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We present a pioneering achievement in the high-precision photometric calibration of CMOS-based photometry, by application of the Gaia BP/RP (XP) spectra-based synthetic photometry (XPSP) method to the mini-SiTian array (MST) photometry.…

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The SiTian project, with its vast field of view, will become an ideal platform for asteroid scientific research. In this study, we develop a pipeline to analyze the photometry of asteroids and derive their periods from the data collected by…

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The Mini-SiTian project, which is the pathfinder for the SiTian project, utilizes three 30 cm telescopes equipped with commercial CMOS cameras (ZWO ASI6200MM Pro) to simulate large-area time-domain survey. Due to the avoidance of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Yu Zhang , Lin Du , Yi Hu , Yang Huang , Ying Wu , Min He , Hongrui Gu , Haiyang Mu , Xunhao Chen , Hong Wu

Time-domain astronomy is one of the most important areas. Large sky area, deep-field, and short timescale are the priority of time-domain observations. SiTian is an ambitious ground-based project processing all sky optical monitoring,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Zi-Jian Han , Zheng-Yang Li , Chao Chen , Jia-Nan Cong , Ting-Ting Liu , Yi-Ming Zhang , Qing-Shan Li , Liang Chen , Wei-Bin Kong

The SiTian Project represents a groundbreaking initiative in astronomy, aiming to deploy a global network of telescopes, each with a 1-meter aperture, for comprehensive time-domain sky surveys. The network's innovative architecture features…

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The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) is a flagship space-based observatory. Its main survey camera is designed to conduct high spatial resolution near-ultraviolet to near-infrared imaging and low-resolution spectroscopic…

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST), a two-meter aperture astronomical space telescope under China's manned space program, is equipped with multiple back-end scientific instruments. As an astronomical precision measurement…

This paper provides a comprehensive introduction to the Mini-SiTian Real-Time Image Processing pipeline (STRIP) and evaluates its operational performance. The STRIP pipeline is specifically designed for real-time alert triggering and light…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Hongrui Gu , Yang Huang , Yongkang Sun , Kai Xiao , Zhirui Li , Beichuan Wang , Zhou Fan , Chuanjie Zheng , Henggeng Han , Hu Zou , Wenxiong Li , Hong Wu , Jifeng Liu

The Mini-SiTian Array serves as a pathfinder for the SiTian project, which aims to survey the entire sky in $gri$ bands every 30 minutes, reaching a limiting magnitude of 21. This special issue features 11 papers covering the design,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Yang Huang , Jifeng Liu , Hong Wu , Zhaohui Shang , Ali Luo , Shaoming Hu , Wenyuan Cui , Yongna Mao

The past few decades have seen the burgeoning of wide field, high cadence surveys, the most formidable of which will be the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to be conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. So new is the field of…

This paper outlines the scientific goals and observational strategies of the Mini-SiTian array. Mounted at Xinglong Observatory, the Mini-SiTian array consists of three 30 cm telescopes and has been in operation since 2022. The large field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Henggeng Han , Yang Huang , Beichuan Wang , Yongkang Sun , Cunshi Wang , Zhirui Li , Junjie Jin , Ningchen Sun , Kai Xiao , Min He , Hongrui Gu , Zexi Niu , Hong Wu , Jifeng Liu

The VISIONS public survey provides large-scale, multiepoch imaging of five nearby star-forming regions at subarcsecond resolution in the near-infrared. All data collected within the program and provided by the European Southern Observatory…

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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an ambitious astronomical survey with a similarly ambitious Data Management component. Data Management for LSST includes processing on both nightly and yearly cadences to generate transient…

SiTian is an ambitious ground-based all-sky optical monitoring project, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The concept is an integrated network of dozens of 1-m-class telescopes deployed partly in China and partly at various…

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The BRITE mission is a pioneering space project aimed at the long-term photometric monitoring of the brightest stars in the sky by means of a constellation of nano-satellites. Its main advantage is high photometric accuracy and time…

We present a comprehensive pipeline developed for the image processing of the KMTNet Synoptic Survey of the Southern Sky (KS4) Data Release 1. This pipeline encompasses several key processes, including data quality assurance, astrometry,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Mankeun Jeong , Myungshin Im , Joonho Kim , Seo-Won Chang , Sungho Jung , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Jin Kim , Bomi Park , Jaewon Lee , Jiseop Shin , Changwan Kim , Gregory S. H. Paek

The 24 micron array on board the Spitzer Space Telescope is one of three arrays in the Multi-band Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) instrument. It provides 5.3 x 5.3 arcmin images at a scale of ~2.5 arcsec per pixel corresponding to…

Cosmic ray muon scattering tomography (MST) is an imaging technique that utilizes muon scattering in matter to inspect high-Z materials non-destructively, without requiring an artificial radiation source. This method offers significant…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-18 Zheng Liang , Zebo Tang , Xin Li , Baiyu Liu , Cheng Li , Jiacheng He , Kun Jiang , Yonggang Wang , Ye Tian , Yishuang Zhang , Zeyu Wang

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
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