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Astro2020 Activities and Projects White Paper: Arecibo Observatory in the Next Decade

The white paper discusses Arecibo Observatory's plan for facility improvements and activities over the next decade. The facility improvements include: (a) improving the telescope surface, pointing and focusing to achieve superb performance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-16 D. Anish Roshi , L. D. Anderson , E. Araya , D. Balser , W. Brisken , C. Brum , D. Campbell , S. Chatterjee , E. Churchwell , J. Condon , J. Cordes , F. Cordova , Y. Fernandez , J. Gago , T. Ghosh , P. F. Goldsmith , C. Heiles , D. Hickson , B. Jeffs , K. M. Jones , J. Lautenbach , B. M. Lewis , R. S. Lynch , P. K. Manoharan , S. Marshall , R. Minchin , N. T. Palliyaguru , B. B. P. Perera , P. Perillat , N. Pinilla-Alonso , D. J. Pisano , L. Quintero , S. Raizada , S. M. Ransom , F. O. Fernandez-Rodriguez , C. J. Salter , P. Santos , M. Sulzer , P. A. Taylor , F. C. F. Venditti , A. Venkataraman , A. K. Virkki , A. Wolszczan , M. Womack , L. F. Zambrano-Marin

Design and upgrade of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will have unparalleled sensitivity and angular resolution and will detect gamma-ray sources nearly 100 times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Leslie Taylor

Large Size Telescope Report

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will be deployed over two sites in the two hemispheres. Both sites will be equipped with four Large Size Telescopes (LSTs), which are crucial to achieve the science goals of CTA in the 20-200…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 D. Mazin , J. Cortina , M. Teshima , the CTA Consortium

Practical IMT and EESS Spectrum Sharing in the 7 to 8 GHz Band

The 7.3 GHz (350 MHz bandwidth) Earth Observation Satellite (EOS) band, while not protected, is used for Passive Sea Surface Temperature (P-SST) measurements that provide important data for weather forecasts, coastal disaster prevention,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Elliot Eichen , Arvind Aradhya , Oren Collaco

Experience deploying an analysis facility for the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) data

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is preparing for the execution of the most ambitious astronomical survey ever attempted, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Currently in its final phase of construction in the Andes mountains in Chile…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-29 Gabriele Mainetti , Fabio Hernandez , Fabrice Jammes , Quentin Le Boulc'h

LSTOSA: Onsite processing pipeline for the CTA Larged-Sized Telescope prototype

The prototype of the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is presently going through its commissioning phase. A total of four LSTs, among others, will operate together at Observatorio del Roque de Los…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-26 José Enrique Ruiz , Daniel Morcuende , Lab Saha , Andrés Baquero , José Luis Contreras , Isidro Aguado

Design and operation of the ATLAS Transient Science Server

The Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) system consists of two 0.5m Schmidt telescopes with cameras covering 29 square degrees at plate scale of 1.86 arcsec per pixel. Working in tandem, the telescopes routinely survey the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 K. W. Smith , S. J. Smartt , D. R. Young , J. L. Tonry , L. Denneau , H. Flewelling , A. N. Heinze , H. J. Weiland , B. Stalder , A. Rest , C. W. Stubbs , J. P. Anderson , T. -W. Chen , P. Clark , A. Do , F. Förster , M. Fulton , J. Gillanders , O. R. McBrien , D. O'Neill , S. Srivastav , D. E. Wright

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) are expected to be complete by 2028,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 The Simons Observatory Collaboration , M. Abitbol , I. Abril-Cabezas , S. Adachi , P. Ade , A. E. Adler , P. Agrawal , J. Aguirre , Z. Ahmed , S. Aiola , T. Alford , A. Ali , D. Alonso , M. A. Alvarez , R. An , K. Arnold , P. Ashton , Z. Atkins , J. Austermann , S. Azzoni , C. Baccigalupi , A. Baleato Lizancos , D. Barron , P. Barry , J. Bartlett , N. Battaglia , R. Battye , E. Baxter , A. Bazarko , J. A. Beall , R. Bean , D. Beck , S. Beckman , J. Begin , A. Beheshti , B. Beringue , T. Bhandarkar , S. Bhimani , F. Bianchini , E. Biermann , S. Biquard , B. Bixler , S. Boada , D. Boettger , B. Bolliet , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , J. Borrow , C. Braithwaite , T. L. R. Brien , M. L. Brown , S. M. Bruno , S. Bryan , R. Bustos , H. Cai , E. Calabrese , V. Calafut , F. M. Carl , A. Carones , J. Carron , A. Challinor , P. Chanial , N. Chen , K. Cheung , B. Chiang , Y. Chinone , J. Chluba , H. S. Cho , S. K. Choi , M. Chu , J. Clancy , S. E. Clark , P. Clarke , J. Cleary , D. L. Clements , J. Connors , C. Contaldi , G. Coppi , L. Corbett , N. F. Cothard , W. Coulton , K. D. Crowley , K. T. Crowley , A. Cukierman , J. M. D'Ewart , K. Dachlythra , R. Datta , S. Day-Weiss , T. de Haan , M. Devlin , L. Di Mascolo , S. Dicker , B. Dober , C. Doux , P. Dow , S. Doyle , C. J. Duell , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , J. Dunkley , D. Dutcher , R. Dünner , M. Edenton , H. El Bouhargani , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , V. Fanfani , G. S. Farren , J. Fergusson , S. Ferraro , R. Flauger , A. Foster , K. Freese , J. C. Frisch , A. Frolov , G. Fuller , N. Galitzki , P. A. Gallardo , J. T. Galvez Ghersi , K. Ganga , J. Gao , X. Garrido , E. Gawiser , M. Gerbino , R. Gerras , S. Giardiello , A. Gill , V. Gilles , U. Giri , E. Gleave , V. Gluscevic , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. E. Golec , S. Gordon , M. Gralla , S. Gratton , D. Green , J. C. Groh , C. Groppi , Y. Guan , N. Gupta , J. E. Guðmundsson , S. Hagstotz , P. Hargrave , S. Haridas , K. Harrington , I. Harrison , M. Hasegawa , M. Hasselfield , V. Haynes , M. Hazumi , A. He , E. Healy , S. W. Henderson , B. S. Hensley , E. Hertig , C. Hervías-Caimapo , M. Higuchi , C. A. Hill , J. C. Hill , G. Hilton , M. Hilton , A. D. Hincks , G. Hinshaw , R. Hložek , A. Y. Q. Ho , S. Ho , S. P. Ho , T. D. Hoang , J. Hoh , E. Hornecker , A. L. Hornsby , S. C. Hotinli , Z. Huang , Z. B. Huber , J. Hubmayr , K. Huffenberger , J. P. Hughes , A. Idicherian Lonappan , M. Ikape , K. Irwin , J. Iuliano , A. H. Jaffe , B. Jain , H. T. Jense , O. Jeong , A. Johnson , B. R. Johnson , M. Johnson , M. Jones , B. Jost , D. Kaneko , E. D. Karpel , Y. Kasai , N. Katayama , B. Keating , B. Keller , R. Keskitalo , J. Kim , T. Kisner , K. Kiuchi , J. Klein , K. Knowles , A. M. Kofman , B. J. Koopman , A. Kosowsky , R. Kou , N. Krachmalnicoff , D. Kramer , A. Krishak , A. Krolewski , A. Kusaka , A. Kusiak , P. La Plante , A. La Posta , A. Laguë , J. Lashner , M. Lattanzi , A. Lee , E. Lee , J. Leech , C. Lessler , J. S. Leung , A. Lewis , Y. Li , Z. Li , M. Limon , L. Lin , M. Link , J. Liu , Y. Liu , J. Lonergan , T. Louis , T. Lucas , M. Ludlam , M. Lungu , M. Lyons , N. MacCrann , A. MacInnis , M. Madhavacheril , D. Mak , F. Maldonado , M. Mallaby-Kay , A. Manduca , A. Mangu , H. Mani , A. S. Maniyar , G. A. Marques , J. Mates , T. Matsumura , P. Mauskopf , A. May , N. McCallum , H. McCarrick , F. McCarthy , M. McCulloch , J. McMahon , P. D. Meerburg , Y. Mehta , J. Melin , J. Meyers , A. Middleton , A. Miller , M. Mirmelstein , K. Moodley , J. Moore , M. Morshed , T. Morton , E. Moser , T. Mroczkowski , M. Murata , M. Münchmeyer , S. Naess , H. Nakata , T. Namikawa , M. Nashimoto , F. Nati , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , S. K. Nerval , L. Newburgh , D. V. Nguyen , A. Nicola , M. D. Niemack , H. Nishino , Y. Nishinomiya , A. Orlando , J. Orlowski-Scherer , L. Pagano , L. A. Page , S. Pandey , A. Papageorgiou , I. Paraskevakos , B. Partridge , R. Patki , M. Peel , K. Perez Sarmiento , F. Perrotta , P. Phakathi , L. Piccirillo , E. Pierpaoli , T. Pinsonneault-Marotte , G. Pisano , D. Poletti , R. Puddu , G. Puglisi , F. J. Qu , M. J. Randall , C. Ranucci , C. Raum , R. Reeves , C. L. Reichardt , M. Remazeilles , Y. Rephaeli , D. Riechers , J. Robe , M. F. Robertson , N. Robertson , K. Rogers , F. Rojas , A. Romero , E. Rosenberg , A. Rotti , S. Rowe , A. Roy , S. Sadeh , N. Sailer , K. Sakaguri , T. Sakuma , Y. Sakurai , M. Salatino , G. H. Sanders , D. Sasaki , M. Sathyanarayana Rao , T. P. Satterthwaite , L. Saunders , L. Scalcinati , E. Schaan , B. Schmitt , M. Schmittfull , N. Sehgal , J. Seibert , Y. Seino , U. Seljak , S. Shaikh , E. Shaw , P. Shellard , B. Sherwin , M. Shimon , J. E. Shroyer , C. Sierra , J. Sievers , C. Sifón , P. Sikhosana , M. Silva-Feaver , S. M. Simon , A. Sinclair , K. Smith , W. Sohn , X. Song , R. F. Sonka , D. Spergel , J. Spisak , S. T. Staggs , G. Stein , J. R. Stevens , R. Stompor , E. Storer , R. Sudiwala , J. Sugiyama , K. M. Surrao , S. Sutariya , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , A. Takeuchi , I. Tansieri , A. C. Taylor , G. Teply , T. Terasaki , A. Thomas , D. B. Thomas , R. Thornton , H. Trac , T. Tsan , E. Tsang King Sang , C. Tucker , J. Ullom , L. Vacher , L. Vale , A. van Engelen , J. Van Lanen , J. van Marrewijk , D. D. Van Winkle , C. Vargas , E. M. Vavagiakis , I. Veenendaal , C. Vergès , M. Vissers , M. Viña , K. Wagoner , S. Walker , L. Walters , Y. Wang , B. Westbrook , J. Williams , P. Williams , H. Winch , E. J. Wollack , K. Wolz , J. Wong , Z. Xu , K. Yamada , E. Young , B. Yu , C. Yu , M. Zannoni , K. Zheng , N. Zhu , A. Zonca , I. Zubeldia

New 50-m-class single-dish telescope: Large Submillimeter Telescope (LST)

We report on a plan to construct a 50-m-class single-dish telescope, the Large Submillimeter Telescope (LST). The conceptual design and key science behind the LST are presented, together with its tentative specifications. This telescope is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Ryohei Kawabe , Kotaro Kohno , Yoichi Tamura , Tatsuya Takekoshi , Tai Oshima , Shun Ishii , LST working group

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1

We present Rubin Data Preview 1 DP1, the first data from the NSF DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory, comprising raw and calibrated single epoch images, coadds, difference images, detection catalogs, and ancillary data products. DP1 is based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Vera C Rubin Observatory Team , Tatiana Acero Cuellar , Emily Acosta , Christina L Adair , Prakruth Adari , Jennifer K Adelman McCarthy , Anastasia Alexov , Russ Allbery , Robyn Allsman , Yusra AlSayyad , Jhonatan Amado , Nathan Amouroux , Pierre Antilogus , Alexis Aracena Alcayaga , Gonzalo Aravena Rojas , Claudio H Araya Cortes , Eric Aubourg , Tim S Axelrod , John Banovetz , Carlos Barria , Amanda E Bauer , Brian J Bauman , Ellen Bechtol , Keith Bechtol , Andrew C Becker , Valerie R Becker , Mark G Beckett , Eric C Bellm , Pedro H Bernardinelli , Federica Bettina Bianco , Robert D Blum , Joanne Bogart , Adam Bolton , Michael T Booth , James F Bosch , Alexandre Boucaud , Dominique Boutigny , Robert A Bovill , Andrew Bradshaw , Johan Bregeon , Massimo Brescia , Brian J Brondel , Alexander Broughton , Audrey Budlong , Dimitri Buffat , Rodolfo Canestrari , Neven Caplar , Jeffrey L Carlin , Ross Ceballo , Colin Orion Chandler , Chihway Chang , Glenaver Charles Emerson , Hsin Fang Chiang , James Chiang , Yumi Choi , Eric J Christensen , Charles F Claver , Andy W Clements , Joseph J Cockrum , Johann Cohen Tanugi , Franco Colleoni , Celine Combet , Andrew J Connolly , Julio Eduardo Constanzo Cordova , Hans E Contreras , John Franklin Crenshaw , Sylvie Dagoret Campagne , Scott F Daniel , Felipe Daruich , Guillaume Daubard , Greg Daues , Erik Dennihy , Stephanie J H Deppe , Seth W Digel , Peter E Doherty , Cyrille Doux , Alex Drlica Wagner , Gregory P Dubois Felsmann , Frossie Economou , Orion Eiger , Lukas Eisert , Alan M Eisner , Anthony Englert , Baden Erb , Juan A Fabrega , Parker Fagrelius , Kevin Fanning , Angelo Fausti Neto , Peter S Ferguson , Agnes Ferte , Krzysztof Findeisen , Merlin Fisher Levine , Gloria Fonseca Alvarez , Michael D Foss , Dominique Fouchez , Dan C Fuchs , Shenming Fu , Emmanuel Gangler , Igor Gaponenko , Julen Garcia , John H Gates , Ranpal K Gill , Enrico Giro , Thomas Glanzman , Robinson Godoy , Iain Goodenow , Miranda R Gorsuch , Michelle Gower , Melissa L Graham , Mikael Granvik , Sarah Greenstreet , Wen Guan , Thibault Guillemin , Leanne P Guy , Diane Hascall , Patrick A Hascall , Aren Nathaniel Heinze , Fabio Hernandez , Kenneth Herner , Ardis Herrold , Clare R Higgs , Joshua Hoblitt , Erin Leigh Howard , Minhee Hyun , Amanda Ibsen , Patrick Ingraham , David H Irving , Zeljko Ivezic , Suzanne H Jacoby , Buell T Jannuzi , Sreevani Jarugula , M James Jee , Tim Jenness , Toby C Jennings , Andrea Jeremie , Garrett Jernigan , David Jimenez Mejias , Anthony S Johnson , R Lynne Jones , Roger William Lewis Jones , Claire Juramy Gilles , Mario Juric , Steven M Kahn , J Bryce Kalmbach , Yijung Kang , Arun Kannawadi , Jeffrey P Kantor , Edward Karavakis , Kshitija Kelkar , Lee S Kelvin , Scot J Kleinman , Ivan V Kotov , Gabor Kovacs , Mikolaj Kowalik , Victor L Krabbendam , K Simon Krughoff , Petr Kubanek , Jacob A Kurlander , Mile Kusulja , Craig S Lage , Paulo J A Lago , Katherine Laliotis , Travis Lange , Didier Laporte , Ryan M Lau , Juan Carlos Lazarte , Quentin Le Boulch , Pierre Francois Leget , Laurent Le Guillou , Benjamin Levine , Ming Liang , Shuang Liang , Kian Tat Lim , Anja von der Linden , Huan Lin , Margaux Lopez , Juan J Lopez Toro , Peter Love , Robert H Lupton , Nate B Lust , Lauren A MacArthur , Sean Patrick MacBride , Greg M Madejski , Gabriele Mainetti , Steven J Margheim , Thomas W Markiewicz , Phil Marshall , Stuart Marshall , Guido Maulen , Sidney Mau , Morgan May , Jeremy McCormick , David McKay , Robert McKercher , Guillem Megias Homar , Aaron M Meisner , Felipe Menanteau , Heather R Mentzer , Kristen Metzger , Joshua E Meyers , Michelle Miller , David J Mills , Joachim Moeyens , Marc Moniez , Fred E Moolekamp , C A L Morales Marin , Fritz Mueller , James R Mullaney , Freddy Munoz Arancibia , Kate Napier , Homer Neal , Eric H Neilsen , Jeremy Neveu , Timothy Noble , Erfan Nourbakhsh , Knut Olsen , William OMullane , Dmitry Onoprienko , Marco Oriunno , Shawn Osier , Russell E Owen , Aashay Pai , John K Parejko , Hye Yun Park , James B Parsons , Maria T Patterson , Marina S Pavlovic , Karla Pena Ramirez , John R Peterson , Stephen R Pietrowicz , Andres A Plazas Malagon , Rebekah Polen , Hannah Mary Margaret Pollek , Paul A Price , Bruno C Quint , Jose Miguel Quintero Marin , Markus Rabus , Benjamin Racine , Veljko Radeka , Manon Ramel , Arianna Ranabhat , Andrew P Rasmussen , David A Rathfelder , Meredith L Rawls , Sophie L Reed , Kevin A Reil , David J Reiss , Michael A Reuter , Tiago Ribeiro , Mickael Rigault , Vincent J Riot , Steven M Ritz , Mario F Rivera Rivera , Brant E Robertson , William Roby , Gabriele Rodeghiero , Aaron Roodman , Luca Rosignoli , Cecile Roucelle , Matthew R Rumore , Stefano Russo , Eli S Rykoff , Andrei Salnikov , Bruno O Sanchez , David Sanmartim , Clare Saunders , Rafe H Schindler , Samuel J Schmidt , Jacques Sebag , Nima Sedaghat , Brian Selvy , Edgard Esteban Sepulveda Valenzuela , Gonzalo Seriche , Jacqueline C Seron Navarrete , Ignacio Sevilla Noarbe , Alysha B Shugart , Jonathan Sick , Cristian Silva , Mathew C Sims , Jaladh Singhal , Kevin Benjamin Siruno , Colin T Slater , Brianna M Smart , Adam Snyder , Christine Soldahl , Ioana Sotuela Elorriaga , Brian Stalder , Hernan Stockebrand , Alan L Strauss , Michael A Strauss , Krzysztof Suberlak , Ian S Sullivan , John D Swinbank , Diego Tapia , Alessio Taranto , Dan S Taranu , John Gregg Thayer , Sandrine Thomas , Adam J Thornton , Roberto Tighe , Laura Toribio San Cipriano , Te Wei Tsai , Douglas L Tucker , Max Turri , J Anthony Tyson , Elana K Urbach , Yousuke Utsumi , Brian Van Klaveren , Wouter van Reeven , Peter Anthony Vaucher , Paulina Venegas , Aprajita Verma , Antonia Sierra Villarreal , Stelios Voutsinas , Christopher W Walter , Yuankun David Wang , Christopher Z Waters , Christina C Williams , Beth Willman , Matthias Wittgen , W M Wood Vasey , Wei Yang , Zhaoyu Yang , Brian P Yanny , Peter Yoachim , Tianqing Zhang , Conghao Zhou , Danica Zilkova

Next Generation Observatories -- Report from the Dawn VI Workshop; October 5-7 2021

The workshop Dawn VI: Next Generation Observatories took place online over three days, 5-7 October, 2021. More than 200 physicists and astronomers attended to contribute to, and learn from, a discussion of next-generation ground-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-22 D. H. Shoemaker , Stefan Ballmer , Matteo Barsuglia , E. Berger , Emanuele Berti , Duncan A. Brown , Poonam Chandra , Matthew Evans , Ke Fang , Wen-fai Fong , Andreas Freise , Peter Fritschel , Jenny Greene , C. J. Horowitz , Jeff Kissel , Brian Lantz , Paul D. Lasky , Harald Lueck , M. Coleman Miller , Alexander H. Nitz , David Ottaway , Hiranya V. Peiris , Michele Punturo , D. H. Reitze , Gary H. Sanders , B. S. Sathyaprakash , Daniel Sigg , Bram Slagmolen , S. J. Smartt , Joshua R. Smith , Andrew W. Steiner , Eleonora Troja , V. Ashley Villar , Rainer Weiss , Sidney C. Wolff , Jim Yeck

Baseline Design for a Next Generation Wide-Field-of-View Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Observatory

The TeV gamma ray sky is observable by recording footprints of extensive air showers with an array of particle detectors. In the northern hemisphere there are currently two projects employing this technique: The HAWC gamma ray observatory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Harm Schoorlemmer , Rubén López-Coto , Jim Hinton

Photometric Redshift Forecast for 7-Dimensional Sky Survey

We investigate the expected accuracy of redshifts that can be obtained using low-resolution spectroscopic (medium-band) data from the 7-Dimensional Sky Survey (7DS). By leveraging 40 densely sampled filters with widths of full width at half…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-01 Eunhee Ko , Myungshin Im , Yujin Yang , Ji Hoon Kim , Seong-Kook Lee , Gregory S. -H. Paek

ESO Imaging Survey. Hubble Deep Field South: Optical-Infrared Observations, Data Reduction and Photometry

This paper presents ground-based data obtained from deep optical and infrared observations of the HST Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S) field carried out at the ESO 3.5 New Technology Telescope (NTT). These data were taken as part of the ESO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. da Costa , M. Nonino , R. Rengelink , S. Zaggia , C. Benoist , T. Erben , A. Wicenec , M. Scodeggio , L. F. Olsen , M. D. Guarnieri , E. Deul , S. D'Odorico , R. Hook , A. Moorwood , R. Slijkhuis

Project overview and update on WEAVE: the next generation wide-field spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope

We present an overview of and status report on the WEAVE next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). WEAVE principally targets optical ground-based follow up of upcoming ground-based (LOFAR) and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Gavin Dalton , Scott Trager , Don Carlos Abrams , Piercarlo Bonifacio , J. Alfonso L. Aguerri , Kevin Middleton , Chris Benn , Kevin Dee , Frederic Sayede , Ian Lewis , Johannes Pragt , Sergio Pico , Nic Walton , Juerg Rey , Carlos Allende Prieto , Jose Penate , Emilie Lhome , Tibor Agocs , Jose Alonso , David Terrett , Matthew Brock , James Gilbert , Andy Ridings , Isabelle Guinouard , Marc Verheijen , Ian Tosh , Kevin Rogers , Iain Steele , Remko Stuik , Neils Tromp , Attila Jasko , Jan Kragt , Dirk Lesman , Chris Mottram , Stuart Bates , Frank Gribbin , Luis Fernando Rodriguez , Jose Miguel Delgado , Carlos Martin , Diego Cano , Ramon Navarro , Mike Irwin , Jim Lewis , Eduardo Gonzales Solares , Neil O Mahony , Andrea Bianco , Christina Zurita , Rik ter Horst , Emilio Molinari , Marcello Lodi , Jose Guerra , Antonella Vallenari , Andrea Baruffolo

CSST Strong Lensing Preparation: Forecasting the galaxy-galaxy strong lensing population for the China Space Station Telescope

Galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing (GGSL) is a powerful probe for the formation and evolution of galaxies and cosmology, while the sample size of GGSLs leads to considerable uncertainties and potential bias. The China Space Station…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-31 Xiaoyue Cao , Ran Li , Nan Li , Rui Li , Yun Chen , Keyi Ding , Huanyuan Shan , Hu Zhan , Xin Zhang , Wei Du , Shuo Cao

Probing the Time Domain with High Spatial Resolution

Two groundbreaking new facilities will commence operations early in the 2020s and thereafter define much of the broad landscape of US optical-infrared astronomy in the remaining decade. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), perched…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-21 J. P. Blakeslee , S. A. Rodney , J. M. Lotz , G. Sivo , S. Sivanandam , M. Andersen , R. Carrasco , L. Ferrarese , R. J. Foley , S. Goodsell , P. Hirst , J. B. Jensen , P. L. Kelly , A. A. Kaurov , M. Lemoine-Busserolle , B. W. Miller , J. O'Meara , H. Roe , M. E. Schwamb , J. Scharwächter

An update on site search activities for SWGO

The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) is a project by scientists and engineers from 14 countries and 78 institutions to design and build the first wide-field, ground-based gamma-ray observatory in the Southern Hemisphere,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-07 M. Santander , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Bellido , T. Bulik , C. Dib , B. Dingus , S. Garcia , F. Guarino , P. Huentemeyer , D. Mandat , E. Meza , L. Mendes , L. Nellen , C. Ocampo , L. Otiniano , E. Quispe , A. Reisenegger , A. C. Rovero , F. Sanchez , A. Sandoval , R. Yanyachi , H. Zhou

Long-Term Monitoring of Throughput in Las Cumbres Observatory's Fleet of Telescopes

The Las Cumbres Observatory operates a fleet of robotically controlled telescopes currently two 2m, nine 1m, and ten 0.4m telescopes, distributed amongst six sites covering both hemispheres. Telescopes of an aperture class are equipped with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-01 Daniel-Rolf Harbeck , Curtis McCully , Andrew Pickles , Nikolaus Volgenau , Patrick Conway , Brook Taylor

DDOTI: the deca-degree optical transient imager

DDOTI will be a wide-field robotic imager consisting of six 28-cm telescopes with prime focus CCDs mounted on a common equatorial mount. Each telescope will have a field of view of 12 square degrees, will have 2 arcsec pixels, and will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Alan M. Watson , William H. Lee , Eleonora Troja , Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga , Nathaniel R. Butler , Alexander S. Kutyrev , Neil A. Gehrels , Fernando Ángeles , Stéphane Basa , Pierre-Eric Blanc , Michel Boër , Jose A. de Diego , Alejandro S. Farah , Liliana Figueroa , Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew , Alain Klotz , Fernando Quirós , Maurico Reyes-Ruíz , Jaime Ruíz-Diáz-Soto , Pierre Thierry , Silvio Tinoco