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Although several existing and upcoming telescopes have imaging as their primary mode, they also have a sensitive phased-array mode with a multiple-beam forming capability enabling high time resolution studies of several types of objects,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-29 Jayanth Chennamangalam , Yogesh Maan , Avinash A. Deshpande

Pulsar data analysis pipelines have historically been comprised of bespoke software systems, supporting the off-line analysis of data. However modern data acquisition systems are making off-line analyses impractical. They often output…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 R. J. Lyon , B. W. Stappers , L. Levin , M. B. Mickaliger , A. Scaife

Extracting stellar fundamental parameters from SPectro-Interferometric (SPI) data requires reliable estimates of observables and with robust uncertainties (visibility, triple product, phase closure). A number of fine calibration procedures…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Pierre Cruzalèbes , Yves Rabbia , Alain Jorissen , Alain Spang , Stéphane Sacuto , Ester Pasquato , Andrea Chiavassa , Olivier Chesneau , Patrick Fréville

A medium-sized Schwarzchild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is being developed as a possible extension for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The Cherenkov camera of the telescope is designed to have 11328 silicon photomultiplier pixels capable of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Santander , J. Buckley , B. Humensky , R. Mukherjee

We present FORECAST, a new flexible and adaptable software package that performs forward modeling of the output of any cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to create a wide range of realistic synthetic astronomical images. With…

An array of large observational programs using ground-based and space-borne telescopes is planned in the next decade. The forthcoming wide-field sky surveys are expected to deliver a sheer volume of data exceeding an exabyte. Processing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-26 Kana Moriwaki , Takahiro Nishimichi , Naoki Yoshida

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) project performed its five year formal survey since Sep. 2012, already fulfilled the pilot survey and the 1st two years general survey with an output - spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-09 Yue Wu , Ali Luo , Bing Du , Yongheng Zhao , Hailong Yuan

The complexity and accuracy of current and future precision cosmology observational campaigns has made it essential to develop an efficient technique for directly combining simulation and observational datasets to determine cosmological and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Charles Nakhleh , Salman Habib

The Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey (GOSSS) is an ambitious project that is observing all known Galactic O stars with B < 13 in the blue-violet part of the spectrum with R-2500. It is based on version 2 of the most complete catalog to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-19 Alfredo Sota , Jesús Maíz Apellániz

This paper describes the MegaPipe image processing pipeline at the Canadian Astronomical Data Centre (CADC). The pipeline takes multiple images from the MegaCam mosaic camera on CFHT and combines them into a single output image. MegaPipe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-20 Stephen D. J. Gwyn

LOFAR is a leading aperture synthesis telescope operated in the Netherlands with stations across Europe. The LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS) will produce more than 3000 14 TB data sets, mapping the entire northern sky at low frequencies.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-28 A. P. Mechev , T. W. Shimwell , A. Plaat , H. Intema , A. L. Varbanescu , H. J. A Rottgering

We have begun a large-scale photometric survey of nearby open clusters and star-forming regions, the Monitor project, aiming to measure time-series photometry for >10,000 cluster members over >10 sq.deg of sky, to find low-mass eclipsing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan Irwin , Mike Irwin , Suzanne Aigrain , Simon Hodgkin , Leslie Hebb , Estelle Moraux

We present the data reduction software and the distribution of Level 1 and Level 2 products of the Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory 2 (STO2). STO2, a balloon-borne Terahertz telescope, surveyed star-forming regions and the Galactic plane…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-03 Young Min Seo , Paul F. Goldsmith , Volker Tolls , Russell Shipman , Craig Kulesa , William Peters , Christopher Walker , Gary Melnick

We present a numerical code to simulate maps of Galactic emission in intensity and polarization at microwave frequencies, aiding in the design of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. This Python code builds on existing efforts to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Ben Thorne , Jo Dunkley , David Alonso , Sigurd Naess

The prototype of the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is presently going through its commissioning phase. A total of four LSTs, among others, will operate together at Observatorio del Roque de Los…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-26 José Enrique Ruiz , Daniel Morcuende , Lab Saha , Andrés Baquero , José Luis Contreras , Isidro Aguado

The accumulation of aberrations along the optical path in a telescope produces distortions and speckles in the resulting images, limiting the performance of cameras at high angular resolution. It is important to achieve the highest possible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Benjamin J. S. Pope , Laurent Pueyo , Yinzi Xin , Peter G. Tuthill

The central institute of electronics (ZEA-2) in the Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) has developed a system to scan the response of the photocathode of photomultiplier tubes (PMT). The PMT sits tight on a supporting structure, while a blue…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-07-05 R. Fabbri

The High Sensitivity Terahertz Detection Module (HSTDM), a key component of the backend modules on board the China Space Station Telescope (CSST), will offer great opportunities for the discovery of Terahertz Astronomy, with implications…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-14 SiYuan Tan , WenYin Duan , YiLong Zhang , YiPing Ao , Yan Gong , ZhenHui Lin , Xuan Zhang , Yong Shi , Jing Tang , Jing Li , RuiQing Mao , Sheng-Cai Shi

We describe DPOSS, a new digital survey of the northern sky, based on the POSS-II photographic sky atlas. The survey covers the entire sky north of delta = -3 deg in 3 bands, calibrated to the Gunn $gri$ system, reaching to equivalent…

We present the first fully automated pipeline for making images from the interferometric data obtained from the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) called CAsa Pipeline-cum-Toolkit for Upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Ruta Kale , Ishwara-Chandra C. H.