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A deep, space-based, all-sky near-infrared survey carried out with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope would constitute a foundational astronomical infrastructure for decades to come. In this white paper, we present a concrete and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Jiwon Jesse Han , Anirudh Chiti , Kai-Feng Chen , Keith Bechtol , Andrea Bellini , Robert Benjamin , Adam Bolton , Ana Bonaca , Alex Broughton , Esra Bulbul , Susan Clark , Charlie Conroy , Suchetha Cooray , John Franklin Crenshaw , Tansu Daylan , Arjun Dey , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Tim Eifler , Kareem El-Badry , Richard M. Feder , Peter Ferguson , Shenming Fu , Sebastian Gomez , Ryan Hickox , Christopher Hirata , Easton J. Honaker , Xiaosheng Huang , Alexander P. Ji , Michael Liu , Kevin A. McKinnon , Geoffrey Mo , Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Alessandro Savino , David J. Schlegel , Nora Shipp , Jay Strader , Federica Tarsitano , Adrien C. R. Thob , Kim-Vy Tran , Roeland P. van der Marel , Feige Wang , Risa Wechsler , Daniel R. Weisz , Dennis Zaritsky , Tianqing Zhang , Shreya Anand , Amirnezam Amiri , Abhijeet Anand , Matthew L. N. Ashby , Finian Ashmead , Leandro Beraldo e Silva , Aliza Beverage , Michael R. Blanton , Warren R. Brown , Anthony G. A. Brown , Priyanka Chakraborty , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Jose M. Diego , Denis Erkal , Simone Ferraro , Lluís Galbany , Marla Geha , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Lars Hernquist , Jason A. S. Hunt , Valentin D. Ivanov , Venu Kalari , Nitya Kallivayalil , András Kovács , Kyle Kremer , Ting-Wen Lan , Denis Leahy , Jiaxuan Li , Ivan Minchev , GyuChul Myung , Ethan O. Nadler , Joan R. Najita , Melissa K. Ness , Jacob Nibauer , Fabio Pacucci , David Parkinson , Ekta Patel , R. Michael Rich , Marina Ricci , Graziano Rossi , Nikolina Sarcevic , Arnab Sarkar , Andrew K. Saydjari , Arman Shafieloo , Zachary Slepian , Sangmo Tony Sohn , David N. Spergel , Róbert Szabó , Christina C. Williams , John F. Wu

The gamma-ray astronomical observatory INTEGRAL, succesfully launched on 17th October 2002, carries two large gamma-ray telescopes. One of them is the coded-mask imaging gamma-ray telescope onboard the INTEGRAL satellite (IBIS) which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Goldwurm , P. David , L. Foschini , A. Gros , P. Laurent , A. Sauvageon , A. J. Bird , L. Lerusse , N. Produit

We give a short review of gamma-ray burst (GRB) observations with the Konus-WIND (KW) experiment, which has been providing a continuous all-sky coverage in the 20 keV-15 MeV band during the period from 1994 to present. The recent results…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-10 D. Frederiks , D. Svinkin , A. Tsvetkova , R. Aptekar , S. Golenetskii , A. Kozlova , A. Lysenko , M. Ulanov

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope regularly surveys the entire sky in the energy range between 0.3 and 100 GeV with an homogeneous coverage. This makes Fermi a very useful guide for ground-based Cherenkov-telescope arrays like VERITAS,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Errando , M. Orr , E. Kara

Project GRAND presents the results of a search for coincident high-energy gamma ray events in the direction and at the time of nine Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected by BATSE. A gamma ray has a non-negligible hadron production cross section;…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. F. Lin , J. Carpenter , S. Desch , J. Gress , J. Poirier , A. Roesch

Sky maps are powerful visualisation tools for quicklook analysis of extended sources. The latest sky map in soft X-rays (0.1-2.4 keV) has been created in 90ies using ROSAT data. By analyzing publically available data from XMM-Newton X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-24 Denis Savchenko , Dmytro Iakubovskyi

A new instrument, BAM (Balloon-borne Anisotropy Measurement), designed to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy at medium angular scales was flown for the first time in July of 1995. BAM is unique in that it uses a cryogenic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Tucker , H. P. Gush , M. Halpern , W. Towlson

The COBE satellite has provided the only comprehensive multi-frequency full-sky observations of the microwave sky available today. Assessment of the observations requires a detailed likelihood analysis to extract the maximum amount of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. M. Gorski

The Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment (STACEE) is an atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (ACT) that uses a large mirror array to achieve a relatively low energy threshold. For sources with Crab-like spectra, at high…

The ground-based EAS array is usually operated with a high duty cycle (> 90%) and a large field of view (~2 sr), which can continuously monitor the sky. It is essential and irreplaceable to understand the gamma-ray emission mechanism and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-20 SongZhan CHEN

GRAMS (Gamma-Ray and AntiMatter Survey) is a next-generation balloon/satellite experiment utilizing a LArTPC (Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber), to simultaneously target astrophysical observations of cosmic MeV gamma-rays and conduct an…

An all-sky cloud monitoring system that generates relative opacity maps over many of the world's premier astronomical observatories is described. Photometric measurements of numerous background stars are combined with simultaneous sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lior Shamir , Roberj J. Nemiroff

Sky survey is one of the most important motivations to improve the astrophysics development, especially when using new photometric bands. We are performing the SAGE (Stellar Abundance and Galactic Evolution) survey with a self-designed SAGE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Jie Zheng , Gang Zhao , Wei Wang , Zhou Fan , Ke-Feng Tan , Chun Li , Fang Zuo

The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is an observatory designed to perform gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range 20 MeV to 300 GeV, with supporting measurements for gamma-ray bursts from 10 keV to 25 MeV. GLAST will be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 D. Paneque , A. Borgland , A. Bovier , E. Bloom , Y. Edmonds , S. Funk , G. Godfrey , R. Rando , L. Wai , P. Wang

We have searched for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the BATSE DISCLA data over a time period of 5.9 years. We employ a trigger requiring an excess of at least 5 sigma over background for at least two modules in the 50-300 keV range. After…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maarten Schmidt

The Earth occultation technique has broad applications in both astronomy and atmospheric density measurements. We construct the background model during the occultation of the Crab Nebula observed by the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation…

It has been established that Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) can produce Very High Energy radiation (E > 100 GeV), opening a new window on the investigation of particle acceleration and radiation properties in the most energetic domain. We expect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 G. La Mura

Surveys open up unbiased discovery space and generate legacy datasets of long-lasting value. One of the goals of imaging arrays of Cherenkov telescopes like CTA is to survey areas of the sky for faint very high energy gamma-ray (VHE)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Dubus , J. L. Contreras , S. Funk , Y. Gallant , T. Hassan , J. Hinton , Y. Inoue , J. Knödlseder , P. Martin , N. Mirabal , M. de Naurois , M. Renaud

The absence of a BATSE line detection in a gamma-ray burst spectrum during the mission's first six years has led to a statistical analysis of the occurrence of lines in the BATSE burst database; this statistical analysis will still be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Band , J. Matteson , M. Briggs , W. Paciesas , G. Pendleton , R. Preece

Gamma-ray observations above 200 MeV are conventionally made by satellite-based detectors. The EGRET detector on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) has provided good sensitivity for the detection of bursts lasting for more than 200…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Krennrich , S. Le Bohec , T. C. Weekes