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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launched successfully on 18th of April, 2018, will observe nearly the full sky and will provide time-series imaging data in ~27-day-long campaigns. TESS is equipped with 4 cameras; each has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 András Pál , László Molnár , Csaba Kiss

Transition-edge sensors (TES) are photon-number resolving calorimetric spectrometers with near unit efficiency. Their recovery time, which is on the order of microseconds, limits the number resolving ability and timing accuracy in high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-21 Jianwei Lee , Lijiong Shen , Alessandro Cerè , Thomas Gerrits , Adriana E. Lita , Sae Woo Nam , Christian Kurtsiefer

This is the first of a series of papers presenting the THROES (A caTalogue of HeRschel Observations of Evolved Stars) project, intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the spectroscopic results obtained in the far-infrared (55-670…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 J. Ramos-Medina , C. Sánchez Contreras , P. García-Lario , C. Rodrigo , J. da Silva Santos , E. Solano

We describe the processing of data from the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) used in production of the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC). In particular, we discuss the steps involved in reducing the data from telemetry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-14 A. Zacchei , D. Maino , C. Baccigalupi , M. Bersanelli , A. Bonaldi , L. Bonavera , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , F. Cuttaia , G. de Zotti , J. Dick , M. Frailis , S. Galeotta , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , A. Gregorio , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , J. Knoche , H. Kurki-Suonio , C. R. Lawrence , S. Leach , J. P. Leahy , M. López-Caniego , N. Mandolesi , M. Maris , F. Matthai , P. R. Meinhold , A. Mennella , G. Morgante , N. Morisset , P. Natoli , F. Pasian , F. Perrotta , G. Polenta , T. Poutanen , M. Reinecke , S. Ricciardi , R. Rohlfs , M. Sandri , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , J. Valiviita , F. Villa , A. Zonca , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , J. G. Bartlett , N. Bartolo , L. Bedini , K. Bennett , P. Binko , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , M. Bremer , P. Cabella , B. Cappellini , X. Chen , L. Colombo , M. Cruz , A. Curto , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , G. de Gasperis , A. de Rosa , G. de Troia , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , S. Donzelli , U. Dörl , G. Efstathiou , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , M. C. Falvella , F. Finelli , E. Franceschi , T. C. Gaier , F. Gasparo , R. T. Génova-Santos , G. Giardino , F. Gómez , A. Gruppuso , F. K. Hansen , R. Hell , D. Herranz , W. Hovest , M. Huynh , J. Jewell , M. Juvela , T. S. Kisner , L. Knox , A. Lähteenmäki , J. -M. Lamarre , R. Leonardi , J. León-Tavares , P. B. Lilje , P. M. Lubin , G. Maggio , D. Marinucci , E. Martínez-González , M. Massardi , S. Matarrese , M. T. Meharga , A. Melchiorri , M. Migliaccio , S. Mitra , A. Moss , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , L. Pagano , R. Paladini , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , D. Pearson , V. Pettorino , D. Pietrobon , G. Prézeau , P. Procopio , J. -L. Puget , C. Quercellini , J. P. Rachen , R. Rebolo , G. Robbers , G. Rocha , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , E. Salerno , M. Savelainen , D. Scott , M. D. Seiffert , J. I. Silk , G. F. Smoot , J. Sternberg , F. Stivoli , R. Stompor , G. Tofani , L. Toffolatti , J. Tuovinen , M. Türler , G. Umana , P. Vielva , N. Vittorio , C. Vuerli , L. A. Wade , R. Watson , S. D. M. White , A. Wilkinson

We present reduced images and catalogues of photometric and emission line data ($\sim$230,000 and $\sim$8,000 sources, respectively) for the WFC3 Infrared Spectroscopic Parallel (WISP) Survey. These data are made publicly available on the…

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is conducting a nightly public survey of all 13 TESS northern sectors in 2019-2020. ZTF will observe the portions of the current TESS sectors visible from Palomar Observatory each night. Each ZTF pointing…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will search for planets transiting bright stars with Ic<13. TESS has been selected by NASA for launch in 2018 as an Astrophysics Explorer mission, and is expected to discover a thousand or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Akshata Krishnamurthy , Joel Villasenor , Steve Kissel , George Ricker , Roland Vanderspek

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project has been conducting a photometric survey for transiting planets orbiting bright stars for over ten years. The KELT images have a pixel scale of ~23"/pixel---very similar to that of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Karen A. Collins , Kevin I. Collins , Joshua Pepper , Jonathan Labadie-Bartz , Keivan Stassun , B. Scott Gaudi , Daniel Bayliss , Joao Bento , Knicole D. Colón , Dax Feliz , David James , Marshall C. Johnson , Rudolf B. Kuhn , Michael B. Lund , Matthew T. Penny , Joseph E. Rodriguez , Robert J. Siverd , Daniel J. Stevens , Xinyu Yao , George Zhou , Mundra Akshay , Giulio F. Aldi , Cliff Ashcraft , Supachai Awiphan , Özgür Baştürk , David Baker , Thomas G. Beatty , Paul Benni , Perry Berlind , G. Bruce Berriman , Zach Berta-Thompson , Allyson Bieryla , Valerio Bozza , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , Michael L. Calkins , Jenna M. Cann , David R. Ciardi , Ian R. Clark , William D. Cochran , David H. Cohen , Dennis Conti , Justin R. Crepp , Ivan A. Curtis , Giuseppe D'Ago , Kenny A. Diazeguigure , Courtney D. Dressing , Franky Dubois , Erica Ellingson , Tyler G. Ellis , Gilbert A. Esquerdo , Phil Evans , Alison Friedli , Akihiko Fukui , Benjamin J. Fulton , Erica J. Gonzales , John C. Good , Joao Gregorio , Tolga Gumusayak , Daniel A. Hancock , Caleb K. Harada , Rhodes Hart , Eric G. Hintz , Hannah Jang-Condell , Elizabeth J. Jeffery , Eric L. N. Jensen , Emiliano Jofré , Michael D. Joner , Aman Kar , David H. Kasper , Burak Keten , John F. Kielkopf , Siramas Komonjinda , Cliff Kotnik , David W. Latham , Jacob Leuquire , Tiffany R. Lewis , Ludwig Logie , Simon J. Lowther , Phillip J. MacQueen , Trevor J. Martin , Dimitri Mawet , Kim K. McLeod , Gabriel Murawski , Norio Narita , Jim Nordhausen , Thomas E. Oberst , Caroline Odden , Peter A. Panka , Romina Petrucci , Peter Plavchan , Samuel N. Quinn , Steve Rau , Phillip A. Reed , Howard Relles , Joe P. Renaud , Gaetano Scarpetta , Rebecca L. Sorber , Alex D. Spencer , Michelle Spencer , Denise C. Stephens , Chris Stockdale , Thiam-Guan Tan , Mark Trueblood , Patricia Trueblood , Siegfried Vanaverbeke , Steven Villanueva , Elizabeth M. Warner , Mary Lou West , Selçuk Yalçınkaya , Rex Yeigh , Roberto Zambelli

Chance-aligned sources or blended companions can cause false positives in planetary transit detections or simply bias the determination of the candidate properties. In the era of high-precision space-based photometers, the need for…

We present the end-to-end data reduction pipeline for SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy), the upcoming thermal-infrared, diffraction-limited imager, and low and medium-resolution integral field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Athira Unni , Steph Sallum , Peyton Benac , Michael P. Fitzgerald , Max Brodheim , Rosalie McGurk , Andy Skemer , William T. S. Deich

Context: The TESS team periodically issues a new list of transiting exoplanet candidates based on the analysis of the accumulating light curves obtained by the satellite. The list includes the estimated epochs, periods, and durations of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 Aviad Panahi , Tsevi Mazeh , Shay Zucker , David W. Latham , Karen A. Collins , Lorenzo Rimoldini , Dafydd Wyn Evans , Laurent Eyer

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission is providing the scientific community with millions of light curves of stars spread across the whole sky. Since 2018 the telescope has detected thousands of planet candidates that…

The collections of spectral energy distributions (SEDs) in the \emph{Hubble Space Telescope} (HST) CALSPEC database are augmented by 19 IR SEDs from Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) IR grism spectra. Together, the two IR grisms, G102 and G141,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-29 Ralph C. Bohlin , Susana E. Deustua

The next generation of Far-infrared and X-ray space observatories will require detector arrays with thousands of transition edge sensor (TES) pixel. It is extremely important to have a tool that is able to characterize all the pixels and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-19 E. Taralli , P. Khosropanah , L. Gottardi , K. Nagayoshi , M. L. Ridder , M. P. Bruijn , J. R. Gao

The Transient Optical Sky Survey (TOSS) is an automated, ground-based telescope system dedicated to searching for optical transient events. Small telescope tubes are mounted on a tracking, semi-equatorial frame with a single polar axis.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-05 E. Hadjiyska , G. Hughes , P. Lubin , S. Taylor , R. Hartong-Redden , J. Zierten

We present data products from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). CFHTLenS is based on the Wide component of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS). It encompasses 154 deg^2 of deep, optical,…

The advantage of having a high-fidelity instrument simulation tool developed in tandem with novel instrumentation is having the ability to investigate, in isolation and in combination, the wide parameter space set by the instrument design.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-29 Zackery Briesemeister , Steph Sallum , Andrew Skemer , Natasha Batalha

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) NICMOS instrument has been used from 1997 to 2008 to perform coronagraphic observations of about 400 targets. Most of them were part of surveys looking for substellar companions or resolved circumstellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 J. B. Hagan , E. Choquet , R. Soummer , A. Vigan

We present the Early Data Release of the Multi-Cycle JWST-NEXUS Treasury program (2024-2028), which includes NIRCam imaging and WFSS observations from the first (partial) NEXUS-Wide epoch covering the central 100 ${\rm arcmin^2}$ of the…