

JWST UNCOVER: The Overabundance of Ultraviolet-luminous Galaxies at $z>9$

Over the past year, JWST has uncovered galaxies at record-breaking distances up to $z \sim 13$. The JWST UNCOVER (ultra-deep NIRSpec and NIRcam observations before the epoch of reionization) program has obtained ultra-deep multiwavelength…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-29 Iryna Chemerynska , Hakim Atek , Lukas J. Furtak , Adi Zitrin , Jenny E. Greene , Pratika Dayal , Andrea Weibel , Seiji Fujimoto , Vasily Kokorev , Andy D. Goulding , Christina C. Williams , Themiya Nanayakkara , Rachel Bezanson , Gabriel Brammer , Sam E. Cutler , Ivo Labbe , Joel Leja , Richard Pan , Sedona H. Price , Pieter van Dokkum , Bingjie Wang , John R. Weaver , Katherine E. Whitaker

Recent Results and Perspectives for Precision Astrometry and Photometry with Adaptive Optics

Large ground-based telescopes equipped with adaptive optics (AO) systems have ushered in a new era of high-resolution infrared photometry and astrometry. Relative astrometric accuracies of <0.2 mas have already been demonstrated from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jessica R. Lu , Andrea M. Ghez , Sylvana Yelda , Tuan Do , Will Clarkson , Nate McCrady , Mark R. Morris

A Large Catalog of Homogeneous Ultra-Violet/Optical GRB Afterglows: Temporal and Spectral Evolution

We present the second Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow catalog, greatly expanding on the first Swift UVOT GRB afterglow catalog. The second catalog is constructed from a database containing over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Peter W. A. Roming , T. Scott Koch , Samantha R. Oates , Blair L. Porterfield , Amanda J. Bayless , Alice A. Breeveld , Caryl Gronwall , N. P. M. Kuin , Mat J. Page , Massimiliano de Pasquale , Michael H. Siegel , Craig A. Swenson , Jennifer M. Tobler

Swift/UVOT: 18 Years of Long GRB Discoveries and Advances

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift) has been in operation for 18 years. The Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) onboard Swift was designed to capture the earliest optical/UV emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), spanning the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 S. R. Oates

An overview of the proposed INdian Spectroscopic and Imaging Space Telescope (INSIST)

India reached a major milestone in the area of space astronomy with the successful launch and post-launch operations of its first space observatory, AstroSat. The success of this space observatory and the lessons learned must be utilized…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-09 Annapurni Subramaniam

Calibration of Argus and the 4mm Receiver on the GBT

The calibration procedures for data collected for Argus and the 4mm Receiver instruments on the GBT are presented. The measured beam size, aperture efficiency, and main-beam efficiency are derived for the range of observing frequencies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-07 David T. Frayer , Ronald J. Maddalena , Steven White , Galen Watts , Amanda Kepley , Jialu Li , Andrew I. Harris

The VISTA ZYJHKs Photometric System: Calibration from 2MASS

In this paper we describe the routine photometric calibration of data taken with the VIRCAM instrument on the ESO VISTA telescope. The broadband ZYJHKs data are directly calibrated from 2MASS point sources visible in every VISTA image. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Carlos González-Fernández , Simon T. Hodgkin , Michael J. Irwin , Eduardo González-Solares , Sergey E. Koposov , Jim R. Lewis , Jim P. Emerson , Paul C. Hewett , Aybuke K. Yoldaş , Marco Riello

The VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS

The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) ATLAS is an optical ugriz survey aiming to cover ~4700deg^2 of the Southern sky to similar depths as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). From reduced images and object catalogues provided by the Cambridge…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-20 T. Shanks , N. Metcalfe , B. Chehade , J. R. Findlay , M. J. Irwin , E. Gonzalez-Solares , J. R. Lewis , A. Kupcu Yoldas , R. G. Mann , M. A. Read , E. T. W. Sutorius , S. Voutsinas

The Near Ultraviolet Transient Surveyor (NUTS): An ultraviolet telescope to observe variable sources

Observing the ultraviolet (UV) sky for time-variable phenomena is one of the many exciting science goals that can be achieved by a relatively small aperture telescope in space. The Near Ultraviolet Transient Surveyor (NUTS) is a wide-field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 S. Ambily , Mayuresh Sarpotdar , Joice Mathew , Binukumar G. Nair , A. G. Sreejith , Nirmal K. , Jayant Murthy , Margarita Safonova , Rekhesh Mohan , Vinod Kumar Aggarval , S. Nagabhushanam , Sachin Jeeragal

Euclid preparation: XVI. Exploring the ultra low-surface brightness Universe with Euclid/VIS

While Euclid is an ESA mission specifically designed to investigate the nature of Dark Energy and Dark Matter, the planned unprecedented combination of survey area ($\sim15\,000$ deg$^2$), spatial resolution, low sky-background, and depth…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 A. S. Borlaff , P. Gómez-Alvarez , B. Altieri , P. M. Marcum , R. Vavrek , R. Laureijs , R. Kohley , F. Buitrago , J. C. Cuillandre , P. A. Duc , L. M. Gaspar Venancio , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , R. Azzollini , C. Baccigalupi , A. Balaguera-Antolínez , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , R. Bender , A. Biviano , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Bozzo , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , S. Camera , G. P. Candini , V. Capobianco , A. Cappi , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , C. S. Carvalho , S. Casas , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , J. Coupon , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , D. Di Ferdinando , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , A. Ealet , M. Fabricius , M. Farina , S. Farrens , P. G. Ferreira , S. Ferriol , F. Finelli , P. Flose-Reimberg , P. Fosalba , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , K. Ganga , B. Garilli , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , G. Gozaliasl , J. Graciá-Carpio , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , K. Jahnke , E. Keihanen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , C. C. Kirkpatrick , T. Kitching , J. H. Knapen , B. Kubik , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , P. Liebing , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , D. Maino , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , D. Martínez-Delgado , F. Marulli , R. Massey , M. Maturi , S. Maurogordato , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , R. B. Metcalf , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , G. Morgante , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , S. M. Niemi , J. W. Nightingale , A. Nucita , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , L. Patrizii , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , M. Poncet , L. Popa , D. Potter , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , C. Rosset , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , A. G. Sánchez , D. Sapone , M. Sauvage , P. Schneider , V. Scottez , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. Skottfelt , L. Stanco , J. L. Starck , F. Sureau , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , M. Tenti , I. Tereno , R. Teyssier , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , M. Viel , Y. Wang , J. Weller , L. Whittaker , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , E. Zucca

Extract cleaned Swift/UVOT UV grism spectra with uvotpy package

The ultraviolet/optical telescope (UVOT) onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is capable of imaging with 7 lenticular filters and of taking slitless spectra with 2 grisms. Both image and grism data have been widely used to study…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Hao Zhou , Stefano Covino , Zhi-Ping Jin , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei , N. Paul Kuin

Improved Photometric Calibration of the SNLS and the SDSS Supernova Surveys

We present a combined photometric calibration of the SNLS and the SDSS supernova survey, which results from a joint effort of the SDSS and the SNLS collaborations. We deliver fluxes calibrated to the HST spectrophotometric star network for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Betoule , J. Marriner , N. Regnault , J. -C. Cuillandre , P. Astier , J. Guy , C. Balland , P. El Hage , D. Hardin , R. Kessler , L. Le Guillou , J. Mosher , R. Pain , P. -F. Rocci , M. Sako , K. Schahmaneche

An Ultraviolet-Selected Galaxy Redshift Survey: New Estimates of the Local Star Formation Rate

We present the first results of an ongoing spectroscopic survey of galaxies selected in the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV). The redshift distribution extends over 0<z<0.5 and a high fraction of the sources show intense nebular emission lines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. A. Treyer , R. S. Ellis , B. Milliard , J. Donas , T. J. Bridges

Calibration and flight performance of the long-slit imaging dual order spectrograph

We present a preliminary calibration and flight performance of the Long-Slit Imaging Dual Order Spectrograph (LIDOS), a rocket-borne instrument with a large dynamic range in the 900 - 1700A bandpass. The instrument observes UV-bright…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roxana E. Lupu , Stephan R. McCandliss , Brian Fleming , Kevin France , Paul D. Feldman , Shouleh Nikzad

Construction of a far ultraviolet all sky map from an incomplete survey: Application of a deep learning algorithm

We constructed a far ultraviolet (FUV) all sky map based on observations from the Far Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (FIMS) aboard the Korean microsatellite STSAT-1. For the ~20% of the sky not covered by FIMS observations, predictions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-20 Young-Soo Jo , Yeon-Ju Choi , Min-Gi Kim , Chang-Ho Woo , Kyoung-Wook Min , Kwang-Il Seon