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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is the premier telescope for sensitive, high-resolution observations at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. The array consists of fifty 12-m diameter antennas that can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-31 John Carpenter , Daisuke Iono , Francisca Kemper , Al Wootten

This paper describes the design, operations, and performance of the Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA (MASCARA). Its primary goal is to find new exoplanets transiting bright stars, $4 < m_V < 8$, by monitoring the full sky. MASCARA consists of one…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 G. J. J. Talens , J. F. P. Spronck , A. -L. Lesage , G. P. P. L. Otten , R. Stuik , D. Pollacco , I. A. G Snellen

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory that will allow for observations in the >10 GeV range with unprecedented photon statistics and sensitivity. This will enable the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Alessandro Carosi , Alicia López-Oramas , Francesco Longo

Environment-aware communication and sensing is one of the promising paradigm shifts towards 6G, which fully leverages prior information of the local wireless environment to optimize network performance. One of the key enablers for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Di Wu , Zijian Wu , Yuelong Qiu , Shen Fu , Yong Zeng

TolTEC is a new camera being built for the 50-meter Large Millimeter-wave Telescope (LMT) in Puebla, Mexico to survey distant galaxies and star-forming regions in the Milky Way. The optical design simultaneously couples the field of view…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Sean Bryan , Jason Austermann , Daniel Ferrusca , Philip Mauskopf , Jeff McMahon , Alfredo Montana , Sara Simon , Giles Novak , David Sanchez-Arguelles , Grant Wilson

The FourStar infrared camera is a 1.0-2.5 micron (JHKs) near infrared camera for the Magellan Baade 6.5m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory (Chile). It is being built by Carnegie Observatories and the Instrument Development Group at…

HERMES-TP/SP (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites Technologic and Scientific Pathfinder) is a constellation of six 3U nano-satellites hosting simple but innovative X-ray detectors, characterized by a large energy band and…

We have built an Atmospheric Transmission Monitoring Camera (aTmCam), which consists of four telescopes and detectors each with a narrow-band filter that monitors the brightness of suitable standard stars. Each narrowband filter is selected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ting Li , D. L. DePoy , J. L. Marshall , D. Q. Nagasawa , D. W. Carona , S. Boada

Prior studies on Remote Sensing Foundation Model (RSFM) reveal immense potential towards a generic model for Earth Observation. Nevertheless, these works primarily focus on a single modality without temporal and geo-context modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Xin Guo , Jiangwei Lao , Bo Dang , Yingying Zhang , Lei Yu , Lixiang Ru , Liheng Zhong , Ziyuan Huang , Kang Wu , Dingxiang Hu , Huimei He , Jian Wang , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang , Yongjun Zhang , Yansheng Li

The Space Interferometry Mission (SIM), with its launch date planned for 2005, has as its goal astrometry with ~ 1 micro-arcsecond accuracy for stars as faint as 20th mag. If the SIM lives to expectations it can be used to measure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Bohdan Paczynski

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be a large, wide-field ground-based system designed to obtain, starting in 2015, multiple images of the sky that is visible from Cerro Pachon in Northern Chile. About 90% of the observing time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-12 Z. Ivezic , T. Axelrod , A. C. Becker

In this work the strategy of the Latin American Giant Observatory (LAGO) to build a Latin American collaboration is presented. Installing Cosmic Rays detectors settled all around the Continent, from Mexico to the Antarctica, this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 H. Asorey , R. Mayo-García , L. A. Núñez , M. Rodríguez-Pascual , A. J. Rubio Montero , M. Suarez-Durán , L. A. Torres-Niño

The ongoing optical time-domain astronomy surveys are routinely reporting fifty transient candidates per night. Here, I investigate the demographics of astronomical transients and supernova classifications reported to the Transient Name…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-14 S. R. Kulkarni

We present the design of the Compact Network of Detectors with Orbital Range (CONDOR), a proposed high-altitude gamma-ray and cosmic-ray (CR) observatory set to become the highest of its kind. Planned for installation at Cerro Toco in the…

We present the most successful infrared cloud monitor for a robotic telescope. This system was originally developed for the MAGNUM 2-m telescope, which has been achieving unmanned and automated monitoring observation of active galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Suganuma , Y. Kobayashi , N. Okada , Y. Yoshii , T. Minezaki , T. Aoki , K. Enya , H. Tomita , S. Koshida

WIDGET is a robotic telescope for monitoring the HETE-2 field-of-view to detect Gamma-ray Burst optical flashes or possible optical precursors. The system has 62degx62deg wide field-of-view which covers about 80% of HETE-2 one with a 2kx2k…

The High Energy Modular Ensemble of Satellites (HERMES) project is aimed to realize a modular X/gamma-ray monitor for transient events, to be placed on-board of a CubeSat bus. This expandable platform will achieve a significant impact on…

The upcoming 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) facility will perform deep imaging (in single scan $g'$ $\sim$22 mag.) of a narrow strip of sky each clear night in the Time Delayed Integration mode. A cadence of one day…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-02 Brajesh Kumar , S. B. Pandey , Kanhaiya L. Pandey , G. C. Anupama , J. Surdej

We summarize the status of a computer simulator for microlens planet surveys. The simulator generates synthetic light curves of microlensing events observed with specified networks of telescopes over specified periods of time. Particular…