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Accurate thermospheric density prediction is crucial for reliable satellite operations in Low Earth Orbits, especially at high solar and geomagnetic activity. Physics-based models such as TIE-GCM offer high fidelity but are computationally…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Cedric Bös , Alessandro Bortotto , Mohamed Khalil Ben-Larbi

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies. The atmosphere is an integral part of every Cherenkov telescope. Different atmospheric conditions, such as clouds, can…

Atmospheric optical turbulence seriously limits the performance of high angular resolution instruments. An 8-night campaign of measurements was carried out at the LAMOST site in 2011, to characterize the optical turbulence. Two instruments…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-21 L. -Y. Liu , C. Giordano , Y. -Q. Yao , J. Vernin , M. Chadid , H. -S. Wang , J. Yin , Y. -P. Wang

Atmospheric transmission from Dome A, Antarctica, presents new possibilities in the field of terahertz astronomy, where space telescopes have been the only observational tools until now. Using atmospheric transmission measurements from Dome…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 Hiroshi Matsuo , Sheng-Cai Shi , Scott Paine , Qi-Jun Yao , Zhen-Hui Lin

We have developed a method that maps large astronomical images onto a two-dimensional map and clusters them. A combination of various state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) algorithms is used to develop a fully unsupervised image quality…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Hossen Teimoorinia , Sara Shishehchi , Ahnaf Tazwar , Ping Lin , Finn Archinuk , Stephen D. J. Gwyn , J. J. Kavelaars

Space weather indices are used commonly to drive forecasts of thermosphere density, which directly affects objects in low-Earth orbit (LEO) through atmospheric drag. One of the most commonly used space weather proxies, $F_{10.7 cm}$,…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Joshua D. Daniell , Piyush M. Mehta

The next generation of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes will be composed of hundreds of telescopes working together to attempt to unveil some fundamental physics of the high-energy Universe. Along with the scientific data, a large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-26 Federico Incardona , Alessandro Costa , Kevin Munari

Context. The presence of clouds during observations with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes can strongly affect the performance of the instrument due to additional absorption of light and scattering of light beyond the field of view…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-22 Natalia Żywucka , Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Mario Pecimotika , Dario Hrupec , Dijana Dominis Prester , Lovro Pavletić , Saša Mićanović

Large-scale astronomical surveys can capture numerous images of celestial objects, including galaxies and nebulae. Analysing and processing these images can reveal intricate internal structures of these objects, allowing researchers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning , Yu Song , Nan Li , Kaifan Ji , Chenzhou Cui , Shanshan Li

Forecast of the atmospheric parameters and optical turbulence applied to the ground-based astronomy is very crucial mainly for the queue scheduling. So far, most efforts have been addressed by our group in developing algorithms for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-22 G. Martelloni , E. Masciadri , A. Turchi

Image restoration methods are commonly used to improve the quality of astronomical images. In recent years, developments of deep neural networks and increments of the number of astronomical images have evoked a lot of data--driven image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Peng Jia , Ruiyu Ning , Ruiqi Sun , Xiaoshan Yang , Dongmei Cai

Machine learning is now used in many areas of astrophysics, from detecting exoplanets in Kepler transit signals to removing telescope systematics. Recent work demonstrated the potential of using machine learning algorithms for atmospheric…

This study introduces a time-based cleaning method for H.E.S.S. using CT5 in monoscopic mode and presents an optimization workflow for image-cleaning algorithms to enhance telescope sensitivity while minimizing systematic biases. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 Jelena Ćelić , Rodrigo Guedes Lang , Simon Steinmassl , Jim Hinton , Stefan Funk

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is designed to provide an unprecedented optical imaging dataset that will support investigations of our Solar System, Galaxy and Universe, across half the sky and over ten years of repeated observation.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 LSST Science Collaboration , Phil Marshall , Timo Anguita , Federica B. Bianco , Eric C. Bellm , Niel Brandt , Will Clarkson , Andy Connolly , Eric Gawiser , Zeljko Ivezic , Lynne Jones , Michelle Lochner , Michael B. Lund , Ashish Mahabal , David Nidever , Knut Olsen , Stephen Ridgway , Jason Rhodes , Ohad Shemmer , David Trilling , Kathy Vivas , Lucianne Walkowicz , Beth Willman , Peter Yoachim , Scott Anderson , Pierre Antilogus , Ruth Angus , Iair Arcavi , Humna Awan , Rahul Biswas , Keaton J. Bell , David Bennett , Chris Britt , Derek Buzasi , Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu , Laura Chomiuk , Chuck Claver , Kem Cook , James Davenport , Victor Debattista , Seth Digel , Zoheyr Doctor , R. E. Firth , Ryan Foley , Wen-fai Fong , Lluis Galbany , Mark Giampapa , John E. Gizis , Melissa L. Graham , Carl Grillmair , Phillipe Gris , Zoltan Haiman , Patrick Hartigan , Suzanne Hawley , Renee Hlozek , Saurabh W. Jha , C. Johns-Krull , Shashi Kanbur , Vassiliki Kalogera , Vinay Kashyap , Vishal Kasliwal , Richard Kessler , Alex Kim , Peter Kurczynski , Ofer Lahav , Michael C. Liu , Alex Malz , Raffaella Margutti , Tom Matheson , Jason D. McEwen , Peregrine McGehee , Soren Meibom , Josh Meyers , Dave Monet , Eric Neilsen , Jeffrey Newman , Matt O'Dowd , Hiranya V. Peiris , Matthew T. Penny , Christina Peters , Radoslaw Poleski , Kara Ponder , Gordon Richards , Jeonghee Rho , David Rubin , Samuel Schmidt , Robert L. Schuhmann , Avi Shporer , Colin Slater , Nathan Smith , Marcelles Soares-Santos , Keivan Stassun , Jay Strader , Michael Strauss , Rachel Street , Christopher Stubbs , Mark Sullivan , Paula Szkody , Virginia Trimble , Tony Tyson , Miguel de Val-Borro , Stefano Valenti , Robert Wagoner , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Bevin Ashley Zauderer

Extensive results from the commissioning phase of PUEO, the adaptive optics instrument adaptor for the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope, are presented and discussed. Analyses of more than 750 images recorded with a CCD and a near-IR camera on…

We present a blind multiframe image-deconvolution method based on robust statistics. The usual shortcomings of iterative optimization of the likelihood function are alleviated by minimizing the M-scale of the residuals, which achieves more…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-09 Matthias Lee , Tamas Budavari , Richard White , Charles Gulian

Observatories are complex scientific and technical institutions serving diverse users and purposes. Their telescopes, instruments, software, and human resources engage in interwoven workflows over a broad range of timescales. These…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Robert L. Seaman , W. Thomas Vestrand , Frederic V. Hessman

In this work, we study the advantages of using a Lucky Imaging camera for the observations of potential planetary microlensing events. Our aim is to reduce the blending effect and enhance exoplanet signals in binary lensing systems composed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Sedighe Sajadian , Sohrab Rahvar , Martin Dominik , Markus Hundertmark

The need of real-time of monitoring and alerting systems for Space Weather hazards has grown significantly in the last two decades. One of the most important challenge for space mission operations and planning is the prediction of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 Mirko Stumpo , Monica Laurenza , Simone Benella , Maria Federica Marcucci

This study introduces {\tt{PI-AstroDeconv}}, a physics-informed semi-supervised learning method specifically designed for removing beam effects in astronomical telescope observation systems. The method utilizes an encoder-decoder network…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Shulei Ni , Yisheng Qiu , Yunchuan Chen , Zihao Song , Hao Chen , Xuejian Jiang , Donghui Quan , Huaxi Chen