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$\texttt{Eureka!}$ is a data reduction and analysis pipeline for exoplanet time-series observations, with a particular focus on JWST data. Over the next 1-2 decades, JWST will pursue four main science themes: Early Universe, Galaxies Over…

We have developed an electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC) for use in next-generation MeV gamma ray telescopes. An ETCC consists of a gaseous time projection chamber (TPC) and pixel scintillator arrays (PSAs). Since the TPC measures the…

The BL Lac object 3C 66A was observed in an extensive multiwavelength monitoring campaign from July 2003 till April 2004. The spectral energy distribution (SED) was measured over the entire electromagnetic spectrum, with flux measurements…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Joshi , M. Boettcher

We present Monte Carlo (MC) simulation results from a study of a compact plastic-scintillator detector suitable for imaging fast neutrons in the 1 -- 10 MeV energy range: the miniTimeCube (mTC). Originally designed for antineutrino…

We present the development of the End-to-End simulator for the SOXS instrument at the ESO-NTT 3.5-m telescope. SOXS will be a spectroscopic facility, made by two arms high efficiency spectrographs, able to cover the spectral range 350-2000…

The development of a 3-dimensional simulation for Cherenkov photon emissions in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) is reported in this paper. CORSIKA is the most widely used Monte-Carlo generator for the description of EAS, but it is not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-13 João Espadanal , Patrícia Gonçalves

Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) are the main technique for detecting gamma rays with energies between tens of GeV and hundreds of TeV. Amongst them, the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) has pioneered the use of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 Rodrigo Guedes Lang , Tim Unbehaun , Lars Mohrmann , Simon Steinmassl , Jim Hinton , Stefan Funk

Relative free energy calculations are now widely used in academia and industry, but the accuracy is often limited by poor sampling of the complexes conformational ensemble. To address this, we have developed a novel method termed…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Anika J. Friedman , Wei-Tse Hsu , Michael R. Shirts

End-to-end mission performance simulators (E2ES) are suitable tools to accelerate satellite mission development from concet to deployment. One core element of these E2ES is the generation of synthetic scenes that are observed by the various…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 J. Vicent , J. Verrelst , J. P. Rivera-Caicedo , N. Sabater , J. Muñoz-Marí , G. Camps-Valls , J. Moreno

We report, for the first time, a multi-confocal Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (mFCS) technique which allows parallel measurements at different locations, by combining a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM), with an Electron Multiplying-CCD…

The Cherenkov Telescopes Array (CTA) is planned as the future instrument for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy with a wide energy range of four orders of magnitude and an improvement in sensitivity compared to current instruments…

The Solar Aspect Monitor (SAM) is a pinhole camera on the Extreme-ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). SAM projects the solar disk onto the CCD through a metallic filter designed to allow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-27 C. Y. Lin , S. M. Bailey , A. Jones , D. Woodraska , A. Caspi , T. N. Woods , F. G. Eparvier , S. R. Wieman , L. V. Didkovsky

Strong multiple scattering of the probe in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) means image simulations are usually required for quantitative interpretation and analysis of elemental maps produced by electron energy-loss…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-25 Hamish G. Brown , Jim Ciston , Colin Ophus

The Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument is a high-resolution imaging spectrometer operating at extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths. In this paper, we present the concept, design, and pre-launch performance of…

Hyperspectral change detection plays an essential role of monitoring the dynamic urban development and detecting precise fine object evolution and alteration. In this paper, we have proposed an original Efficient Multi-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Meiqi Hu , Chen Wu , Bo Du

We present an online catalog containing spectra and supporting information for cataclysmic variables that have been observed with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE). For each object in the catalog we list some of the basic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. Godon , E. M. Sion , K. Levay , A. P. Linnell , P. Szkody , P. E. Barrett , I. Hubeny , W. P. Blair

This work continues the development of the raytracing method of [1] for computing the scattered fields from metasurfaces characterized by locally periodic reflection and transmission coefficients. In this work, instead of describing the…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-16 Scott Stewart , Yvo L. C. de Jong , Tom J. Smy , Shulabh Gupta

We have been developing a high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber (TPC) to search for neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay of $^{136}$Xe. The unique feature of this TPC is in the detection part of ionization electrons,…

The HORACE suite of programs has been developed to work with large multiple-measurement data sets collected from time-of-flight neutron spectrometers equipped with arrays of position-sensitive detectors. The software allows exploratory…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-08-10 R. A. Ewings , A. Buts , M. D. Le , J. van Duijn , I. Bustinduy , T. G. Perring

The World Space Observatory - Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) space telescope is equipped with high dispersion (55,000) spectrographs working in the 1150-3100 {\AA} spectral range. To evaluate the impact of the design on the scientific objectives of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 Pablo Marcos-Arenal , Ana I. Gómez de Castro , Belén Perea Abarca , Mikhail Sachkov