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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will search for planets transiting bright and nearby stars. TESS has been selected by NASA for launch in 2017 as an Astrophysics Explorer mission. The spacecraft will be placed into a highly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 George R. Ricker , Joshua N. Winn , Roland Vanderspek , David W. Latham , Gaspar A. Bakos , Jacob L. Bean , Zachory K. Berta-Thompson , Timothy M. Brown , Lars Buchhave , Nathaniel R. Butler , R. Paul Butler , William J. Chaplin , David Charbonneau , Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard , Mark Clampin , Drake Deming , John Doty , Nathan De Lee , Courtney Dressing , E. W. Dunham , Michael Endl , Francois Fressin , Jian Ge , Thomas Henning , Matthew J. Holman , Andrew W. Howard , Shigeru Ida , Jon Jenkins , Garrett Jernigan , John Asher Johnson , Lisa Kaltenegger , Nobuyuki Kawai , Hans Kjeldsen , Gregory Laughlin , Alan M. Levine , Douglas Lin , Jack J. Lissauer , Phillip MacQueen , Geoffrey Marcy , P. R. McCullough , Timothy D. Morton , Norio Narita , Martin Paegert , Enric Palle , Francesco Pepe , Joshua Pepper , Andreas Quirrenbach , S. A. Rinehart , Dimitar Sasselov , Bun'ei Sato , Sara Seager , Alessandro Sozzetti , Keivan G. Stassun , Peter Sullivan , Andrew Szentgyorgyi , Guillermo Torres , Stephane Udry , Joel Villasenor

The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: First Results from a Spitzer Legacy Science Program

We present 3-160 micron photometry obtained with the IRAC and MIPS instruments for the first five targets from the Spitzer Legacy Science Program "Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems" and 4-35 micron spectro-photometry obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. R. Meyer , L. A. Hillenbrand , D. E. Backman , S. V. W. Beckwith , J. Bouwman , T. Y. Brooke , J. M. Carpenter , M. Cohen , U. Gorti , T. Henning , D. C. Hines , D. Hollenbach , J. S. Kim , J. Lunine , R. Malhotra , E. E. Mamajek , S. Metchev , A. Moro--Martin , P. Morris , J. Najita , D. L. Padgett , J. Rodmann , M. D. Silverstone , D. R. Soderblom , J. R. Stauffer , E. B. Stobie , S. E. Strom , D. M. Watson , S. J. Weidenschilling , S. Wolf , E. Young , C. W. Engelbracht , K. D. Gordon , K. Misselt , J. Morrison , J. Muzerolle , K. Su

Spitzer Observations of Powerful Radio Sources

We have measured the mid-infrared radiation from an orientation-unbiased sample of powerful 3C RR galaxies and quasars using the IRS and MIPS instruments aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope. We fit the Spitzer data as well as other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-30 Kieran Cleary , Charles R. Lawrence , Jason A. Marshall , Lei Hao , David Meier

IRS: the Infrared Spectrograph on SIRTF

The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS)is one of the three instruments on board the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) to be launched in December 2001. The IRS will provide high resolution spectra R~600 from 10--37microns and low resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Houck , J. van Cleve , B. Brandl , V. Charmandaris , D. Devost , K. Uchida

In-Flight Performance of Spider's 280 GHz Receivers

SPIDER is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the cosmic microwave background at degree-angular scales in the presence of Galactic foregrounds. SPIDER has mapped a large sky area in the Southern Hemisphere using more than 2000…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Elle C. Shaw , P. A. R. Ade , S. Akers , M. Amiri , J. Austermann , J. Beall , D. T. Becker , S. J. Benton , A. S. Bergman , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , R. S. Domagalski , O. Doré , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , L. M. Fissel , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , S. M. Gibbs , S. Gourapura , A. Grigorian , R. Gualtieri , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , J. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , Z. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , A. Kahn , Z. D. Kermish , C. King , C. L. Kuo , A. R. Lennox , J. S. -Y. Leung , S. Li , T. V. Luu , P. V. Mason , J. May , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , J. M. Nagy , R. Nie , C. B. Netterfield , M. Nolta , B. Osherson , I. L. Padilla , A. S. Rahlin , S. Redmond , C. Reintsema , L. J. Romualdez , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , J. A. Shariff , C. Shiu , J. D. Soler , X. Song , S. Tartakovsky , H. Thommesen , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , J. Ullom , J. F. van der List , J. Van Lanen , M. R. Vissers , A. C. Weber , I. K. Wehus , S. Wen , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

Spitzer Planet Limits around the Pulsating White Dwarf GD66

We present infrared observations in search of a planet around the white dwarf, GD66. Time-series photometry of GD66 shows a variation in the arrival time of stellar pulsations consistent with the presence of a planet with mass > 2.4Mj. Any…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Fergal Mullally , William T. Reach , Steven Degennaro , Adam Burrows

Design and Performance of the Upgraded Mid-InfraRed Spectrometer and Imager (MIRSI) on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility

We describe the new design and current performance of the Mid-InfraRed Spectrometer and Imager (MIRSI) on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF). The system has been converted from a liquid nitrogen/liquid helium cryogen system to one…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Joseph L. Hora , David E. Trilling , Andy J. Lopez-Oquendo , Howard A. Smith , Michael Mommert , Nicholas Moskovitz , Chris Foster , Michael S. Connelley , Charles Lockhart , John T. Rayner , Schelte J. Bus , Darryl Watanabe , Lars Bergknut , Morgan Bonnet , Alan Tokunaga

The Science Case for PILOT II: the Distant Universe

PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed 2.5 m optical/infrared telescope to be located at Dome C on the Antarctic plateau. The atmospheric conditions at Dome C deliver a high sensitivity, high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. S. Lawrence , M. C. B. Ashley , A. Bunker , R. Bouwens , D. Burgarella , M. G. Burton , N. Gehrels , K. Glazebrook , K. Pimbblet , R. Quimby , W. Saunders , J. W. V. Storey , J. C. Wheeler

A Spitzer Spectrum of the Exoplanet HD 189733b

We report on the measurement of the 7.5-14.7 micron spectrum for the transiting extrasolar giant planet HD 189733b using the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope. Though the observations comprise only 12 hours of telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 C. J. Grillmair , D. Charbonneau , A. Burrows , L. Armus , J. Stauffer , V. Meadows , J. van Cleve , D. Levine

NIRPS first light and early science: breaking the 1 m/s RV precision barrier at infrared wavelengths

The Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher or NIRPS is a precision radial velocity spectrograph developed through collaborative efforts among laboratories in Switzerland, Canada, Brazil, France, Portugal and Spain. NIRPS extends to the 0.98-1.8…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-14 Étienne Artigau , François Bouchy , René Doyon , Frédérique Baron , Lison Malo , François Wildi , Franceso Pepe , Neil J. Cook , Simon Thibault , Vladimir Reshetov , Xavier Dumusque , Christophe Lovis , Danuta Sosnowska , Bruno L. Canto Martins , Jose Renan De Medeiros , Xavier Delfosse , Nuno Santos , Rafael Rebolo , Manuel Abreu , Guillaume Allain , Romain Allart , Hugues Auger , Susana Barros , Luc Bazinet , Nicolas Blind , Isabelle Boisse , Xavier Bonfils , Vincent Bourrier , Sébastien Bovay , Christopher Broeg , Denis Brousseau , Vincent Bruniquel , Alexandre Cabral , Charles Cadieux , Andres Carmona , Yann Carteret , Zalpha Challita , Bruno Chazelas , Ryan Cloutier , João Coelho , Marion Cointepas , Uriel Conod , Nicolas Cowan , Eduardo Cristo , João Gomes da Silva , Laurie Dauplaise , Roseane de Lima Gomes , Elisa Delgado-Mena , David Ehrenreich , João Faria , Pedro Figueira , Thierry Forveille , Yolanda Frensch , Jonathan Gagné , Frédéric Genest , Ludovic Genolet , Jonay I. González Hernández , Félix Gracia Témich , Nolan Grieves , Olivier Hernandez , Melissa J. Hobson , Jens Hoeijmakers , Dan Kerley , Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy , David Lafrenière , Pierrot Lamontagne , Pierre Larue , Henry Leaf , Izan C. Leão , Olivia Lim , Gaspare Lo Curto , Allan M. Martins , Claudio Melo , Yuri S. Messias , Lucile Mignon , Leslie Moranta , Christoph Mordasini , Khaled Al Moulla , Dany Mounzer , Alexandrine L'Heureux , Nicola Nari , Louise Nielsen , Ares Osborn , Léna Parc , Luca Pasquini , Vera M. Passegger , Stefan Pelletier , Céline Peroux , Caroline Piaulet , Mykhaylo Plotnykov , Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard , José Luis Rasilla , Jonathan Saint-Antoine , Mirsad Sarajlic , Alex Segovia , Julia Seidel , Damien Ségransan , Ana Rita Costa Silva , Avidaan Srivastava , Atanas K. Stefanov , Alejandro Suárez Mascareño , Michael Sordet , Márcio A. Teixeira , Stéphane Udry , Diana Valencia , Philippe Vallée , Thomas Vandal , Valentina Vaulato , Gregg Wade , Joost P. Wardenier , Bachar Wehbé , Drew Weisserman , Ivan Wevers , Gérard Zins

The Thermal Design, Characterization, and Performance of the SPIDER Long-Duration Balloon Cryostat

We describe the SPIDER flight cryostat, which is designed to cool six millimeter-wavelength telescopes during an Antarctic long-duration balloon flight. The cryostat, one of the largest to have flown on a stratospheric payload, uses liquid…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-14 J. E. Gudmundsson , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , O. Doré , J. P. Filippini , A. A. Fraisse , A. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , M. Hasselfield , M. Halpern , G. C. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , Z. Kermish , C. J. MacTavish , P. V. Mason , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. E. Montroy , T. A. Morford , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , A. S. Rahlin , C. D. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , D. V. Wiebe , E. Young

SPECULOOS Northern Observatory: searching for red worlds in the northern skies

SPECULOOS is a ground-based transit survey consisting of six identical 1-m robotic telescopes. The immediate goal of the project is to detect temperate terrestrial planets transiting nearby ultracool dwarfs (late M-dwarf stars and brown…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Artem Y. Burdanov , Julien de Wit , Michaël Gillon , Rafael Rebolo , Daniel Sebastian , Roi Alonso , Sandrine Sohy , Prajwal Niraula , Lionel Garcia , Khalid Barkaoui , Patricia Chinchilla , Elsa Ducrot , Catriona A. Murray , Peter P. Pedersen , Emmanuël Jehin , James McCormac , Sebastián Zúñiga-Fernández

The Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey

The Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey (SDWFS) is a four-epoch infrared survey of ten square degrees in the Bootes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey using the IRAC instrument on the Spitzer Space Telescope. SDWFS, a Cycle four Spitzer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-10 M. L. N. Ashby , D. Stern , M. Brodwin , R. Griffith , P. Eisenhardt , S. Kozlowski , C. S. Kochanek , J. J. Bock , C. Borys , K. Brand , M. J. I. Brown , R. Cool , A. Cooray , S. Croft , A. Dey , D. Eisenstein , A. H. Gonzalez , V. Gorjian , N. A. Grogin , R. J. Ivison , J. Jacob , B. T. Jannuzi , A. Mainzer , L. A. Moustakas , H. J. A. Rottgering , N. Seymour , H. A. Smith , S. A. Stanford , J. R. Stauffer , I. Sullivan , W. van Breugel , S. P. Willner , E. L. Wright

Spitzer reveals what's behind Orion's Bar

We present Spitzer Space Telescope observations of 11 regions SE of the Bright Bar in the Orion Nebula, along a radial from the exciting star theta1OriC, extending from 2.6 to 12.1'. Our Cycle 5 programme obtained deep spectra with matching…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Robert H. Rubin , Janet P. Simpson , C. R. O'Dell , Ian A. McNabb , Sean W. J. Colgan , Scott Y. Zhuge , Gary J. Ferland , Sergio A. Hidalgo

Spitzer/MIPS Limits on Asteroidal Dust in the Pulsar Planetary System PSR B1257+1

With the MIPS camera on Spitzer, we have searched for far-infrared emission from dust in the planetary system orbiting pulsar PSR 1257+12. With accuracies of 0.05 mJy at 24 um and 1.5 mJy at 70 um, photometric measurements find no evidence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Bryden , C. A. Beichman , G. H. Rieke , J. A. Stansberry , K. R. Stapelfeldt , D. E. Trilling , N. J. Turner , A. Wolszczan

Autonomous Observing and Control Systems for PAIRITEL, a 1.3m Infrared Imaging Telescope

The Peters Automated Infrared Imaging Telescope (PAIRITEL) is the first meter-class telescope operating as a fully robotic IR imaging system. Dedicated in October 2004, PAIRITEL began regular observations in mid-December 2004 as part of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Bloom , Dan L. Starr , Cullen H. Blake , M. F. Skrutskie , Emilio E. Falco

The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): Pre-Launch

Scheduled to launch in late 2021, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a NASA Small Explorer Mission in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The mission will open a new window of investigation - imaging X-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Martin C. Weisskopf , Paolo Soffitta , Luca Baldini , Brian D. Ramsey , Stephen L. O'Dell , Roger W. Romani , Giorgio Matt , William D. Deininger , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Enrico Costa , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Luca Latronico , Herman L. Marshall , Fabio Muleri , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Allyn Tennant , Niccolo Bucciantini , Michal Dovciak , Frederic Marin , Alan Marscher , Juri Poutanen , Pat Slane , Roberto Turolla , William Kalinowski , Alessandro Di Marco , Sergio Fabiani , Massimo Minuti , Fabio La Monaca , Michele Pinchera , John Rankin , Carmelo Sgro' , Alessio Trois , Fei Xie , Cheryl Alexander , D. Zachery Allen , Fabrizio Amici , Jason Andersen , Angelo Antonelli , Spencer Antoniak , Primo Attina' , Mattia Barbanera , Matteo Bachetti , Randy M. Baggett , Jeff Bladt , Alessandro Brez , Raffaella Bonino , Christopher Boree , Fabio Borotto , Shawn Breeding , Daniele Brienza , H. Kyle Bygott , Ciro Caporale , Claudia Cardelli , Rita Carpentiero , Simone Castellano , Marco Castronuovo , Luca Cavalli , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Marco Ceccanti , Mauro Centrone , Saverio Citraro , Fabio D' Amico , Elisa D'Alba , Laura Di Gesu , Ettore Del Monte , Kurtis L. Dietz , Niccolo' Di Lalla , Giuseppe Di Persio , David Dolan , Immacolata Donnarumma , Yuri Evangelista , Kevin Ferrant , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , MacKenzie Ferrie , Joseph Footdale , Brent Forsyth , Michelle Foster , Benjamin Garelick , Shuichi Gunji , Eli Gurnee , Michael Head , Grant Hibbard , Samantha Johnson , Erik Kelly , Kiranmayee Kilaru , Carlo Lefevre , Shelley Le Roy , Pasqualino Loffredo , Paolo Lorenzi , Leonardo Lucchesi , Tyler Maddox , Guido Magazzu , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Elio Mangraviti , Marco Marengo , Alessandra Marrocchesi , Francesco Massaro , David Mauger , Jeffrey McCracken , Michael McEachen , Rondal Mize , Paolo Mereu , Scott Mitchell , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Alfredo Morbidini , Federico Mosti , Hikmat Nasimi , Barbara Negri , Michela Negro , Toan Nguyen , Isaac Nitschke , Alessio Nuti , Mitch Onizuka , Chiara Oppedisano , Leonardo Orsini , Darren Osborne , Richard Pacheco , Alessandro Paggi , Will Painter , Steven D. Pavelitz , Christina Pentz , Raffaele Piazzolla , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Colin Peterson , Maura Pilia , Alessandro Profeti , Simonetta Puccetti , Jaganathan Ranganathan , Ajay Ratheesh , Lee Reedy , Noah Root , Alda Rubini , Stephanie Ruswick , Javier Sanchez , Paolo Sarra , Francesco Santoli , Emanuele Scalise , Andrea Sciortino , Christopher Schroeder , Tim Seek , Kalie Sosdian , Gloria Spandre , Chet O. Speegle , Toru Tamagawa , Marcello Tardiola , Antonino Tobia , Nicholas E. Thomas , Robert Valerie , Marco Vimercati , Amy L. Walden , Bruce Weddendorf , Jeffrey Wedmore , David Welch , Davide Zanetti , Francesco Zanetti

Asteroseismic age and radius of Kepler stars

The Kepler mission's primary goal is the detection and characterization of Earth-like planets by observing continuously a region of sky for a nominal period of three-and-a-half years. Over 100,000 stars will be monitored, with a small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Orlagh L. Creevey

The SLICE, CHESS, and SISTINE Ultraviolet Spectrographs: Rocket-borne Instrumentation Supporting Future Astrophysics Missions

NASA's suborbital program provides an opportunity to conduct unique science experiments above Earth's atmosphere and is a pipeline for the technology and personnel essential to future space astrophysics, heliophysics, and atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-04 Kevin France , Keri Hoadley , Brian T. Fleming , Robert Kane , Nicholas Nell , Matthew Beasley , James C. Green

Future of Pulsar Research and Facilities

Radio pulsars have been responsible for many astonishing astrophysical and fundamental physics breakthroughs since their discovery 50 years ago. In this review I will discuss many of the highlights, most of which were only possible because…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Matthew Bailes