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A compact and sustainable electronic module for silicon photomultipliers

This article presents the development of a cost-effective and efficient electronic module for silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). The electronic module combines essential functionalities, such as a high voltage power supply, a preamplifier,…

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A Simulation Framework for the LiteBIRD Instruments

LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of $B$-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission focused on primordial cosmology and fundamental physics. In this paper, we present the…

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Design and simulation of the High-Energy Proton Beam Telescope

A high-resolution beam telescope is essential for the precise characterization of silicon pixel sensors. As part of the CSNS-II upgrade project, a High-Energy Proton Beam Telescope (HEPTel) based on monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS)…

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Integral Field Spectroscopy of a sample of nearby galaxies. I. Sample, Observations and Data Reduction

Aims: Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) is a powerful approach for the study of nearby galaxies since it enables a detailed analysis of their resolved physical properties. Here we present the sample of nearby galaxies selected to exploit…

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The ASIM Mission on the International Space Station

The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) is an instrument suite on the International Space Station (ISS) for measurements of lightning, Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs). Developed in the…

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Euclid. III. The NISP Instrument

The Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) on board the Euclid satellite provides multiband photometry and R>=450 slitless grism spectroscopy in the 950-2020nm wavelength range. In this reference article we illuminate the…

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Borsato , L. Caillat , F. Cogato , C. Colodro-Conde , P. -E. Crouzet , V. Conforti , M. D'Alessandro , Y. Copin , J. -C. Cuillandre , J. E. Davies , S. Davini , A. Derosa , J. J. Diaz , S. Di Domizio , D. Di Ferdinando , R. Farinelli , A. G. Ferrari , F. Fornari , L. Gabarra , C. M. Gutierrez , F. Giacomini , P. Lagier , F. Gianotti , O. Krause , F. Madrid , F. Laudisio , J. Macias-Perez , G. Naletto , M. Niclas , J. Marpaud , N. Mauri , R. da Silva , F. Passalacqua , K. Paterson , L. Patrizii , I. Risso , B. G. B. Solheim , M. Scodeggio , P. Stassi , J. Steinwagner , M. Tenti , G. Testera , R. Travaglini , S. Tosi , A. Troja , O. Tubio , C. Valieri , C. Vescovi , S. Ventura , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , J. Amiaux , S. Andreon , H. Aussel , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , A. Basset , A. Bonchi , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , P. -Y. Chabaud , A. Cimatti , G. 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PointSSIM: A novel low dimensional resolution invariant image-to-image comparison metric

This paper presents PointSSIM, a novel low-dimensional image-to-image comparison metric that is resolution invariant. Drawing inspiration from the structural similarity index measure and mathematical morphology, PointSSIM enables robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Oscar Ovanger , Ragnar Hauge , Jacob Skauvold , Michael J. Pyrcz , Jo Eidsvik

First light of the Integral Field Unit of GRIS on the GREGOR solar telescope

An Integral Field Unit (IFU) based on image-slicers has been added to the GREGOR Infrared Spectrograph (GRIS). This upgrade to the instrument makes possible 2D spectropolarimetry in the near-infrared by simultaneously recording the full…

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The HERMES-Technologic and Scientific Pathfinder

HERMES-TP/SP (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites Technologic and Scientific Pathfinder) is a constellation of six 3U nano-satellites hosting simple but innovative X-ray detectors, characterized by a large energy band and…

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Identification of 12 High Mass X-Ray Binaries detected by INTEGRAL through NIR photometry and spectroscopy

Since it started observing the sky, the INTEGRAL satellite has revealed new categories of High Mass X-ray binaries in our Galaxy. These observations raise important questions on the formation and evolution of such rare and short-living…

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INTEGRAL/SPI data segmentation to retrieve source intensity variations

The INTEGRAL/SPI, X-gamma-ray spectrometer (20 keV - 8 MeV) is an instrument for which recovering source intensity variations is not straightforward and can constitute a difficulty for data analysis. In most cases, determining the source…

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From BeppoSAX to INTEGRAL: PDS observations of hard X-ray sources detected in the IBIS survey

The first IBIS galactic plane survey has provided a list of high energy emitting objects above 20 keV; these sources have been detected mostly in the crowded region of the Galactic Centre and partly along the Galactic Plane. In order to…

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Design and characterization of 90 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES polarimeter pixels in the SPTpol camera

The SPTpol camera is a two-color, polarization-sensitive bolometer receiver, and was installed on the 10 meter South Pole Telescope in January 2012. SPTpol is designed to study the faint polarization signals in the Cosmic Microwave…

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Characterization of the commercial spectrograph system for astronomical observations: PIXIS 1300BX Camera and IsoPlane 320A Spectrograph

We present the result from a comprehensive laboratory and on-sky characterization of the commercial spectrograph system consisting of a PIXIS 1300BX charge-coupled device (CCD) camera and an IsoPlane 320A spectrograph as part of the…

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INTEGRAL/SPI ground calibration

Three calibration campaigns of the spectrometer SPI have been performed before launch in order to determine the instrument characteristics, such as the effective detection area, the spectral resolution and the angular resolution. Absolute…

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Gemini Planet Imager Observational Calibrations I: Overview of the GPI Data Reduction Pipeline

The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) has as its science instrument an infrared integral field spectrograph/polarimeter (IFS). Integral field spectrographs are scientificially powerful but require sophisticated data reduction systems. For GPI to…

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The InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: latest science cases and simulations

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) first light instrument IRIS (Infrared Imaging Spectrograph) will complete its preliminary design phase in 2016. The IRIS instrument design includes a near-infrared (0.85 - 2.4 micron) integral field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Shelley A. Wright , Gregory Walth , Tuan Do , Daniel Marshall , James E. Larkin , Anna M. Moore , Mate Adamkovics , David Andersen , Lee Armus , Aaron Barth , Patrick Cote , Jeff Cooke , Eric M. Chisholm , Timothy Davidge , Jennifer S. Dunn , Christophe Dumas , Brent L. Ellerbroeck , Andrea M. Ghez , Lei Hao , Yutaka Hayano , Michael Liu , Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez , Jessica R. Lu , Shude Mao , Christian Marois , Shashi B. Pandey , Andrew C. Philips , Matthias Schoeck , Annapurni Subramaniam , Smitha Subramanian , Ryuji Suzuki , Jonathan C. Tan , Tsuyoshi Terai , Tommaso Treu , Luc Simard , Jason L. Weiss , James Wincensten , Michael Wong , Kai Zhang

The INTEGRAL Burst Alert System: Results and Future Perspectives

The INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS) is the software for real time detection of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) and the rapid distribution of their coordinates. IBAS has been running almost continuously at the INTEGRAL Science Data Center since…

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K-space interpretation of image-scanning-microscopy

In recent years, image-scanning microscopy (ISM, also termed pixel-reassignment microscopy) has emerged as a technique that improves the resolution and signal-to-noise compared to confocal and widefield microscopy by employing a detector…

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Timing performance of a digital SiPM prototype measured with a picosecond injection laser

The DESY digital silicon photomultiplier (dSiPM) is a monolithic detector based on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) and features a fully digital readout. The dSiPM prototype was…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-06 Daniil Rastorguev , Inge Diehl , Karsten Hansen , Finn King , Stephan Lachnit , Simon Spannagel , Tomas Vanat , Gianpiero Vignola