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We discuss the ability of the GLAST Large Area Telescope (LAT) to identify, resolve, and study the high energy gamma-ray sky. Compared to previous instruments the telescope will have greatly improved sensitivity and ability to localize…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. E. McEnery , I. V. Moskalenko , J. F. Ormes

LARS is an Absolute Reference Spectrograph designed for ultra-precise solar observations. The high-resolution echelle spectrograph of the Vacuum Tower Telescope is supported by a state-of-the-art laser frequency comb to calibrate the solar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 J. Loehner-Boettcher , W. Schmidt , H. -P. Doerr , T. Kentischer , T. Steinmetz , R. A. Probst , R. Holzwarth

We present a conceptual design for a new X-ray all sky monitor (ASM). Compared with previous ASMs, its salient features are: (1) it has a focusing capability that increases the signal to background ratio by a factor of 3; (2) it has a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 W. Zhang , R. Petre , A. N. Peele , K. Jahoda , F. E. Marshall , Y. Soong , N. E. White

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a pair-conversion telescope designed to survey the gamma-ray sky from 20 MeV to several hundreds of GeV. In this energy band there are no astronomical sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 The Fermi LAT Collaboration

X-ray emission has played a major role in the recent identification of several groups of young, nearby stars. The ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) is due to its spatial completeness an important tool for discovering stellar associations and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Stelzer , R. Neuhaeuser

The low energy (LE) X-ray telescope is one of the three main instruments of the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT). It is equipped with Swept Charge Device (SCD) sensor arrays with a total geometrical area of 384 cm2 and…

The SuperCLuster Assisted Shear Survey (SuperCLASS) is a legacy programme using the e-MERLIN interferometric array. The aim is to observe the sky at L-band (1.4 GHz) to a r.m.s. of 7 uJy per beam over an area of ~1 square degree centred on…

The integral field spectrograph configuration of the LMIRCam science camera within the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) facilitates 2 to 5 $\mu$m spectroscopy of directly imaged gas-giant exoplanets. The mode, dubbed ALES,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-09 Jordan M. Stone , Andrew J. Skemer , Philip Hinz , Zack Briesemeister , Travis Barman , Charles E. Woodward , Mike Skrutskie , Jarron Leisenring

Ly$\alpha$ Emitters (LAEs) may represent an important galaxy population in the low mass regime. We present our deep narrowband imaging surveys in the COSMOS and ECDF-S fields and study the properties of LAEs at $z=2.23\pm0.03$. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Cai-Na Hao , Jia-Sheng Huang , Xiaoyang Xia , Xianzhong Zheng , Chunyan Jiang , Cheng Li

The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions initiated by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS). ASTRO-H will investigate the physics of the high-energy universe by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Tadayuki Takahashi , Kazuhisa Mitsuda , Richard Kelley , Felix Aharonian , Fumie Akimoto , Steve Allen , Naohisa Anabuki , Lorella Angelini , Keith Arnaud , Hisamitsu Awaki , Aya Bamba , Nobutaka Bando , Mark Bautz , Roger Blandford , Kevin Boyce , Greg Brown , Maria Chernyakova , Paolo Coppi , Elisa Costantini , Jean Cottam , John Crow , Jelle de Plaa , Cor de Vries , Jan-Willem den Herder , Michael DiPirro , Chris Done , Tadayasu Dotani , Ken Ebisawa , Teruaki Enoto , Yuichiro Ezoe , Andrew Fabian , Ryuichi Fujimoto , Yasushi Fukazawa , Stefan Funk , Akihiro Furuzawa , Massimiliano Galeazzi , Poshak Gandhi , Keith Gendreau , Kirk Gilmore , Yoshito Haba , Kenji Hamaguchi , Isamu Hatsukade , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Junko Hiraga , Kazuyuki Hirose , Ann Hornschemeier , John Hughes , Una Hwang , Ryo Iizuka , Kazunori Ishibashi , Manabu Ishida , Kosei Ishimura , Yoshitaka Ishisaki , Naoki Isobe , Masayuki Ito , Naoko Iwata , Jelle Kaastra , Timothy Kallman , Tuneyoshi Kamae , Hideaki Katagiri , Jun Kataoka , Satoru Katsuda , Madoka Kawaharada , Nobuyuki Kawai , Shigeo Kawasaki , Dmitry Khangaluyan , Caroline Kilbourne , Kenzo Kinugasa , Shunji Kitamoto , Tetsu Kitayama , Takayoshi Kohmura , Motohide Kokubun , Tatsuro Kosaka , Taro Kotani , Katsuji Koyama , Aya Kubota , Hideyo Kunieda , Philippe Laurent , Francois Lebrun , Olivier Limousin , Michael Loewenstein , Knox Long , Grzegorz Madejski , Yoshitomo Maeda , Kazuo Makishima , Maxim Markevitch , Hironori Matsumoto , Kyoko Matsushita , Dan McCammon , Jon Miller , Shin Mineshige , Kenji Minesugi , Takuya Miyazawa , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Koji Mori , Hideyuki Mori , Koji Mukai , Hiroshi Murakami , Toshio Murakami , Richard Mushotzky , Yujin Nakagawa , Takao Nakagawa , Hiroshi Nakajima , Takeshi Nakamori , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Yoshiharu Namba , Masaharu Nomachi , Steve O' Dell , Hiroyuki Ogawa , Mina Ogawa , Keiji Ogi , Takaya Ohashi , Masanori Ohno , Masayuki Ohta , Takashi Okajima , Naomi Ota , Masanobu Ozaki , Frits Paerels , Stéphane Paltani , Arvind Parmer , Robert Petre , Martin Pohl , Scott Porter , Brian Ramsey , Christopher Reynolds , Shin-ichiro Sakai , Rita Sambruna , Goro Sato , Yoichi Sato , Peter Serlemitsos , Maki Shida , Takanobu Shimada , Keisuke Shinozaki , Peter Shirron , Randall Smith , Gary Sneiderman , Yang Soong , Lukasz Stawarz , Hiroyuki Sugita , Andrew Szymkowiak , Hiroyasu Tajima , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Yoh Takei , Toru Tamagawa , Takayuki Tamura , Keisuke Tamura , Takaaki Tanaka , Yasuo Tanaka , Yasuyuki Tanaka , Makoto Tashiro , Yuzuru Tawara , Yukikatsu Terada , Yuichi Terashima , Francesco Tombesi , Hiroshi Tomida , Miyako Tozuka , Yoko Tsuboi , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Hiroshi Tsunemi , Takeshi Tsuru , Hiroyuki Uchida , Yasunobu Uchiyama , Hideki Uchiyama , Yoshihiro Ueda , Shinichiro Uno , Meg Urry , Shin Watanabe , Nicholas White , Takahiro Yamada , Hiroya Yamaguchi , Kazutaka Yamaoka , Noriko Yamasaki , Makoto Yamauchi , Shigeo Yamauchi , Yoichi Yatsu , Daisuke Yonetoku , Atsumasa Yoshida

We introduce the LEnSed laeS in the Eboss suRvey (LESSER) project, which aims to search for lensed Lyman-$\alpha$ Emitters (LAEs) in the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). The final catalog contains 361 candidate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-20 Xiaoyue Cao , Ran Li , Yiping Shu , Shude Mao , Jean-Paul Kneib , Liang Gao

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the first high-precision full-sky photometry survey in space. We present light curves from a magnitude limited set of stars and other stationary luminous objects from the TESS Full Frame…

The hard X-ray sky now being studied by INTEGRAL and Swift and soon by NuSTAR is rich with energetic phenomena and highly variable non-thermal phenomena on a broad range of timescales. The High Energy Telescope (HET) on the proposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Hong , J. Grindlay , B. Allen , G. Skinner , S. Barthelmy , N. Gehrels , A. Garson , H. Krawczynski , W. Cook , F. Harrison , L. Natalucci , P. Ubertini , the EXIST/HET team

The field of millimetre-wave line-intensity mapping (LIM) is seeing increased experimental activity with pathfinder surveys already deployed or deploying in the next few years, making spectroscopic measurements of unresolved atomic and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Dongwoo T Chung

We demonstrate the capability of AKARI for mapping diffuse far-infrared emission and achieved reliability of all-sky diffuse map. We have conducted an all-sky survey for more than 94 % of the whole sky during cold phase of AKARI observation…

The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) is observing the entire sky north of $-40^{\circ}$ in the S-band ($2<\nu<4\,$GHz), with the highest angular resolution ($2''.5$) of any all-sky radio continuum survey to date. VLASS will cover its…

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a key mission in multiwavelength and multimessenger studies, has been surveying the gamma-ray sky from its low-Earth orbit since 2008. Its two scientific instruments, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 David J. Thompson , Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge

We describe a uniform all-sky survey of bright blazars, selected primarily by their flat radio spectra, that is designed to provide a large catalog of likely gamma-ray AGN. The defined sample has 1625 targets with radio and X-ray properties…

The ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) was the first imaging X-ray survey of the entire sky. While X-ray source counterparts are known to range from distant quasars to nearby M dwarfs, the RASS data alone are often insufficient to determine the…