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We present the technical design, construction and testing of the Colibri telescope array at Elginfield Observatory near London, Ontario, Canada. Three 50-cm telescopes are arranged in a triangular array and are separated by 110-160 metres.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-13 M. J. Mazur , S. Metchev , R. A. Brown , R. Gupta , R. Bloch , T. Mills , E. Pass

Astronomy relies heavily on time domain observations. To maximize the scientific yield of such observations, astronomers must carefully match the observational cadence to the phenomena of interest. This presents significant scheduling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Jack Lubin , Erik A. Petigura , Velibor V. Mišić , Judah Van Zandt , Luke B. Handley

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) has revolutionised the field of solar millimetre astronomy with its high angular resolution and cadence. However, with a limited field of view (FOV), targeted observations of highly dynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Mats Kirkaune , Sven Wedemeyer , Joshiwa van Marrewijk , Tony Mroczkowski , Thomas W. Morris

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…

We have developed an atmospheric monitoring system for the Telescope Array experiment at Akeno Observatory. It consists of a Nd:YAG laser with an alt-azimuth shooting system and a small light receiver. This system is installed inside an air…

Doing astronomy with photons of energies in excess of a GeV has turned out to be extremely challenging. Efforts are underway to develop instruments that may push astronomy to wavelengths smaller than $10^{-14}$~cm by mapping the sky in high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Halzen

The ASAS-SN Low Surface Brightness Survey utilizes the $\sim7$ years of g-band CCD data from ASAS-SN (The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae) to create stacked images of the entire sky. It is significantly deeper than previous…

NEXUS is a JWST Multi-Cycle (Cycles 3-5; 368 primary hrs) GO Treasury imaging and spectroscopic survey around the North Ecliptic Pole. It contains two overlapping tiers. The Wide tier ($\sim 400~{\rm arcmin}^2$) performs NIRCam/WFSS 2.4-5…

This paper presents a novel method for real-time nighttime cloud detection, tracking, and prediction using all-sky cameras, aimed at enhancing the efficiency of ground-based robotic telescopes. Ground-based telescopes are vulnerable to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Sebastian Buntin , Chris M. Copperwheat , Helen E. Jermak

Galaxy-galaxy strong lensing provides a powerful probe of galaxy formation, evolution, and the properties of dark matter and dark energy. However, conventional lens-modeling approaches are computationally expensive and require fine-tuning…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-07 Xiaoyue Cao , Ran Li , Nan Li , Yun Chen , Rui Li , Huanyuan Shan , Tian Li

EMU is a wide-field radio continuum survey planned for the new Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. The primary goal of EMU is to make a deep (rms ~ 10 microJy/beam) radio continuum survey of the entire Southern…

The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) is working towards imaging the entire visible sky every night to a depth of V~17 mag. The present data covers the sky and spans ~2-5~years with ~100-400 epochs of observation. The data…

We outline the challenges associated with the development and construction of large focal plane arrays for use both on the ground and in space. Using lessons learned from existing JPL-led and ASU/JPL partnership efforts to develop…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma ray observatory, aiming to improve on the sensitivity of current-generation experiments by an order of magnitude and provide energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 D. Nieto , T. B. Humensky , P. Kaaret , D. Kieda , M. Limon , A. Petrashyk , D. Ribeiro , J. Rousselle , B. Stevenson , V. Vassiliev , P. Wilcox

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is capable of delivering an unprecedented all-sky, high-spatial resolution, multi-epoch infrared map to the astronomical community. This opportunity arises in the midst of numerous ground- and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Jiwon Jesse Han , Arjun Dey , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Joan Najita , Edward F. Schlafly , Andrew Saydjari , Risa H. Wechsler , Ana Bonaca , David J Schlegel , Charlie Conroy , Anand Raichoor , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Juna A. Kollmeier , Sergey E. Koposov , Gurtina Besla , Hans-Walter Rix , Alyssa Goodman , Douglas Finkbeiner , Abhijeet Anand , Matthew Ashby , Benedict Bahr-Kalus , Rachel Beaton , Jayashree Behera , Eric F. Bell , Eric C Bellm , Segev BenZvi , Leandro Beraldo e Silva , Simon Birrer , Michael R. Blanton , Jamie Bock , Floor Broekgaarden , Dillon Brout , Warren Brown , Anthony G. A. Brown , Esra Bulbul , Rodrigo Calderon , Jeffrey L Carlin , Andreia Carrillo , Francisco Javier Castander , Priyanka Chakraborty , Vedant Chandra , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Yumi Choi , Susan E. Clark , William I. Clarkson , Andrew Cooper , Brendan Crill , Katia Cunha , Emily Cunningham , Julianne Dalcanton , Shany Danieli , Tansu Daylan , Roelof S. de Jong , Joseph DeRose , Biprateep Dey , Mark Dickinson , Mariano Dominguez , Dillon Dong , Tim Eifler , Kareem El-Badry , Denis Erkal , Ivanna Escala , Giovanni Fazio , Annette M. N. Ferguson , Simone Ferraro , Carrie Filion , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Shenming Fu , Lluís Galbany , Nicolas Garavito-Camargo , Eric Gawiser , Marla Geha , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Sebastian Gomez , Jenny Greene , Julien Guy , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Keith Hawkins , Chen Heinrich , Lars Hernquist , Christopher Hirata , Joseph Hora , Benjamin Horowitz , Danny Horta , Caroline Huang , Xiaosheng Huang , Shan Huanyuan , Jason A. S. Hunt , Rodrigo Ibata , Buell Jannuzi , Kathryn V. Johnston , Michael G. Jones , Stephanie Juneau , Erin Kado-Fong , Venu Kalari , Nitya Kallivayalil , Tanveer Karim , Ryan Keeley , Sergey Khoperskov , Bokyoung Kim , András Kovács , Elisabeth Krause , Kyle Kremer , Anthony Kremin , Alex Krolewski , S. R. Kulkarni , Marine Kuna , Benjamin L'Huillier , Mark Lacy , Ting-Wen Lan , Dustin Lang , Denis Leahy , Jiaxuan Li , Seunghwan Lim , Mercedes López-Morales , Lucas Macri , Manera Marc , Sidney Mau , Patrick J McCarthy , Eithne McDonald , Kristen McQuinn , Aaron Meisner , Gary Melnick , Andrea Merloni , Cléa Millard , Martin Millon , Ivan Minchev , Paulo Montero-Camacho , Catalina Morales-Gutierrez , Nidia Morrell , John Moustakas , Leonidas Moustakas , Zachary Murray , Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil , GyuChul Myeong , Adam D. Myers , Ethan Nadler , Felipe Navarete , Melissa Ness , David L. Nidever , Robert Nikutta , Chamba Nushkia , Knut Olsen , Andrew B. Pace , Fabio Pacucci , Nikhil Padmanabhan , David Parkinson , Sarah Pearson , Eric W. Peng , Andreea O. Petric , Andreea Petric , Bridget Ratcliffe , Emami Razieh , Thomas Reiprich , Mehdi Rezaie , Marina Ricci , R. Michael Rich , Hannah Richstein , Alexander H. Riley , Constance Rockosi , Graziano Rossi , Mara Salvato , Lado Samushia , Javier Sanchez , David J Sand , Robyn E Sanderson , Nikolina Šarčević , Arnab Sarkar , Alessandro Savino , Francois Schweizer , Arman Shafieloo , Yang Shengqi , Joseph Shields , Nora Shipp , Josh Simon , Malgorzata Siudek , Zou Siwei , Zachary Slepian , Verne Smith , Jennifer Sobeck , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Debopam Som , Joshua S. Speagle , David Spergel , Robert Szabo , Ting Tan , Christopher Theissen , Erik Tollerud , Volker Tolls , Kim-Vy Tran , Kabelo Tsiane , William D. Vacca , Monica Valluri , TonyLouis Verberi , Jack Warfield , Noah Weaverdyck , Benjamin Weiner , Daniel Weisz , Andrew Wetzel , Martin White , Christina C. Williams , Scott Wolk , John F. Wu , Rosemary Wyse , Justina R. Yang , Dennis Zaritsky , Ioana A. Zelko , Zhou Zhimin , Catherine Zucker

The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) is a new galaxy cluster survey designed to provide a large sample of optically selected 0.1$<$z$<$1.4 clusters. The planned survey data are 100 square degrees of two color ($R$ and $z'$) imaging, with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael D. Gladders , H. K. C. Yee

While optical and radio transient surveys have enjoyed a renaissance over the past decade, the dynamic infrared sky remains virtually unexplored. The infrared is a powerful tool for probing transient events in dusty regions that have high…

We have reprocessed over 100 terabytes of single-exposure WISE/NEOWISE images to create the deepest ever full-sky maps at 3-5 microns. We incorporate all publicly available W1 and W2 imaging - a total of ~8 million exposures in each band -…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 A. M. Meisner , D. Lang , D. J. Schlegel

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground based observatory in very high energy gamma ray astronomy. The facility will achieve a wide energy coverage, starting from a threshold of a few tens of GeV up to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel , M. Gaug , P. Majumdar

Detection of (ultra-) high-energy cosmic rays with the use of radio frequency emission from extensive air showers has been proven as complimentary to existing ground array detection techniques. Great progress has been made in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Sijbrand de Jong