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We present in this paper an innovative data reduction method for single-mode interferometry. It has been specifically developed for the AMBER instrument, the three-beam combiner of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer, but can be derived…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Tatulli , the AMBER consortium

One of many ways for the James-Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to capture astronomical signals is the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) Imaging mode. To make this data ready for analysis, the JWST standard reduction pipeline has three stages and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Güray Hatipoğlu

We present the wavelength and spectral resolution characterisation of the Integral Field Unit (IFU) Medium Resolution Spectrometer for the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), to fly onboard the James Webb Space Telescope in 2014. We use data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. R. Martinez-Galarza , A. M. Glauser , A. Hernan-Caballero , R. Azzollini , A. Glasse , S. Kendrew , B. Brandl , F. Lahuis

Current observations taken by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) allow us to observe the absorption features of icy mantles that cover interstellar dust grains, which are mainly composed of $\mathrm{H_2O}$, $\mathrm{CO}$, and…

MIRI (the Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)) operates from 5 to 28.5 microns and combines over this range: 1.) unprecedented sensitivity levels; 2.) sub-arcsec angular resolution; 3.) freedom from atmospheric…

We present a new analysis of the potential power of deep, near-infrared, imaging surveys with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to improve our knowledge of galaxy evolution. In this work we properly simulate what can be achieved with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 T. W. Kemp , J. S. Dunlop , R. J. McLure , C. Schreiber , A. C. Carnall , F. Cullen

This work aims to measure the mass accretion rate, the accretion luminosity, and more generally the physical conditions of the warm emitting gas in the inner disk of the very low-mass star 2MASS-J16053215-1933159. We investigate the source…

The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) is a Probe-class mission concept that will provide essential contributions to multimessenger astrophysics in the next decade. AMEGO operates both as a Compton and pair telescope to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Carolyn A. Kierans , the AMEGO Team

We describe how the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near-Infrared Spectrograph's (NIRSpec's) detectors will be read out, and present a model of how noise scales with the number of multiple non-destructive reads sampling-up-the-ramp. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Bernard J. Rauscher , Ori Fox , Pierre Ferruit

Kernel phase interferometry (KPI) is a post-processing technique that treats a conventional telescope as an interferometer by accurately modeling a telescope pupil as an array of virtual subapertures. KPI provides angular resolution within…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Chelsea Adelman , Steph Sallum , Matthew De Furio , Josh Eisner

We present an estimate of the performance that will be achieved during on orbit operations of the JWST Mid Infrared Instrument, MIRI. The efficiency of the main imager and spectrometer systems in detecting photons from an astronomical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Alistair Glasse , G. H. Rieke , E. Bauwens , Macarena Garcıa-Marın , M. E. Ressler , Steffen Rost , T. V. Tikkanen , B. Vandenbussche , G. S. Wright

Characterization of directly imaged exoplanets is one of the most eagerly anticipated science functions of the James Webb Space Telescope. MIRI, the mid-IR instrument has the capability to provide unique spatially resolved photometric data…

The Juggled interferometer (JIFO) is an earth-based gravitational wave detector using repeatedly free-falling test masses. With no worries of seismic noise and suspension thermal noise, the JIFO can have much better sensitivity at lower…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Bin Wu , Tomohiro Ishikawa , Shoki Iwaguchi , Ryuma Shimizu , Izumi Watanabe , Yuki Kawasaki , Yuta Michimura , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Seiji Kawamura

Astrometry is one of the main pillars of astronomy, and one of its oldest branches. Over the years, an increasing number of astrometric works by means of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data have revolutionized our understanding of various…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 M. Libralato , I. Argyriou , D. Dicken , M. García Marín , P. Guillard , D. C. Hines , P. J. Kavanagh , S. Kendrew , D. R. Law , A. Noriega-Crespo , J. Álvarez-Márquez

The science and origins of asteroids is deemed high priority in the Planetary Science Decadal Survey. Major scientific goals for the study of planetesimals are to decipher geological processes in SSSBs not determinable from investigation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-07 Greg Wilburn , Himangshu Kalita , Aman Chandra , Stephen Schwartz , Erik Asphaug , Jekan Thangavelautham

ALMA's high-resolution images allow to resolve the filamentary structure of the ISM down to few thousand au at kpc distances. We aim to systematically quantify the impact of the interferometric response and the effects of the short-spacing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-07 F. Bonanomi , A. Hacar , A. Socci , D. Petry , S. Suri

The MRS is one of the four observing modes of JWST/MIRI. Using JWST in-flight data of unresolved (point) sources, we can derive the MRS absolute spectral response function (ASRF) starting from raw data. Spectral fringing plays a critical…

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has the largest aperture and a 19-beam L-band receiver, making it powerful for investigating the neutral hydrogen atomic gas (HI) in the universe. We present HiFAST…

The combination of ALMA submillimeter and JWST/MIRI mid-infrared observations offers a transformative view of protostellar jets and outflows by probing cold and warm gas components across diverse physical conditions. We present a detailed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-16 Somnath Dutta