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PICsIT (Pixellated Imaging CaeSium Iodide Telescope) is the high energy detector of the IBIS telescope on-board the INTEGRAL satellite. PICsIT operates in the gamma-ray energy range between 175 keV and 10 MeV, with a typical energy…
Astrophysics · Physics
2009-11-24
G. Di Cocco , E. Caroli , E. Celesti , L. Foschini , F. Gianotti , C. Labanti , G. Malaguti , A. Mauri , E. Rossi , F. Schiavone , A. Spizzichino , J. B. Stephen , A. Traci , M. Trifoglio
We describe a new balloon-borne instrument (PoGOLite) capable of detecting 10% polarisation from 200mCrab point-like sources between 25 and 80keV in one 6 hour flight. Polarisation measurements in the soft gamma-ray band are expected to…
Astrophysics · Physics
2009-06-23
Tuneyoshi Kamae , Viktor Andersson , Makoto Arimoto , Magnus Axelsson , Cecilia Marini Bettolo , Claes-Ingvar Björnsson , Gilles Bogaert , Per Carlson , William Craig , Tomas Ekeberg , Olle Engdegård , Yasushi Fukazawa , Shuichi Gunji , Linnea Hjalmarsdotter , Bianca Iwan , Yoshikazu Kanai , Jun Kataoka , Nobuyuki Kawai , Jaroslav Kazejev , Mózsi Kiss , Wlodzimierz Klamra , Stefan Larsson , Grzegorz Madejski , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Johnny Ng , Mark Pearce , Felix Ryde , Markus Suhonen , Hiroyasu Tajima , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Tadayuki Takahashi , Takuya Tanaka , Timothy Thurston , Masaru Ueno , Gary Varner , Kazuhide Yamamoto , Yuichiro Yamashita , Tomi Ylinen , Hiroaki Yoshida
This paper describes a new real-time versatile backend, the Pulsar Ooty Radio Telescope New Digital Efficient Receiver (PONDER), which has been designed to operate along with the legacy analog system of the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT).…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-03-05
Arun Naidu , B. C Joshi , P. K Manoharan , M. A Krishnakumar
On-board estimation of the pose of an uncooperative target spacecraft is an essential task for future on-orbit servicing and close-proximity formation flying missions. However, two issues hinder reliable on-board monocular vision based pose…
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science
2018-09-20
Sumant Sharma , Connor Beierle , Simone D'Amico
We present the technology and control methods developed for the pointing system of the SPIDER experiment. SPIDER is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to detect the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in the polarization of the…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-22
Jamil A. Shariff , Peter A. R. Ade , Mandana Amiri , Steven J. Benton , Jamie J. Bock , J. Richard Bond , Sean A. Bryan , H. Cynthia Chiang , Carlo R. Contaldi , Brendan P. Crill , Olivier P. Doré , Marzieh Farhang , Jeffrey P. Filippini , Laura M. Fissel , Aurelien A. Fraisse , Anne E. Gambrel , Natalie N. Gandilo , Sunil R. Golwala , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Mark Halpern , Matthew Hasselfield , Gene C. Hilton , Warren A. Holmes , Viktor V. Hristov , Kent D. Irwin , William C. Jones , Zigmund D. Kermish , Chao-Lin Kuo , Carolyn J. MacTavish , Peter V. Mason , Krikor G. Megerian , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Tracy A. Morford , Johanna M. Nagy , C. Barth Netterfield , Roger O'Brient , Alexandra S. Rahlin , Carl D. Reintsema , John E. Ruhl , Marcus C. Runyan , Juan D. Soler , Amy Trangsrud , Carole E. Tucker , Rebecca S. Tucker , Anthony D. Turner , Alexis C. Weber , Donald V. Wiebe , Edward Y. Young
(abridged) A complete census of planetary systems around a volume-limited sample of solar-type stars (FGK dwarfs) in the Solar neighborhood with uniform sensitivity down to Earth-mass planets within their Habitable Zones out to several AUs…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2011-08-17
Fabien Malbet , Alain Léger , Michael Shao , Renaud Goullioud , Pierre-Olivier Lagage , Anthony G. A. Brown , Christophe Cara , Gilles Durand , Carlos Eiroa , Philippe Feautrier , Björn Jakobsson , Emmanuel Hinglais , Lisa Kaltenegger , Lucas Labadie , Anne-Marie Lagrange , Jacques Laskar , René Liseau , Jonathan Lunine , Jesús Maldonado , Manuel Mercier , Christoph Mordasini , Didier Queloz , Andreas Quirrenbach , Alessandro Sozzetti , Wesley Traub , Olivier Absil , Yann Alibert , Alexandre Humberto Andrei , Frédéric Arenou , Charles Beichman , Alain Chelli , Charles S. Cockell , Gilles Duvert , Thierry Forveille , Paulo J. V. Garcia , David Hobbs , Alberto Krone-Martins , Helmut Lammer , Nadège Meunier , Stefano Minardi , André Moitinho de Almeida , Nicolas Rambaux , Sean Raymond , Huub J. A. Röttgering , Johannes Sahlmann , Peter A. Schuller , Damien Ségransan , Franck Selsis , Jean Surdej , Eva Villaver , Glenn J. White , Hans Zinnecker
Spacecraft pose estimation is an essential computer vision application that can improve the autonomy of in-orbit operations. An ESA/Stanford competition brought out solutions that seem hardly compatible with the constraints imposed on…
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science
2024-01-11
Julien Posso , Guy Bois , Yvon Savaria
Planetary UAV localization based on Multi-modal Registration with Pre-existing Digital Terrain Model
The autonomous real-time optical navigation of planetary UAV is of the key technologies to ensure the success of the exploration. In such a GPS denied environment, vision-based localization is an optimal approach. In this paper, we proposed…
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science
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Xue Wan , Yuanbin Shao , Shengyang Li
We have designed and developed a compact ultraviolet imaging payload to fly on a range of possible platforms such as high altitude balloon experiments, cubesats, space missions, etc. The primary science goals are to study the bright UV…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2016-08-24
Joice Mathew , Ajin Prakash , Mayuresh Sarpotdar , A. G. Sreejith , Margarita Safonova , Jayant Murthy
X-Ray Polarimetry can be now performed by using a Micro Pattern Gas Chamber in the focus of a telescope. It requires large area optics for most important scientific targets. But since the technique is additive a dedicated mission with a…
Astrophysics · Physics
2009-11-11
Enrico Costa , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Paolo Soffitta , Fabio Muleri , Marco Feroci , Massimo Frutti , Marcello Mastropietro , Luigi Pacciani , Alda Rubini , Ennio Morelli , Luca Baldini , Francesco Bitti , Alessandro Brez , Francesco Cavalca , Luca Latronico , Marco Maria Massai , Nicola Omodei , Michele Pinchera , Carmelo Sgro' , Gloria Spandre , Giorgio Matt , Giuseppe Cesare Perola , Guido Chincarini , Oberto Citterio , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Giovanni Pareschi , Vincenzo Cotroneo
The innovation process is always required to produce more advanced technology and increasing productivity. PDM (Probes Distance Meter) comes as a technological innovation in measurement, PDM is a digital distance measuring instrument uses a…
Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics
2016-12-28
Ridlo Qomarrullah , Abdurrachman Mappuji , Wahyu Apriliyanto , Ahmad Harist Julianto , Farahiyah Syarafina , Iswandi
Several space missions are proposed or planned for the coming two decades dedicated or including mid- to high-resolution spectropolarimetry on a wide UV band. This includes the European instrument Pollux for the NASA HWO flagship mission,…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2025-03-10
Coralie Neiner , Adrien Girardot , Jean-Michel Reess
This paper on ASTROD I is based on our 2010 proposal submitted for the ESA call for class-M mission proposals, and is a sequel and an update to our previous paper [Experimental Astronomy 23 (2009) 491-527; designated as Paper I] which was…
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics
2012-10-25
Claus Braxmaier , Hansjörg Dittus , Bernard Foulon , Ertan Göklü , Catia Grimani , Jian Guo , Sven Herrmann , Claus Lämmerzahl , Wei-Tou Ni , Achim Peters , Benny Rievers , Étienne Samain , Hanns Selig , Diana Shaul , Drazen Svehla , Pierre Touboul , Gang Wang , An-Ming Wu , Alexander F. Zakharov
Small body exploration is a pertinent challenge due to low gravity environments and strong sensitivity to perturbations like Solar Radiation Pressure (SRP). Thus, autonomous methods are being developed to enable safe navigation and control…
Pulsed laser ablation propulsion has the potential to revolutionize space exploration by eliminating the requirement of a spacecraft to carry its propellant and power source as the high-power laser is situated off-board. More…
Artificial intelligence-powered pocket-sized air robots have the potential to revolutionize the Internet-of-Things ecosystem, acting as autonomous, unobtrusive, and ubiquitous smart sensors. With a few cm$^{2}$ form-factor, nano-sized…
Robotics · Computer Science
2024-10-28
Daniele Palossi , Nicky Zimmerman , Alessio Burrello , Francesco Conti , Hanna Müller , Luca Maria Gambardella , Luca Benini , Alessandro Giusti , Jérôme Guzzi
The Astrodynamical Space Test of Relativity using Optical Devices (ASTROD) mission consists of three spacecraft in separate solar orbits and carries out laser interferometric ranging. ASTROD aims at testing relativistic gravity, measuring…
Precision astrometry at microarcsecond accuracy has application to a wide range of astrophysical problems. This paper is a study of the science questions that can be addressed using an instrument that delivers parallaxes at about 4…
Astrophysics · Physics
2009-11-13
Stephen C. Unwin , Michael Shao , Angelle M. Tanner , Ronald J. Allen , Charles A. Beichman , David Boboltz , Joseph H. Catanzarite , Brian C. Chaboyer , David R. Ciardi , Stephen J. Edberg , Alan L. Fey , Debra A. Fischer , Christopher R. Gelino , Andrew P. Gould , Carl Grillmair , Todd J. Henry , Kathryn V. Johnston , Kenneth J. Johnston , Dayton L. Jones , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni , Nicholas M. Law , Steven R. Majewski , Valeri V. Makarov , Geoffrey W. Marcy , David L. Meier , Rob P. Olling , Xiaopei Pan , Richard J. Patterson , Jo Eliza Pitesky , Andreas Quirrenbach , Stuart B. Shaklan , Edward J. Shaya , Louis E. Strigari , John A. Tomsick , Ann E. Wehrle , Guy Worthey
The ultra-violet (UV) high-resolution spectropolarimeter Pollux is being studied in Europe under CNES leadership for the LUVOIR space mission. LUVOIR is a projected 15-m telescope equipped with a suite of instruments proposed to NASA.…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-07-30
Maelle Le Gal , Arturo Lopez Ariste , Coralie Neiner