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Studying the High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sky with Glast

Building on the success of the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) will make a major step in the study of such subjects as blazars,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Kamae , T. Ohsugi , D. J. Thompson , K. Watanabe

MagAO-X: current status and plans for Phase II

We present a status update for MagAO-X, a 2000 actuator, 3.6 kHz adaptive optics and coronagraph system for the Magellan Clay 6.5 m telescope. MagAO-X is optimized for high contrast imaging at visible wavelengths. Our primary science goals…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-16 Jared R. Males , Laird M. Close , Sebastiaan Haffert , Joseph D. Long , Alexander D. Hedglen , Logan Pearce , Alycia J. Weinberger , Olivier Guyon , Justin M. Knight , Avalon McLeod , Maggie Kautz , Kyle Van Gorkom , Jennifer Lumbres , Lauren Schatz , Alex Rodack , Victor Gasho , Jay Kueny , Warren Foster

Novel technique for monitoring the performance of the LAT instrument on board the GLAST satellite

The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is an observatory designed to perform gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range 20 MeV to 300 GeV, with supporting measurements for gamma-ray bursts from 10 keV to 25 MeV. GLAST will be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 D. Paneque , A. Borgland , A. Bovier , E. Bloom , Y. Edmonds , S. Funk , G. Godfrey , R. Rando , L. Wai , P. Wang

Calibration of the GLAST Burst Monitor detectors

The GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) will augment the capabilities of GLAST for the detection of cosmic gamma-ray bursts by extending the energy range (20 MeV to > 300 GeV) of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) towards lower energies by 2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Andreas von Kienlin , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Giselher G. Lichti , Helmut Steinle , Michael Krumrey , Martin Gerlach , Gerald J. Fishman , Charles Meegan , Narayana Bhat , Michael S. Briggs , Roland Diehl , Valerie Connaughton , Jochen Greiner , R. Marc Kippen , Chryssa Kouveliotou , William Paciesas , Robert Preece , Colleen Wilson-Hodge

James Webb Space Telescope Optical Simulation Testbed V: Wide-field phase retrieval assessment

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Optical Simulation Testbed (JOST) is a hardware simulator for wavefront sensing and control designed to produce JWST-like images. A model of the JWST three mirror anas- tigmat is realized with three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 Iva Laginja , Greg Brady , Remi Soummer , Sylvain Egron , Christopher Moriarty , Charles-Philippe Lajoie , Aurelie Bonnefois , Vincent Michau , Elodie Choquet , Marc Ferrari , Lucie Leboulleux , Olivier Levecq , Mamadou N'Diaye , Marshall D. Perrin , Peter Petrone , Laurent Pueyo , Anand Sivaramakrishnan

The MERger-event Gamma-Ray (MERGR) Telescope

We describe the MERger-event Gamma-Ray (MERGR) Telescope intended for deployment by ~2021. MERGR will cover from 20 keV to 2 MeV with a wide field of view (6 sr) using nineteen gamma-ray detectors arranged on a section of a sphere. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-13 L. J. Mitchell , J. E. Grove , B. F. Phlips , C. C. Cheung , M. Kerr , R. S. Woolf , M. S. Briggs , J. S. Perkins

ELTs Adaptive Optics for Multi-Objects 3D Spectroscopy : Key Parameters and Design Rules

In the last few years, new Adaptive Optics [AO] techniques have emerged to answer new astronomical challenges: Ground-Layer AO [GLAO] and Multi-Conjugate AO [MCAO] to access a wider Field of View [FoV], Multi-Object AO [MOAO] for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Neichel , J-M. Conan , T. Fusco , E. Gendron , M. Puech , G. Rousset , F. Hammer

Prediction of the SVOM MXT camera end of life spectral performance based on proton irradiation results

SVOM, the Space-based Variable astronomical Object Monitor, launched on June 22nd 2024, is a Chinese-French mission focused on exploring the brightest phenomena in the cosmos - Gamma-Ray Bursts. Among the four instruments on board is the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-26 Clara Plasse , Diego Götz , Aline Meuris , Miguel Fernandez Moita , Philippe Ferrando , Leo Favier , Francesco Ceraudo

The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing

The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing (LOFT) was studied within ESA M3 Cosmic Vision framework and participated in the final down-selection for a launch slot in 2022-2024. Thanks to the unprecedented combination of effective area and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-01 M. Feroci , J. W. den Herder , E. Bozzo , D. Barret , S. Brandt , M. Hernanz , M. van der Klis , M. Pohl , A. Santangelo , L. Stella , A. Watts , J. Wilms , S. Zane , M. Ahangarianabhari , C. Albertus , M. Alford , A. Alpar , D. Altamirano , L. Alvarez , L. Amati , C. Amoros , N. Andersson , A. Antonelli , A. Argan , R. Artigue , B. Artigues , J. -L. Atteia , P. Azzarello , P. Bakala , G. Baldazzi , S. Balman , M. Barbera , C. van Baren , S. Bhattacharyya , A. Baykal , T. Belloni , F. Bernardini , G. Bertuccio , S. Bianchi , A. Bianchini , P. Binko , P. Blay , F. Bocchino , P. Bodin , I. Bombaci , J. -M. Bonnet Bidaud , S. Boutloukos , L. Bradley , J. Braga , E. Brown , N. Bucciantini , L. Burderi , M. Burgay , M. Bursa , C. Budtz-Jørgensen , E. Cackett , F. R. Cadoux , P. Cais , G. A. Caliandro , R. Campana , S. Campana , F. Capitanio , J. Casares , P. Casella , A. J. Castro-Tirado , E. Cavazzuti , P. Cerda-Duran , D. Chakrabarty , F. Château , J. Chenevez , J. Coker , R. Cole , A. Collura , R. Cornelisse , T. Courvoisier , A. Cros , A. Cumming , G. Cusumano , A. D'Aì , V. D'Elia , E. Del Monte , A. De Luca , D. De Martino , J. P. C. Dercksen , M. De Pasquale , A. De Rosa , M. Del Santo , S. Di Cosimo , S. Diebold , T. Di Salvo , I. Donnarumma , A. Drago , M. Durant , D. Emmanoulopoulos , M. H. Erkut , P. Esposito , Y. Evangelista , A. Fabian , M. Falanga , Y. Favre , C. Feldman , V. Ferrari , C. Ferrigno , M. Finger , M. H. Finger , G. W. Fraser , M. Frericks , F. Fuschino , M. Gabler , D. K. Galloway , J. L. Galvez Sanchez , E. Garcia-Berro , B. Gendre , S. Gezari , A. B. Giles , M. Gilfanov , P. Giommi , G. Giovannini , M. Giroletti , E. Gogus , A. Goldwurm , K. Goluchová , D. Götz , C. Gouiffes , M. Grassi , P. Groot , M. Gschwender , L. Gualtieri , C. Guidorzi , L. Guy , D. Haas , P. Haensel , M. Hailey , F. Hansen , D. H. Hartmann , C. A. Haswell , K. Hebeler , A. Heger , W. Hermsen , J. Homan , A. Hornstrup , R. Hudec , J. Huovelin , A. Ingram , J. J. M. in't Zand , G. Israel , K. Iwasawa , L. Izzo , H. M. Jacobs , F. Jetter , T. Johannsen , H. M. Jacobs , P. Jonker , J. Josè , P. Kaaret , G. Kanbach , V. Karas , D. Karelin , D. Kataria , L. Keek , T. Kennedy , D. Klochkov , W. Kluzniak , K. Kokkotas , S. Korpela , C. Kouveliotou , I. Kreykenbohm , L. M. Kuiper , I. Kuvvetli , C. Labanti , D. Lai , F. K. Lamb , P. P. Laubert , F. Lebrun , D. Lin , D. Linder , G. Lodato , F. Longo , N. Lund , T. J. Maccarone , D. Macera , S. Maestre , S. Mahmoodifar , D. Maier , P. Malcovati , I. Mandel , V. Mangano , A. Manousakis , M. Marisaldi , A. Markowitz , A. Martindale , G. Matt , I. M. McHardy , A. Melatos , M. Mendez , S. Mereghetti , M. Michalska , S. Migliari , R. Mignani , M. C. Miller , J. M. Miller , T. Mineo , G. Miniutti , S. Morsink , C. Motch , S. Motta , M. Mouchet , G. Mouret , J. Mulačová , F. Muleri , T. Muñoz-Darias , I. Negueruela , J. Neilsen , A. J. Norton , M. Nowak , P. O'Brien , P. E. H. Olsen , M. Orienti , M. Orio , M. Orlandini , P. Orleanski , J. P. Osborne , R. Osten , F. Ozel , L. Pacciani , M. Paolillo , A. Papitto , J. M. Paredes , A. Patruno , B. Paul , E. Perinati , A. Pellizzoni , A. V. Penacchioni , M. A. Perez , V. Petracek , C. Pittori , J. Pons , J. Portell , A. Possenti , J. Poutanen , M. Prakash , P. Le Provost , D. Psaltis , D. Rambaud , P. Ramon , G. Ramsay , M. Rapisarda , A. Rachevski , I. Rashevskaya , P. S. Ray , N. Rea , S. Reddy , P. Reig , M. Reina Aranda , R. Remillard , C. Reynolds , L. Rezzolla , M. Ribo , R. de la Rie , A. Riggio , A. Rios , P. Rodríguez- Gil , J. Rodriguez , R. Rohlfs , P. Romano , E. M. R. Rossi , A. Rozanska , A. Rousseau , F. Ryde , L. Sabau-Graziati , G. Sala , R. Salvaterra , A. Sanna , J. Sandberg , S. Scaringi , S. Schanne , J. Schee , C. Schmid , S. Shore , R. Schneider , A. Schwenk , A. D. Schwope , J. -Y. Seyler , A. Shearer , A. Smith , D. M. Smith , P. J. Smith , V. Sochora , P. Soffitta , P. Soleri , A. Spencer , B. Stappers , A. W. Steiner , N. Stergioulas , G. Stratta , T. E. Strohmayer , Z. Stuchlik , S. Suchy , V. Sulemainov , T. Takahashi , F. Tamburini , T. Tauris , C. Tenzer , L. Tolos , F. Tombesi , J. Tomsick , G. Torok , J. M. Torrejon , D. F. Torres , A. Tramacere , A. Trois , R. Turolla , S. Turriziani , P. Uter , P. Uttley , A. Vacchi , P. Varniere , S. Vaughan , S. Vercellone , V. Vrba , D. Walton , S. Watanabe , R. Wawrzaszek , N. Webb , N. Weinberg , H. Wende , P. Wheatley , R. Wijers , R. Wijnands , M. Wille , C. A. Wilson-Hodge , B. Winter , K. Wood , G. Zampa , N. Zampa , L. Zampieri , L. Zdunik , A. Zdziarski , B. Zhang , F. Zwart , M. Ayre , T. Boenke , C. Corral van Damme , E. Kuulkers , D. Lumb

The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on the Swift MIDEX Mission

The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) is one of 3 instruments on the Swift MIDEX spacecraft to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The BAT first detects the GRB and localizes the burst direction to an accuracy of 1-4 arcmin within 20 sec after the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. D. Barthelmy , L. M. Barbier , J. R. Cummings , E. E. Fenimore , N. Gehrels , D. Hullinger , H. A. Krimm , C. B. Markwardt , D. M. Palmer , A. Parsons , G. Sato , M. Suzuki , T. Takahashi , M. Tashiro , J. Tueller

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Final Report

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory, or HabEx, has been designed to be the Great Observatory of the 2030s. For the first time in human history, technologies have matured sufficiently to enable an affordable space-based telescope mission…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-28 B. Scott Gaudi , Sara Seager , Bertrand Mennesson , Alina Kiessling , Keith Warfield , Kerri Cahoy , John T. Clarke , Shawn Domagal-Goldman , Lee Feinberg , Olivier Guyon , Jeremy Kasdin , Dimitri Mawet , Peter Plavchan , Tyler Robinson , Leslie Rogers , Paul Scowen , Rachel Somerville , Karl Stapelfeldt , Christopher Stark , Daniel Stern , Margaret Turnbull , Rashied Amini , Gary Kuan , Stefan Martin , Rhonda Morgan , David Redding , H. Philip Stahl , Ryan Webb , Oscar Alvarez-Salazar , William L. Arnold , Manan Arya , Bala Balasubramanian , Mike Baysinger , Ray Bell , Chris Below , Jonathan Benson , Lindsey Blais , Jeff Booth , Robert Bourgeois , Case Bradford , Alden Brewer , Thomas Brooks , Eric Cady , Mary Caldwell , Rob Calvet , Steven Carr , Derek Chan , Velibor Cormarkovic , Keith Coste , Charlie Cox , Rolf Danner , Jacqueline Davis , Larry Dewell , Lisa Dorsett , Daniel Dunn , Matthew East , Michael Effinger , Ron Eng , Greg Freebury , Jay Garcia , Jonathan Gaskin , Suzan Greene , John Hennessy , Evan Hilgemann , Brad Hood , Wolfgang Holota , Scott Howe , Pei Huang , Tony Hull , Ron Hunt , Kevin Hurd , Sandra Johnson , Andrew Kissil , Brent Knight , Daniel Kolenz , Oliver Kraus , John Krist , Mary Li , Doug Lisman , Milan Mandic , John Mann , Luis Marchen , Colleen Marrese-Reading , Jonathan McCready , Jim McGown , Jessica Missun , Andrew Miyaguchi , Bradley Moore , Bijan Nemati , Shouleh Nikzad , Joel Nissen , Megan Novicki , Todd Perrine , Claudia Pineda , Otto Polanco , Dustin Putnam , Atif Qureshi , Michael Richards , A. J. Eldorado Riggs , Michael Rodgers , Mike Rud , Navtej Saini , Dan Scalisi , Dan Scharf , Kevin Schulz , Gene Serabyn , Norbert Sigrist , Glory Sikkia , Andrew Singleton , Stuart Shaklan , Scott Smith , Bart Southerd , Mark Stahl , John Steeves , Brian Sturges , Chris Sullivan , Hao Tang , Neil Taras , Jonathan Tesch , Melissa Therrell , Howard Tseng , Marty Valente , David Van Buren , Juan Villalvazo , Steve Warwick , David Webb , Thomas Westerhoff , Rush Wofford , Gordon Wu , Jahning Woo , Milana Wood , John Ziemer , Giada Arney , Jay Anderson , Jesús Maíz-Apellániz , James Bartlett , Ruslan Belikov , Eduardo Bendek , Brad Cenko , Ewan Douglas , Shannon Dulz , Chris Evans , Virginie Faramaz , Y. Katherina Feng , Harry Ferguson , Kate Follette , Saavik Ford , Miriam García , Marla Geha , Dawn Gelino , Ylva Götberg , Sergi Hildebrandt , Renyu Hu , Knud Jahnke , Grant Kennedy , Laura Kreidberg , Andrea Isella , Eric Lopez , Franck Marchis , Lucas Macri , Mark Marley , William Matzko , Johan Mazoyer , Stephan McCandliss , Tiffany Meshkat , Christoph Mordasini , Patrick Morris , Eric Nielsen , Patrick Newman , Erik Petigura , Marc Postman , Amy Reines , Aki Roberge , Ian Roederer , Garreth Ruane , Edouard Schwieterman , Dan Sirbu , Christopher Spalding , Harry Teplitz , Jason Tumlinson , Neal Turner , Jessica Werk , Aida Wofford , Mark Wyatt , Amber Young , Rob Zellem

The selection of LEGUE disk targets for LAMOST's pilot survey

We describe the target selection algorithm for the low latitude disk portion of the LAMOST Pilot Survey, which aims to test systems in preparation for the LAMOST spectroscopic survey. We use the PPMXL (Roeser et al. 2010) astrometric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Li Chen , Jinliang Hou , Jincheng Yu , Chao Liu , Licai Deng , Heidi Jo Newberg , Jeffrey L. Carlin , Fan Yang , Yueyang Zhang , Shiyin Shen , Haotong Zhang , Jianjun Chen , Yuqing Chen , Norbert Christlieb , Zhanwen Han , Hsu-Tai Lee , Xiaowei Liu , Kaike Pan , Jianrong Shi , Hongchi Wang , Zi Zhu

Searches for Particle Dark Matter with the GLAST Large Area Telescope

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), one of two instruments on the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) mission, scheduled for launch by NASA in 2007, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Jan Conrad

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: Overview

A large wide-field telescope and camera with optical throughput over 200 m^2 deg^2 -- a factor of 50 beyond what we currently have -- would enable the detection of faint moving or bursting optical objects: from Earth threatening asteroids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Anthony Tyson , the LSST Collaboration

From SuperBIT to GigaBIT: Informing next-generation balloon-borne telescope design with Fine Guidance System flight data

The Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) is a near-diffraction-limited 0.5m telescope that launched via NASA's super-pressure balloon technology on April 16, 2023. SuperBIT achieved precise pointing control through the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Philippe Voyer , Steven J. Benton , Christopher J. Damaren , Spencer W. Everett , Aurelien A. Fraisse , Ajay S. Gill , John W. Hartley , David Harvey , Michael Henderson , Bradley Holder , Eric M. Huff , Mathilde Jauzac , William C. Jones , David Lagattuta , Jason S. -Y. Leung , Lun Li , Thuy Vy T. Luu , Richard Massey , Jacqueline E. McCleary , Johanna M. Nagy , C. Barth Netterfield , Emaad Paracha , Susan F. Redmond , Jason D. Rhodes , Andrew Robertson , L. Javier Romualdez , Jürgen Schmoll , Mohamed M. Shaaban , Ellen L. Sirks , Georgios N. Vassilakis , André Z. Vitorelli

PolarLight: a CubeSat X-ray Polarimeter based on the Gas Pixel Detector

The gas pixel detector (GPD) is designed and developed for high-sensitivity astronomical X-ray polarimetry, which is a new window about to open in a few years. Due to the small mass, low power, and compact geometry of the GPD, we propose a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Hua Feng , Weichun Jiang , Massimo Minuti , Qiong Wu , Aera Jung , Dongxin Yang , Saverio Citraro , Hikmat Nasimi , Jiandong Yu , Ge Jin , Jiahui Huang , Ming Zeng , Peng An , Luca Baldini , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Alessandro Brez , Luca Latronico , Carmelo Sgrò , Gloria Spandre , Michele Pinchera , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Soffitta , Enrico Costa

The Wide-Field X and Gamma-Ray Telescope ECLAIRs aboard the Gamma-Ray Burst Multi-Wavelength Space Mission SVOM

The X and Gamma-ray telescope ECLAIRs is foreseen to be launched on a low Earth orbit (h=630 km, i=30 degrees) aboard the SVOM satellite (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor), a French-Chinese mission with Italian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Mandrou , S. Schanne , B. Cordier , R. Pons , D. Barret , C. Amoros , K. Lacombe , M. Fesquet , O. Limousin , P. Sizun , F. Lebrun , F. Gonzalez , M. Jouret

Development of an advanced Compton telescope for MeV-range gamma-ray astronomy

An advanced Compton telescope appears to be the best instrument concept for the next generation gamma-ray space observatory in the MeV range. A first prototype of advanced Compton telescope is being developed to match the constraints of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-27 Adrien Laviron , Valentin Gourlaouen , Clarisse Hamadache , Corentin Hiver , Jürgen Kiener , Jean Peyré , Vincent Tatischeff

Imaging and burst location with the EXIST high-energy telescope

The primary instrument of the proposed EXIST mission is a coded mask high energy telescope (the HET), that must have a wide field of view and extremely good sensitivity. It will be crucial to minimize systematic errors so that even for very…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-23 G. K. Skinner , S. D. Barthelmy , M. H. Finger , J. Hong , G. G. Jernigan , S. J. Sturner , B. T. Allen , J. E. Grindlay

Instrumental and scientific simulations of the LOFT Wide Field Monitor

The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) is one of the five candidates that were considered by ESA as an M3 mission (with launch in 2022-2024). It is specifically designed to exploit the diagnostics of very rapid X-ray flux and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-29 Y. Evangelista , I. Donnarumma , R. Campana , C. Schmid , M. Feroci