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Ten Years of the Solar Radiospectrograph ARTEMIS-IV

The Solar Radiospectrograph of the University of Athens (ARTEMIS-IV) is in operation at the Thermopylae Satellite Communication Station since 1996. The observations extend from the base of the Solar Corona (650 MHz) to about 2 Solar Radii…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-22 C. Caroubalos , C. E. Alissandrakis , A. Hillaris , P. Preka-Papadema , J. Polygiannakis , X. Moussas , P. Tsitsipis , A. Kontogeorgos , V. Petoussis , C. Bouratzis , J. -L. Bougeret , G. Dumas , A. Nindos

Properties of dusty tori in AGN: I. The Case of SWIRE/SDSS Quasars

We derive the properties of dusty tori in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) from the comparison of observed Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) of SDSS quasars and a precomputed grid of torus models. The observed SEDs comprise SDSS photometry,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Hatziminaoglou , J. Fritz , A. Franceschini , A. Afonso-Luis , A. Hernan-Caballero , I. Perez-Fournon , S. Serjeant , C. Lonsdale , S. Oliver , M. Rowan-Robinson , D. Shupe , H. E. Smith , J. Surace

Status of the Davies-Cotton and Schwarzschild-Couder Medium-Sized Telescopes for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is an observatory dedicated to very high energy gamma rays with unprecedented sensitivity between 20 GeV and 300 TeV to be installed on two sites: Canary Island La Palma and Paranal Chile. Three telescope sizes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 J-F. Glicenstein

Monte Carlo studies for the optimisation of the Cherenkov Telescope Array layout

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major next-generation observatory for ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current ground-based instruments by a factor of five to twenty, depending…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 A. Acharyya , I. Agudo , E. O. Angüner , R. Alfaro , J. Alfaro , C. Alispach , R. Aloisio , R. Alves Batista , J. -P. Amans , L. Amati , E. Amato , G. Ambrosi , L. A. Antonelli , C. Aramo , T. Armstrong , F. Arqueros , L. Arrabito , K. Asano , H. Ashkar , C. Balazs , M. Balbo , B. Balmaverde , P. Barai , A. Barbano , M. Barkov , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra González , J. Becker Tjus , L. Bellizzi , W. Benbow , E. Bernardini , M. I. Bernardos , K. Bernlöhr , A. Berti , M. Berton , B. Bertucci , V. Beshley , B. Biasuzzi , C. Bigongiari , R. Bird , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , O. Blanch , J. Blazek , C. Boisson , G. Bonanno , A. Bonardi , C. Bonavolontà , G. Bonnoli , P. Bordas , M. Böttcher , J. Bregeon , A. Brill , A. M. Brown , K. Brügge , P. Brun , P. Bruno , A. Bulgarelli , T. Bulik , M. Burton , A. Burtovoi , G. Busetto , R. Cameron , R. Canestrari , M. Capalbi , A. Caproni , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Caraveo , S. Caroff , R. Carosi , S. Casanova , E. Cascone , F. Cassol , F. Catalani , O. Catalano , D. Cauz , M. Cerruti , S. Chaty , A. Chen , M. Chernyakova , G. Chiaro , M. Cieślar , S. M. Colak , V. Conforti , E. Congiu , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , A. Costa , H. Costantini , G. Cotter , P. Cristofari , P. Cumani , G. Cusumano , A. D'Aì , F. D'Ammando , L. Dangeon , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , V. De Caprio , R. de Cássia dos Anjos , F. De Frondat , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , B. De Lotto , D. De Martino , M. de Naurois , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , F. de Palma , V. de Souza , M. Del Santo , C. Delgado , D. della Volpe , T. Di Girolamo , F. Di Pierro , L. Di Venere , C. Díaz , S. Diebold , A. Djannati-Ataï , A. Dmytriiev , D. Dominis Prester , A. Donini , D. Dorner , M. Doro , J. -L. Dournaux , J. Ebr , T. R. N. Ekoume , D. Elsässer , G. Emery , D. Falceta-Goncalves , E. Fedorova , S. Fegan , Q. Feng , G. Ferrand , E. Fiandrini , A. Fiasson , M. Filipovic , V. Fioretti , M. Fiori , S. Flis , M. V. Fonseca , G. Fontaine , L. Freixas Coromina , S. Fukami , Y. Fukui , S. Funk , M. Füßling , D. Gaggero , G. Galanti , R. J. Garcia López , M. Garczarczyk , D. Gascon , T. Gasparetto , M. Gaug , A. Ghalumyan , F. Gianotti , G. Giavitto , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , J. Gironnet , J. -F. Glicenstein , R. Gnatyk , P. Goldoni , J. M. González , M. M. González , K. N. Gourgouliatos , T. Grabarczyk , J. Granot , D. Green , T. Greenshaw , M. -H. Grondin , O. Gueta , D. Hadasch , T. Hassan , M. Hayashida , M. Heller , O. Hervet , J. Hinton , N. Hiroshima , B. Hnatyk , W. Hofmann , P. Horvath , M. Hrabovsky , D. Hrupec , T. B. Humensky , M. Hütten , T. Inada , F. Iocco , M. Ionica , M. Iori , Y. Iwamura , M. Jamrozy , P. Janecek , D. Jankowsky , P. Jean , L. Jouvin , J. Jurysek , P. Kaaret , L. H. S. Kadowaki , S. Karkar , D. Kerszberg , B. Khélifi , D. Kieda , S. Kimeswenger , W. Kluźniak , J. Knapp , J. Knödlseder , Y. Kobayashi , B. Koch , J. Kocot , N. Komin , A. Kong , G. Kowal , M. Krause , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , P. Kushwaha , V. La Parola , G. La Rosa , M. Lallena Arquillo , R. G. Lang , J. Lapington , O. Le Blanc , J. Lefaucheur , M. A. Leigui de Oliveira , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , G. Leto , R. Lico , E. Lindfors , T. Lohse , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , A. Lopez , M. López , A. Lopez-Oramas , R. López-Coto , S. Loporchio , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , E. Lyard , M. C. Maccarone , E. Mach , C. Maggio , P. Majumdar , G. Malaguti , M. Mallamaci , D. Mandat , G. Maneva , M. Manganaro , S. Mangano , M. Marculewicz , M. Mariotti , J. Martí , M. Martínez , G. Martínez , H. Martínez-Huerta , S. Masuda , N. Maxted , D. Mazin , J. -L. Meunier , M. Meyer , S. Micanovic , R. Millul , I. A. Minaya , A. Mitchell , T. Mizuno , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , T. Montaruli , A. Moralejo , D. Morcuende , G. Morlino , A. Morselli , E. Moulin , R. Mukherjee , P. Munar , C. Mundell , T. Murach , A. Nagai , T. Nagayoshi , T. Naito , T. Nakamori , R. Nemmen , J. Niemiec , D. Nieto , M. Nievas Rosillo , M. Nikołajuk , D. Ninci , K. Nishijima , K. Noda , D. Nosek , M. Nöthe , S. Nozaki , M. Ohishi , Y. Ohtani , A. Okumura , R. A. Ong , M. Orienti , R. Orito , M. Ostrowski , N. Otte , Z. Ou , I. Oya , A. Pagliaro , M. Palatiello , M. Palatka , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , G. Pareschi , N. Parmiggiani , R. D. Parsons , B. Patricelli , A. Pe'er , M. Pech , P. Peñil Del Campo , J. Pérez-Romero , M. Perri , M. Persic , P. -O. Petrucci , O. Petruk , K. Pfrang , Q. Piel , E. Pietropaolo , M. Pohl , M. Polo , J. Poutanen , E. Prandini , N. Produit , H. Prokoph , M. Prouza , H. Przybilski , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , F. Queiroz , A. Quirrenbach , S. Rainò , R. Rando , S. Razzaque , O. Reimer , N. Renault-Tinacci , Y. Renier , D. Ribeiro , M. Ribó , J. Rico , F. Rieger , V. Rizi , G. Rodriguez Fernandez , J. C. Rodriguez-Ramirez , J. J. Rodríguez Vázquez , P. Romano , G. Romeo , M. Roncadelli , J. Rosado , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , A. Rugliancich , C. Rulten , I. Sadeh , L. Saha , T. Saito , S. Sakurai , F. Salesa Greus , P. Sangiorgi , H. Sano , M. Santander , A. Santangelo , R. Santos-Lima , A. Sanuy , K. Satalecka , F. G. Saturni , U. Sawangwit , S. Schlenstedt , P. Schovanek , F. Schussler , U. Schwanke , E. Sciacca , S. Scuderi , K. Sedlaczek , M. Seglar-Arroyo , O. Sergijenko , K. Seweryn , A. Shalchi , R. C. Shellard , H. Siejkowski , A. Sillanpää , A. Sinha , G. Sironi , V. Sliusar , A. Slowikowska , H. Sol , A. Specovius , S. Spencer , G. Spengler , A. Stamerra , S. Stanič , Ł. Stawarz , S. Stefanik , T. Stolarczyk , U. Straumann , T. Suomijarvi , P. Świerk , T. Szepieniec , G. Tagliaferri , H. Tajima , T. Tam , F. Tavecchio , L. Taylor , L. A. Tejedor , P. Temnikov , T. Terzic , V. Testa , L. Tibaldo , C. J. Todero Peixoto , F. Tokanai , L. Tomankova , D. Tonev , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , L. Tosti , N. Tothill , F. Toussenel , G. Tovmassian , P. Travnicek , C. Trichard , G. Umana , V. Vagelli , M. Valentino , B. Vallage , P. Vallania , L. Valore , J. Vandenbroucke , G. S. Varner , G. Vasileiadis , V. Vassiliev , M. Vázquez Acosta , M. Vecchi , S. Vercellone , S. Vergani , G. P. Vettolani , A. Viana , C. F. Vigorito , J. Vink , V. Vitale , H. Voelk , A. Vollhardt , S. Vorobiov , S. J. Wagner , R. Walter , F. Werner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , M. Will , D. A. Williams , R. Wischnewski , L. Yang , T. Yoshida , T. Yoshikoshi , M. Zacharias , L. Zampieri , M. Zavrtanik , D. Zavrtanik , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , H. Zechlin , A. Zenin , V. I. Zhdanov , S. Zimmer , J. Zorn

Very-High-Energy gamma-ray astronomy with the ALTO observatory

ALTO is a concept/project in the exploratory phase since 2013 aiming to build a wide-field VHE gamma-ray observatory at very high altitude in the Southern hemisphere. The operation of such an observatory will complement the Northern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-04 Yvonne Becherini , Satyendra Thoudam , Michael Punch , Jean-Pierre Ernenwein

AXIS: A Probe Class Next Generation High Angular Resolution X-ray Imaging Satellite

AXIS is a probe-class concept under study for submission to the 2020 Decadal Survey. AXIS will extend and enhance the science of high angular resolution X-ray imaging and spectroscopy in the next decade with $\sim 0.4''$ resolution over a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-27 R. Mushotzky

Recent results from the ANTARES neutrino telescope

The ANTARES neutrino telescope is currently the largest operating water Cherenkov detector and the largest neutrino detector in the Northern Hemisphere. Its main scientific target is the detection of high-energy (TeV and beyond) neutrinos…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 V. Van Elewyck

ASTRA: ASTrometry and phase-Referencing Astronomy on the Keck interferometer

ASTRA (ASTrometric and phase-Referencing Astronomy) is an upgrade to the existing Keck Interferometer which aims at providing new self-phase referencing (high spectral resolution observation of YSOs), dual-field phase referencing (sensitive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-17 J. Woillez , R. Akeson , M. Colavita , J. Eisner , A. Ghez , J. Graham , L. Hillenbrand , R. Millan-Gabet , J. Monnier , J. -U. Pott , S. Ragland , P. Wizinowich , E. Appleby , B. Berkey , A. Cooper , C. Felizardo , J. Herstein , M. Hrynevych , O. Martin , D. Medeiros , D. Morrison , T. Panteleeva , B. Smith , K. Summers , K. Tsubota , C. Tyau , E. Wetherell

Scientific Objectives of Einstein Telescope

The advanced interferometer network will herald a new era in observational astronomy. There is a very strong science case to go beyond the advanced detector network and build detectors that operate in a frequency range from 1 Hz-10 kHz,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-05 B. Sathyaprakash , M. Abernathy , F. Acernese , P. Ajith , B. Allen , P. Amaro-Seoane , N. Andersson , S. Aoudia , K. Arun , P. Astone , B. Krishnan , L. Barack , F. Barone , B. Barr , M. Barsuglia , M. Bassan , R. Bassiri , M. Beker , N. Beveridge , M. Bizouard , C. Bond , S. Bose , L. Bosi , S. Braccini , C. Bradaschia , M. Britzger , F. Brueckner , T. Bulik , H. J. Bulten , O. Burmeister , E. Calloni , P. Campsie , L. Carbone , G. Cella , E. Chalkley , E. Chassande-Mottin , S. Chelkowski , A. Chincarini , A. Di. Cintio , J. Clark , E. Coccia , C. N. Colacino , J. Colas , A. Colla , A. Corsi , A. Cumming , L. Cunningham , E. Cuoco , S. Danilishin , K. Danzmann , E. Daw , R. De. Salvo , W. Del. Pozzo , T. Dent , R. De. Rosa , L. Di. Fiore , M. Di. Paolo. Emilio , A. Di. Virgilio , A. Dietz , M. Doets , J. Dueck , M. Edwards , V. Fafone , S. Fairhurst , P. Falferi , M. Favata , V. Ferrari , F. Ferrini , F. Fidecaro , R. Flaminio , J. Franc , F. Frasconi , A. Freise , D. Friedrich , P. Fulda , J. Gair , M. Galimberti , G. Gemme , E. Genin , A. Gennai , A. Giazotto , K. Glampedakis , S. Gossan , R. Gouaty , C. Graef , W. Graham , M. Granata , H. Grote , G. Guidi , J. Hallam , G. Hammond , M. Hannam , J. Harms , K. Haughian , I. Hawke , D. Heinert , M. Hendry , I. Heng , E. Hennes , S. Hild , J. Hough , D. Huet , S. Husa , S. Huttner , B. Iyer , D. I. Jones , G. Jones , I. Kamaretsos , C. Kant Mishra , F. Kawazoe , F. Khalili , B. Kley , K. Kokeyama , K. Kokkotas , S. Kroker , R. Kumar , K. Kuroda , B. Lagrange , N. Lastzka , T. G. F. Li , M. Lorenzini , G. Losurdo , H. Lück , E. Majorana , V. Malvezzi , I. Mandel , V. Mandic , S. Marka , F. Marin , F. Marion , J. Marque , I. Martin , D. Mc. Leod , D. Mckechan , M. Mehmet , C. Michel , Y. Minenkov , N. Morgado , A. Morgia , S. Mosca , L. Moscatelli , B. Mours , H. Müller-Ebhardt , P. Murray , L. Naticchioni , R. Nawrodt , J. Nelson , R. O'. Shaughnessy , C. D. Ott , C. Palomba , A. Paoli , G. Parguez , A. Pasqualetti , R. Passaquieti , D. Passuello , M. Perciballi , F. Piergiovanni , L. Pinard , M. Pitkin , W. Plastino , M. Plissi , R. Poggiani , P. Popolizio , E. Porter , M. Prato , G. Prodi , M. Punturo , P. Puppo , D. Rabeling , I. Racz , P. Rapagnani , V. Re , J. Read , T. Regimbau , H. Rehbein , S. Reid , F. Ricci , F. Richard , C. Robinson , A. Rocchi , R. Romano , S. Rowan , A. Rüdiger , A. Samblowski , L. Santamaría , B. Sassolas , R. Schilling , P. Schmidt , R. Schnabel , B. Schutz , C. Schwarz , J. Scott , P. Seidel , A. M. Sintes , K. Somiya , C. F. Sopuerta , B. Sorazu , F. Speirits , L. Storchi , K. Strain , S. Strigin , P. Sutton , S. Tarabrin , B. Taylor , A. Thürin , K. Tokmakov , M. Tonelli , H. Tournefier , R. Vaccarone , H. Vahlbruch , J. F. J. van. den. Brand , C. Van. Den. Broeck , S. van. der. Putten , M. van. Veggel , A. Vecchio , J. Veitch , F. Vetrano , A. Vicere , S. Vyatchanin , P. Weßels , B. Willke , W. Winkler , G. Woan , A. Woodcraft , K. Yamamoto

The Search for Neutrino Sources Beyond the Sun

The hope is that in the near future neutrino astronomy, born with the identification of thermonuclear fusion in the sun and the particle processes controlling the fate of a nearby supernova, will reach throughout and beyond our Galaxy and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Barwick , F. Halzen , P. B. Price

Differential Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA detector to a diffuse neutrino flux and to point-like source emission: exploring the case of the Starburst Galaxies

KM3NeT/ARCA is a Cherenkov neutrino telescope under construction in the Mediterranean sea, optimised for the detection of astrophysical neutrinos with energies above $\sim$1~TeV. In this work, using Monte Carlo simulations including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-29 KM3NeT Collaboration

Characterization method to achieve simultaneous absolute PDE measurements of all pixels of an ASTRI Mini-Array camera tile

Recently, the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) has placed a contract with Hamamatsu Photonics to acquire hundreds of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) tiles to build 10 cameras with 37 tiles each for the ASTRI Mini-Array (MA) project.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 G. Bonanno , G. Romeo , G. Occhipinti , M. C. Timpanaro , A. Grillo

The ground-based large-area wide-angle gamma-ray and cosmic-ray experiment HiSCORE

The question of the origin of cosmic rays and other questions of astroparticle and particle physics can be addressed with indirect air-shower observations above 10 TeV primary energy. We propose to explore the cosmic ray and gamma-ray sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 Martin Tluczykont , Daniel Hampf , Dieter Horns , Tanja Kneiske , Robert Eichler , Rayk Nachtigall , Gavin Rowell

Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope: A Next-Generation Radio Telescope for Solar Physics and Space Weather

The Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope (FASR) has been strongly endorsed as a top community priority by both Astronomy & Astrophysics Decadal Surveys and Solar & Space Physics Decadal Surveys in the past two decades. Although it was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-21 Dale E. Gary , Bin Chen , James F. Drake , Gregory D. Fleishman , Lindsay Glesener , Pascal Saint-Hilaire , Stephen M. White

Concept Study of a Radio Array Embedded in a Deep Gen2-like Optical Array

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has discovered a diffuse astrophysical flux up to 10 PeV and is now planning a large extension with IceCube-Gen2, including an optical array and a large radio array at shallow depth [1]. Neutrino searches…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-03 Abby Bishop , Lu Lu , Albrecht Karle , Ben Hokanson-Fasig

NESSiE: The Experimental Sterile Neutrino Search in Short-Base-Line at CERN

Several different experimental results are indicating the existence of anomalies in the neutrino sector. Models beyond the standard model have been developed to explain these results and involve one or more additional neutrinos that do not…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-04-29 Umut Kose

The ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

At about 40 km off the coast of Toulon (France), anchored at 2475 m deep in the Mediterranean Sea, there is ANTARES: the first undersea neutrino telescope and the only one currently operating. The detector consists of 885 photomultiplier…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-22 Chiara Perrina

GAMMA-LIGHT: High-Energy Astrophysics above 10 MeV

High-energy phenomena in the cosmos, and in particular processes leading to the emission of gamma- rays in the energy range 10 MeV - 100 GeV, play a very special role in the understanding of our Universe. This energy range is indeed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Aldo Morselli , Andrea Argan , Guido Barbiellini , Walter Bonvicini , Andrea Bulgarelli , Martina Cardillo , Andrew Chen , Paolo Coppi , Anna Maria Di Giorgio , Immacolata Donnarumma , Ettore Del Monte , Valentina Fioretti , Marcello Galli , Manuela Giusti , Attilio Ferrari , Fabio Fuschino , Paolo Giommi , Andrea Giuliani , Claudio Labanti , Paolo Lipari , Francesco Longo , Martino Marisaldi , Sergio Molinari , Carlos Muñoz , Torsten Neubert , Piotr Orleanski , Josep M. Paredes , M. Ángeles Pérez-García , Giovanni Piano , Piergiorgio Picozza , Maura Pilia , Carlotta Pittori , Gianluca Pucella , Sabina Sabatini , Edoardo Striani , Marco Tavani , Alessio Trois , Andrea Vacchi , Stefano Vercellone , Francesco Verrecchia , Valerio Vittorini , Andrzej Zdziarski

Towards Earth AntineutRino TomograpHy (EARTH)

The programme Earth AntineutRino TomograpHy (EARTH) proposes to build ten underground facilities each hosting a telescope. Each telescope consists of many detector modules, to map the radiogenic heat sources deep in the interior of the…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. J. de Meijer , F. D. Smit , F. D. Brooks , R. W. Fearick , H. J. Woertche , F. Mantovani

Integration of Acoustic Detection Equipment into ANTARES

The ANTARES group at the University of Erlangen is working towards the integration of a set of acoustic sensors into the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope. With this setup, tests of acoustic particle detection methods and background studies shall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 R. Lahmann , G. Anton , K. Graf , J. Hoessl , A. Kappes , T. Karg , U. Katz , C. Naumann , K. Salomon