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Upgrades at the 2.3 meter Wyoming Infrared Observatory telescope have provided the capability for fully-remote operations by a single operator from the University of Wyoming campus. A line-of-sight 300 Megabit/s 11 GHz radio link provides…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Joseph R. Findlay , Henry A. Kobulnicky , James S. Weger , Gerald A. Bucher , Marvin C. Perry , Adam D. Myers , Michael J. Pierce , Conrad Vogel

We present more than 80 new variable stars discovered during the first observing season of the APACHE survey. APACHE is a project aimed at detecting extrasolar planets transiting nearby, bright M dwarfs by using an array of small-aperture…

The DENIS survey is currently imaging the entire southern sky in the I, J, and K wavebands. The current star/galaxy separation algorithm is presented and the galaxy counts are nearly perfectly Euclidean. 95% complete and reliable galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gary A. Mamon

We have performed a near-infrared photometric monitoring of 39 galactic young star clusters and star-forming regions, known as {\em NIP of Stars}, between the years 2009--2011, using the Swope telescope at Las Campanas Observatory (Chile)…

The Planet Hunting and Asteroseismology Explorer Spectrophotometer, PHASES, is a concept for a space-borne instrument to obtain flux calibrated spectra and measure micro-magnitude photometric variations of nearby stars. The science drivers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-13 Carlos del Burgo , Carlos Allende Prieto , Tully Peacocke

The AKARI North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) survey consists of two survey projects: NEP-Deep (0.5 sq.deg) and NEP-Wide (5.4 sq.deg), providing with tens of thousands of galaxies. A continuous filter coverage in the mid-infrared wavelengths (7, 9,…

The World Space Observatory is an unconventional space project proceeding via distributed studies. The present design, verified for feasibilty, consists of a 1.7-meter telescope operating at the second Largangian point of the Earth-Sun…

The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is designed to survey the variable and transient sky at high temporal cadence. The array is comprised of 48 F/2.2 telescopes of 27.9cm aperture, coupled to full-frame backside-illuminated cooled CMOS…

We present AstroWISP: a collection of image processing tools for source extraction, background determination, point spread function/pixel response function fitting, and aperture photometry. AstroWISP is particularly well-suited for working…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Kaloyan Penev , Angel Romero , S. Javad Jafarzadeh , Olivier Guyon , Wilfred Gee , Preethi Krishnamoorthy

The SkyMapper 1.3 m telescope at Siding Spring Observatory has now begun regular operations. Alongside the Southern Sky Survey, a comprehensive digital survey of the entire southern sky, SkyMapper will carry out a search for supernovae and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Richard Scalzo , Fang Yuan , Michael J. Childress , Anais Moller , Brian Schmidt , Brad E. Tucker , Bonnie Zhang , Pierre Astier , Marc Betoule , Nicolas Regnault

The Long Wavelength Array (LWA) will be a new multi-purpose radio telescope operating in the frequency range 10-88 MHz. Scientific programs include pulsars, supernova remnants, general transient searches, radio recombination lines, solar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-11 G. B. Taylor , The LWA Collaboration

The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is a wide-field telescope designed to explore the variable and transient sky with a high cadence and to be a test-bed for cost-effective telescope design. A LAST node is composed of 48 (32 already…

We give an overview of the current status and scientific goals of VERITAS, a proposed hexagonal array of seven 10 m aperture imaging Cherenkov telescopes. The selected site is Montosa Canyon (1390 m a.s.l.) at the Whipple Observatory,…

We present a model of the stellar populations in the fields observed by one of the SuperWASP-N cameras in the 2004 observing season. We use the Besancon Galactic model to define the range of stellar types and metallicities present, and…

The "Wide Area VISTA Extra-galactic Survey" (WAVES) is a 4MOST Consortium Design Reference Survey which will use the VISTA/4MOST facility to spectroscopically survey ~2million galaxies to $r_{\rm AB} < 22$ mag. WAVES consists of two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Simon P. Driver , Luke J. Davies , Martin Meyer , Chris Power , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Ivan K. Baldry , Jochen Liske , Peder Norberg

We present the first analysis of results from the SuperWASP Variable Stars Zooniverse project, which is aiming to classify 1.6 million phase-folded light curves of candidate stellar variables observed by the SuperWASP all sky survey with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Heidi B. Thiemann , Andrew J. Norton , Hugh J. Dickinson , Adam McMaster , Ulrich C. Kolb

In the face of scarcity in detailed training annotations, the ability to perform object localization tasks in real-time with weak-supervision is very valuable. However, the computational cost of generating and evaluating region proposals is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Amogh Gudi , Nicolai van Rosmalen , Marco Loog , Jan van Gemert

We present in catalog form the optical identifications for objects from the first phase of the Wide Angle ROSAT Pointed Survey (WARPS). WARPS is a serendipitous survey of relatively deep, pointed ROSAT observations for clusters of galaxies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. S. Perlman , D. J. Horner , L. R. Jones , C. A. Scharf , H. Ebeling , G. Wegner , M. Malkan

Ground-based exoplanet surveys such as SuperWASP, HATNet and KELT have discovered close to two hundred transiting extrasolar planets in the past several years. The strategy of these surveys is to look at a large field of view and measure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 M. Zhang , G. Á. Bakos , K. Penev , Z. Csubry , J. D. Hartman , W. Bhatti , M. de Val-Borro

We have analysed around 170 000 individual photometric WASP measurements of 15 well established lambda Bootis stars to search for variability. The lambda Bootis stars are a small group of late-B to early-F, Pop. I, stars that show moderate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 E. Paunzen , M. Skarka , P. Walczak , D. L. Holdsworth , B. Smalley , R. G. West , J. Janik