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Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites are crucial for communications, navigation, and Earth observation. However, their operational lifetimes are strongly influenced by orbital decay due to atmospheric drag. This work presents a simplified…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Sukdev Mahapatra

By sending one or more telescopes into space, Space-VLBI (SVLBI) is able to achieve even higher angular resolution and is therefore the trend of the VLBI technique. For SVLBI program, the design of satellite orbits plays an important role…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Lei Liu , Weimin Zheng

We investigate the influence of lunar-like satellites on the infrared orbital light curves of Earth-analog extra-solar planets. Such light curves will be obtained by NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and ESA's Darwin missions as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nicholas A. Moskovitz , Eric Gaidos , Darren Williams

Minor mergers of galaxies are expected to be common in a hierarchical cosmology such as $\Lambda$CDM and have the potential to significantly affect galactic structure. In this paper we dissect the case-by-case outcome from a set of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Chung-Pei Ma

The exponential increase of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites in the past 5 years has brought into intense focus the need for reliable monitoring and reentry prediction to safeguard from space collisions and ground debris impacts. However,…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Denny M. Oliveira , Eftyhia Zesta , Katherine Garcia-Sage

The growing negative impact of the visibility of satellites in the night sky is influencing the practice of astronomy and astrophotograph, both at the amateur and professional levels. The presence of these satellites has the effect of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Olivier Parisot , Mahmoud Jaziri

The existence and prevalence of planar, co-rotating distributions of satellite galaxies around L* host galaxies in the local universe remains a subject of ongoing debate. Despite numerous observational efforts over the past decade, a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Ethan Crosby , Marcel S. Pawlowski , Oliver Müller , Helmut Jerjen

The observation of celestial objects is a fundamental activity in astronomy. Ground-based and space telescopes are used to gather electromagnetic radiation from space, allowing astronomers to study a wide range of celestial objects and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Thomas Rahab Lacroix , Pierre Lemaire

The number of artificial satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is increasing at an exponential rate since 2019. Satellites are visible to both ground and space telescopes, and their bright emission in optical, infrared, and radio-wavelengths…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Alejandro S. Borlaff , Pamela M. Marcum , Steve B. Howell , Pablo M. Sánchez-Alarcón , David Dubois , Jonathan McDowell

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) optical satellite communication systems face performance challenges due to atmospheric effects such as scintillation, turbulence, wavefront distortion, beam spread, and jitter. This paper presents a comprehensive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Dhruv Shivkant , Shreyaans Jain , Rohit K Ramakrishnan

The observation of celestial objects is a fundamental activity in astronomy. Ground-based and space telescopes are used to gather electromagnetic radiation from space, allowing astronomers to study a wide range of celestial objects and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Thomas Rahab Lacroix , Pierre Lemaire , Anne-Marie Lagrange , Julien Milli , Nadia Brauner

Environment plays a pivotal role in shaping the evolution of satellite galaxies. Analyzing the properties related to the cold gas phase of satellites provides insights into unravelling the complexity of environmental effects. We use the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-17 Hongxing Chen , Lizhi Xie , Jie Wang , Wenkai Hu , Gabriella De Lucia , Fabio Fontanot , Michaela Hirschamnn

The incidence of sub-galactic level substructures is an important quantity, as it is a generic prediction of high-resolution Cold Dark Matter (CDM) models which is susceptible to observational test. Confrontation of theory with observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Jackson , S. E. Bryan , S. Mao , C. Li

Thousands of active artificial objects are orbiting around Earth along with much more non-operational ones -- derelict satellites or rocket bodies, collision debris, or spacecraft payloads, significant part of them being uncatalogued. They…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-14 Sergey Karpov , Julien Peloton

The co-existence of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) is essential for achieving global coverage in sixth-generation cellular networks. Due to increasing spectrum demand, there is discussion in the world level to share some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Lingrui Zhang , Zheng Li , Sheng Yang

The lifetime of a satellite is limited, and its calibration may be not stable, it is necessary to continue ground-based measures of the solar diameter with methods less affected by atmospheric turbulence, and optical aberrations: planetary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-21 Costantino Sigismondi

We derive the ranking of the astronomical observatories with the highest impact in astronomy based on the citation analysis of papers published in 2006. We also present a description of the methodology we use to derive this ranking. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Juan P. Madrid , Duccio Macchetto

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites are being considered for expanding legacy terrestrial cellular networks. The end users may not be able to optimize satellite orbits and constellations, however, they can optimize locations of ground stations…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Iestyn Morgan-Jones , Pavel Loskot

We investigate the influence of supernova (SN) feedback on the satellites of elliptical host galaxies using hydrodynamic simulations. Utilizing a modified version of the GADGET-3 code, we perform cosmological zoom-in simulations of 11…

Geostationary observations offer the unique opportunity to resolve the diurnal cycle of the Earth's Radiation Budget at the top of the atmosphere (TOA), crucial for climate-change studies. However, a drawback of the continuous temporal…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Alexandre Payez , Steven Dewitte , Nicolas Clerbaux