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Aims: for the first time the astrometric capabilities of the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) facility GeMS with the GSAOI camera on Gemini-South are tested to quantify the accuracy in determining stellar proper motions in the…

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Weak lensing has become a powerful tool for probing the matter distribution in the Universe and constraining cosmological parameters. This paper aims to explore the fast mock generation pipeline to obtain the covariance matrix of the…

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Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) images of regularly arranged spatially periodic objects can be processed crystallographically. The resulting information may be used to remove from the SPM image distortions that are due to a less than…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-16 Peter Moeck

As one of Stage IV space-based telescopes, China Space Station Telescope (CSST) can perform photometric and spectroscopic surveys simultaneously to efficiently explore the Universe in extreme precision. In this work, we investigate several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Haitao Miao , Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen , Zhiqi Huang , Xiao-Dong Li , Hu Zhan

The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) is China's upcoming next-generation ultraviolet and optical survey telescope, with imaging resolution capabilities comparable to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). In this study, we utilized a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-11 Yuchong Luo , Anhe Sha , Jian Ren , Xin Zhang , Xianmin Meng , Nan Li , F. S. Liu

Scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) enables atomic-resolution imaging and atom manipulation, but its utility is often limited by tip degradation and slow serial data acquisition. Fabrication adds another layer of complexity since the tip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Nikola L. Kolev , Tommaso Rodani , Neil J. Curson , Taylor J. Z. Stock , Alberto Cazzaniga

We present a new automatic tool for time-domain astronomy - the Cambridge Photometric Calibration Server 2.0 - developed under OPTICON H2020 programme. It has been designed to respond to the need of automated rapid photometric data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Pawel Zielinski , Lukasz Wyrzykowski , Przemyslaw Mikolajczyk , Krzysztof Rybicki , Zbigniew Kolaczkowski

The MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars) satellite obtains ultraprecise photometry from space with high sampling rates and duty cycles. Astronomical photometry or imaging missions in low Earth orbits, like MOST, are especially…

A Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM)-based photodetector is being built to demonstrate its feasibility for an alternative silicon-based camera design for the Large Size Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array. It has been designed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 M. Mallamaci , B. Baibussinov , G. Busetto , D. Corti , A. De Angelis , F. Di Pierro , M. Doro , L. Lessio , M. Mariotti , E. Prandini , R. Rando , P. Vallania , C. F. Vigorito

We have constructed a new, fast, robust and reliable pipeline to detect variable stars from the ROTSE-IIId archival data. Turkish share of ROTSE-III archive contains approximately one million objects from a large field of view (1.85\dgr)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 B. B. Güçsav , C. Yeşilyaprak , S. K. Yerli , N. Aksaker , Ü. Kızıloğlu , D. Çoker , E. Dikicioğlu , M. E. Aydın

We present the photometric calibration of the HST Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). We give here an overview of the performance and calibration of the 2 CCD cameras, the Wide Field Channel (WFC) and the High Resolution Channel (HRC), and a…

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST), slated to become China's largest space-based optical telescope in the coming decade, is designed to conduct wide-field sky surveys with high spatial resolution. Among its key observational modes,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Xin Zhang , Yue-dong Fang , Cheng-liang Wei , Guo-liang Li , Feng-shan Liu , Hang-xin Ji , Hao Tian , Nan Li , Xian-min Meng , Jian-jun Chen , Xia Wang , Rui Wang , Chao Liu , Zhong-wen Hu , Ran Li , Peng Wei , Jing Tang

In near-infrared bands, co-adding and tiling of astronomical imaging datasets require a sufficiently high calibration quality (flat fielding, background subtraction). Here we present a complete workflow for obtaining imaging mosaics with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-06 Kirill Grishin , Igor Chilingarian

The Chinese Space Station Optical Survey (CSS-OS) is a mission to explore the vast universe. This mission will equip a 2-meter space telescope to perform a multi-band NUV-optical large area survey (over 40% of the sky) and deep survey (~1%…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Xin Zhang , Li Cao , Xianmin Meng

We present the first public version of SImMER, an open-source Python reduction pipeline for astronomical images of point sources. Current capabilities include dark-subtraction, flat-fielding, sky-subtraction, image registration, FWHM…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Arjun B. Savel , Lea A. Hirsch , Holden Gill , Courtney D. Dressing , David R. Ciardi

The Cosmology Data Management system (CosmoDM) is an automated and flexible data management system for the processing and calibration of data from optical photometric surveys. It is designed to run on supercomputers and to minimize disk I/O…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-01 S. Desai , J. J. Mohr , R. Henderson , M. Kummel , K. Paech , M. Wetzstein

The potential of photon detectors to achieve precise timing information is of increasing importance in many domains, PET and CT scanners in medical imaging and particle physics detectors, amongst others. The goal to increase by an order of…

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We report results from the preliminary trials of Colibri, a dedicated fast-photometry array for the detection of small Kuiper belt objects through serendipitous stellar occultations. Colibri's novel data processing pipeline analyzed 4000…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Emily Pass , Stanimir Metchev , Peter Brown , Steven Beauchemin

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory that is expected to reach one order of magnitude better sensitivity than that of current telescope arrays. The Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) have an essential…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 Yukiho Kobayashi , Akira Okumura , Franca Cassol , Hideaki Katagiri , Julian Sitarek , Paweł Gliwny , Seiya Nozaki , Yuto Nogami