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The GWAC-N is an observation network composed of multi-aperture and multi-field of view robotic optical telescopes. The main instruments are the GWAC-A. Besides, several robotic optical telescopes with narrower field of views provide fast…

GRM (Gamma-Ray Monitor) is the high energy detector on-board the future Chinese-French satellite SVOM (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Object Monitor) which is dedicated to Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) studies. This paper presents the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Dong-Hua Zhao , Bo-Bing Wu , Li-Ming Song , Yong-Wei Dong , Stephane Schanne , Bertrand Cordier , Jiang-Tao Liu

The X- and gamma-ray telescope ECLAIRs onboard the future mission for gamma-ray burst studies SVOM (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor) is foreseen to operate in orbit from 2013 on. ECLAIRs will provide fast and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stephane Schanne

Virtual Super-resolution Optics with Reconfigurable Swarms (VISORS) is a distributed telescope mission for high-resolution imaging of the Sun using two 6U CubeSats flying in formation in a Sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit. An optics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Tommaso Guffanti , Toby Bell , Samuel Y. W. Low , Mason Murray-Cooper , Simone D'Amico

We present the in-orbit calibration of the Visible Telescope (VT), one of the key instruments aboard the Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) mission for gamma-ray burst (GRB) studies. Using Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) as a reference, the VT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhu-Heng Yao , Yu-Lei Qiu , Jin-Song Deng , Li-Ping Xin , Chao Wu , Hua-Li Li , Jing Wang , Yi-Nuo Ma , Hong-Bo Cai , Xu-Hui Han , Jian-Yan Wei , Betrand Cordier

We present ECLAIRs, the Gamma-ray burst (GRB) trigger camera to fly on-board the Chinese-French mission SVOM. ECLAIRs is a wide-field ($\sim 2$\,sr) coded mask camera with a mask transparency of 40\% and a 1024 $\mathrm{cm}^2$ detection…

High-redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) beyond redshift $\sim6$ are potentially powerful tools to probe the distant early Universe. Their detections in large numbers and at truly high redshifts call for the next generation of high-energy…

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 SVOM mission under development will carry four instruments, and in particular the coded-mask telescope named ECLAIRs, with a large field of view of about 2 sr, operating in the 4-150 keV energy band. The trigger software on board…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-29 N. Dagoneau , S. Schanne

We present the most recent technical improvements on SpIOMM, an Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (IFTS) attached to the 1.6 telescope of the Mont M\'egantic Observatory. The recent development of SpIOMM demonstrates that the concept…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. -P. Bernier , M. Charlebois , L. Drissen , F. Grandmont

The ESA M3 candidate mission LOFT (Large Observatory For x-ray Timing) has been designed to study strong gravitational fields by observing compact objects, such as black-hole binaries or neutron-star systems and supermassive black-holes,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-29 S. Schanne , D. Götz , H. Le Provost , F. Château , E. Bozzo , S. Brandt

The Microchannel X-ray Telescope on board the Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) satellite detects and localizes the X-ray afterglow of gamma-ray bursts. One year after the launch, this paper presents the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 F. Robinet , C. Van Hove , M. Moita , S. Crepaldi , C. Feldman , A. Fort , O. Frandon , D. Götz , P. Maggi , K. Mercier , A. Sauvageon

The Scientific Trigger Unit (UTS) is a satellite equipment designed to detect Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) observed by the onboard 6400 pixels camera ECLAIRs. It is foreseen to equip the low-Earth orbit French-Chinese satellite SVOM and acts as…

The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope that will observe from the Atacama Desert in Chile. In total, SO…

At the heart of the SVOM French ground segment, the French Science Center is a cloud-based platform which provides services and tools for the management, storage, scientific processing and visualization of SVOM data for the French…

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is a wide-field telescope project focused on detecting optical counterparts to gravitational-wave sources. The GOTO Telescope Control System (G-TeCS) is a custom robotic control…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-15 Martin J. Dyer , Vik S. Dhillon , Stuart Littlefair , Danny Steeghs , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Paul Chote , Joseph Lyman , Duncan K. Galloway , Kendall Ackley , Yik Lun Mong

The Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a Chinese-French mission dedicated to the study of the transient sky. It is scheduled to start operations in 2024. ECLAIRs is a coded-mask telescope with a large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Wenjin Xie , Bertrand Cordier , Nicolas Dagoneau , Stéphane Schanne , Jean-Luc Atteia , Laurent Bouchet , Olivier Godet

The SVOM mission is specifically designed to for the detection and localization of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and subsequent follow-up observations. Among the four telescopes installed on the SVOM satellite, the Gamma-Ray Monitor (GRM) plays a…

The Swift mission, scheduled for launch in early 2004, is a multiwavelength observatory for gamma-ray burst (GRB) astronomy. It is the first-of-its-kind autonomous rapid-slewing satellite for transient astronomy and pioneers the way for…

In this work, we report on activities focusing on improving the observation strategy of the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Global Observing System (VGOS). During six dedicated 24-hour Research and Development (R&D) sessions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-01 Matthias Schartner , Bill Petrachenko , Mike Titus , Hana Krasna , John Barrett , Dan Hoak , Dhiman Mondal , Minghui Xu , Benedikt Soja