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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…

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In this paper we briefly summarize the design concepts of the Fly's Eye Camera System, a proposed high resolution all-sky monitoring device which intends to perform high cadence time domain astronomy in multiple optical passbands while…

To meet the scientific goals of the Thirty Meter Telescope Project, full diffraction-limited performance is required from the outset and hence the entire observatory is being designed, as a system, to achieve this. The preliminary design…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Crampton , Luc Simard , David Silva

Lijiang 2.4-meter Telescope(LJT), the largest common-purpose optical telescope in China, has been applied to the world-wide astronomers since 2008. It is located at Gaomeigu site, Lijiang Observatory(LJO), the southwest of China. The site…

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The Mini-SiTian (MST) project is a pathfinder for China's next-generation large-scale time-domain survey, SiTian, aimed at discovering variable stars, transients, and explosive events. MST generates hundreds of thousands of transient alerts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Jing-Hang Shi , Hong-Rui Gu , Yang Huang , Yan-Xia Zhang , Peng-Liang Du

SONG is a global ground based network of 1 meter telescopes for stellar time-domain science, an international collaboration involving many countries across the world. In order to enable a favourable duty cycle, the SONG network plans to…

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New mass-produced, wide-field, small-aperture telescopes have the potential to revolutionize ground-based astronomy by greatly reducing the cost of collecting area. In this paper, we introduce a new class of large telescope based on these…

Over the past decade, time-domain astronomy in optical bands has developed rapidly with the operations of some wide-field survey facilities. However, most of these surveys are conducted with only a single band, and simultaneous color…

(Abridged) In this paper, we present a project of multi-channel wide-field optical sky monitoring system with high temporal resolution -- Small Aperture Imaging Network Telescope (SAINT) -- mostly built from off-the-shelf components and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 Grigory Beskin , Anton Biryukov , Alexey Gutaev , Sergey Karpov , Gor Oganesyan , Gennady Valyavin , Azamat Valeev , Valery Vlasyuk , Nadezhda Lyapsina , Vyacheslav Sasyuk

LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) is an innovative radio telescope optimized for the frequency range 30-240 MHz. The telescope is realized as a phased aperture array without any moving parts. Digital beam forming allows the telescope to point to…

The Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) 80 cm telescope is a new generation near-infrared (NIR) facility in China dedicated to time-domain astronomy, while also serving as a testbed for emerging NIR cameras. Commissioned in October 2024 at the…

This white paper is a summarising report of the Forum on monitoring the transient X-ray Universe in the multi-messenger era organized by the International Space Science Institute in Beijing (ISSI-BJ) on May 6-7, 2014. Time-domain astronomy…

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In this thesis the data analysis designed by author for the "Pi of the Sky" experiment is presented. The data analysis consists of data reduction and specific algorithms for identification of short time scale astrophysical processes. The…

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Over the past ten years, several breakthroughs have been made in multi-messenger astronomy. Thanks to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the detection of astrophysical neutrinos was proved to be practical. However, due to the limited…

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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…

As a core ground-based coronal observation facility in China's low-latitude high-altitude regions, the Lijiang Coronagraph leverages the natural advantages of Lijiang Astronomical Observation Station, including its 3200 m altitude and low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xuefei Zhang , Yu Liu , Tengfei Song , Mingyu Zhao , Xiaobo Li , Mingzhe Sun , Feiyang Sha , Xiande Liu

Tianyu telescope, an one-meter robotic optical survey instrument to be constructed in Lenghu, Qinghai, China, is designed for detecting transiting exoplanets, variable stars and transients. It requires a highly automated, optimally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Yicheng Rui , Yifan Xuan , Shuyue Zheng , Kexin Li , Kaiming Cui , Kai Xiao , Jie Zheng , Jun Kai Ng , Hongxuan Jiang , Fabo Feng , Qinghui Sun