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Slitless spectroscopy has long been considered as a complicated and confused technique. Nonetheless, with the advent of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) instruments characterized by a low sky background level and a high spatial resolution (most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 Mehdi Outini , Yannick Copin

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument will be the first space facility equipped with deformable mirrors (DMs). These will lead to reach a contrast of $10^{-8}$ or better in a dark hole between $3-9 \lambda/D$. Post-processing techniques play an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Lisa Altinier , Élodie Choquet , Arthur Vigan , Nicolás Godoy , Alexis Lau

We present algorithms and software for constructing high-precision difference images to detect and measure transients, such as microlensing events, in crowded stellar fields using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Our method generates…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Michael D Albrow

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) is an observatory motivated by the search to understand dark energy, exoplanets, and general astrophysics. Roman will bring unprecedented amounts of precision to weak gravitational lensing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Emily Macbeth , Katherine Laliotis , Christopher M. Hirata , Christopher Merchant

We present the 'simage' software suite for the simulation of artificial extragalactic images, based empirically around real observations of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF). The simulations reproduce galaxies with realistic and complex…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Benjamin M. Dobke , David E. Johnston , Richard Massey , F. William High , Matthew Ferry , Jason Rhodes , R. Ali Vanderveld

The challenges of high contrast imaging (HCI) for detecting exoplanets for both ground and space applications can be met with extreme adaptive optics (ExAO), a high-order adaptive optics system that performs wavefront sensing (WFS) and…

We investigate the accuracy of 4000\AA/Balmer-break based redshifts by combining Hubble Space Telescope ({\it HST}) grism data with photometry. The grism spectra are from the Probing Evolution And Reionization Spectroscopically (PEARS)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-09 Bhavin A. Joshi , Seth Cohen , Rogier A. Windhorst , Rolf Jansen , Norbert Pirzkal , Nimish P. Hathi

In the era of large time-domain spectro-photometric surveys, surface variations such as starspots, chemical inhomogeneities, pulsations, rotational distortions, and binary interactions can now be directly detected and modelled. Accurately…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 M. Jabłońska , T. Różański , L. Casagrande , H. Shah , P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański , M. Rychlicki , Yuan-Sen Ting

Recent progress in high-resolution transmission spectroscopy has offered new avenues in which to characterise the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets. High-resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy allows for the unambiguous detection of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Cathal Maguire , Neale P. Gibson , Stevanus K. Nugroho , Swaetha Ramkumar , Mark Fortune , Stephanie R. Merritt , Ernst de Mooij

The SPIDER experiment, part of the Neutral Beam Test Facility (NBTF) at Consorzio RFX (Padua, Italy), is the prototype of the negative ion source for the ITER neutral beam injectors; the source is coupled to a 100 kV three-grid acceleration…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-07 M. Barbisan , B. Zaniol , R. Pasqualotto , G. Serianni , M. Ugoletti

In the next decade, many optical surveys will aim to tackle the question of dark energy nature, measuring its equation of state parameter at the permil level. This requires trusting the photometric calibration of the survey with a precision…

The Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager (ETSI) amalgamates a low resolution slitless prism spectrometer with custom multi-band filters to simultaneously image 15 spectral bandpasses between 430 nm and 975 nm with an average spectral…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will implement a devoted weak gravitational lensing program with its High Latitude Wide Area Survey. For cosmological purposes, a critical step in Roman image processing is to combine dithered…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Kaili Cao , Christopher M. Hirata , Katherine Laliotis , Masaya Yamamoto , Emily Macbeth , M. A. Troxel

We present complimentary techniques to find emission-line targets and measure their properties in a semi-automated fashion from grism observations obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. The first…

Reflected starlight measurements will open a new path in the characterization of directly imaged exoplanets. However, we still lack a population study of known targets amenable to this technique. Here, we investigate which of the about 4300…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Óscar Carrión-González , Antonio García Muñoz , Juan Cabrera , Szilárd Csizmadia , Nuno C. Santos , Heike Rauer

The soft gamma-ray telescope ECLAIRs with its Scientific Trigger Unit is in charge of detecting Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) on-board the future SVOM satellite. Using the "scientific software model" (SSM), we study the efficiency of both…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-25 S. Antier , S. Schanne , B. Cordier , A. Gros , D. Götz , C. Lachaud

This paper presents the simulation of the GLAST high energy gamma-ray telescope. The simulation package, written in C++, is based on the Geant4 toolkit, and it is integrated into a general framework used to process events. A detailed…

Wide-field slitless grism spectroscopy is difficult in the co-spatial regime, where multiple sources share one cross-dispersion PSF element and catalogue-level decontamination (aXe/LINEAR/Grizli) does not apply -- the regime of strong…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-30 R. Tata

Spectral data reduction pipelines deal with a wide variety of challenges including masking cosmic rays, calibrating wavelength solutions, and estimating background noise while trying to remain model-agnostic. Traditional methods rely on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Joshua S. Speagle , Tanveer Karim

We give an overview of the Grism Lens Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS), a large Hubble Space Telescope program aimed at obtaining grism spectroscopy of the fields of ten massive clusters of galaxies at redshift z=0.308-0.686, including…