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Present status and future perspectives of the NEXT experiment

NEXT is an experiment dedicated to neutrinoless double beta decay searches in xenon. The detector is a TPC, holding 100 kg of high-pressure xenon enriched in the $^{136}$Xe isotope. It is under construction in the Laboratorio Subterr\'aneo…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-07-30 The NEXT Collaboration , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , V. Álvarez , F. I. G. M. Borges , S. Cárcel , J. Castel , S. Cebrián , A. Cervera , C. A. N. Conde , T. Dafni , T. H. V. T. Dias , J. Díaz , M. Egorov , R. Esteve , P. Evtoukhovitch , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , A. L. Ferreira , E. D. C. Freitas , V. M. Gehman , A. Gil , A. Goldschmidt , H. Gómez , D. González-Díaz , R. M. Gutiérrez , J. Hauptman , J. A. Hernando Morata , D. C. Herrera , F. J. Iguaz , I. G. Irastorza , M. A. Jinete , L. Labarga , A. Laing , I. Liubarsky , J. A. M. Lopes , D. Lorca , M. Losada , G. Luzón , A. Marí , J. Martín-Albo , A. Martínez , T. Miller , A. Moiseenko , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , L. M. Moutinho , J. Muñoz Vidal , H. Natal da Luz , G. Navarro , M. Nebot-Guinot , D. Nygren , C. A. B. Oliveira , R. Palma , J. Pérez , J. L. Pérez Aparicio , J. Renner , L. Ripoll , A. Rodríguez , J. Rodríguez , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , L. Segui , L. Serra , D. Shuman , A. Simón , C. Sofka , M. Sorel , J. F. Toledo , A. Tomás , J. Torrent , Z. Tsamalaidze , J. F. C. A. Veloso , J. A. Villar , R. C. Webb , J. White , N. Yahlali

Unlocking the Future of X-Ray Polarimetry with IXPE: Lessons Learned and Next Steps

This paper discusses issues encountered during the early development of the instrument on the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a NASA ASI Small Explorer mission launched on 9 December 2021. IXPE has observed about 100 sources,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-05 Paolo Soffitta , Enrico Costa , Ettore Del Monte , Alessandro Di Marco , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Fabio La Monaca , Fabio Muleri , Alda Rubini , Alessio Trois

MASTER OT J072007.30+451611.6: A Polar with Strong Optical Variability and Suppressed He II Emission

The transient optical source MASTER OT J072007.30+451611.6 has been recently discovered and proposed as a peculiar polar with an unusually high amplitude of the orbital brightness variation in the optical of $\sim$3 mag. To clarify its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 A. V. Bobakov , S. V. Zharikov , A. V. Karpova , D. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Kirichenko , Yu. A. Shibanov , R. Karimov , N. L. Vaidman , Sh. T. Nurmakhametova , M. R. Gilfanov , R. Michel

The LUX Prototype Detector: Heat Exchanger Development

The LUX (Large Underground Xenon) detector is a two-phase xenon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) designed to search for WIMP-nucleon dark matter interactions. As with all noble element detectors, continuous purification of the detector medium…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 D. S. Akerib , X. Bai , S. Bedikian , A. Bernstein , A. Bolozdynya , A. Bradley , S. Cahn , D. Carr , J. J. Chapman , K. Clark , T. Classen , A. Curioni , C. E. Dahl , S. Dazeley , L. deViveiros , M. Dragowsky , E. Druszkiewicz , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , C. Hall , C. Faham , B. Holbrook , L. Kastens , K. Kazkaz , J. Kwong , R. Lander , D. Leonard , D. Malling , R. Mannino , D. N. McKinsey , D. Mei , J. Mock , M. Morii , J. Nikkel , P. Phelps , T. Shutt , W. Skulski , P. Sorensen , J. Spaans , T. Steigler , R. Svoboda , M. Sweany , J. Thomson , M. Tripathi , N. Walsh , R. Webb , J. White , F. L. H. Wolfs , M. Woods , C. Zhang

Development of a $^{127}$Xe calibration source for nEXO

We study a possible calibration technique for the nEXO experiment using a $^{127}$Xe electron capture source. nEXO is a next-generation search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) that will use a 5-tonne, monolithic liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-03 B. G. Lenardo , C. A. Hardy , R. H. M. Tsang , J. C. Nzobadila Ondze , A. Piepke , S. Triambak , A. Jamil , G. Adhikari , S. Al Kharusi , E. Angelico , I. J. Arnquist , V. Belov , E. P. Bernard , A. Bhat , T. Bhatta , A. Bolotnikov , P. A. Breur , J. P. Brodsky , E. Brown , T. Brunner , E. Caden , G. F. Cao , L. Cao , B. Chana , S. A. Charlebois , D. Chernyak , M. Chiu , J. R. Cohen , R. Collister , J. Dalmasson , T. Daniels , L. Darroch , R. DeVoe , M. L. di Vacri , Y. Y. Ding , M. J. Dolinski , J. Echevers , B. Eckert , M. Elbeltagi , L. Fabris , D. Fairbank , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , Y. S. Fu , G. Gallina , P. Gautam , G. Giacomini , W. Gillis , C. Gingras , R. Gornea , G. Gratta , K. Harouaka , M. Heffner , E. Hein , J. Hößl , A. House , A. Iverson , X. S. Jiang , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , A. Larson , K. G. Leach , D. S. Leonard , G. Li , S. Li , Z. Li , C. Licciardi , R. Lindsay , R. MacLellan , J. Masbou , K. McMichael , M. Medina Peregrina , B. Mong , D. C. Moore , K. Murray , J. Nattress , C. R. Natzke , X. E. Ngwadla , K. Ni , Z. Ning , J. L. Orrell , G. S. Ortega , I. Ostrovskiy , C. T. Overman , A. Perna , T. Pinto Franco , A. Pocar , J. F. Pratte , N. Priel , E. Raguzin , G. J. Ramonnye , H. Rasiwala , K. Raymond , G. Richardson , M. Richman , J. Ringuette , P. C. Rowson , R. Saldanha , S. Sangiorgio , X. Shang , A. K. Soma , F. Spadoni , V. Stekhanov , X. L. Sun , S. Thibado , A. Tidball , J. Todd , T. Totev , O. A. Tyuka , F. Vachon , V. Veeraraghavan , S. Viel , K. Wamba , Y. Wang , Q. Wang , W. Wei , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , S. Wilde , W. H. Wu , W. Yan , L. Yang , O. Zeldovich , J. Zhao , T. Ziegler

The Infra-Red Telescope (IRT) on board the THESEUS mission

The Infra-Red Telescope (IRT) is part of the payload of the THESEUS mission, which is one of the two ESA M5 candidates within the Cosmic Vision program, planned for launch in 2032. The THESEUS payload, composed by two high energy wide field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-18 Diego Götz , Stéphane Basa , Frédéric Pinsard , Laurent Martin , Axel Arhancet , Enrico Bozzo , Christophe Cara , Isabel Escudero Sanz , Pierre-Antoine Frugier , Johan Floriot , Ludovic Genolet , Paul Heddermann , Emeric Le Floc'h , Isabelle Le Mer , Stéphane Paltani , Tony Pamplona , Céline Paries , Thibaut Prod'homme , Benjamin Schneider , Chris Tenzer , Thierry Tourrette , Henri Triou

RISTRETTO: reflected-light exoplanet spectroscopy at the diffraction limit of the VLT

RISTRETTO is a visible high-resolution spectrograph fed by an extreme adaptive optics (AO) system, to be proposed as a visitor instrument on ESO VLT. The main science goal of RISTRETTO is to pioneer the detection and atmospheric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 Christophe Lovis , Nicolas Blind , Bruno Chazelas , Muskan Shinde , Maddalena Bugatti , Nathanaël Restori , Isaac Dinis , Ludovic Genolet , Ian Hughes , Michaël Sordet , Robin Schnell , Samuel Rihs , Adrien Crausaz , Martin Turbet , Nicolas Billot , Thierry Fusco , Benoit Neichel , Jean-François Sauvage , Pablo Santos Diaz , Mathilde Houelle , Joshua Blackman , Audrey Lanotte , Jonas Kühn , Janis Hagelberg , Olivier Guyon , Patrice Martinez , Alain Spang , Christoph Mordasini , David Ehrenreich , Brice-Olivier Demory , Emeline Bolmont

XMMU J174716.1-281048: a "quasi-persistent" very faint X-ray transient?

The X-ray transient XMMU J174716.1-281048 was serendipitously discovered with XMM-Newton in 2003. It lies about 0.9 degrees off the Galactic Centre and its spectrum shows a high absorption (~8 x 10E22 cm^(-2)). Previous X-ray observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Del Santo , L. Sidoli , S. Mereghetti , A. Bazzano , A. Tarana , P. Ubertini

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will search for planets transiting bright and nearby stars. TESS has been selected by NASA for launch in 2017 as an Astrophysics Explorer mission. The spacecraft will be placed into a highly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 George R. Ricker , Joshua N. Winn , Roland Vanderspek , David W. Latham , Gaspar A. Bakos , Jacob L. Bean , Zachory K. Berta-Thompson , Timothy M. Brown , Lars Buchhave , Nathaniel R. Butler , R. Paul Butler , William J. Chaplin , David Charbonneau , Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard , Mark Clampin , Drake Deming , John Doty , Nathan De Lee , Courtney Dressing , E. W. Dunham , Michael Endl , Francois Fressin , Jian Ge , Thomas Henning , Matthew J. Holman , Andrew W. Howard , Shigeru Ida , Jon Jenkins , Garrett Jernigan , John Asher Johnson , Lisa Kaltenegger , Nobuyuki Kawai , Hans Kjeldsen , Gregory Laughlin , Alan M. Levine , Douglas Lin , Jack J. Lissauer , Phillip MacQueen , Geoffrey Marcy , P. R. McCullough , Timothy D. Morton , Norio Narita , Martin Paegert , Enric Palle , Francesco Pepe , Joshua Pepper , Andreas Quirrenbach , S. A. Rinehart , Dimitar Sasselov , Bun'ei Sato , Sara Seager , Alessandro Sozzetti , Keivan G. Stassun , Peter Sullivan , Andrew Szentgyorgyi , Guillermo Torres , Stephane Udry , Joel Villasenor

Nanobeacon: A time calibration device for the KM3NeT neutrino telescope

The KM3NeT Collaboration is currently constructing a multi-site high-energy neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea consisting of matrices of pressure-resistant glass spheres, each holding a set of 31 small-area photomultipliers. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 S. Aiello , A. Albert , M. Alshamsi , S. Alves Garre , Z. Aly , A. Ambrosone , F. Ameli , M. Andre , G. Androulakis , M. Anghinolfi , M. Anguita , M. Ardid , S. Ardid , J. Aublin , C. Bagatelas , B. Baret , S. Basegmez du Pree , M. Bendahman , F. Benfenati , E. Berbee , A. M. van den Berg , V. Bertine , S. Biagi , M. Boettcher , M. Bou Cabo , J. Boumaaza , M. Bouta , M. Bouwhuis , C. Bozza , H. Branza , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , R. Bruno , E. Buis , R. Buompane , J. Busto , B. Caiffi , D. Calvo , S. Campion , A. Capone , V. Carretero , P. Castaldi , S. Celli , M. Chabab , N. Chau , A. Chena , S. Cherubini , V. Chiarella , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , R. Cocimano , J. A. B. Coelho , A. Coleiro , M. Colomer Molla , R. Coniglione , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , A. Cruza , G. Cuttone , R. Dalliera , B. De Martino , I. Di Palma , A. F. Diaz , D. Diego Tortosa , C. Distefano , A. Domi , C. Donzau , D. Dornic , M. Dorra , D. Drouhin , T. Eberla , A. Eddyamoui , T. van Eeden , D. van Eijk , I. El Bojaddaini , S. El Hedri , A. Enzenhofer , V. Espinosa , P. Fermani , G. Ferrara , M. D. Filipovic , F. Filippini , L. A. Fusco , T. Gala , J. Garcia Mendez , F. Garufi , Y. Gatelet , C. Gatius Oliver , N. Geisselbrecht , L. Gialanella , E. Giorgio , S. R. Gozzini , R. Gracia , K. Grafa , G. Grella , D. Guderian , C. Guidi , B. Guillon , M. Gutierrez , J. Haefner , S. Hallmann , H. Hamdaoui , H. van Harena , A. Heijboer , A. Hekaloa , L. Henniga , J. J. Hernandez-Rey , J. Hofestadt , F. Huang , W. Idrissi Ibnsalih , G. Illuminati , C. W. James , D. Janezashvili , M. de Jong , P. de Jong , B. J. Jung , P. Kalaczynski , O. Kalekin , U. F. Katz , N. R. Khan Chowdhury , G. Kistauri , F. van der Knaap , P. Kooijman , A. Kouchner , V. Kulikovskiy , M. Labalme , R. Lahmann , M. Lamoureux , G. Larosa , C. Lastori , A. Lazo , R. Le Breton , S. Le Stum , G. Lehaut , O. Leonardi , F. Leone , E. Leonora , N. Lessing , G. Levi , M. Lincetto , M. Lindsey Clark , T. Lipreau , C. LLorens Alvarez , F. Longhitano , D. Lopez-Coto , L. Maderer , J. Majumdar , J. Manczak , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , C. Markou , L. Martina , J. A. Martinez-Mora , A. Martini , F. Marzaioli , S. Mastroianni , K. W. Melis , G. Miele , P. Migliozzi , E. Migneco , P. Mijakowski , L. S. Miranda , C. M. Mollo , M. Moser , A. Moussa , R. Muller , M. Musumeci , L. Nauta , S. Navas , C. A. Nicolau , B. Nkosi , B. OFearraigh , M. OSullivan , M. Organokov , A. Orlando , J. Palacios Gonzalez , G. Papalashvilia , R. Papaleo , A. M. Paun , G. E. Pavala , C. Pellegrino , M. Perrin-Terrin , V. Pestel , P. Piattelli , C. Pieterse , O. Pisanti , C. Poire , V. Popa , T. Pradier , I. Probsta , S. Pulvirenti , G. Quemenera , N. Randazzo , S. Razzaquea , D. Real , S. Recka , G. Riccobene , A. Romanov , A. Rovelli , F. Salesa Greus , D. F. E. Samtlebe , A. Sanchez Losa , M. Sanguineti , D. Santonocito , P. Sapienza , J. Schnabel , M. F. Schneidera , J. Schumann , H. M. Schutte , J. Seneca , I. Sgura , R. Shanidze , A. Sharma , A. Sinopoulou , B. Spisso , M. Spurio , D. Stavropoulos , S. M. Stellaccian , M. Taiutik , Y. Tayalati , H. Thiersen , S. Tingay , S. Tsagkli , V. Tsourapis , E. Tzamariudaki , D. Tzanetatos , V. Van Elewyck , G. Vasileiadis , F. Versari , D. Vivolo , G. de Wasseige , J. Wilmsa , R. Wojaczynski , E. de Wolf , T. Yousfi , S. Zavatarelli , A. Zegarelli , D. Zito , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zuniga , N. Zywucka

Neutrino detection of transient sources with optical follow-up observations

The ANTARES telescope has the opportunity to detect transient neutrino sources, such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), core-collapse supernovae (SNe), flares of active galactic nuclei (AGNs)... To enhance the sensitivity to these sources, we are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-09 D. Dornic D , S. Basa , J. Brunner , J. Busto , A. Klotz , M. Boer , S. Escoffier , B. Vallage , B. Gendre , A. Mazure , J. L. Atteia , A. Le Van Suu

Transformable Reflective Telescope for optical testing and education

We propose and experimentally demonstrate the Transformable Reflective Telescope (TRT) Kit for educational purposes and for performing various optical tests with a single kit. The TRT Kit is a portable optical bench setup suitable for…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-07-28 Woojin Park , Soojong Pak , Geon Hee Kim , Sunwoo Lee , Seunghyuk Chang , Sanghyuk Kim , Byeongjoon Jeong , Trenton James Brendel , Dae Wook Kim

The transient X-ray source SAX J2239.3+6116 and its optical counterpart

We have discovered with the Wide Field Cameras on board BeppoSAX the weak transient X-ray source SAXJ2239.3+6116 whose position coincides with that of 4U2238+60/3A2237+608 and is close to that of the fast transient AT2238+60 and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. J. M. in 't Zand , J. Halpern , M. Eracleous , M. McCollough , T. Augusteijn , R. A. Remillard , J. Heise

EarthFinder Probe Mission Concept Study: Characterizing nearby stellar exoplanet systems with Earth-mass analogs for future direct imaging

EarthFinder is a NASA Astrophysics Probe mission concept selected for study as input to the 2020 Astrophysics National Academies Decadal Survey. The EarthFinder concept is based on a dramatic shift in our understanding of how PRV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-25 Peter Plavchan , Gautam Vasisht , Chas Beichman , Heather Cegla , Xavier Dumusque , Sharon Wang , Peter Gao , Courtney Dressing , Fabienne Bastien , Sarbani Basu , Thomas Beatty , Andrew Bechter , Eric Bechter , Cullen Blake , Vincent Bourrier , Bryson Cale , David Ciardi , Jonathan Crass , Justin Crepp , Katherine de Kleer , Scott Diddams , Jason Eastman , Debra Fischer , Jonathan Gagné , Scott Gaudi , Catherine Grier , Richard Hall , Sam Halverson , Bahaa Hamze , Enrique Herrero Casas , Andrew Howard , Eliza Kempton , Natasha Latouf , Stephanie Leifer , Paul Lightsey , Casey Lisse , Emily Martin , William Matzko , Dimitri Mawet , Andrew Mayo , Patrick Newman , Scott Papp , Benjamin Pope , Bill Purcell , Sam Quinn , Ignasi Ribas , Albert Rosich , Sophia Sanchez-Maes , Angelle Tanner , Samantha Thompson , Kerry Vahala , Ji Wang , Peter Williams , Alex Wise , Jason Wright

Development of the detector simulation framework for the Wideband Hybrid X-ray Imager onboard FORCE

FORCE is a Japan-US space-based astronomy mission for an X-ray imaging spectroscopy in an energy range of 1--80 keV. The Wideband Hybrid X-ray Imager (WHXI), which is the main focal plane detector, will use a hybrid semiconductor imager…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Hiromasa Suzuki , Tsubasa Tamba , Hirokazu Odaka , Aya Bamba , Koichi Hagino , Ayaki Takeda , Koji Mori , Takahiro Hida , Masataka Yukumoto , Yusuke Nishioka , Takeshi G. Tsuru

Sensitivity studies for the cubic-kilometre deep-sea neutrino telescope KM3NeT

The observation of high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources would substantially improve our knowledge and understanding of the non-thermal processes in these sources, and would in particular pinpoint the accelerators of cosmic rays.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Carr , D. Dornic , F. Jouvenot , U. F. Katz , S. Kuch , G. Maurin , R. Shanidze

The soft X-ray imager on THESEUS: the transient high energy survey and early universe surveyor

We are entering a new era for high energy astrophysics with the use of new technology to increase our ability to both survey and monitor the sky. The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) instrument on the THESEUS mission will revolutionize transient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-18 Paul O'Brien , Ian Hutchinson , Hannah Natasha Lerman , Charlotte H. Feldman , Melissa McHugh , Alexander Lodge , Richard Willingale , Andy Beardmore , Roisin Speight , Paul Drumm

An overview of the EXTraS project: Exploring the X-ray Transient and Variable Sky

The EXTraS project (Exploring the X-ray Transient and variable Sky) will harvest the hitherto unexplored temporal domain information buried in the serendipitous data collected by the European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC) instrument onboard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 A. De Luca , R. Salvaterra , A. Tiengo , D. D'Agostino , M. G. Watson , F. Haberl , J. Wilms

Status and Prospects of the PandaX-III Experiment

The PandaX-III experiment searches the neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe with a high-pressure xenon gaseous time projection chamber~(TPC). Thermal-bonding Micromegas modules are used for charge collection. Benefitting from the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-11-23 Wenming Zhang , Heng Lin , Yuanchun Liu , Ke Han , Kaixiang Ni , Shaobo Wang , Wenchang Zhai

X-ray Sources Classification Using Machine Learning: A Study with EP-WXT Pathfinder LEIA

X-ray observations play a crucial role in time-domain astronomy. The Einstein Probe (EP), a recently launched X-ray astronomical satellite, emerges as a forefront player in the field of time-domain astronomy and high-energy astrophysics.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Xiaoxiong Zuo , Yihan Tao , Yuan Liu , Yunfei Xu , Wenda Zhang , Haiwu Pan , Hui Sun , Zhen Zhang , Chenzhou Cui , Weimin Yuan