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The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough discoveries in fundamental physics, cosmology, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-10 The Simons Observatory Collaboration , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Shunsuke Adachi , Peter Ade , James Aguirre , Zeeshan Ahmed , Simone Aiola , Aamir Ali , David Alonso , Marcelo A. Alvarez , Kam Arnold , Peter Ashton , Zachary Atkins , Jason Austermann , Humna Awan , Carlo Baccigalupi , Taylor Baildon , Anton Baleato Lizancos , Darcy Barron , Nick Battaglia , Richard Battye , Eric Baxter , Andrew Bazarko , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Dominic Beck , Shawn Beckman , Benjamin Beringue , Tanay Bhandarkar , Sanah Bhimani , Federico Bianchini , Steven Boada , David Boettger , Boris Bolliet , J. Richard Bond , Julian Borrill , Michael L. Brown , Sarah Marie Bruno , Sean Bryan , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Paolo Calisse , Julien Carron , Fred. M Carl , Juan Cayuso , Anthony Challinor , Grace Chesmore , Yuji Chinone , Jens Chluba , Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho , Steve Choi , Susan Clark , Philip Clarke , Carlo Contaldi , Gabriele Coppi , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin Coughlin , Will Coulton , Devin Crichton , Kevin D. Crowley , Kevin T. Crowley , Ari Cukierman , John M. D'Ewart , Rolando Dünner , Tijmen de Haan , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Cody J. Duell , Shannon Duff , Adri Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Hamza El Bouhargani , Josquin Errard , Giulio Fabbian , Stephen Feeney , James Fergusson , Simone Ferraro , Pedro Fluxà , Katherine Freese , Josef C. Frisch , Andrei Frolov , George Fuller , Nicholas Galitzki , Patricio A. Gallardo , Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi , Jiansong Gao , Eric Gawiser , Martina Gerbino , Vera Gluscevic , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Joseph Golec , Sam Gordon , Megan Gralla , Daniel Green , Arpi Grigorian , John Groh , Chris Groppi , Yilun Guan , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , Peter Hargrave , Kathleen Harrington , Masaya Hasegawa , Matthew Hasselfield , Makoto Hattori , Victor Haynes , Masashi Hazumi , Erin Healy , Shawn W. Henderson , Brandon Hensley , Carlos Hervias-Caimapo , Charles A. Hill , J. Colin Hill , Gene Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Gary Hinshaw , Renée Hložek , Shirley Ho , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Thuong D. Hoang , Jonathan Hoh , Selim C. Hotinli , Zhiqi Huang , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Anna Ijjas , Margaret Ikape , Kent Irwin , Andrew H. Jaffe , Bhuvnesh Jain , Oliver Jeong , Matthew Johnson , Daisuke Kaneko , Ethan D. Karpel , Nobuhiko Katayama , Brian Keating , Reijo Keskitalo , Theodore Kisner , Kenji Kiuchi , Jeff Klein , Kenda Knowles , Anna Kofman , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Akito Kusaka , Phil LaPlante , Jacob Lashner , Adrian Lee , Eunseong Lee , Antony Lewis , Yaqiong Li , Zack Li , Michele Limon , Eric Linder , Jia Liu , Carlos Lopez-Caraballo , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Mathew Madhavacheril , Daisy Mak , Felipe Maldonado , Hamdi Mani , Ben Mates , Frederick Matsuda , Loïc Maurin , Phil Mauskopf , Andrew May , Nialh McCallum , Heather McCarrick , Chris McKenney , Jeff McMahon , P. Daniel Meerburg , James Mertens , Joel Meyers , Amber Miller , Mark Mirmelstein , Kavilan Moodley , Jenna Moore , Moritz Munchmeyer , Charles Munson , Masaaki Murata , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Martin Navaroli , Laura Newburgh , Ho Nam Nguyen , Andrina Nicola , Mike Niemack , Haruki Nishino , Yume Nishinomiya , John Orlowski-Scherer , Luca Pagano , Bruce Partridge , Francesca Perrotta , Phumlani Phakathi , Lucio Piccirillo , Elena Pierpaoli , Giampaolo Pisano , Davide Poletti , Roberto Puddu , Giuseppe Puglisi , Chris Raum , Christian L. Reichardt , Mathieu Remazeilles , Yoel Rephaeli , Dominik Riechers , Felipe Rojas , Aditya Rotti , Anirban Roy , Sharon Sadeh , Yuki Sakurai , Maria Salatino , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Lauren Saunders , Emmanuel Schaan , Marcel Schmittfull , Neelima Sehgal , Joseph Seibert , Uros Seljak , Paul Shellard , Blake Sherwin , Meir Shimon , Carlos Sierra , Jonathan Sievers , Cristobal Sifon , Precious Sikhosana , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Adrian Sinclair , Kendrick Smith , Wuhyun Sohn , Rita Sonka , David Spergel , Jacob Spisak , Suzanne T. Staggs , George Stein , Jason R. Stevens , Radek Stompor , Aritoki Suzuki , Osamu Tajima , Satoru Takakura , Grant Teply , Daniel B. Thomas , Ben Thorne , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Jesse Treu , Calvin Tsai , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Sunny Vagnozzi , Alexander van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Daniel D. Van Winkle , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Clara Vergès , Michael Vissers , Kasey Wagoner , Samantha Walker , Yuhan Wang , Jon Ward , Ben Westbrook , Nathan Whitehorn , Jason Williams , Joel Williams , Edward Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Siavash Yasini , Edward Young , Byeonghee Yu , Cyndia Yu , Fernando Zago , Mario Zannoni , Hezi Zhang , Kaiwen Zheng , Ningfeng Zhu , Andrea Zonca

Science Prospects for the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory: SWGO

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is now well established as a key observational approach to address critical topics at the frontiers of astroparticle physics and high-energy astrophysics. Whilst the field of TeV astronomy was once dominated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-26 SWGO Collaboration , P. Abreu , R. Alfaro , A. Alfonso , M. Andrade , E. O. Angüner , E. A. Anita-Rangel , O. Aquines-Gutiérrez , C. Arcaro , R. Arceo , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , P. Assis , H. A. Ayala Solares , A. Bakalova , E. M. Bandeira , P. Bangale , U. Barres de Almeida , P. Batista , I. Batković , J. Bazo , E. Belmont , J. Bennemann , S. Y. BenZvi , A. Bernal , W. Bian , C. Bigongiari , E. Bottacini , R. Branada , P. Brogueira , A. M. Brown , T. Bulik , K. S. Caballero-Mora , P. Camarri , W. Cao , Z. Cao , Z. Cao , T. Capistrán , M. Cardillo , C. Casentini , C. Castromonte , P. M. Chadwick , J. Chanamé , J. Chang , S. Chen , A. Chiavassa , L. Chytka , R. Colalillo , R. Conceição , G. Consolati , R. Cordero , P. J. Costa , R. Covarelli , X. Cui , X. Cui , A. De Angelis , E. de Gouveia Dal Pino , R. de Menezes , P. Desiati , N. Di Lalla , F. Di Pierro , G. Di Sciascio , J. C. Díaz Vélez , C. Dib , B. Dingus , J. Djuvsland , C. Dobrigkeit , L. M. Domingues Mendes , T. Dorigo , M. Doro , A. C. dos Reis , M. Du Vernois , D. Elsaesser , K. Engel , T. Ergin , M. Errando , K. Fang , A. Fazzi , C. Feng , M. Feroci , C. N. Ferreira , N. Fraija , S. Fraija , A. Franceschini , G. F. Franco , S. Funk , R. Galleguillos , B. Gao , C. Gao , A. M. Garcia Reyes , S. Garcia , F. Garfias , G. Giacinti , L. Gibilisco , B. Giovanni , J. Glombitza , H. Goksu , G. Gong , B. S. González , M. M. González , J. Goodman , V. M. Grieco , M. Gu , F. Guarino , G. P. Guedes , J. Gyeong , F. Haist , G. Han , P. Hansen , J. P. Harding , S. Hernandez Cadena , I. Herzog , J. Hinton , W. Hofmann , C. Hou , Hou C. , K. Hu , D. Huang , P. Huentemeyer , A. Iriarte , J. Isaković , A. Jardin-Blicq , L. I. Junoy , J. Juryšek , S. Kaci , B. Khelifi , D. Kieda , F. La Monaca , G. La Mura , R. G. Lang , J. S. Lapington , R. Laspiur , L. Lavitola , J. Lee , F. Leitl , M. Lemoine-Goumard , L. Lessio , T. Lewis , C. Li , J. Li , K. Li , T. Li , B. Liberti , S. Lin , R. A. Lineros , D. Liu , J. Liu , R. Liu , F. Longo , Y. Luo , J. Lv , E. Macerata , G. Magugliani , K. Malone , A. Mancilla , D. Mandat , M. Manganaro , M. Mariani , A. Mariazzi , M. Mariotti , T. Marrodan , H. Martínez-Huerta , I. Martins , S. Medina , D. Melo , L. F. Mendes , E. Meza , R. Micali , D. Miceli , S. Miozzi , L. S. Miranda , P. E. Mirón Enriquez , A. Mitchell , A. Molinario , A. Montero , O. G. Morales-Olivares , A. Morselli , E. Mossini , M. Mostafá , F. Muleri , F. Nardi , A. P. Nayak , A. Negro , L. Nellen , M. Nisa , V. Novotny , L. Olivera-Nieto , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , S. Ortolani , M. Osorio-Archila , T. Ota , L. Otiniano , Z. Ou , A. Paoloni , I. M. Pepe , R. Perca , M. Peresano , Y. Pérez Araujo , T. Petrosillo-Lago , G. Piano , D. Piccolo , A. Pichel , M. Pimenta , M. Pirke , A. Porcelli , T. Porter , E. Prandini , A. Pratts , R. Pretsch , A. Qi , J. Qin , S. Rainò , L. Recabarren , M. Regeard , A. Reisenegger , Q. Remy , H. X. Ren , F. Rescic , B. Reville , M. Reyes , C. D. Rho , M. Riquelme , J. I. Rivadeneira , G. Rodriguez Fernandez , B. Rossi , A. C. Rovero , A. Ruina , E. Ruiz-Velasco , G. Salazar , C. Salotto , F. Sanchez , A. Sandoval , F. Sansone , M. Santander , R. Santonico , G. L. P. Santos , A. Santos-Guevara , D. Sartirana , M. Schneider , M. Schneider , H. Schoorlemmer , F. G. Schröder , F. Schussler , H. Schutte , J. Serna-Franco , M. Shoaib , A. Smith , A. J. Smith , Y. Son , O. Soto , S. T. Spencer , R. W. Springer , J. Stewart , L. A. Stuani , H. Sun , M. Tambone , R. Tang , Z. Tang , S. Tapia , M. Tavani , R. Terrier , T. Terzić , K. Tollefson , B. Tomé , I. Torres , R. Torres-Escobedo , G. C. Trinchero , R. Turner , P. Ulloa , L. Valore , C. van Eldik , J. Vega , I. D. Vergara Quispe , A. Viana , J. Vícha , C. F. Vigorito , V. Vittorini , B. Wang , L. Wang , X. Wang , X. Wang , X. Wang , Z. Wang , Z. Wang , M. Waqas , I. J. Watson , F. Werner , R. White , C. Wiebusch , F. Wohlleben , S. Xi , G. Xiao , H. Xiao , H. Xiao , L. Yang , R. Yang , Z. Yang , Z. Yang , R. Yanyachi , Z. Yao , D. Zavrtanik , H. Zhang , H. Zhang , J. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , S. Zhang , X. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , J. Zhao , L. Zhao , H. Zhou , C. Zhu , H. Zhu , H. Zhu , P. Zhu , X. Zuo , P. Zyla

Field Camera Unit for WSO-UV: Phase A Study Report

World Space Observatory UltraViolet (WSO-UV) is a multipurpose space observatory, made by a 170 cm aperture telescope, capable of UV high-resolution spectroscopy, long slit low-resolution spectroscopy, and deep UV and optical imaging. With…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-07 I. Pagano , F. Bacciotti , L. Bedin , F. Bracciaferri , E. Brocato , A. Bulgarelli , L. Buson , C. Cacciari , A. Capetti , A. Cassatella , E. Cavazzuti , R. Claudi , D. De Martino , G. De Paris , F. Ferraro , M. Fiorini , L. Gambicorti , A. Gherardi , F. Gianotti , D. Magrin , S. Marchi , G. Mulas , M. Munari , M. Nonino , E. Pace , M. Pancrazzi , E. Pian , G. Piotto , C. Pompei , C. Pontoni , G. Preti , S. Scuderi , S. Shore , M. Trifoglio , M. Turatto , M. Uslenghi

Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimetry with the COMCUBE-S CubeSat Swarm -- Design and Performance Simulations

COMCUBE-S (COMCUBE-S (Compton Telescope CubeSat Swarm) is a proposed mission aimed at understanding the radiation mechanisms of ultra-relativistic jets from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). It consists of a swarm of 16U CubeSats carrying a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Nathan Franel , Vincent Tatischeff , David Murphy , Alexey Ulyanov , Caimin McKenna , Lorraine Hanlon , Prerna Baranwal , Christophe Beigbeder , Arnaud Claret , Ion Cojocari , Nicolas de Séréville , Nicolas Dosme , Eric Doumayrou , Mariya Georgieva , Clarisse Hamadache , Sally Hankache , Jimmy Jeglot , Mózsi Kiss , Beng-Yun Ky , Vincent Lafage , Philippe Laurent , Christine Le Galliard , Joseph Mangan , Aline Meuris , Mark Pearce , Jean Peyré , Arjun Poitaya , Diana Renaud , Arnaud Saussac , Varun Varun , Matias Vecchio , Colin Wade

GOTO identification and broadband modelling of the counterpart to the SVOM GRB 250818B

Rapid localisation and follow-up of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) increasingly rely on low-latency triggers from new missions coupled to wide-field robotic optical facilities. We present the discovery and multi-wavelength follow-up of GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-20 S. Belkin , G. P. Lamb , K. Ackley , M. E. Wortley , S. McGee , G. Schroeder , M. Shrestha , B. P. Gompertz , D. K. Galloway , R. Starling , W. -f. Fong , T. Laskar , C. Liu , A. C. Gordon , N. Pankov , A. E. Volvach , L. N. Volvach , A. Shein , A. Pozanenko , M. J. Dyer , J. Lyman , K. Ulaczyk , D. Steeghs , V. S. Dhillon , P. O'Brien , G. Ramsay , K. Noysena , R. Kotak , R. P. Breton , L. K. Nuttall , D. Pollacco , S. Awiphan , J. Casares , P. Chote , A. Chrimes , R. Eyles-Ferris , B. Godson , P. Irawati , D. Jarvis , Y. Julakanti , L. Kelsey , M. R. Kennedy , T. Killestein , A. Kumar , A. Levan , S. Littlefair , M. Magee , S. Mandhai , D. Mata S'anchez , S. Mattila , J. McCormac , D. Mkrtichian , S. Moran , J. Mullaney , D. O'Neill , M. Patel , K. Pu , M. Pursiainen , A. Sahu , U. Sawangwit , E. Stanway , Y. Sun , B. Warwick , K. Wiersema

A Proposal to Localize Fermi GBM GRBs Through Coordinated Scanning of the GBM Error Circle via Optical Telescopes

We investigate the feasibility of implementing a system that will coordinate ground-based optical telescopes to cover the Fermi GBM Error Circle (EC). The aim of the system is to localize GBM detected GRBs and facilitate multi-wavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-06 T. N. Ukwatta , J. T. Linnemann , K. Tollefson , A. U. Abeysekara , P. N. Bhat , E. Sonbas , N. Gehrels

Range-Visual-Inertial Sensor Fusion for Micro Aerial Vehicle Localization and Navigation

We propose a fixed-lag smoother-based sensor fusion architecture to leverage the complementary benefits of range-based sensors and visual-inertial odometry (VIO) for localization. We use two fixed-lag smoothers (FLS) to decouple accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Abhishek Goudar , Wenda Zhao , Angela P. Schoellig

SLSim: a strong lensing population simulation package

Gravitational lensing offers unique insights into cosmology by bending light around massive objects. Strong gravitational lensing, in particular, produces magnified and often multiple images of distant sources, crucial for precise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Narayan Khadka , Simon Birrer , Henry Best , Paras Sharma , Katsuya T. Abe , Xianzhe Tang , Carly Mistick , Felipe Urcelay , Emrecan M. Sonmez , Nikki Arendse , Sydney Erickson , Jacob O. Hjortlund , Phil Holloway , Alan Huang , Rahul Karthik , Mia Lamontagne , Vibhore Negi , Justin R. Pierel , Bruno Sanchez , Aysu Ece Saricaoglu , Anowar Shajib , Yixuan Shao , Padma Venkatraman , Bryce Wedig , Aadya Agrawal , Timo Anguita , Pedro Bessa , Clecio R. Bom , Sofia Castillo , Thomas Collett , Tansu Daylan , Steven Dillmann , Margherita Grespan , Erin E. Hayes , Remy Joseph , Richard Kessler , Tian Li , Phil Marshall , Anupreeta More , Veronica Motta , Gautham Narayan , Matt O'Dowd , Masamune Oguri , Aprajita Verma , Giorgos Vernardos , the Strong Lensing Science Collaboration , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

The Simons Observatory: Instrument Overview

The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precise temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a set of telescopes which will cover angular scales between 1 arcminute and tens of degrees, contain over…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Nicholas Galitzki , Aamir Ali , Kam S. Arnold , Peter C. Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , Carlo Baccigalupi , Taylor Baildon , Darcy Barron , James A. Beall , Shawn Beckman , Sarah Marie M. Bruno , Sean Bryan , Paolo G. Calisse , Grace E. Chesmore , Yuji Chinone , Steve K. Choi , Gabriele Coppi , Kevin D. Crowley , Kevin T. Crowley , Ari Cukierman , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Shannon M. Duff , Jo Dunkley , Giulio Fabbian , Patricio A. Gallardo , Martina Gerbino , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Joseph E. Golec , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Erin E. Healy , Shawn Henderson , Charles A. Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Logan A. Howe , Johannes Hubmayr , Oliver Jeong , Brian Keating , Brian J. Koopman , Kenji Kuichi , Akito Kusaka , Jacob Lashner , Adrian T. Lee , Yaqiong Li , Michele Limon , Marius Lungu , Frederick Matsuda , Philip D. Mauskopf , Andrew J. May , Nialh McCallum , Jeff McMahon , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , John L. Orlowski-Scherer , Stephen C. Parshley , Lucio Piccirillo , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Christopher Raum , Maria Salatino , Joseph S. Seibert , Carlos Sierra , Max Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Suzanne T. Staggs , Jason R. Stevens , Aritoki Suzuki , Grant Teply , Robert Thornton , Calvin Tsai , Joel N. Ullom , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Michael R. Vissers , Benjamin Westbrook , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

CorrSim: A Multiwavelength Timing Observation Simulator

Studying the rapid variability of many astronomical objects is key to understanding the underlying processes at play. However, a combination of limited telescope availability, viewing constraints, and the unpredictable nature of many…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-15 John A. Paice , Poshak Gandhi , Ranjeev Misra

Awakening the BALROG (BAyesian Location Reconstruction Of GRBs): A new paradigm in spectral and location analysis of gamma ray bursts

The accurate spatial location of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is crucial for both producing a detector response matrix (DRM) and follow-up observations by other instruments. The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) has the largest field of view…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-25 J. Michael Burgess , Hoi-Fung Yu , Jochen Greiner , Daniel J. Mortlock

Coordinating observations among ground and space-based telescopes in the multi-messenger era

The emergence of time-domain multi-messenger (astro)physics requires for new, improved ways of interchanging scheduling information, in order to allow more efficient collaborations between the various teams. Currently space- and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-17 Erik Kuulkers , Matthias Ehle , Carlos Gabriel , Aitor Ibarra , Peter Kretschmar , Bruno Merin , Jan-Uwe Ness , Emilio Salazar , Jesus Salgado , Celia Sanchez-Fernandez , Richard Saxton , Emily M. Levesque

Instrumental and scientific simulations of the LOFT Wide Field Monitor

The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) is one of the five candidates that were considered by ESA as an M3 mission (with launch in 2022-2024). It is specifically designed to exploit the diagnostics of very rapid X-ray flux and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-29 Y. Evangelista , I. Donnarumma , R. Campana , C. Schmid , M. Feroci

The Microchannel X-ray Telescope on board the SVOM mission: in-flight scientific performance

The Microchannel X-ray Telescope (MXT) is a compact and lightweight focusing X-ray telescope, which is part of the space payload of the SVOM mission. The main goal of the MXT instrument is to precisely localize and physically characterize…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 D. Götz , S. Crepaldi , E. Doumayrou , C. Feldman , P. Ferrando , A. Fort , H. Goto , J. Jaubert , J. -M. Le Duigou , P. Maggi , A. Meuris , M. Moita , K. Mercier , F. Robinet , C. Plasse , A. Sauvageon , C. van Hove

An optimal method for scheduling observations of large sky error regions for finding optical counterparts to transients

The discovery and subsequent study of optical counterparts to transient sources is crucial for their complete astrophysical understanding. Various gamma ray burst (GRB) detectors, and more notably the ground--based gravitational wave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-29 Javed Rana , Akshat Singhal , Bhooshan Gadre , Varun Bhalerao , Sukanta Bose

Gravitationally Lensed QSOs: Optical Monitoring with the EOCA and the Liverpool Telescope (LT)

The aim of this contribution is to present the two first phases of the optical monitoring programme of the Gravitational Lenses group at the Universidad de Cantabria (GLUC, http://grupos.unican.es/glendama/). In an initial stage (2003…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. J. Goicoechea , A. Ullan , J. E. Ovaldsen , E. Koptelova , V. N. Shalyapin , R. Gil-Merino

V(WF)$^2$S: Very Wide Field WaveFront Sensor for GLAO

Adaptive optics is a technique mostly used on large telescopes. It turns out to be challenging for smaller telescopes (0.5~2m) due to the small isoplanatic angle, small subapertures and high correction speeds needed at visible wavelengths,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-12 Olivier Lai , Mark Chun , Stefan Kuiper , Niek Doelman , Marcel Carbillet , Mamadou N'Diaye , Frantz Martinache , Lyu Abe , Jean-Pierre Rivet , Dirk Schmidt

The gamma-ray burst monitor for Lobster-ISS

Lobster-ISS is an X-ray all-sky monitor experiment selected by ESA two years ago for a Phase A study (now almost completed) for a future flight (2009) aboard the Columbus Exposed Payload Facility of the International Space Station. The main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Amati , F. Frontera , N. Auricchio , E. Caroli , A. Basili , A. Bogliolo , G. Di Domenico , T. Franceschini , C. Guidorzi , G. Landini , N. Masetti , E. Montanari , M. Orlandini , E. Palazzi , S. Silvestri , J. B. Stephen , G. Ventura

Future Ground-based Wide Field of View Air Shower Detectors

Extensive air shower (EAS) arrays directly sample the shower particles that reach the observation altitude. They are wide field of view (FoV) detectors able to view the whole sky simultaneously and continuously. In fact, EAS arrays have an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Giuseppe Di Sciascio

The STROBE-X Wide Field Monitor Instrument

The Wide Field Monitor (WFM) is one of the three instruments on the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) mission, which was proposed in response to the NASA 2023 call for a probe class mission. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Ronald A. Remillard , Margarita Hernanz , Jean in 't Zand , Paul S. Ray , Valter Bonvicini , Søren Brandt , Terri Brandt , Alex Carmona , Yuri Evangelista , Daniel Alvarez Franco , Cynthia Froning , Jose-Luis Galvez , Gianluigi De Geronimo , Martin Grim , Emrah Kalemci , Lucien Kuiper , Irfan Kuvvetli , Thomas J. Maccarone , Witold Nowosielski , Dheeraj R. R. Pasham , Alessandro Patruno , Steven C. Persyn , Peter W. A. Roming , Andrea Santangelo , Stephane Schanne , Christoph Tenzer , Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge , Gianluigi Zampa , Frans Zwart