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The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on board the Spitzer Space Telescope observed about 15,000 objects during the cryogenic mission lifetime. Observations provided low-resolution (R~60-127) spectra over ~5-38um and high-resolution (R~600)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-26 V. Lebouteiller , D. J. Barry , C. Goes , G. C. Sloan , H. W. W. Spoon , D. W. Weedman , J. Bernard-Salas , J. R. Houck

In recent years, the detection of infrared small targets using deep learning methods has garnered substantial attention due to notable advancements. To improve the detection capability of small targets, these methods commonly maintain a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Qianchen Mao , Qiang Li , Bingshu Wang , Yongjun Zhang , Tao Dai , C. L. Philip Chen

The Low Wind Effect (LWE) refers to a phenomenon that occurs when the wind speed inside a telescope dome drops below $3$m/s creating a temperature gradient near the telescope spider. This produces phase discontinuities in the pupil plane…

We present the photometric performance of SPIRIT, a ground-based near-infrared InGaAs CMOS-based instrument (1280 by 1024 pixels, 12 micron pitch), using on-sky results from the SPECULOOS-Southern Observatory during 2022 - 2023. SPIRIT was…

We present the development of a versatile apparatus for a 6.2 eV laser-based time and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with micrometer spatial resolution (time-resolved $\mu$-ARPES). With a combination of tunable spatial resolution…

We describe principal components of the new spectroscopic data pipeline for the multi-object MMT/Magellan Infrared Spectrograph (MMIRS). The pipeline is implemented in IDL and C++. The performance of the data processing algorithms is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-18 Igor Chilingarian , Warren Brown , Daniel Fabricant , Brian McLeod , John Roll , Andrew Szentgyorgyi

Wide-field survey instruments are used to efficiently observe large regions of the sky. To achieve the necessary field of view, and to provide a higher signal-to-noise ratio for faint sources, many modern instruments are undersampled.…

I present spherical (https://github.com/m-samland/spherical), a software package and database designed for the ESO VLT/SPHERE high-contrast imager. SPHERE has produced the world's largest archive of direct imaging observations of exoplanets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 Matthias Samland

We present near-infrared (0.8-1.8 $\mu$m) spectra of 105 bright (${m_{J}}$ $<$ 10) stars observed with the low resolution spectrometer on the rocket-borne Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER). As our observations are performed…

The Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) is a high-resolution, high-stability near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph equipped with an AO system. Installed on the ESO 3.6-m telescope, it was developed to enable radial velocity (RV) measurements…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Francois Bouchy , Rene Doyon , Francesco Pepe , Claudio Melo , Etienne Artigau , Lison Malo , Francois Wildi , Frederique Baron , Xavier Delfosse , Jose Renan De Medeiros , Rafael Rebolo , Nuno C. Santos , Gregg Wade , Romain Allart , Khaled Al Moulla , Nicolas Blind , Charles Cadieux , Bruno L. Canto Martins , Neil J. Cook , Xavier Dumusque , Yolanda Frensch , Frederic Genest , Jonay I. Gonzalez Hernandez , Nolan Grieves , Gaspare Lo Curto , Christophe Lovis , Lucile Mignon , Louise D. Nielsen , Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard , Jose Luis Rasilla , Vladimir Reshetov , Danuta Sosnowska , Michael Sordet , Jonathan Saint-Antoine , Alejandro Suarez Mascareno , Simon Thibault , Philippe Vallee , Thomas Vandal , Manuel Abreu , Jose L. A. Aguiar , Guillaume Allain , Tomy Arial , Hugues Auger , Susana C. C. Barros , Luc Bazinet , Bjorn Benneke , Xavier Bonfils , Anne Boucher , Vincent Bourrier , Sebastien Bovay , Christopher Broeg , Denis Brousseau , Vincent Bruniquel , Marta Bryan , Alexandre Cabral , Andres Carmona , Yann Carteret , Zalpha Challita , Bruno Chazelas , Ryan Cloutier , Joao Coelho , Marion Cointepas , Uriel Conod , Nicolas B. Cowan , Eduardo Cristo , Joao Gomes da Silva , Laurie Dauplaise , Antoine Darveau-Bernier , Roseane de Lima Gomes , Daniel Brito de Freitas , Elisa Delgado-Mena , Jean-Baptiste Delisle , David Ehrenreich , Joao Faria , Pedro Figueira , Dasaev O. Fontinele , Thierry Forveille , Jonathan Gagne , Ludovic Genolet , Felix Gracia Temich , Olivier Hernandez , Melissa J. Hobson , Jens Hoeijmakers , Norbert Hubin , Farbod Jahandar , Ray Jayawardhana , Hans-Ulrich Kauf , Dan Kerley , Johann Kolb , Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy , David Lafreniere , Pierrot Lamontagne , Pierre Larue , Henry Leath , Alexandrine L Heureux , Izan de Castro Leao , Olivia Lim , Allan M. Martins , Jaymie Matthews , Jean-Sebastien Mayer , Yuri S. Messias , Stan Metchev , Leslie Moranta , Christoph Mordasini , Dany Mounzer , Nicola Nari , Ares Osborn , Mathieu Ouellet , Jon Otegi , Lena Parc , Luca Pasquini , Vera M. Passegger , Stefan Pelletier , Celine Peroux , Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb , Mykhaylo Plotnykov , Emanuela Pompei , Jason Rowe , Mirsad Sarajlic , Alex Segovia , Julia Seidel , Damien Segransan , Robin Schnell , Ana Rita Costa Silva , Avidaan Srivastava , Valentina Vaulato , Atanas K. Stefanov , Marcio A. Teixeira , Stephane Udry , Joost P. Wardenier , Bachar Wehbe , Drew Weisserman , Vincent Yariv , Gerard Zins

MagAO-X is an extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) instrument for the Magellan Clay 6.5-meter telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Its high spatial and temporal resolution can produce data rates of 1 TB/hr or more, including all AO…

High-resolution spectroscopy provides unique constraints on exoplanet atmospheric composition and dynamics. The past decade of ground-based campaigns has accumulated extensive public archives, yet many observations remain unanalysed. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 A. Masson , S. Vinatier , B. Bézard , F. Debras , A. Carmona , J. Lillo-Box , N. B. Cowan , V. Yariv , R. Allart

The VISIONS public survey provides large-scale, multiepoch imaging of five nearby star-forming regions at subarcsecond resolution in the near-infrared. All data collected within the program and provided by the European Southern Observatory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Stefan Meingast , Hervé Bouy , Verena Fürnkranz , David Hernandez , Alena Rottensteiner , Erik Brändli

The radial velocity catalog from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) is unique in its simultaneously large volume and high precision as a result of its decade-long survey duration, multiplexing (600 fibers),…

The RISTRETTO project is aiming to build an instrument that will detect the reflected light from close-by exoplanet. It is a two stage instrument: An extreme AO system in the visible, followed by a seven spaxel single mode High resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Bruno Chazelas , Christophe Lovis , Nicolas Blind , Ludovic Genolet , Ian Hughes , Michael Sordet , Robin Schnell , Anthony Carvalho , Maddalena Bugatti

WINERED is a newly built high-efficiency (throughput$ > 25-30\%$) and high-resolution spectrograph customized for short NIR bands at 0.9-1.35 ${\rm \mu}$m. WINERED is equipped with ambient temperature optics and a cryogenic camera using a…

We report on initial results from the largest infrared AO direct imaging survey searching for wide orbit (>100 AU) massive exoplanets and brown dwarfs as companions around young nearby stars using Robo-AO at the 2.1-m telescope on Kitt…

Reverberation mapping (RM) is an efficient method to investigate the physical sizes of the broad line region (BLR) and dusty torus in an active galactic nucleus (AGN). The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-12 Minjin Kim , Woong-Seob Jeong , Yujin Yang , Jiwon Son , Luis C. Ho , Jong-Hak Woo , Myungshin Im , Woowon Byun

M dwarfs are prime targets in the search for exoplanets because of their prevalence and because low-mass planets can be better detected with radial velocity (RV) methods. In particular, the near-infrared (NIR) spectral domain offers an…

We present in this paper an analysis of near-infrared observations of the 0.3-Msun protostar V347 Aur collected with the SPIRou high-resolution spectropolarimeter and velocimeter at the 3.6-m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope from October 2019…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 J. -F. Donati , P. I. Cristofari , A. Carmona , K. Grankin