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We present an ongoing survey with the Nan\c{c}ay Radio Telescope at L-band. The targeted area is $74^\circ \lesssim l <150^\circ$ and $3.5^\circ < |b| < 5^\circ$. This survey is characterized by a long integration time (18 min), large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Gregory Desvignes , Ismaël Cognard , David Champion , Patrick Lazarus , Patrice Lespagnol , David A. Smith , Gilles Theureau

We present a new method of extending the single band Analysis of Variance period estimation algorithm to multiple bands. We use SDSS Stripe 82 RR Lyrae to show that in the case of low number of observations per band and non-simultaneous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Nicholas Mondrik , James P. Long , Jennifer L. Marshall

The PhaseII Upgrades of CMS are being planned for the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) era when the mean number of interactions per beam crossing ("in-time pileup") is expected to reach ~140-200. The potential backgrounds arising from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-09-18 Sebastian N. White

The Roman Galactic Plane Survey (RGPS) is a 700-hour program approved for early definition as a community-designed General Astrophysics Survey. It was selected following a proposal call for science programs that would benefit from an early…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-12 Roman Galactic Plane Survey Definition Committee

We present results from a seven-season (2018-2024) monitoring campaign of the gravitationally lensed quasar system PS J2305+3714 using the 1.5-m Maidanak Telescope in the optical R-band. From these data, the amplitude of possible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 O. A. Burkhonov , V. N. Shalyapin , A. V. Sergeyev , Sh. E. Nurmamatov , Sh. A. Ehgamberdiev , T. A. Akhunov , F. Dux , F. Courbin , M. M. Muminov

We advocate for a Galactic center (GC) field to be added to the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey (GBTDS). The new field would yield high-cadence photometric and astrometric measurements of an unprecedented ${\sim}$3.3 million stars toward…

Early-time spectroscopy of supernovae (SNe), acquired within days of explosion, yields crucial insights into their outermost ejecta layers, facilitating the study of their environments, progenitor systems, and explosion mechanisms. Recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 Harry Addison , Chris Frohmaier , Kate Maguire , Robert C. Nichol , Isobel Hook , Stephen J. Smartt

Multiply imaged time-variable sources can be used to measure absolute distances as a function of redshifts and thus determine cosmological parameters, chiefly the Hubble Constant H$_0$. In the two decades up to 2020, through a number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 T. Treu , S. H. Suyu , P. J. Marshall

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to revolutionize our scientific understanding of exoplanets, dark matter, dark energy, and general astrophysics, including through an innovative community approach to defining and executing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee , Core Community Survey Definition Committees

In order to further develop and implement novel drift scan imaging experiments to undertake wide field, high time resolution surveys for millisecond optical transients, an appropriate telescope drive system is required. This paper describes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 S. J. Tingay

Through gravitational lensing, galaxy clusters can magnify supernovae (SNe) and create multiple images of the same SN. This enables measurements of cosmological parameters, which will be increasingly important in light of upcoming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-15 M. Bronikowski , T. Petrushevska , J. D. R. Pierel , A. Acebron , D. Donevski , B. Apostolova , N. Blagorodnova , T. Jankovič

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will provide an opportunity to study dark energy with unprecedented precision and accuracy using several techniques, including measurements of high-$z$ Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia, $z \lesssim…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Lauren Aldoroty , Daniel Scolnic , Arun Kannawadi , Rob Knop , Benjamin Rose , Rebekah Hounsell , Michael Troxel

We present a science case to perform high-redshift cosmic shear surveys for cosmology with next-generation spectroscopic instruments, such as the proposed MegaMapper and Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope. We argue that by using the novel…

The CMS-TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer (CT-PPS) is an approved project to add tracking and timing information at approximately $\pm$210~m from the interaction point around the CMS detector. It is designed to operate at high luminosity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-05 Michele Gallinaro

The 2-m aperture Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), which observes at wavelengths ranging from 255 to 1000 nm, is expected to start science operations in 2024. An ultra-deep field observation program covering approximately 10 square…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-09 Shi-Yu Li , Yun-Long Li , Tianmeng Zhang , Jozsef Vinko , Eniko Regos , Xiaofeng Wang , Gaobo Xi , Hu Zhan

We perform a high-cadence transient survey with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), which we call the Subaru HSC survey Optimized for Optical Transients (SHOOT). We conduct HSC imaging observations with time intervals of about one hour on two…

The Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) is a three-layered imaging survey aimed at addressing some of the most outstanding questions in astronomy today, including the nature of dark matter and dark energy. The survey has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Hiroaki Aihara , Robert Armstrong , Steven Bickerton , James Bosch , Jean Coupon , Hisanori Furusawa , Yusuke Hayashi , Hiroyuki Ikeda , Yukiko Kamata , Hiroshi Karoji , Satoshi Kawanomoto , Michitaro Koike , Yutaka Komiyama , Robert H. Lupton , Sogo Mineo , Hironao Miyatake , Satoshi Miyazaki , Tomoki Morokuma , Yoshiyuki Obuchi , Yukie Oishi , Yuki Okura , Paul A. Price , Tadafumi Takata , Manobu M. Tanaka , Masayuki Tanaka , Yoko Tanaka , Tomohisa Uchida , Fumihiro Uraguchi , Yousuke Utsumi , Shiang-Yu Wang , Yoshihiko Yamada , Hitomi Yamanoi , Naoki Yasuda , Nobuo Arimoto , Masashi Chiba , Francois Finet , Hiroki Fujimori , Seiji Fujimoto , Junko Furusawa , Tomotsugu Goto , Andy Goulding , James E. Gunn , Yuichi Harikane , Takashi Hattori , Masao Hayashi , Krzysztof G. Helminiak , Ryo Higuchi , Chiaki Hikage , Paul T. P. Ho , Bau-Ching Hsieh , Kuiyun Huang , Song Huang , Masatoshi Imanishi , Ikuru Iwata , Anton T. Jaelani , Hung-Yu Jian , Nobunari Kashikawa , Nobuhiko Katayama , Takashi Kojima , Akira Konno , Shintaro Koshida , Haruka Kusakabe , Alexie Leauthaud , C. -H. Lee , Lihwai Lin , Yen-Ting Lin , Rachel Mandelbaum , Yoshiki Matsuoka , Elinor Medezinski , Shoken Miyama , Rieko Momose , Anupreeta More , Surhud More , Shiro Mukae , Ryoma Murata , Hitoshi Murayama , Tohru Nagao , Fumiaki Nakata , Hiroko Niikura , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masamune Oguri , Nobuhiro Okabe , Yoshiaki Ono , Masato Onodera , Masafusa Onoue , Masami Ouchi , Tae-Soo Pyo , Takatoshi Shibuya , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Melanie Simet , Joshua Speagle , David N. Spergel , Michael A. Strauss , Yuma Sugahara , Naoshi Sugiyama , Yasushi Suto , Nao Suzuki , Philip J. Tait , Masahiro Takada , Tsuyoshi Terai , Yoshiki Toba , Edwin L. Turner , Hisakazu Uchiyama , Keiichi Umetsu , Yuji Urata , Tomonori Usuda , Sherry Yeh , Suraphong Yuma

Aims. We describe a pilot study to explore a new generation of fast and low noise CMOS image sensors for time domain astronomy, using two remote telescopes with a baseline of 1800 km. Methods. Direct imaging with novel qCMOS image sensor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Martin M. Roth , Paško Roje , Stella Vješnica , Stefan Cikota , Alex J. Brown , Mike Kretlow , Marco Azzaro , Santiago Reinhart , Jesús Aceituno , Thomas Kupfer

Previous and ongoing searches for extraterrestrial optical and infrared nanosecond laser pulses and narrow line-width continuous emissions have so far returned null results. At the commonly used observation cadence of $\sim 10^{-9}\,$s,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Michael Hippke
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