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While optical and radio transient surveys have enjoyed a renaissance over the past decade, the dynamic infrared sky remains virtually unexplored. The infrared is a powerful tool for probing transient events in dusty regions that have high…

Many different scientific applications require sub-micro arcsecond precision astrometry, including researching rocky exoplanets in the vicinity of the Sun and studying dark matter. The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a promising…

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We present the results of a large scale simulation, reproducing the behavior of a data center for the build-up and maintenance of a complete catalog of space debris in the upper part of the low Earth orbits region (LEO). The purpose is to…

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Optical observation through sub-meter telescope equipped with CCD camera becomes alternative method for increasing orbital debris detection and surveillance. This observational mode is expected to eye medium-sized objects in higher orbits…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 R. Priyatikanto , B. Religia , A. Rachman , T. Dani

Continuous wavefront sensing on future space telescopes allows relaxation of stability requirements while still allowing on-orbit diffraction-limited optical performance. We consider the suitability of phase retrieval to continuously…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 Hyukmo Kang , Kyle Van Gorkom , Jess Johnson , Ole Singlestad , Aaron Goldtooth , Daewook Kim , Ewan S. Douglas

The ongoing optical time-domain astronomy surveys are routinely reporting fifty transient candidates per night. Here, I investigate the demographics of astronomical transients and supernova classifications reported to the Transient Name…

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Neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping (IM) presents great promise for future cosmological large-scale structure surveys. However, a major challenge for HIIM cosmological studies is to accurately subtract the foreground contamination. An…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Xinyang Zhao , Yichao Li , Wenxiu Yang , Furen Deng , Yougang Wang , Fengquan Wu , Xin Wang , Xiaohui Sun , Xin Zhang , Xuelei Chen

This Special Issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters is dedicated to presenting initial results from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) that are primarily, but not exclusively, based on multi--band imaging data obtained…

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The Galactic plane scanning survey is one of the main scientific objectives of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (known as Insight-HXMT). During the two-year operation of Insight-HXMT, more than 1000 scanning observations have been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Na Sai , JinYuan Liao , ChengKui Li , Ju Guan , Chen Wang , Yi Nang , Yuan Liu , ChengCheng Guo , Shu Zhang , ShuangNan Zhang

Change detection aims to identify remote sense object changes by analyzing data between bitemporal image pairs. Due to the large temporal and spatial span of data collection in change detection image pairs, there are often a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Qiangang Du , Jinlong Peng , Changan Wang , Xu Chen , Qingdong He , Wenbing Zhu , Mingmin Chi , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang

Strong lensing time delay measurement is a promising method to address the Hubble tension, offering a completely independent approach compared to both the cosmic microwave background analysis and the local distance ladder. As a third-party…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-10 Guanhua Rui , Wenwen Zheng , Zizhao He , Yiping Shu , Xinzhong Er , Guoliang Li , Bin Hu

Ground-based astronomical observations will continue to produce resolution-limited images due to atmospheric seeing. Deconvolution reverses such effects and thus can benefit extracted science in multifaceted ways. We apply the Scaled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Yash Gondhalekar , Richard M. Feder , Matthew J. Graham , Ajit K. Kembhavi , Margarita Safonova , Snehanshu Saha , Ashish A. Mahabal

With the rapid development of space exploration, space debris has attracted more attention due to its potential extreme threat, leading to the need for real-time and accurate debris tracking. However, existing methods are mainly based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Guohang Zhuang , Weixi Song , Jinyang Huang , Chenwei Yang , Wanli OuYang , Yan Lu

We have developed observation control software for the Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) slit-viewing camera module, which maintains the position of an astronomical target on the spectroscopic slit. It is composed of several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Hye-In Lee , Soojong Pak , Gregory N. Mace , Kyle F. Kaplan , Huynh Anh N. Le , Heeyoung Oh , Chan Park , Sungho Lee

The delay in arrival time of the multiple images of gravitationally lensed supernovae (glSNe) can be related to the present-day expansion rate of the universe, $H_{0}$. Despite their rarity, Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Erin E. Hayes , Suhail Dhawan , Stephen Thorp , Justin D. R. Pierel , Nikki Arendse

The Earth's atmospheric turbulence degrades the precision of ground-based astrometry. Here, we discuss these limitations and propose that, with proper treatment of systematics and by leveraging the many epochs available from the Korean…

Lens time delays are a powerful probe of cosmology, provided that the gravitational potential of the main deflector can be modeled with sufficient precision. Recent work has shown that this can be achieved by detailed modeling of the host…

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We present a detailed observational strategy for finding Near Earth Objects (NEOs) with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) telescope. We investigate strategies in normal, unbinned mode as well as binning the CCDs 2x2 or 3x3, which affects…

The TBT project is being developed under ESA's General Studies and Technology Programme (GSTP), and shall implement a test-bed for the validation of an autonomous optical observing system in a realistic scenario within the Space Situational…

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