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The Chinese Space Station Optical Survey (CSS-OS) is a mission to explore the vast universe. This mission will equip a 2-meter space telescope to perform a multi-band NUV-optical large area survey (over 40% of the sky) and deep survey (~1%…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Xin Zhang , Li Cao , Xianmin Meng

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) is a next-generation Stage-IV facility renowned for its wide field of view, high image quality, and multi-band observational capabilities. Among the five instruments onboard the CSST, the…

The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a cutting-edge two-meter astronomical space telescope currently under construction. Its primary Survey Camera (SC) is designed to conduct large-area imaging sky surveys using a sophisticated…

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST), a two-meter aperture astronomical space telescope under China's manned space program, is equipped with multiple back-end scientific instruments. As an astronomical precision measurement…

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is designed to provide an unprecedented optical imaging dataset that will support investigations of our Solar System, Galaxy and Universe, across half the sky and over ten years of repeated observation.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 LSST Science Collaboration , Phil Marshall , Timo Anguita , Federica B. Bianco , Eric C. Bellm , Niel Brandt , Will Clarkson , Andy Connolly , Eric Gawiser , Zeljko Ivezic , Lynne Jones , Michelle Lochner , Michael B. Lund , Ashish Mahabal , David Nidever , Knut Olsen , Stephen Ridgway , Jason Rhodes , Ohad Shemmer , David Trilling , Kathy Vivas , Lucianne Walkowicz , Beth Willman , Peter Yoachim , Scott Anderson , Pierre Antilogus , Ruth Angus , Iair Arcavi , Humna Awan , Rahul Biswas , Keaton J. Bell , David Bennett , Chris Britt , Derek Buzasi , Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu , Laura Chomiuk , Chuck Claver , Kem Cook , James Davenport , Victor Debattista , Seth Digel , Zoheyr Doctor , R. E. Firth , Ryan Foley , Wen-fai Fong , Lluis Galbany , Mark Giampapa , John E. Gizis , Melissa L. Graham , Carl Grillmair , Phillipe Gris , Zoltan Haiman , Patrick Hartigan , Suzanne Hawley , Renee Hlozek , Saurabh W. Jha , C. Johns-Krull , Shashi Kanbur , Vassiliki Kalogera , Vinay Kashyap , Vishal Kasliwal , Richard Kessler , Alex Kim , Peter Kurczynski , Ofer Lahav , Michael C. Liu , Alex Malz , Raffaella Margutti , Tom Matheson , Jason D. McEwen , Peregrine McGehee , Soren Meibom , Josh Meyers , Dave Monet , Eric Neilsen , Jeffrey Newman , Matt O'Dowd , Hiranya V. Peiris , Matthew T. Penny , Christina Peters , Radoslaw Poleski , Kara Ponder , Gordon Richards , Jeonghee Rho , David Rubin , Samuel Schmidt , Robert L. Schuhmann , Avi Shporer , Colin Slater , Nathan Smith , Marcelles Soares-Santos , Keivan Stassun , Jay Strader , Michael Strauss , Rachel Street , Christopher Stubbs , Mark Sullivan , Paula Szkody , Virginia Trimble , Tony Tyson , Miguel de Val-Borro , Stefano Valenti , Robert Wagoner , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Bevin Ashley Zauderer

The upcoming imaging survey of the Chinese Space-station Survey Telescope (CSST) will deliver high-resolution imaging of an unprecedented number of galaxies for galaxy studies. To understand CSST's capability, and to support the preparation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Ziqi Ma , Si-Yue Yu , Taotao Fang , Jinyi Shangguan , Zhao-Yu Li , Luis C. Ho

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a forthcoming Stage IV galaxy survey. It will simultaneously undertake the photometric redshift (photo-z) and slitless spectroscopic redshift (spec-z) surveys mainly for weak lensing and galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Zhejie Ding , Yu Yu , Pengjie Zhang

Photometric redshifts of galaxies obtained by multi-wavelength data are widely used in photometric surveys because of its high efficiency. Although various methods have been developed, template fitting is still adopted as one of the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Yicheng Li , Liping Fu , Zhu Chen , Zhijian Luo , Wei Du , Yan Gong , Xianmin Meng , Junhao Lu , Zhirui Tang , Pengfei Chen , Shaohua Zhang , Chenggang Shu , Xingchen Zhou , Zuhui Fan

The measurement of cosmological distances using baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) is crucial for studying the universe's expansion. The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) galaxy redshift survey, with its vast volume and sky coverage,…

China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a forthcoming powerful Stage IV space-based optical survey equipment. It is expected to explore a number of important cosmological problems in extremely high precision. In this work, we focus on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Hengjie Lin , Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen , Kwan Chuen Chan , Zuhui Fan , Hu Zhan

We explore the joint weak lensing and galaxy clustering analysis from the photometric survey operated by the China Space Station Telescope (CSST), and study the strength of the cosmological constraints. We employ a high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Xingchen Zhou , Hengjie Lin , Furen Deng , Ziwei Li , Ayodeji Ibitoye , Xuelei Chen , Zuhui Fan , Qi Guo , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Wenxiang Pei

Stray light significantly influences the detection capabilities of astronomical telescopes. The actual stray-light level during observations depends not only on the telescope's inherent stray-light suppression capability but also on its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Xian Jing-Tian , Lin Lin , Fang Yue-Dong , Zhang Xin , Xu You-Hua , Meng Xian-Min , Tian Hao , Zhang Tian-Yi , Ban Zhang , Li Guo-Liang , Xu Shu-Yan , Wang Wei

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a high etendue imaging facility that is being constructed atop Cerro Pachon in Northern Chile. It is scheduled to begin science operations in 2022. With an 8.4m (6.5m effective) aperture, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-12 Hu Zhan , J. Anthony Tyson

In 2022 China Space Station (CSS) will be equipped with atomic clocks and optical clocks with stabilities of $2 \times 10^{-16}$ and $8 \times 10^{-18}$, respectively, which provides an excellent opportunity to test gravitational redshift…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Wenbin Shen , Pengfei Zhang , Ziyu Shen , Rui Xu , Xiao Sun , Mostafa Ashry , Abdelrahim Ruby , Wei Xu , Kuangchao Wu , Yifan Wu , An Ning , Lei Wang , Lihong Li , Chenghui Cai

Strong gravitationally lensed supernovae (SNe) are a powerful probe for cosmology and stellar physics. The relative time delays between lensed SN images provide an independent way of measuring a fundamental cosmological parameter -- the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Jiang Dong , Yiping Shu , Guoliang Li , Xinzhong Er , Bin Hu , Youhua Xu

Double source plane strong lensing (DSPL) systems offer a robust, independent probe of cosmological parameters. The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) is expected to discover hundreds of DSPLs, yet the survey modes and system…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Bei-Chen Wu , Xiaoyue Cao , Nan Li , Yan Gong , Shenzhe Cui , Di Wu , Tong Zhao , Junhui Yan

As a space telescope, the China Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) will face significant challenges from cosmic ray (CR) contamination. These CRs will severely degrade image quality and further influence scientific analysis. Due to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Yan Yu , Bin Ma , Tianmeng Zhang , Yi Hu , Yajie Zhang

The measurement of atmospheric parameters is fundamental for scientific research using stellar spectra. The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), scheduled to be launched in 2024, will provide researchers with hundreds of millions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 JiaRui Rao , HaiLiang Chen , JianPing Xiong , LuQian Wang , YanJun Guo , JiaJia Li , Chao Liu , ZhanWen Han , XueFei Chen

The upcoming Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) slitless spectroscopic survey poses a challenge of flux calibration, which requires a large number of flux-standard stars. In this work, we design an uncertainty-aware residual attention…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Lin Yang , Haibo Yuan , Fuqing Duan , Ruoyi Zhang , Bowen Huang , Kai Xiao , Shuai Xu , Jinming Zhang

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will provide for unbiased sampling of variability properties of objects with $r$ mag $<$ 24. This should allow for those objects whose variations reveal their orbital periods ($P_{orb}$), such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Michael A. C. Johnson , Poshak Gandhi , Adriane P. Chapman , Luc Moreau , Philip A. Charles , William I. Clarkson , Adam B. Hill