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We report on a plan to construct a 50-m-class single-dish telescope, the Large Submillimeter Telescope (LST). The conceptual design and key science behind the LST are presented, together with its tentative specifications. This telescope is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Ryohei Kawabe , Kotaro Kohno , Yoichi Tamura , Tatsuya Takekoshi , Tai Oshima , Shun Ishii , LST working group

The next-generation ground-based gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will consist of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) of three different sizes distributed in two sites. The Large-Sized Telescopes will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-21 Daniel Morcuende , Rubén López-Coto , Abelardo Moralejo , Seiya Nozaki , Thomas Vuillaume

We present the results of a recent re-reduction of the data from the Very Large Array (VLA) Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS). We used the VLSS catalog as a sky model to correct the ionospheric distortions in the data and create a new set of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 W. M. Lane , W. D. Cotton , S. van Velzen , T. E. Clarke , N. E. Kassim , J. F. Helmboldt , T. J. W. Lazio , A. S. Cohen

The FIRST survey, begun over twenty years ago, provides the definitive high-resolution map of the radio sky. This VLA survey reaches a 20cm detection sensitivity of 1 mJy over 10,575 deg**2 largely coincident with the SDSS area. Images and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 David J. Helfand , Richard L. White , Robert H. Becker

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the largest ground-based observatory operating in the very-high-energy gamma-ray (20 GeV - 300 TeV) range. It will be based on more than one hundred telescopes, located at two sites (northern and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 Maria Concetta Maccarone

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary instrument for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range from 30 MeV to more than 300 GeV.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-07 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , M. Ajello , W. B. Atwood , M. Axelsson , R. Bagagli , M. Bagni , L. Baldini , D. Bastieri , F. Bellardi , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , J. Bregeon , A. Brez , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , M. Ceccanti , S. Chen , C. C. Cheung , S. Ciprini , I. Cognard , J. Cohen-Tanugi , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , P. de la Torre Luque , F. de Palma , S. W. Digel , F. Dirirsa , N. Di Lalla , L. Di Venere , A. Domínguez , D. Fabiani , E. C. Ferrara , A. Fiori , G. Foglia , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , D. Green , S. Griffin , M. -H. Grondin , J. E. Grove , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , E. Hays , D. Horan , G. Jóhannesson , T. J. Johnson , T. Kamae , M. Kerr , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. Li , I. Liodakis , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , G. Martí-Devesa , M. N. Mazziotta , N. Menon , I. Mereu , M. Meyer , P. F. Michelson , M. Minuti , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. Mongelli , M. E. Monzani , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , E. Nuss , R. Ojha , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , A. Paccagnella , V. S. Paliya , D. Paneque , Z. Pei , J. S. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , M. Pinchera , F. Piron , H. Poon , T. A. Porter , R. Primavera , G. Principe , J. L. Racusin , S. Rainò , R. Rando , B. Rani , E. Rapposelli , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , J. J. Russell , N. Saggini , P. M. Saz Parkinson , N. Scolieri , D. Serini , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , D. A. Smith , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , J. G. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , J. Valverde , L. Vigiani , G. Zaharijas

The sub-mm sky is a unique window for probing the architecture of the Universe and structures within it. From the discovery of dusty sub-mm galaxies, to the ringed nature of protostellar disks, our understanding of the formation,…

Very Large Area gamma-ray Space Telescope (VLAST) is the next-generation flagship space observatory for high-energy gamma-ray detection proposed by China. The observation energy range covers from MeV to TeV and beyond, with acceptance of 10…

The LAMOST-Kepler (LK-) project was initiated to use the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) to make spectroscopic follow-up observations for the targets in the field of the Kepler mission. The Kepler field is…

During the most active period of star formation in galaxies, which occurs in the redshift range 1<z<3, strong bursts of star formation result in significant quantities of dust, which obscures new stars being formed as their UV/optical light…

The Faint Sky Variability Survey is aimed at finding photometric and/or astrometric variable objects in the brightness range between 16<V<24 on timescales between tens of minutes and years with photometric precisions ranging from 3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Paul J. Groot , Paul M. Vreeswijk , Mark E. Huber

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST) is expected to complete its commissioning in 2019. FAST will soon begin the Commensal Radio Astronomy FasT Survey(CRAFTS), a novel and unprecedented commensal drift scan survey…

We present here the information on the design and performance of the recently commissioned 2.5-meter telescope at the PRL Mount Abu Observatory, located at Gurushikhar, Mount Abu, India. The telescope has been successfully installed at the…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory that is expected to reach one order of magnitude better sensitivity than that of current telescope arrays. The Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) have an essential…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 Yukiho Kobayashi , Akira Okumura , Franca Cassol , Hideaki Katagiri , Julian Sitarek , Paweł Gliwny , Seiya Nozaki , Yuto Nogami

The Telescope Array (TA) is the largest hybrid cosmic ray detector in the Northern Hemisphere, which observes primary particles in the energy range from 2 PeV to 100 EeV. The main TA detector consists of 507 plastic scintillation counters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-24 Hiroyuki Sagawa

The FAST All Sky H I survey (FASHI) will cover the entire observable sky ($\sim$22000 square degrees) with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). With the currently released data, we perform an untargeted survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-13 Chuan-Peng Zhang , Ming Zhu , Peng Jiang , Cheng Cheng , Jin-Long Xu , Nai-Ping Yu , Xiao-Lan Liu , Bo Zhang

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is by far the largest telescope of any kind ever built. FAST produced its first light in September 2016 and it is now under commissioning, with normal operation to commence in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Di Li , John M. Dickey , Shu Liu

The Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) will make contributions to the study of Galactic and extragalactic masers. The telescope, now finished construction and commissioning in China, has an innovative design that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-24 J. S. Zhang , D. Li , J. Z. Wang , Q. F. Zhu , J. Li

(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a single wide-deep-fast sky survey, and LSST will have unique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Željko Ivezić , Steven M. Kahn , J. Anthony Tyson , Bob Abel , Emily Acosta , Robyn Allsman , David Alonso , Yusra AlSayyad , Scott F. Anderson , John Andrew , James Roger P. Angel , George Z. Angeli , Reza Ansari , Pierre Antilogus , Constanza Araujo , Robert Armstrong , Kirk T. Arndt , Pierre Astier , Éric Aubourg , Nicole Auza , Tim S. Axelrod , Deborah J. Bard , Jeff D. Barr , Aurelian Barrau , James G. Bartlett , Amanda E. Bauer , Brian J. Bauman , Sylvain Baumont , Andrew C. Becker , Jacek Becla , Cristina Beldica , Steve Bellavia , Federica B. Bianco , Rahul Biswas , Guillaume Blanc , Jonathan Blazek , Roger D. Blandford , Josh S. Bloom , Joanne Bogart , Tim W. Bond , Anders W. Borgland , Kirk Borne , James F. Bosch , Dominique Boutigny , Craig A. Brackett , Andrew Bradshaw , William Nielsen Brandt , Michael E. Brown , James S. Bullock , Patricia Burchat , David L. Burke , Gianpietro Cagnoli , Daniel Calabrese , Shawn Callahan , Alice L. Callen , Srinivasan Chandrasekharan , Glenaver Charles-Emerson , Steve Chesley , Elliott C. Cheu , Hsin-Fang Chiang , James Chiang , Carol Chirino , Derek Chow , David R. Ciardi , Charles F. Claver , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Joseph J. Cockrum , Rebecca Coles , Andrew J. Connolly , Kem H. Cook , Asantha Cooray , Kevin R. Covey , Chris Cribbs , Wei Cui , Roc Cutri , Philip N. Daly , Scott F. Daniel , Felipe Daruich , Guillaume Daubard , Greg Daues , William Dawson , Francisco Delgado , Alfred Dellapenna , Robert de Peyster , Miguel de Val-Borro , Seth W. Digel , Peter Doherty , Richard Dubois , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann , Josef Durech , Frossie Economou , Michael Eracleous , Henry Ferguson , Enrique Figueroa , Merlin Fisher-Levine , Warren Focke , Michael D. Foss , James Frank , Michael D. Freemon , Emmanuel Gangler , Eric Gawiser , John C. Geary , Perry Gee , Marla Geha , Charles J. B. Gessner , Robert R. Gibson , D. Kirk Gilmore , Thomas Glanzman , William Glick , Tatiana Goldina , Daniel A. Goldstein , Iain Goodenow , Melissa L. Graham , William J. Gressler , Philippe Gris , Leanne P. Guy , Augustin Guyonnet , Gunther Haller , Ron Harris , Patrick A. Hascall , Justine Haupt , Fabio Hernandez , Sven Herrmann , Edward Hileman , Joshua Hoblitt , John A. Hodgson , Craig Hogan , Dajun Huang , Michael E. Huffer , Patrick Ingraham , Walter R. Innes , Suzanne H. Jacoby , Bhuvnesh Jain , Fabrice Jammes , James Jee , Tim Jenness , Garrett Jernigan , Darko Jevremović , Kenneth Johns , Anthony S. Johnson , Margaret W. G. Johnson , R. Lynne Jones , Claire Juramy-Gilles , Mario Jurić , Jason S. Kalirai , Nitya J. Kallivayalil , Bryce Kalmbach , Jeffrey P. Kantor , Pierre Karst , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Heather Kelly , Richard Kessler , Veronica Kinnison , David Kirkby , Lloyd Knox , Ivan V. Kotov , Victor L. Krabbendam , K. Simon Krughoff , Petr Kubánek , John Kuczewski , Shri Kulkarni , John Ku , Nadine R. 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