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The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer is a mission dedicated to the measurement of X-ray polarization from tens of astrophysical sources belonging to different classes. Expected to be launched at the end of 2021, the payload comprises…

We present an in-depth characterization of the polarimetric channel of the Large-Angle Spectrometric COronagraph LASCO-C2 onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SoHO). The polarimetric analysis of the white-light images makes use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-21 Philippe Lamy , Antoine Llebaria , Brice Boclet , Hugo Gilardy , Michael Burtin , Olivier Floyd

The Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) is a project created a few years ago in the Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS in Krak\'ow and dedicated is to global studies of extremely extended cosmic-ray phenomena. The main reason…

We present observations of the solar chromosphere obtained simultaneously with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). The observatories targeted a chromospheric plage…

PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is a medium-class mission belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA) Cosmic Vision programme. The mission payload is composed of 26 telescopes and cameras which will observe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-30 M. Rotundo , A. Leoni , L. Serafini , C. Del Vecchio Blanco , D. Davalle , D. Vangelista , M. Focardi , R. Cosentino , S. Pezzuto , G. Giusi , D. Biondi , L. Fanucci

[Abridged] The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be one of several flagship survey facilities operating over the next decade starting $\sim$2025. The deep near-IR imaging that Roman will deliver will be highly complementary to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-27 R. A. Street , S. Gough-Kelly , C. Lam , A. Varela , M. Makler , E. Bachelet , J. R. Lu , N. Abrams , A. Pusack , S. Terry , R. Di~Stefano , Y. Tsapras , M. P. G. Hundertmark , R. J. J. Grand , T. Daylan , J. Sobeck

Phoswich detectors (RT-2/S & RT-2/G) are major scientific payloads of the RT-2 Experiment onboard the CORONAS-PHOTON mission, which was launched into a polar Low Earth Orbit of around 550 km on 2009 January 30. These RT-2 instruments are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-16 Dipak Debnath , Anuj Nandi , A. R. Rao , J. P. Malkar , M. K. Hingar , T. B. Kotoch , S. Sreekumar , V. P. Madhav , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

The space probe 'New Horizon' was launched on 19th of January 2006 in order to study Pluto and its moons. Spacecraft will fly by Pluto as close as 12500 km in the middle of July 2015 and will get the most detailed images of Pluto and its…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-01 Alexander V. Devyatkin , Ekaterina A. Bashakova , Viacheslav Yu. Slesarenko

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) aims to map $\approx$ 9300 deg$^2$ of the Southern sky using the Javalambre filter system of 12 optical bands, 5 Sloan-like filters and 7 narrow-band filters centered on several…

The ASTRI project is the INAF (Italian National Institute for Astrophysics) flagship project developed in the context of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) international project. ASTRI is dedicated to the realization of the prototype of a…

A joint project between the Canadian Astronomy Data Center of the National Research Council Canada, and the italian Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (INAF-OATs), partially funded by the EGI-Engage H2020…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-08 Sara Bertocco , Brjan Major , Patrick Dowler , Séverin Gaudet , Marco Molinaro , Giuliano Taffoni

The Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) is a project dedicated to global studies of extremely extended cosmic-ray phenomena, the cosmic-ray ensembles (CRE), beyond the capabilities of existing detectors and observatories.…

Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) is a long-term program of numerical simulations of cosmic reionization. Its goal is to model fully self-consistently (albeit not necessarily from the first principles) all relevant physics, from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Nickolay Y. Gnedin

In the last years, the Observatory of Padova (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova) and the University of Padova have been involved massively in projects dedicated to the exoplanets search, both ground, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-15 Gabriele Umbriaco

The Rome Precision Solar Photometric Telescope (Rome/PSPT) is a ground-based telescope engaged in precision solar photometry. It has a 27-year database of full-disk images of the photosphere and chromosphere beginning in 1996 and continuing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-22 Ilaria Ermolli , Fabrizio Giorgi , Theodosios Chatzistergos

This thesis project arises from the need to put into operation the spectrograph (COLORES) of the station (BOOTES 2), located in La Mayora and belonging to the network of Burst Observer and Optical Transient Exploring System (BOOTES)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Álvaro Montoro

ASTRI is a Flagship Project financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, and led by the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics, INAF. Primary goal of the ASTRI project is the design and production of an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 Maria Concetta Maccarone , Giuseppe Leto , Pietro Bruno , Mauro Fiorini , Alessandro Grillo , Alberto Segreto , Luca Stringhetti

KM3NeT is a deep-sea infrastructure composed of two neutrino telescopes being deployed in the Mediterranean Sea: ARCA, near Sicily in Italy, designed for neutrino astronomy, and ORCA, near Toulon in France, designed for neutrino oscillation…

The NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (Rubin), will transform our view of the wide-field sky, with similar sensitivities, but complementary in wavelength,…

To optimize the performance of the Collinear Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy (CRIS) experiment at CERN-ISOLDE, technical upgrades are continuously introduced, aiming to enhance its sensitivity, precision, stability, and efficiency.…