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This paper develops a few science cases, using the PRIMA far-IR probe, aimed at achieving several breakthroughs in our understanding of the dust properties and their evolution. We argue that the specific observational capabilities of PRIMA,…

The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was the top ranked large space mission in the 2010 New Worlds, New Horizons decadal survey, and it was formed by merging the science programs of 3 different mission concepts, including the…

The Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) is a far-infrared (24-261 micron wavelengths) probe-class space observatory currently under Phase A study, which promises orders-of-magnitude improvement in mapping speed over its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Elijah Kane , Chris Albert , Andrew Beyer , Charles , Bradford , Pierre Echternach , Logan Foote , Jason Glenn , Henry , LeDuc , Hien Nguyen , Thomas Stevenson , Brian Zhu , Jonas Zmuidzinas

Protoplanets accreting matter seem to feature a strong emission at $\text{H}\alpha$ wavelength and the contrast of the system is then weaker at these wavelengths and thus more accessible. Measuring this emission from a protoplanet allow to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Kévin Barjot

FLARE (First Light And Reionization Explorer) is a space mission that will be submitted to ESA (M5 call). Its primary goal (about 80% of lifetime) is to identify and study galaxies that dwell in the universe before the end of the…

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We uniformly analyze 136 optically detected PNe and candidates from the GLIMPSE-I survey in order to to develop robust, multi-wavelength, classification criteria to augment existing diagnostics and provide pure PN samples. PNe represent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Martin Cohen , Quentin A. Parker , Anne J. Green , Brent Miszalski , David J. Frew , Tara Murphy

The Roman Space Telescope will be instrumental for characterizing the physical properties of galaxies and understanding their evolution across time. However, a complete view of galaxy star formation activity will only be possible with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Médéric Boquien , Laure Ciesla , Roman Amestoy , Jason Glenn , Carlotta Gruppioni , John-David Smith

The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a 2.4m space telescope with a 0.281 deg^2 field of view for near-IR imaging and slitless spectroscopy and a coronagraph designed for > 10^8 starlight suppresion. As background information…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-18 Rachel Akeson , Lee Armus , Etienne Bachelet , Vanessa Bailey , Lisa Bartusek , Andrea Bellini , Dominic Benford , David Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Ralph Bohlin , Martha Boyer , Valerio Bozza , Geoffrey Bryden , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , Kenneth Carpenter , Stefano Casertano , Ami Choi , David Content , Pratika Dayal , Alan Dressler , Olivier Doré , S. Michael Fall , Xiaohui Fan , Xiao Fang , Alexei Filippenko , Steven Finkelstein , Ryan Foley , Steven Furlanetto , Jason Kalirai , B. Scott Gaudi , Karoline Gilbert , Julien Girard , Kevin Grady , Jenny Greene , Puragra Guhathakurta , Chen Heinrich , Shoubaneh Hemmati , David Hendel , Calen Henderson , Thomas Henning , Christopher Hirata , Shirley Ho , Eric Huff , Anne Hutter , Rolf Jansen , Saurabh Jha , Samson Johnson , David Jones , Jeremy Kasdin , Patrick Kelly , Robert Kirshner , Anton Koekemoer , Jeffrey Kruk , Nikole Lewis , Bruce Macintosh , Piero Madau , Sangeeta Malhotra , Kaisey Mandel , Elena Massara , Daniel Masters , Julie McEnery , Kristen McQuinn , Peter Melchior , Mark Melton , Bertrand Mennesson , Molly Peeples , Matthew Penny , Saul Perlmutter , Alice Pisani , Andrés Plazas , Radek Poleski , Marc Postman , Clément Ranc , Bernard Rauscher , Armin Rest , Aki Roberge , Brant Robertson , Steven Rodney , James Rhoads , Jason Rhodes , Russell Ryan , Kailash Sahu , David Sand , Dan Scolnic , Anil Seth , Yossi Shvartzvald , Karelle Siellez , Arfon Smith , David Spergel , Keivan Stassun , Rachel Street , Louis-Gregory Strolger , Alexander Szalay , John Trauger , M. A. Troxel , Margaret Turnbull , Roeland van der Marel , Anja von der Linden , Yun Wang , David Weinberg , Benjamin Williams , Rogier Windhorst , Edward Wollack , Hao-Yi Wu , Jennifer Yee , Neil Zimmerman

The WFIRST microlensing mission will measure precise light curves and relative parallaxes for millions of stars, giving it the potential to characterize short-period transiting planets all along the line of sight and into the galactic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Benjamin T. Montet , Jennifer C. Yee , Matthew T. Penny

We present the architectural concept for the Far-Infrared Enhanced Survey Spectrometer (FIRESS) for the Probe Mission for far-IR Astrophysics (PRIMA). FIRESS spans the 24--235 micron range with four R ~ 100 slit-fed grating modules, each…

The PRIMAger instrument on board the proposed PRIMA satellite will offer the unprecedented capability to obtain hundreds of square-degree maps in polarised emission at sub-arcminute resolution in four Far-IR bands. This will open a unique…

The Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) is the science module of the Canadian-built Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). NIRISS has four observing modes: 1) broadband imaging…

Augmenting the \emph{WFIRST} microlensing campaigns with intensive observations from a ground-based network of wide-field survey telescopes would have several major advantages. First, it would enable full two-dimensional (2-D) vector…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Wei Zhu , Andrew Gould

FIRST, the Fibered Imager foR a Single Telescope, is a spectro-imager using single-mode fibers for pupil remapping, allowing measurements beyond the telescope diffraction limit. Integrated on the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics…

The Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) is the instrument of choice when it comes to observing astrometric microlensing events where nearby, usually high-proper-motion stars (``lenses''), pass in front of more distant stars (``sources'').…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Samir Salim , Andrew Gould