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ASTRI ("Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana") is a flagship project of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. Within this framework, INAF is currently developing a wide field of view (9.6 degrees in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 S. Vercellone , O. Catalano , M. C. Maccarone , F. Di Pierro , P. Vallania , G. Bonnoli , R. Canestrari , G. Pareschi , P. Caraveo , N. La Palombara , M. Fiorini , L. Stringhetti , E. Giro , G. Tosti

TianQin is a planned space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory consisting of three earth orbiting satellites with an orbital radius of about $10^5~{\rm km}$. The satellites will form a equilateral triangle constellation the plane of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-25 Jianwei Mei , Yan-Zheng Bai , Jiahui Bao , Enrico Barausse , Lin Cai , Enrico Canuto , Bin Cao , Wei-Ming Chen , Yu Chen , Yan-Wei Ding , Hui-Zong Duan , Huimin Fan , Wen-Fan Feng , Honglin Fu , Qing Gao , TianQuan Gao , Yungui Gong , Xingyu Gou , Chao-Zheng Gu , De-Feng Gu , Zi-Qi He , Martin Hendry , Wei Hong , Xin-Chun Hu , Yi-Ming Hu , Yuexin Hu , Shun-Jia Huang , Xiang-Qing Huang , Qinghua Jiang , Yuan-Ze Jiang , Yun Jiang , Zhen Jiang , Hong-Ming Jin , Valeriya Korol , Hong-Yin Li , Ming Li , Ming Li , Pengcheng Li , Rongwang Li , Yuqiang Li , Zhu Li , Zhulian Li , Zhu-Xi Li , Yu-Rong Liang , Zheng-Cheng Liang , Fang-Jie Liao , Shuai Liu , Yan-Chong Liu , Li Liu , Pei-Bo Liu , Xuhui Liu , Yuan Liu , Xiong-Fei Lu , Yang Lu , Ze-Huang Lu , Yan Luo , Zhi-Cai Luo , Vadim Milyukov , Min Ming , Xiaoyu Pi , Chenggang Qin , Shao-Bo Qu , Alberto Sesana , Chenggang Shao , Changfu Shi , Wei Su , Ding-Yin Tan , Yujie Tan , Zhuangbin Tan , Liang-Cheng Tu , Bin Wang , Cheng-Rui Wang , Fengbin Wang , Guan-Fang Wang , Haitian Wang , Jian Wang , Lijiao Wang , Panpan Wang , Xudong Wang , Yan Wang , Yi-Fan Wang , Ran Wei , Shu-Chao Wu , Chun-Yu Xiao , Xiao-Shi Xu , Chao Xue , Fang-Chao Yang , Liang Yang , Ming-Lin Yang , Shan-Qing Yang , Bobing Ye , Hsien-Chi Yeh , Shenghua Yu , Dongsheng Zhai , Caishi Zhang , Haitao Zhang , Jian-dong Zhang , Jie Zhang , Lihua Zhang , Xin Zhang , Xuefeng Zhang , Hao Zhou , Ming-Yue Zhou , Ze-Bing Zhou , Dong-Dong Zhu , Tie-Guang Zi , Jun Luo

(Abridged) The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is currently by far the most ambitious proposed ground-based optical survey. The main science themes that drive the LSST system design are Dark Energy and Matter, the Solar System…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Z. Ivezic

The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated photometric surveying facility built jointly by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO). Since many of its scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Minxuan Cai , Zelin Xu , Lulu Fan , Zhen Wan , Binyang Liu , Xu Kong , Weida Hu , Lei Hu , Qing-feng Zhu , Guoliang Li , Jie Lin , Min Fang , Ji-an Jiang , Yongquan Xue , Xianzhong Zhen , Tinggui Wang

This study presents a general outline of the Qitai radio telescope (QTT) project. Qitai, the site of the telescope, is a county of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, located in the east Tianshan Mountains at an elevation of about…

The Microchannel X-ray Telescope (MXT) is one of four instruments on the Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) satellite mission, launched on the 22nd June 2024. The MXT is a narrow-field-optimised, lobster eye…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Charly Feldman , James Pearson , Gillian Butcher , Richard Willingale , Paul O'Brien , Julian Osborne , Karine Mercier , Jean-Michel Le Duigou , Diego Gotz

We present the Micro-channel X-ray Telescope (MXT), a new narrow-field (about 1{\deg}) telescope that will be flying on the Sino-French SVOM mission dedicated to Gamma-Ray Burst science, scheduled for launch in 2021. MXT is based on square…

The Tsinghua University-National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) Transient Survey (TNTS) is an automatic survey for a systematic exploration of optical transients (OTs), conducted with a 60/90 cm Schmidt telescope at Xinglong…

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an 8-m optical ground-based telescope being constructed on Cerro Pachon in Chile. LSST will survey half the sky every few nights in six optical bands. The data will be transferred to NCSA and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-24 Tim Jenness

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is conceived as an 8.4-m telescope with CCD or CMOS focal plane covering most of a field 0.6 m in diameter, the latter exceeding the size of the largest photographic plates ever used in astronomy.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 Alistair R. Walker

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a high etendue imaging facility that is being constructed atop Cerro Pachon in Northern Chile. It is scheduled to begin science operations in 2022. With an 8.4m (6.5m effective) aperture, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-12 Hu Zhan , J. Anthony Tyson

The next generation instrument for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy will be the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), consisting of approximately 100 telescopes in three sizes, built on two sites with one each in the Northern and Southern Hemi-…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 Louise Oakes , Markus Garczarczyk , Stephan Kaphle , Michael Mayer , Stefan Schlenstedt

The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is expected to launch in the mid-2020s. With its wide-field near-infrared (NIR) camera, it will survey the sky to unprecedented detail. As part of normal operations and as the result of…

The Jiao Tong University Spectroscopic Telescope (JUST) is a 4.4-meter f/6.0 segmentedmirror telescope dedicated to spectroscopic observations. The JUST primary mirror is composed of 18 hexagonal segments, each with a diameter of 1.1 m.…

[Abridged] The Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) is the new 64-m dish operated by INAF (Italy). Its active surface will allow us to observe at frequencies of up to 116 GHz. At the moment, three receivers, one per focal position, have been…

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public-private enterprise, is a new time domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope with a 47 deg$^2$ field of view and 8 second readout time. It is well…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Matthew J. Graham , S. R. Kulkarni , Eric C. Bellm , Scott M. Adams , Cristina Barbarino , Nadejda Blagorodnova , Dennis Bodewits , Bryce Bolin , Patrick R. Brady , S. Bradley Cenko , Chan-Kao Chang , Michael W. Coughlin , Kishalay De , Gwendolyn Eadie , Tony L. Farnham , Ulrich Feindt , Anna Franckowiak , Christoffer Fremling , Avishay Gal-yam , Suvi Gezari , Shaon Ghosh , Daniel A. Goldstein , V. Zach Golkhou , Ariel Goobar , Anna Y. Q. Ho , Daniela Huppenkothen , Zeljko Ivezic , R. Lynne Jones , Mario Juric , David L. Kaplan , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Michael S. P. Kelley , Thomas Kupfer , Chien-De Lee , Hsing Wen Lin , Ragnhild Lunnan , Ashish A. Mahabal , Adam A. Miller , Chow-Choong Ngeow , Peter Nugent , Eran O. Ofek , Thomas A. Prince , Ludwig Rauch , Jan van Roestel , Steve Schulze , Leo P. Singer , Jesper Sollerman , Francesco Taddia , Lin Yan , Quan-Zhi Ye , Po-Chieh Yu , Igor Andreoni , Tom Barlow , James Bauer , Ron Beck , Justin Belicki , Rahul Biswas , Valery Brinnel , Tim Brooke , Brian Bue , Mattia Bulla , Kevin Burdge , Rick Burruss , Andrew Connolly , John Cromer , Virginia Cunningham , Richard Dekany , Alex Delacroix , Vandana Desai , Dmitry A. Duev , Eugean Hacopians , David Hale , George Helou , John Henning , David Hover , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Justin Howell , Tiara Hung , David Imel , Wing-Huen Ip , Edward Jackson , Shai Kaspi , Stephen Kaye , Marek Kowalski , Emily Kramer , Michael Kuhn , Walter Landry , Russ R. Laher , Peter Mao , Frank J. Masci , Serge Monkewitz , Patrick Murphy , Jakob Nordin , Maria T. Patterson , Bryan Penprase , Michael Porter , Umaa Rebbapragada , Dan Reiley , Reed Riddle , Mickael Rigault , Hector Rodriguez , Ben Rusholme , Jakob van Santen , David L. Shupe , Roger M. Smith , Maayane T. Soumagnac , Robert Stein , Jason Surace , Paula Szkody , Scott Terek , Angela van Sistine , Sjoert van Velzen , W. Thomas Vestrand , Richard Walters , Charlotte Ward , Chaoran Zhang , Jeffry Zolkower

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be a ground-based, optical, all-sky, rapid cadence survey project with tremendous potential for discovering and characterizing asteroids. With LSST's large 6.5m diameter primary mirror, a wide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 R. Lynne Jones , Mario Juric , Zeljko Ivezic

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a wide-field imaging system of unprecedented etendue. The initial goal of the project is to carry out a ten year imaging survey in six broad passbands (ugrizy) that cover $350 nm < \lambda < 1.1…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-14 Christopher W. Stubbs , Katrin Heitmann