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The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is a wide-field telescope designed to explore the variable and transient sky with a high cadence and to be a test-bed for cost-effective telescope design. A LAST node is composed of 48 (32 already…

The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is designed to survey the variable and transient sky at high temporal cadence. The array is comprised of 48 F/2.2 telescopes of 27.9cm aperture, coupled to full-frame backside-illuminated cooled CMOS…

The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is a wide-field visible-light telescope array designed to explore the variable and transient sky with a high cadence. LAST will be composed of 48, 28-cm f/2.2 telescopes (32 already installed)…

Large sky surveys are increasingly relying on image subtraction pipelines for real-time (and archival) transient detection. In this process one has to contend with varying PSF, small brightness variations in many sources, as well as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Nima Sedaghat , Ashish Mahabal

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an ambitious astronomical survey with a similarly ambitious Data Management component. Data Management for LSST includes processing on both nightly and yearly cadences to generate transient…

The Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) system consists of two 0.5m Schmidt telescopes with cameras covering 29 square degrees at plate scale of 1.86 arcsec per pixel. Working in tandem, the telescopes routinely survey the…

This paper introduces a novel variability report generator developed for the Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST), a cost-effective multi-purpose telescope array conducting a wide survey of the variable sky in the visible-light spectrum.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Barkotel Zemenu

The Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes (FAST) is one of several proposed designs for a next-generation cosmic-ray detector. Such detectors will require enormous collecting areas whilst also needing to remain…

Transient detection and flux measurement via image subtraction stand at the base of time domain astronomy. Due to the varying seeing conditions, the image subtraction process is non-trivial, and existing solutions suffer from a variety of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Barak Zackay , Eran O. Ofek , Avishay Gal-Yam

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-m aperture, zenith-pointing telescope with a field-of-view of 22', situated in the foothills of the Himalayas. The telescope operates in continuous survey mode, making it a useful…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Kumar Pranshu , Kuntal Misra , Bhavya Ailawadhi , Monalisa Dubey , Naveen Dukiya , Sara Filali , Paul Hickson , Brajesh Kumar , Vibhore Negi , Jean Surdej

We present our second paper on the Allen Telescope Array Twenty-centimeter Survey (ATATS), a multi-epoch, ~700 sq. deg. radio image and catalog at 1.4 GHz. The survey is designed to detect rare, bright transients as well as to commission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Steve Croft , Geoffrey C. Bower , Garrett Keating , Casey Law , David Whysong , Peter K. G. Williams , Melvyn Wright

The Transient Optical Sky Survey (TOSS) is an automated, ground-based telescope system dedicated to searching for optical transient events. Small telescope tubes are mounted on a tracking, semi-equatorial frame with a single polar axis.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-05 E. Hadjiyska , G. Hughes , P. Lubin , S. Taylor , R. Hartong-Redden , J. Zierten

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) collects images of the sky at radio wavelengths with an unprecedented field of view, combined with a high angular resolution and sub-millijansky sensitivities. The large quantity of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Sergio Pintaldi , Adam Stewart , Andrew O'Brien , David Kaplan , Tara Murphy

The Argus Optical Array is a synoptic survey observatory, currently in development, that will have a total collecting area equivalent to a 5-meter monolithic telescope and an all-sky field of view, multiplexed from 900 commercial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-01 Hank Corbett , Alan Vasquez Soto , Lawrence Machia , Nathan Galliher , Ramses Gonzalez , Nicholas M. Law

Detection of moving sources over complicated background is important for several reasons. First is measuring the astrophysical motion of the source. Second is that such motion resulting from atmospheric scintillation, color refraction, or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 O. Springer , E. O. Ofek , B. Zackay , R. Konno , A. Sharon , G. Nir , A. Rubin , A. Haddad , J. Friedman , L. Schein Lubomirsky , I. Aizenberg , A. Krassilchtchikov , A. Gal-Yam

The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a next generation radio telescope currently under construction in Western Australia. The fast survey speed and wide field of view make it an ideal instrument for blind transients searches. The ASKAP…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-17 Jay Banyer , Tara Murphy , the VAST Collaboration

We present a method for characterizing image-subtracted objects based on shapelet analysis to identify transient events in ground-based time-domain surveys. We decompose the image-subtracted objects onto a set of discrete Zernike…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-17 Kendall Ackley , Stephen S. Eikenberry , Ceren Yildirim , Sergey Klimenko , Alan Garner

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-meter survey telescope continuously observing towards the zenith in the SDSS g', r', and i' bands. This survey telescope is designed to detect various astrophysical transients (for…

The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated photometric surveying facility built jointly by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO). Since many of its scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Minxuan Cai , Zelin Xu , Lulu Fan , Zhen Wan , Binyang Liu , Xu Kong , Weida Hu , Lei Hu , Qing-feng Zhu , Guoliang Li , Jie Lin , Min Fang , Ji-an Jiang , Yongquan Xue , Xianzhong Zhen , Tinggui Wang
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