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The program package SME (Spectroscopy Made Easy), designed to perform an analysis of stellar spectra using spectral fitting techniques, was updated due to adding new functions (isotopic and hyperfine splittins) in VALD and including grids…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 N. Piskunov , T. Ryabchikova , Yu. Pakhomov , T. Sitnova , S. Alexeeva , L. Mashonkina , T. Nordlander

It has long been known that luminous, ultra-steep spectrum radio sources are preferentially associated with massive galaxies at high redshifts. Here we describe a pilot project directed at such objects, to demonstrate the feasibility and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 C. M. Cordun , R. Timmerman , G. K. Miley , R. J. van Weeren , F. Sweijen , L. K. Morabito , H. J. A. Röttgering

Very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) at frequencies above 230 GHz with Earth-diameter baselines gives spatial resolution finer than the ${\sim}50 \mu$as "shadow" of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, Sagittarius A* (Sgr…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Michael D. Johnson , Katherine L. Bouman , Andrew A. Chael

The past two decades saw a renewed interest in low frequency radio astronomy, with a particular focus on frequencies above 30 MHz. However, at frequencies below 30 MHz, Earth-based observations are limited due to a combination of severe…

The Planet Hunting and Asteroseismology Explorer Spectrophotometer, PHASES, is a concept for a space-borne instrument to obtain flux calibrated spectra and measure micro-magnitude photometric variations of nearby stars. The science drivers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-13 Carlos del Burgo , Carlos Allende Prieto , Tully Peacocke

The National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT) has a manifold network of small telescopes installed worldwide. These telescopes serve educational and research purposes and are equipped mainly with CCD detectors for direct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Somsawat Rattanasoon , Eugene Semenko , David Mkrtichian , Saran Poshyachinda

MOONS is the new Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph currently under construction for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO. This remarkable instrument combines, for the first time, the collecting power of an 8-m telescope,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-03 M. Cirasuolo , the MOONS consortium

Direct measurements of the masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are key to understanding their growth and constrain their symbiotic relationship to their host galaxies. However, current methods used to directly measure black hole…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Felix Bosco , Joseph F. Hennawi , Jonathan Stern , Jörg-Uwe Pott

A near-infrared telescope with an effective aperture diameter of thirty millimeters has been developed. The primary objective of the development is to observe northern bright stars in the $J$, $H$, and $K_{\rm s}$ bands and provide accurate…

Conventional lens-based imaging techniques have long been limited to capturing only the intensity distribution of objects, resulting in the loss of other crucial dimensions such as spectral data. Here, we report a spectral lens that…

The Thirty-Meter Telescope is an ambitious project to build a giant segmented mirror telescope with fully integrated adaptive optics systems that will produce diffraction-limited images. A powerful suite of instruments is being developed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 David Crampton , Luc Simard

Since the discovery of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), attempts have been made to detect correlated optical transient emission from these objects. In January 1999, the ROTSE I robotic telescope detected a bright optical flash simultaneous with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eliana Palazzi , Elena Pian

The BIFROST instrument will be the first VLTI instrument optimised for high spectral resolution up to R=25,000 and operate between 1.05 and 1.7 $\mu$m. A key component of the instrument will be the spectrograph, where we require a high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-11 Sorabh Chhabra , Michele Frangiamore , Stefan Kraus , Andrea Bianco , Francisco Garzon , John Monnier , Daniel Mortimer

The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) is one of three science instruments on the Spitzer Space Telescope. The IRS comprises four separate spectrograph modules covering the wavelength range from 5.3 to 38micron with spectral resolutions, R \~90…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 J. R. Houck , the Spitzer/IRS team

Millimetre-wave observations represent an important tool for Cosmology studies. The Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) technique has been proposed to map in three dimensions the specific intensity due to line (e.g. [CII], CO) emission, for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Usasi Chowdhury , Florence Levy-Bertrand , Martino Calvo , Johannes Goupy , Alessandro Monfardini

EAGLE is a Phase A study of a multi-IFU, near-IR spectrometer for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). The design employs wide-field adaptive optics to deliver excellent image quality across a large (38.5 arcmin sq.) field. When…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 C. J. Evans , M. D. Lehnert , J. -G. Cuby , S. L. Morris , M. Puech , N. Welikala , A. M. Swinbank , H. Schnetler

We present the updated design of HighSpec, a high-resolution $\mathcal{R} \sim 20,000$ spectrograph designed for the Multi Aperture Spectroscopic Telescope (MAST). HighSpec offers three observing modes centered at the Ca II H&K, Mg b…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense, short-lived bursts of gamma-ray radiation observed up to a high redshift ($z \sim 10$) due to their luminosities. Thus, they can serve as cosmological tools to probe the early Universe. However, we need…