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Pulsar timing arrays are ensembles of regularly observed millisecond pulsars timed to high precision. Each pulsar in an array could be affected by a suite of noise processes, most of which are astrophysically motivated. Analysing them…

We describe the first public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR1, consisting of reduced single epoch images, coadded images, coadded source catalogs, and associated products and services assembled over the first three years of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , A. Amara , J. Annis , J. Asorey , S. Avila , O. Ballester , M. Banerji , W. Barkhouse , L. Baruah , M. Baumer , K. Bechtol , M . R. Becker , A. Benoit-Lévy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. Brout , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , V. Busti , R. Campisano , L. Cardiel-Sas , A. C arnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , X. Chen , C. Conselice , G. Costa , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , R. Das , G. Daues , T. M. Davis , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , J. DeRose , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Elliott , A. E. Evrard , A. Farahi , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , M. Fitzpatrick , B. Flaugher , R. J. Foley , P. Fosalba , D. N. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaz tanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , M. S. S. Gill , K. Glazebrook , D. A. Goldstein , M. Gower , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , R. R. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , S. Hamilton , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , J. M. Hislop , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , S. Juneau , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , G. Khullar , M. Klein , A. Kovacs , A. M. G. Koziol , E. Krause , A. Kremin , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , J. Lasker , T. S. Li , R. T. Li , A. R. Liddle , M. Lima , H. Lin , P. López-Reyes , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , J. D. Maloney , M. Manera , M. March , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , T. McClintock , T. McKay , R . G. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Morganson , J. Mould , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , D. Nidever , R. Nikutta , F. Nogueira , B. Nord , P. Nugent , L. Nunes , R. L. C. Ogando , L. Old , K. Olsen , A. B. Pace , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , H. V. Peiris , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas , J. Poh , C. Pond , A. Por redon , A. Pujol , A. Refregier , K. Reil , P. M. Ricker , R. P. Rollins , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , P. Rooney , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , M. L. Sanchez , B. Santiago , A. Saro , V. Scarpine , D. Scolnic , A. Scott , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , N. Shipp , M. L. Silveira , R. C. Smith , J. A. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobre ira , J. Song , A. Stebbins , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , R. C. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. K. Vivas , A. R. Wal ker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf , H. Wu , B. Yanny , A. Zenteno , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

MeerKATHI is the current development name for a radio-interferometric data reduction pipeline, assembled by an international collaboration. We create a publicly available end-to-end continuum- and line imaging pipeline for MeerKAT and other…

Current merged precipitation products such as IMERG, GSMAP, and CMORPH combine satellite estimates from passive microwave (PMW) and infrared (IR) observations. However, the different information content of these sensors makes it challenging…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Simon Pfreundschuh , Christian D. Kummerow , Jackson Tan , George J. Huffman

The RXTE All Sky Monitor provides a public database that includes more than one year of X-ray monitoring observations (2-12 keV) of X-ray binaries and a few active galactic nuclei. The instrument operates with a 40% duty cycle, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Ronald A. Remillard , Alan M. Levine

We present the second data release of the Systematic Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) Legacy Extragalactic Survey (SMILES), focusing on JWST/NIRSpec medium-resolution spectroscopy of galaxies across cosmic time. This release includes…

In this short paper, we study the photometric precision of stellar light curves obtained by the CoRoT satellite in its planet finding channel, with a particular emphasis on the timescales characteristic of planetary transits. Together with…

The software package aXe provides comprehensive spectral extraction facilities for all the slitless modes of the ACS, covering the Wide Field Channel (WFC) grism, the High Resolution Channel (HRC) grism and prism and the Solar Blind Channel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. R. Walsh , M. Kuemmel , S. S. Larsen

The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated photometric surveying facility built jointly by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO). Since many of its scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Minxuan Cai , Zelin Xu , Lulu Fan , Zhen Wan , Binyang Liu , Xu Kong , Weida Hu , Lei Hu , Qing-feng Zhu , Guoliang Li , Jie Lin , Min Fang , Ji-an Jiang , Yongquan Xue , Xianzhong Zhen , Tinggui Wang

We present a comprehensive pipeline developed for the image processing of the KMTNet Synoptic Survey of the Southern Sky (KS4) Data Release 1. This pipeline encompasses several key processes, including data quality assurance, astrometry,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Mankeun Jeong , Myungshin Im , Joonho Kim , Seo-Won Chang , Sungho Jung , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Jin Kim , Bomi Park , Jaewon Lee , Jiseop Shin , Changwan Kim , Gregory S. H. Paek

Traditional glass-based optics are typically optimized for narrow spectral bands, such as the visible (400-700nm) or shortwave infrared (1000-1800nm). While the emergence of VIS-SWIR sensors (400-1700nm) offers transformative potential,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Vishwanath Saragadam , Niki Nezakati , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , Vivek Boominathan

In this paper we present the first on-sky results with the fibered aperture masking instrument FIRST. Its principle relies on the combination of spatial filtering and aperture masking using single-mode fibers, a novel technique that is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 E. Huby , G. Perrin , F. Marchis , S. Lacour , T. Kotani , G. Duchêne , E. Choquet , E. L. Gates , J. M. Woillez , O. Lai , P. Fédou , C. Collin , F. Chapron , V. Arslanyan , K. J. Burns

The LiteBIRD satellite mission aims at detecting Cosmic Microwave Background $B$ modes with unprecedented precision, targeting a total error on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ of $\delta r \sim 0.001$. Operating from the L2 Lagrangian point…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 M. Bortolami , N. Raffuzzi , L. Pagano , G. Puglisi , A. Anand , A. J. Banday , P. Campeti , G. Galloni , A. I. Lonappan , M. Monelli , M. Tomasi , G. Weymann-Despres , D. Adak , E. Allys , J. Aumont , R. Aurvik , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , M. Bersanelli , A. Besnard , T. Brinckmann , E. Calabrese , E. Carinos , A. Carones , F. J. Casas , K. Cheung , M. Citran , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , P. Dal Bo , P. de Bernardis , E. de la Hoz , M. De Lucia , S. Della Torre , P. Diego-Palazuelos , H. K. Eriksen , T. Essinger-Hileman , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , M. Galloway , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Gjerløw , A. Gruppuso , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , L. T. Hergt , E. Hivon , B. Jost , K. Kohri , L. Lamagna , T. Lari , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , F. Levrier , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , J. Macias-Perez , B. Maffei , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , T. Matsumura , S. Micheli , L. Montier , G. Morgante , L. Mousset , R. Nagata , T. Namikawa , A. Novelli , F. Noviello , I. Obata , A. Occhiuzzi , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Pascual-Cisneros , F. Piacentini , M. Pinchera , G. Polenta , L. Porcelli , M. Remazeilles , A. Ritacco , A. Rizzieri , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , M. Ruiz-Granda , J. Sanghavi , V. Sauvage , M. Shiraishi , G. Signorelli , S. L. Stever , R. M. Sullivan , Y. Takase , K. Tassis , L. Terenzi , M. Tristram , L. Vacher , B. van Tent , P. Vielva , I. K. Wehus , M. Zannoni , Y. Zhou

SPHEREx, a NASA explorer satellite launched on 11 March 2025, is carrying out the first all-sky near-infrared spectral survey. The satellite observes in 102 spectral bands from 0.75 to 5.0 um with a resolving power ranging from 35 to 130 in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 James J. Bock , Asad M. Aboobaker , Joseph Adamo , Rachel Akeson , John M. Alred , Farah Alibay , Matthew L. N. Ashby , Yoonsoo P. Bach , Lindsey E. Bleem , Douglas Bolton , David F. Braun , Sean Bruton , Sean A. Bryan , Tzu-Ching Chang , Shuang-Shuang Chen , Yun-Ting Cheng , James R. Cheshire , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Jean Choppin de Janvry , Samuel Condon , Walter R. Cook , Asantha Cooray , Brendan P. Crill , Ari J. Cukierman , Olivier Dore , C. Darren Dowell , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann , Tim Eifler , Spencer Everett , Beth E. Fabinsky , Andreas L. Faisst , James L. Fanson , Allen H. Farrington , Tamim Fatahi , Candice M. Fazar , Richard M. Feder , Eric H. Frater , Henry S. Grasshorn Gebhardt , Utkarsh Giri , Tatiana Goldina , Varoujan Gorjian , Salman Habib , William G. Hart , Chen Heinrich , Joseph L. Hora , Zhaoyu Huai , Howard Hui , Young-Soo Jo , Woong-Seob Jeong , Jae Hwan Kang , Miju Kang , Branislav Kecman , Chul-Hwan Kim , Jaeyeong Kim , Minjin Kim , Young-Jun Kim , Yongjung Kim , J. Davy Kirkpatrick , Yosuke Kobayashi , Phil M. Korngut , Elisabeth Krause , Bomee Lee , Ho-Gyu Lee , Jae-Joon Lee , Jeong-Eun Lee , Carey M. Lisse , Giacomo Mariani , Daniel C. Masters , Philip D. Mauskopf , Gary J. Melnick , Mary H. Minasyan , Jordan Mirocha , Hiromasa Miyasaka , Anne Moore , Bradley D. Moore , Giulia Murgia , Bret J. Naylor , Christina Nelson , Chi H. Nguyen , Hien T. Nguyen , Jinyoung K. Noh , Stephen Padin , Roberta Paladini , Sung-Joon Park , Konstantin I. Penanen , Dustin S. Putnam , Jeonghyun Pyo , Nesar Ramachandra , Keshav Ramanathan , Zafar Rustamkulov , Daniel J. Reiley , Eric B. Rice , Jennifer M. Rocca , Ji Yeon Seok , Roger Smith , Jeremy Stober , Sara Susca , Harry I. Teplitz , Michael P. Thelen , Volker Tolls , Gabriela Torrini , Amy R. Trangsrud , Stephen Unwin , Phani Velicheti , Pao-Yu Wang , Robin Y. Wen , Michael-W. -Werner , Abby E. Williams , Ross Williamson , James Wincentsen , Rogier A. Windhorst , Soung-Chul Yang , Yujin Yang , Michael Zemcov

We present new full-sky temperature maps in five frequency bands from 23 to 94 GHz, based on the first three years of the WMAP sky survey. The new maps, which are consistent with the first-year maps and more sensitive, incorporate…

The MICROSCOPE space mission, launched on April 25, 2016, aims to test the weak equivalence principle (WEP) with a 10^-15 precision. To reach this performance requires an accurate and robust data analysis method, especially since the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Sandrine Pires , Joel Bergé , Quentin Baghi , Pierre Touboul , Gilles Métris

We release the spectra for the more than 57000 objects presented in the First VIPERS Data Release. For each object we distribute the observed, wavelength and flux calibrated spectrum, as well as cleaned spectra, where artifacts due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-03 P. Franzetti , B. Garilli , L. Guzzo , A. Marchetti , M. Scodeggio

We present the detection of 68 sources from the most sensitive radio survey in circular polarisation conducted to date. We use the second data release of the 144 MHz LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey to produce circularly-polarised maps with…

We are developing the Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER) to detect 21cm emission from the early Universe, when the first stars and galaxies were forming. We describe the overall experiment strategy and…

We present the first of two papers dedicated to verifying the Australian Epoch of Reionisation pipeline (AusEoRPipe) through simulation. The AusEoRPipe aims to disentangle 21-cm radiation emitted by gas surrounding the very first stars from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 J. L. B. Line , C. M. Trott , J. H. Cook , B. Greig , N. Barry , C. H. Jordan