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Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) are discovered daily, mainly by few major surveys, nevertheless many of them remain unobserved for years, even decades. Even so, there is room for new discoveries, including those submitted by smaller projects…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-31 D. Copandean , O. Vaduvescu , D. Gorgan

The Rapid Transient Surveyor (RTS) is a proposed rapid-response, high-cadence adaptive optics (AO) facility for the UH 2.2-m telescope on Maunakea. RTS will uniquely address the need for high-acuity and sensitive near-infrared spectral…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Christoph Baranec , Jessica R. Lu , Shelley A. Wright , John Tonry , R. Brent Tully , István Szapudi , Marianne Takamiya , Lisa Hunter , Reed Riddle , Shaojie Chen , Mark Chun

Rapid Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere (ROSA) is a synchronized, six camera high cadence solar imaging instrument developed by Queen's University Belfast. The system is available on the Dunn Solar Telescope at the National Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. B. Jess , M. Mathioudakis , D. J. Christian , F. P. Keenan , R. S. I. Ryans , P. J. Crockett

ESA's Flyeye telescope is designed with a very large field of view (FoV) in order to scan the sky for unknown near-Earth Objects (NEOs). For typical exposure times of 40 s, the telescope is able to detect objects with a limiting magnitude…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-21 Olga Ramirez Torralba , Rüdiger Jehn , Detlef Koschny , Michael Frühauf , Laura S. Jehn , Alexander Praus

Fast radio bursts remain one of the most enigmatic astrophysical sources. Observations have significantly progressed over the last few years, thanks to the capabilities of new radio telescopes and the refurbishment of existing ones. Here we…

The European Space Agency (ESA) is developing a network of wide-field survey telescopes, named Flyeye, to improve the discovery of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). The first telescope in the network will be located in the Northern Hemisphere on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 D. Föhring , L. Conversi , M. Micheli , E. Dölling , P. Ramirez Moreta

We introduce a 0.7m telescope system at the Miryang Arirang Astronomical Observatory (MAAO), a public observatory in Miryang, Korea. System integration and a scheduling program enable the 0.7m telescope system to operate completely…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-25 Gu Lim , Dohyeong Kim , Seonghun Lim , Myungshin Im , Hyeonho Choi , Jaemin Park , Keun-Hong Park , Junyeong Park , Chaudhary Muskaan , Donghyun Kim , Hayeong Jeong

We present a new measurement of the volumetric rate of Type Ia supernova up to a redshift of 1.7, using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) GOODS data combined with an additional HST dataset covering the North GOODS field collected in 2004. We…

A dedicated device to fully determine the four-dimensional beam matrix, called ROSE (ROtating System for Emittance measurements) was successfully commissioned. Results obtained with 83Kr13+ at 1.4 MeV/u are reported in Phys. Rev. Accel.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 C. Xiao , X. N. Du , L. Groening , M. Maier

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of five imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) to study gamma-ray emission from astrophysical objects in the Southern hemisphere. It is the only hybrid array of IACTs,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 S. Ohm , S. Wagner

We present spectra of six Type Ia and two Type II supernovae obtained in June 2002 at the William Herschel Telescope during a search for Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) at intermediate redshift. Supernova type identification and phase…

We present high-resolution observations of nearby ($z\lesssim 0.1$) galaxies that have hosted Type Ia supernovae to measure systemic spectroscopic redshifts using the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS) instrument on the Australian National…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Anthony Carr , Tamara M. Davis , Ryan Camilleri , Chris Lidman , Kenneth C. Freeman , Dan Scolnic

Thermal infrared measurements of near-Earth objects provide critical data for constraining their physical properties such as size. The NEOWISE mission has been conducting an all-sky infrared survey to gather such data and improve our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 Joseph R. Masiero , Patrice Smith , Lean D. Teodoro , A. K. Mainzer , R. M. Cutri , T. Grav , E. L. Wright

We have created a new autonomous laser-guide-star adaptive-optics (AO) instrument on the 60-inch (1.5-m) telescope at Palomar Observatory called Robo-AO. The instrument enables diffraction-limited resolution observing in the visible and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-03 C. Baranec , R. Riddle , A. N. Ramaprakash , N. Law , S. Tendulkar , S. Kulkarni , R. Dekany , K. Bui , J. Davis , M. Burse , H. Das , S. Hildebrandt , S. Punnadi , R. Smith

Technology has advanced to the point that it is possible to image the entire sky every night and process the data in real time. The sky is hardly static: many interesting phenomena occur, including variable stationary objects such as stars…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 J. L. Tonry , L. Denneau , A. N. Heinze , B. Stalder , K. W. Smith , S. J. Smartt , C. W. Stubbs , H. J. Weiland , A. Rest

The Receiver Lab Telescope (RLT) is a ground-based terahertz telescope; it is currently the only instrument producing astronomical data between 1 and 2 THz. The capabilities of the RLT have been expanding since observations began in late…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. P. Marrone , R. Blundell , E. Tong , S. N. Paine , D. Loudkov , J. H. Kawamura , D. Luhr , C. Barrientos

3I/ATLAS was discovered on UT 2025 July 1 and joins a limited but growing population of detected $\sim10^2-10^3$ m scale interstellar objects. In this paper we report photometric observations of 3I/ATLAS from the nights of UT 2025 July 3,…

The 0.5\,m Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3) were designed for time-domain optical/infrared astronomy. They are located in Dome~A, Antarctica, where they can take advantage of the continuous dark time during winter. Since the site is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Bin Ma , Yi Hu , Zhaohui Shang , Keliang Hu , Yongjiang Wang , Xu Yang , Michael C. B. Ashley , Xiangyan Yuan , Lifan Wang

AST3-3 is the third robotic facility of the Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3) for transient surveys to be deployed at Dome A, Antarctica. Due to the current pandemic, the telescope has been currently deployed at the Yaoan Observation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Tianrui Sun , Lei Hu , Songbo Zhang , Xiaoyan Li , Kelai Meng , Xuefeng Wu , Lifan Wang , A. J. Castro-Tirado

The Apache Point Survey of Transit Lightcurves of Exoplanets (APOSTLE) observed eleven transits of TrES-3b over two years in order to constrain system parameters and look for transit timing and depth variations. We describe an updated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-23 Praveen Kundurthy , Andrew C. Becker , Eric Agol , Rory Barnes , Benjamin F. Williams