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Context. The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is a wide-field visual-band survey designed to explore the variable and transient sky with high cadence. Its raw data stream is automatically processed in near real time at the observatory…

We describe principal components of the new spectroscopic data pipeline for the multi-object MMT/Magellan Infrared Spectrograph (MMIRS). The pipeline is implemented in IDL and C++. The performance of the data processing algorithms is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-18 Igor Chilingarian , Warren Brown , Daniel Fabricant , Brian McLeod , John Roll , Andrew Szentgyorgyi

The Multi-Channel Imager (MCI), one of the instruments aboard the China Survey Space Telescope (CSST), is designed to simultaneously observe the sky in three filters, covering wavelengths from the near-ultraviolet (NUV) to the near-infrared…

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) photometric survey aims to perform a high spatial resolution (~0.15'') photometric imaging for the targets that cover a large sky area (~17,500 deg^2) and wide wavelength range (from NUV to NIR). It…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-11 Ye Cao , Yan Gong , Zhen-Ya Zheng , Chun Xu

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-meter survey telescope continuously observing towards the zenith in the SDSS g', r', and i' bands. This survey telescope is designed to detect various astrophysical transients (for…

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) will perform a decade-long high-precision wide-field imaging survey that relies on rigorous on-orbit calibration. This necessitates stable celestial benchmark fields to maintain photometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Chenxiaoji Ling , Juanjuan Ren , Li Shao , Zhimin Zhou , Peng Wei , Youhua Xu , Jinyu Hu , Xin Zhang , Su Yao , Hu Zhan , Chao Liu

We have begun a large-scale photometric survey of nearby open clusters and star-forming regions, the Monitor project, aiming to measure time-series photometry for >10,000 cluster members over >10 sq.deg of sky, to find low-mass eclipsing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan Irwin , Mike Irwin , Suzanne Aigrain , Simon Hodgkin , Leslie Hebb , Estelle Moraux

We have constructed a large format mosaic CCD camera for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The camera consists of two arrays, a photometric array which uses 30 2048 x 2048 SITe/Tektronix CCDs (24 micron pixels) with an effective imaging area of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. Gunn , M. Carr , C. Rockosi , M. Sekiguchi

CTA will comprise a sub-array of up to 70 small size telescopes (SSTs) at the southern array. The SST-1M project, a 4 m-diameter Davies Cotton telescope with 9 degrees FoV and a 1296 pixels SiPM camera, is designed to meet the requirements…

This paper describes the MegaPipe image processing pipeline at the Canadian Astronomical Data Centre. The pipeline combines multiple images from the MegaCam mosaic camera on CFHT and combines them into a single output image. MegaPipe takes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stephen. D. J. Gwyn

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) presents significant potential for high-precision astrometry. In this study, we show that the point spread function (PSF) modeled by the discrete PSF with Multi-Gaussian function can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jialu Nie , Peng Wei , Zihuang Cao , Yibo Yan , Chao Liu , Hao Tian , Xin Zhang , Haijun Tian

The main challenges posed by the design of future Positron Emission Tomography machines are the improvement of the spatial and timing resolution and the combined operation with magnetic resonance. The Micro Pixel Photon Counter by Hamamatsu…

Medical Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 N. D'Ascenzo , E. Garutti , M. Goettlich , H. C. Schultz-Coulon , A. Tadday

KMOS is a multi-object near-infrared integral field spectrometer with 24 deployable cryogenic pick-off arms. Inevitably, data processing is a complex task that requires careful calibration and quality control. In this paper we describe all…

Chemical Species Tomography (CST) has been widely applied for imaging of critical gas-phase parameters in industrial processes. To acquire high-fidelity images, CST is typically implemented by line-of-sight Wavelength Modulation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Godwin Enemali , Rui Zhang , Hugh McCann , Chang Liu

The SST-1M is a 4-m diameter mirror Davies-Cotton gamma-ray telescope. It has been designed to cover the energy range above 500 GeV and to be part of an array of telescopes separated by 150-200 m. Its innovative camera is featuring large…

To support the development of the data processing pipeline and the scientific performance assessment for the Cool Planet Imaging Coronagraph (CPI-C) on the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST), we have developed the end-to-end…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-14 Gang Zhao , Yiming Zhu , Jiangpei Dou , Yili Chen , Zhonghua Lv , Bingli Niu , Zhaojun Yan , Bo Ma , Ran Li

PHOTOMETRYPIPELINE (PP) is an automated pipeline that produces calibrated photometry from imaging data through image registration, aperture photometry, photometric calibration, and target identification with only minimal human interaction.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-06 Michael Mommert

The Antarctic TianMu Staring Observation Program is a time-domain optical sky survey project carried out in Antarctica, capable of large sky coverage, high-cadence sampling, and long-period staring. It utilizes the exceptional observing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Hubiao Niu , Jing Zhong , Yu Zhang , Jianchun Shi , Rui Rong , Jinzhong Liu , Shiyin Shen , Zhenghong Tang , Dan Zhou

We introduce a method for detecting astrophysical transients evolving on timescales of milliseconds to minutes using cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey telescopes. While previous transient searches in CMB data operate in map space,…