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The Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a near-infrared time-domain survey instrument operating on a dedicated 1-meter robotic telescope at Palomar Observatory. The project takes advantage of recent technology advances in…

We report results from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search -- a survey for planets around 200 solar-type stars in the southern hemisphere, which is being carried out on the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope. Limiting Doppler precisions of 3m/s…

Binospec is a high-throughput, 370 to 1000 nm, imaging spectrograph that addresses two adjacent 8' by 15' fields of view. Binospec was commissioned in late 2017 at the f/5 focus of the 6.5m MMT and is now available to all MMT observers.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Jan Kansky , Igor Chilingarian , Daniel Fabricant , Anne Matthews , Sean Moran , Martin Paegert , J. Duane Gibson , Dallan Porter , John Roll

In Paper I, we presented an overview of the Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-metre (SMART) survey, including the survey design and search pipeline. While the combination of MWA's large field-of-view and the voltage capture system brings a survey…

A survey of the Milky Way disk and the Magellanic System at the wavelengths of the 21-cm atomic hydrogen (HI) line and three 18-cm lines of the OH molecule will be carried out with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope.…

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST, also known as Xuntian) is a serviceable two-meter-aperture wide-field telescope operating in the same orbit as the China Space Station. The CSST plans to survey a sky area of 17,500 deg$^2$ of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-17 Chengqi Liu , Youhua Xu , Xianmin Meng , Xin Zhang , Shi-Yu Li , Yuming Fu , Xiaofeng Wang , Shufei Liu , Zun Luo , Guanghuan Wang , Hu Zhan

We present S-PASS/ATCA, the first wide-band radio polarimetry survey of compact sources in the southern sky. We describe how we selected targets for observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) in the 16 cm band (1.3 - 3.1…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler , E. Carretti , M. H. Wieringa , B. M. Gaensler , M. Haverkorn , S. Poppi

We present multi-waveband optical imaging data obtained from observations of the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey (SXDS). The survey field, centered at R.A.=02:18:00, decl.=-05:00:00, has been the focus of a wide range of multi-wavelength…

The Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) 80 cm telescope is a new generation near-infrared (NIR) facility in China dedicated to time-domain astronomy, while also serving as a testbed for emerging NIR cameras. Commissioned in October 2024 at the…

FIREBall-2 is a stratospheric balloon-borne 1-m telescope coupled to a UV multi-object slit spectrograph designed to map the faint UV emission surrounding z~0.7 galaxies and quasars through their Lyman-alpha line emission. This…

Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a wide-field imaging camera on the prime focus of the 8.2m Subaru telescope on the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii. A team of scientists from Japan, Taiwan and Princeton University is using HSC to carry out a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-16 H. Aihara , N. Arimoto , R. Armstrong , S. Arnouts , N. A. Bahcall , S. Bickerton , J. Bosch , K. Bundy , P. L. Capak , J. H. H. Chan , M. Chiba , J. Coupon , E. Egami , M. Enoki , F. Finet , H. Fujimori , S. Fujimoto , H. Furusawa , J. Furusawa , T. Goto , A. Goulding , J. P. Greco , J. E. Greene , J. E. Gunn , T. Hamana , Y. Harikane , Y. Hashimoto , T. Hattori , M. Hayashi , Y. Hayashi , K. G. Hełminiak , R. Higuchi , C. Hikage , P. T. P. Ho , B. -C. Hsieh , K. Huang , S. Huang , H. Ikeda , M. Imanishi , A. K. Inoue , K. Iwasawa , I. Iwata , A. T. Jaelani , H. -Y. Jian , Y. Kamata , H. Karoji , N. Kashikawa , N. Katayama , S. Kawanomoto , I. Kayo , J. Koda , M. Koike , T. Kojima , Y. Komiyama , A. Konno , S. Koshida , Y. Koyama , H. Kusakabe , A. Leauthaud , C. -H. Lee , L. Lin , Y. -T. Lin , R. H. Lupton , R. Mandelbaum , Y. Matsuoka , E. Medezinski , S. Mineo , S. Miyama , H. Miyatake , S. Miyazaki , R. Momose , A. More , S. More , Y. Moritani , T. J. Moriya , T. Morokuma , S. Mukae , R. Murata , H. Murayama , T. Nagao , F. Nakata , M. Niida , H. Niikura , A. J. Nishizawa , Y. Obuchi , M. Oguri , Y. Oishi , N. Okabe , Y. Okura , Y. Ono , M. Onodera , M. Onoue , K. Osato , M. Ouchi , P. A. Price , T. -S. Pyo , M. Sako , S. Okamoto , M. Sawicki , T. Shibuya , K. Shimasaku , A. Shimono , M. Shirasaki , J. D. Silverman , M. Simet , J. Speagle , D. N. Spergel , M. A. Strauss , Y. Sugahara , N. Sugiyama , Y. Suto , S. H. Suyu , N. Suzuki , P. J. Tait , T. Takata , M. Takada , N. Tamura , M. M. Tanaka , M. Tanaka , M. Tanaka , Y. Tanaka , T. Terai , Y. Terashima , Y. Toba , J. Toshikawa , E. L. Turner , T. Uchida , H. Uchiyama , K. Umetsu , F. Uraguchi , Y. Urata , T. Usuda , Y. Utsumi , S. -Y. Wang , W. -H. Wang , K. C. Wong , K. Yabe , Y. Yamada , H. Yamanoi , N. Yasuda , S. Yeh , A. Yonehara , S. Yuma

The study of cosmic birefringence through Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments is a key research area in cosmology and particle physics, providing a critical test for Lorentz and CPT symmetries. This paper focuses on an upcoming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-18 Yiwei Zhong , Hongbo Cai , Si-Yu Li , Yang Liu , Mingzhe Li , Wenjuan Fang

We present the details of the photometric and astrometric calibration of the Pan-STARRS1 $3\pi$ Survey. The photometric goals were to reduce the systematic effects introduced by the camera and detectors, and to place all of the observations…

The primary goal of the MAP satellite, now in orbit, is to make high fidelity polarization sensitive maps of the full sky in five frequency bands between 20 and 100 GHz. From these maps we will characterize the properties of the cosmic…

SPT-3G is the third survey receiver operating on the South Pole Telescope dedicated to high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Sensitive measurements of the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the CMB…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 J. A. Sobrin , A. J. Anderson , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , D. Dutcher , A. Foster , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , A. Rahlin , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , E. Anderes , M. Archipley , J. E. Austermann , J. S. Avva , K. Aylor , L. Balkenhol , P. S. Barry , R. Basu Thakur , K. Benabed , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , K. Byrum , J. E. Carlstrom , F. W. Carter , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , G. Chen , H. -M. Cho , T. -L. Chou , J. -F. Cliche , T. M. Crawford , A. Cukierman , C. Daley , T. de Haan , E. V. Denison , K. Dibert , J. Ding , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , J. Fu , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , R. Gualtieri , S. Guns , N. Gupta , R. Guyser , N. W. Halverson , A. H. Harke-Hosemann , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , E. Hivon , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , D. Howe , N. Huang , K. D. Irwin , O. B. Jeong , M. Jonas , A. Jones , T. S. Khaire , L. Knox , A. M. Kofman , M. Korman , D. L. Kubik , S. Kuhlmann , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , S. S. Meyer , D. Michalik , M. Millea , T. Natoli , H. Nguyen , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , J. Pearson , C. M. Posada , K. Prabhu , W. Quan , C. L. Reichardt , D. Riebel , B. Riedel , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , B. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , E. Schiappucci , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , K. T. Story , A. Suzuki , C. Tandoi , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , C. Tucker , C. Umilta , L. R. Vale , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , M. R. Young

We present an overview of the Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-metre (SMART) pulsar survey that exploits the MWA's large field of view and voltage capture system to survey the sky south of 30 degree in declination for pulsars and fast transients…

The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey is a set of five surveys of complementary combinations of area, depth, and Galactic latitude, which began in 2005 May. The surveys use the UKIRT Wide Field Camera (WFCAM), which has a solid angle of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Paul C. Hewett , Stephen J. Warren , Sandy K. Leggett , Simon T. Hodgkin

Accurate determinations of atmospheric parameters (effective temperature $T_{\rm eff}$, surface gravity log $g$ and metallicity [Fe/H]) and distances for large complete samples are of vital importance for various Galactic studies. We have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Y. Huang , B. -Q. Chen , H. -B. Yuan , H. -W. Zhang , M. -X. Xiang , C. Wang , H. -F. Wang , C. Wolf , G. -C. Liu , X. -W. Liu

The Javalambre-Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) will soon start to scan thousands of square degrees of the northern extragalactic sky with a unique set of $56$ optical filters from a dedicated $2.55$m…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 S. Bonoli , A. Marín-Franch , J. Varela , H. Vázquez Ramió , L. R. Abramo , A. J. Cenarro , R. A. Dupke , J. M. Vílchez , D. Cristóbal-Hornillos , R. M. González Delgado , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , C. López-Sanjuan , D. J. Muniesa , T. Civera , A. Ederoclite , A. Hernán-Caballero , V. Marra , P. O. Baqui , A. Cortesi , E. S. Cypriano , S. Daflon , A. L. de Amorim , L. A. Díaz-García , J. M. Diego , G. Martínez-Solaeche , E. Pérez , V. M. Placco , F. Prada , C. Queiroz , J. Alcaniz , A. Alvarez-Candal , J. Cepa , A. L. Maroto , F. Roig , B. B. Siffert , K. Taylor , N. Benitez , M. Moles , L. Sodré , S. Carneiro , C. Mendes de Oliveira , E. Abdalla , R. E. Angulo , M. Aparicio Resco , A. Balaguera-Antolínez , F. J. Ballesteros , D. Brito-Silva , T. Broadhurst , E. R. Carrasco , T. Castro , R. Cid Fernandes , P. Coelho , R. B. de Melo , L. Doubrawa , A. Fernandez-Soto , F. Ferrari , A. Finoguenov , R. García-Benito , J. Iglesias-Páramo , Y. Jiménez-Teja , F. S. Kitaura , J. Laur , P. A. A. Lopes , G. Lucatelli , V. J. Martínez , M. Maturi , M. Quartin , C. Pigozzo , J. E. Rodrìguez-Martìn , V. Salzano , A. Tamm , E. Tempel , K. Umetsu , L. Valdivielso , R. von Marttens , A. Zitrin , M. C. Díaz-Martín , G. López-Alegre , A. López-Sainz , A. Yanes-Díaz , F. Rueda-Teruel , S. Rueda-Teruel , J. Abril Ibañez , J. L Antón Bravo , R. Bello Ferrer , S. Bielsa , J. M. Casino , J. Castillo , S. Chueca , L. Cuesta , J. Garzarán Calderaro , R. Iglesias-Marzoa , C. Íniguez , J. L. Lamadrid Gutierrez , F. Lopez-Martinez , D. Lozano-Pérez , N. Maícas Sacristán , E. L. Molina-Ibáñez , A. Moreno-Signes , S. Rodríguez Llano , M. Royo Navarro , V. Tilve Rua , U. Andrade , E. J. Alfaro , S. Akras , P. Arnalte-Mur , B. Ascaso , C. E. Barbosa , J. Beltrán Jiménez , M. Benetti , C. A. P. Bengaly , A. Bernui , J. J. Blanco-Pillado , M. Borges Fernandes , J. N. Bregman , G. Bruzual , G. Calderone , J. M. Carvano , L. Casarini , A. L Chies-Santos , G. Coutinho de Carvalho , P. Dimauro , S. Duarte Puertas , D. Figueruelo , J. I. González-Serrano , M. A. Guerrero , S. Gurung-López , D. Herranz , M. Huertas-Company , J. A. Irwin , D. Izquierdo-Villalba , A. Kanaan , C. Kehrig , C. C. Kirkpatrick , J. Lim , A. R. Lopes , R. Lopes de Oliveira , A. Marcos-Caballero , D. Martínez-Delgado , E. Martínez-González , G. Martínez-Somonte , N. Oliveira , A. A. Orsi , R. A. Overzier , M. Penna-Lima , R. R. R. Reis , D. Spinoso , S. Tsujikawa , P. Vielva , A. Z. Vitorelli , J. Q. Xia , H. B. Yuan , A. Arroyo-Polonio , M. L. L. Dantas , C. A. Galarza , D. R. Gonçalves , R. S. Gonçalves , J. E. Gonzalez , A. H. Gonzalez , N. Greisel , R. G. Landim , D. Lazzaro , G. Magris , R. Monteiro-Oliveira , C. B. Pereira , M. J. Rebouças , J. M. Rodriguez-Espinosa , S. Santos da Costa , E. Telles