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After observing WASP-12 in the second year of the primary mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revisited the system in late 2021 during its extended mission. In this paper, we incorporate the new TESS photometry into a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Ian Wong , Avi Shporer , Shreyas Vissapragada , Michael Greklek-McKeon , Heather A. Knutson , Joshua N. Winn , Björn Benneke

Quasi-periodic MicroPulses (QMP) are quasi-periodic microstructural features manifested in individual pulsar radio pulses, the study of which is crucial for understanding pulsar radiation mechanisms. Manual identification of QMP in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-23 Shidong Wang , Hui Liu , Ru-Shuang Zhao , Baoqiang Lao , Yong-Kun Zhang , Y. F. Xiao , Pei Wang , Di Li , R. W. Tian , Z. F. Tu , Q. Zhou , Z. J. Zhang , Qijun Zhi , Shijun Dang , Kun Yang

The optical emission efficiency of two dimensional layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is one of the most important parameter that affects their optoelectronic performance. Optimization of growth parameters of chemical vapor…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-13 Amina Zafar , Haiyan Nan , Zainab Zafar , Zhangting Wu , Jie Jiang , Yumeng You , Zhenhua Ni

This paper describes a new method for optical readout of Time Projection Chambers (TPCs), based on the Linearly Graded Silicon Photomultiplier (LG-SiPM). This is a single photon-sensitive detector with excellent timing and 2D position…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-15 A. Gola , K. Majumdar , G. Casse , K. Mavrokoridis , S. Merzi , L. Parsons Franca

In our study spanning 2015-2021, we examined sink pixels (SPs) in the Advanced Camera for Surveys Wide Field Channel (ACS/WFC) using dark and SP reference files. SPs are pixels with values $\le$ $-10$ electrons below the local background of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Alyssa M. Guzman , Jenna E. Ryon

Results in this paper present an in-depth study of time resolution for active pixels of the RD50-MPW2 prototype CMOS particle detector. Measurement techniques employed include Backside- and Edge-TCT configurations, in addition to electrons…

TORCH is a large-area, high-precision time-of-flight (ToF) detector designed to provide charged-particle identification in the 2-20 GeV$/c$ momentum range. Prompt Cherenkov photons emitted by charged hadrons as they traverse a 10mm quartz…

We validate the performance and accuracy of the current SEGUE (Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration) Stellar Parameter Pipeline (SSPP), which determines stellar atmospheric parameters (effective temperature, surface…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission measured light from stars in ~75% of the sky throughout its two year primary mission, resulting in millions of TESS 30-minute cadence light curves to analyze in the search for…

We have measured the sub-milli-arcsecond structure of 274 extragalactic sources at 24 and 43 GHz in order to assess their astrometric suitability for use in a high frequency celestial reference frame (CRF). Ten sessions of observations with…

Radio telescopes are used to accurately measure the time of arrival (ToA) of radio pulses in pulsar timing experiments that target mostly millisecond pulsars (MSPs) due to their high rotational stability. This allows for detailed study of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Griffin Foster , Aris Karastergiou , Remi Paulin , Tobia Carozzi , Simon Johnston , Willem van Straten

We present a software package designed to produce photometric lightcurves and measure rotation periods from full-frame images taken by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which we name ``TESSILATOR''. TESSILATOR is the only…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 A. S. Binks , H. M. Guenther

The TESS mission will survey ~85 % of the sky, giving us the opportunity of extracting high-precision light curves of millions of stars, including stellar cluster members. In this work, we present our project "A PSF-based Approach to TESS…

The Penning-trap electronic-detection technique that offers the precision and sensitivity requested in mass spectrometry for fundamental studies in nuclear and particle physics has not been proven yet to be universal. This has motivated the…

Differential top quark pair cross sections are measured in the dilepton final state as a function of kinematic variables associated to the dineutrino system. The measurements are performed making use of the Run 2 dataset collected by the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-04 Sandra Consuegra Rodríguez

We have performed a search for flares and Quasi-Periodic Pulsations (QPPs) from low mass M dwarf stars using TESS 2 min cadence data. We find seven stars which show evidence of QPPs. Using Fourier and Empirical Mode Decomposition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Gavin Ramsay , Dmitrii Kolotkov , J. Gerry Doyle , Lauren Doyle

The MIP Timing Detector will provide additional timing capabilities for detection of minimum ionizing particles (MIPs) at CMS during the High Luminosity LHC era, improving event reconstruction and pileup rejection. The central portion of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-19 R. Abbott , A. Abreu , F. Addesa , M. Alhusseini , T. Anderson , Y. Andreev , A. Apresyan , R. Arcidiacono , M. Arenton , E. Auffray , D. Bastos , L. A. T. Bauerdick , R. Bellan , M. Bellato , A. Benaglia , M. Benettoni , R. Bertoni , M. Besancon , S. Bharthuar , A. Bornheim , E. Brücken , J. N. Butler , C. Campagnari , M. Campana , R. Carlin , P. Carniti , N. Cartiglia , M. Casarsa , O. Cerri , P. Checchia , H. Chen , S. Chidzik , F. Chlebana , F. Cossutti , M. Costa , B. Cox , I. Dafinei , F. De Guio , P. Debbins , D. del Re , A. Dermenev , E. Di Marco , K. Dilsiz , K. F. Di Petrillo , G. Dissertori , S. Dogra , U. Dosselli , I. Dutta , F. Caleb , C. Fernandez Madrazo , M. Fernandez , M. Ferrero , Z. Flowers , W. Funk , M. Gallinaro , S. Ganjour , M. Gardner , F. Geurts , A. Ghezzi , S. Gninenko , F. Golf , J. Gonzalez , C. Gotti , L. Gray , F. Guilloux , S. Gundacker , E. Hazen , S. Hedia , A. Heering , R. Heller , T. Isidori , R. Isocrate , R. Jaramillo , M. Joyce , K. Kaadze , A. Karneyeu , H. Kim , J. King , G. Kopp , M. Korjik , O. K. Koseyan , A. Kozyrev , N. Kratochwil , M. Lazarovits , A. Ledovskoy , H. Lee , J. Lee , A. Li , S. Li , W. Li , T. Liu , N. Lu , M. Lucchini , W. Lustermann , C. Madrid , M. Malberti , I. Mandjavize , J. Mao , Y. Maravin , D. Marlow , B. Marsh , P. Martinez del Arbol , B. Marzocchi , R. Mazza , C. McMahon , V. Mechinsky , P. Meridiani , A. Mestvirishvili , N. Minafra , A. Mohammadi , F. Monti , C. S. Moon , R. Mulargia , M. Murray , Y. Musienko , J. Nachtman , S. Nargelas , L. Narvaez , O. Neogi , C. Neu , T. Niknejad , M. Obertino , H. Ogul , G. Oh , I. Ojalvo , Y. Onel , G. Organtini , T. Orimoto , J. Ott , I. Ovtin , M. Paganoni , F. Pandolfi , R. Paramatti , A. Peck , C. Perez , G. Pessina , C. Pena , S. Pigazzini , O. Radchenko , N. Redaelli , D. Rigoni , E. Robutti , C. Rogan , R. Rossin , C. Rovelli , C. Royon , M. Ö. Sahin , W. Sands , F. Santanastasio , U. Sarica , I. Schmidt , R. Schmitz , J. Sheplock , J. C. Silva , F. Siviero , L. Soffi , V. Sola , G. Sorrentino , M. Spiropulu , D. Spitzbart , A. G. Stahl Leiton , A. Staiano , D. Stuart , I. Suarez , T. Tabarelli de Fatis , G. Tamulaitis , Y. Tang , B. Tannenwald , R. Taylor , E. Tiras , M. Titov , S. Tkaczyk , D. Tlisov , I. Tlisova , M. Tornago , M. Tosi , R. Tramontano , J. Trevor , C. G. Tully , B. Ujvari , J. Varela , S. Ventura , I. Vila , T. Wamorkar , C. Wang , X. Wang , M. Wayne , J. Wetzel , S. White , D. Winn , S. Wu , S. Xie , Z. Ye , G. B. Yu , G. Zhang , L. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. Zhang , R. Zhu

Accurate Time-of-Flight (TOF) measurement with sub-100 picosecond resolution is a critical requirement for particle identification in future high-energy physics experiments, such as the Belle II $K_{L}$ and Muon (KLM) detector upgrade.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-14 Ziyi Yang , Xiyang Wang , Shiming Zou , Ting Wang , Kairui Huang , Wanyi Zhuang , Yicheng Pu , Xiaolong Wang

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will provide high precision time-series photometry for millions of stars with at least a half-hour cadence. Of particular interest are the circular regions of 12-degree radius centered around…