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A conceptual design of an advanced Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope with a 23 m diameter mirror and of 50 tons weight will be presented. A system photon detection efficiency of 15-17%, averaged over 300-600 nm, is aimed at to lower the…

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We present a community study exploring the low frequency (5 - 800 MHz) options and opportunities for the ngVLA project and its infrastructure. We describe a Next Generation LOw Band Observatory (ngLOBO) that will provide access to the low…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-14 Greg Taylor , Jayce Dowell , Joe Malins , Tracy Clarke , Namir Kassim , Simona Giacintucci , Brian Hicks , Jason Kooi , Wendy Peters , Emil Polisensky , Frank Schinzel , Kevin Stovall

Low--luminosity gamma-ray bursts (LLGRBs) are promising candidates for high-energy neutrinos, yet no coincident neutrino events have been detected so far. Recent advances in X-ray time-domain astronomy, together with the development of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-16 Wenkang Lian , He Gao , Shunke Ai , B. Theodore Zhang

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) was a suborbital experiment designed to map magnetic fields in order to study their role in star formation processes. BLASTPol made detailed polarization…

The next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) will be a significant enhancement of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) array, with $\sim 10$ new antennas and instrumental upgrades of existing antennas. The increased $uv$-coverage,…

The next generation neutrino telescope, IceCube-Gen2, will be sensitive to the astrophysical and cosmogenic flux of neutrinos across a broad energy range, from the TeV to the EeV scale. The planned design includes 8 cubic kilometers of ice…

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Among present-day observatories, the Arecibo Radio Telescope represents an extension of Galileo's vision to its logical extreme. With a diameter of 305 metres and state-of-the-art instrumentation, Arecibo continues to build on its legacy of…

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The Orbiting Astronomical Satellite for Investigating Stellar Systems (OASIS) is a proposed space telescope with a 14 m inflatable primary reflector that will perform high spectral resolution observations at terahertz frequencies with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Siddhartha Sirsi , Yuzuru Takashima , Arthur Palisoc , Heejoo Choi , Jonathan W. Arenberg , Daewook Kim , Chistopher Walker

SETI@home observes a 2.5 MHz bandwidth centered on 1420 MHz near the 21-cm line using a short line feed at Arecibo which provides a 6' beam. This feed sits on Carriage House 1. During normal astronomical observations with the new Gregorian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric J. Korpela , Paul Demorest , Eric Heien , Carl Heiles , Dan Werthimer

Large Array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (LACT) is an array of 32 Cherenkov telescopes with 6-meter diameter mirrors to be constructed at the LHAASO site. In this work, we present a study on the layout optimization and…

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This paper presents a system-level engineering approach for the preliminary coverage performance analysis and the design of a generic Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) constellation. This analysis accounts for both the coverage…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-22 Marco Nugnes , Camilla Colombo , Massimo Tipaldi

High-precision astrometry at the sub-microarcsecond level opens up a window to study Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars, and to determine their masses. It thus promises to play an important role in exoplanet science…

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The National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC), has started building the largest antenna in the world. Known as FAST, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope is a Chinese mega-science project…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Di Li , Rendong Nan , Zhichen Pan

The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is scheduled to be launched to geostationary orbit in 2026. It will carry a telescope with an unprecedentedly large field of view (204 deg$^2$) and NUV (230-290nm) sensitivity (22.5…

The GRANDProto300 (GP300) experiment is the first stage of the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) project. It will be deployed between 2020 and 2021 in a radio-quiet area, at $3000\,$m of altitude at the rim of the Tibetan…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-12 Valentin Decoene

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is an envisioned observatory of ultra-high-energy particles of cosmic origin, with energies in excess of 100 PeV. GRAND uses large surface arrays of autonomous radio-detection units to…

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The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is an array of wide-field optical telescopes, designed to exploit new discoveries from the next generation of gravitational wave detectors (LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA), study rapidly evolving…

The NeXT (New exploration X-ray Telescope), the new Japanese X-ray Astronomy Satellite following Suzaku, is an international X-ray mission which is currently planed for launch in 2013. NeXT is a combination of wide band X-ray spectroscopy…

We discuss dynamical mass measurements of high-z galaxies with the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST). In particular, we review some of the observational limits with the current instrument/telescope generation, we discuss the redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Treu , M. Stiavelli

Assess the joint capabilities of emerging telescopes for near-Earth objects (NEOs) survey and characterization, and what they will add to the current capabilities or replace. NASA telescopes in prime mission, in development, or under study,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 S. N. Milam , H. B. Hammel , J. Bauer , M. Brozovic , T. Grav , B. J. Holler , C. Lisse , A. Mainzer , V. Reddy , M. E. Schwamb , T. Spahr , C. A. Thomas , D. Woods