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Precise cosmological measurements are essential for understanding the evolution of the universe and the nature of dark energy. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the most sensitive single-dish radio telescope, has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 Jun-Da Pan , Peng-Ju Wu , Guo-Hong Du , Yichao Li , Xin Zhang

The S-band Polarisation All-Sky Survey (S-PASS) has observed the entire southern sky using the 64-metre Parkes radio telescope at 2.3GHz with an effective bandwidth of 184MHz. The surveyed sky area covers all declinations $\delta\leq…

The Galaxy Evolution Probe (GEP) is a concept for a mid- and far-infrared space observatory to measure key properties of large samples of galaxies with large and unbiased surveys. GEP will attempt to achieve zodiacal light and Galactic dust…

Various aspects of cosmology require comprehensive all-sky mapping of the cosmic web to considerable depths. In order to probe the whole extragalactic sky beyond 100 Mpc, one must draw on multiwavelength datasets and state-of-the-art…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-17 Maciej Bilicki

We present the $NuSTAR$ extragalactic survey of the $James$ $Webb$ $Space$ $Telescope$ ($JWST$) North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time-Domain Field. The survey covers a $\sim$0.16 deg$^2$ area with a total exposure of 681 ks acquired in a total of…

We have measured the spectrum of the Cosmic X-ray Background (CXB) in the 2-8 keV range with the high throughput EPIC/MOS instrument onboard XMM-Newton. A large sample of high galactic latitude observations was used, covering a total solid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. De Luca , S. Molendi

We report results of a serendipitous hard X-ray (3--20 keV), nearly all-sky (|b|>10deg) survey based on RXTE/PCA observations performed during satellite reorientations in 1996--2002. The survey is 80% (90%) complete to a 4$\sigma$ limiting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Revnivtsev , S. Sazonov , K. Jahoda , M. Gilfanov

We present map-making methodologies and preliminary spectral data cubes for SPHEREx, a NASA Explorer mission that launched in March 2025 and has been performing an all-sky near-infrared spectral survey. The SPHEREx instrument observes from…

EBEX is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the intensity and polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The measurements would probe the inflationary epoch that took place shortly after the big bang and would…

The High Energy X-ray Probe is a proposed NASA probe-class mission that combines the power of high angular resolution with a broad X-ray bandpass to provide the necessary leap in capabilities to address the important astrophysical questions…

We describe a mission architecture designed to substantially increase the science capability of the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Astrophysics Explorer Program for all AO proposers working within the near-UV to far-infrared…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. A. Greenhouse , S. W. Benson , R. D. Falck , D. J. Fixsen , J. P. Gardner , J. B. Garvin , J. W. Kruk , S. R. Oleson , H. A. Thronson

We propose a new, simple, dedicated X-ray mission to measure the power spectrum of density fluctuations in the Universe, by accurately mapping the X-ray background on the whole sky on scales of arounf one sq deg. Since the method relies on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 X. Barcons , A. C. Fabian

The COSMOS-Legacy survey is a 4.6 Ms Chandra program that has imaged 2.2 deg$^2$ of the COSMOS field with an effective exposure of $\simeq$160 ks over the central 1.5 deg$^2$ and of $\simeq$80 ks in the remaining area. The survey is the…

We construct simulated galaxy data sets based on the High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P) mission concept to demonstrate the significant advances in galaxy science that will be yielded by the HEX-P observatory. The combination of high spatial…

The BeppoSAX High Energy Large Area Survey (HELLAS) has surveyed several tens of square degrees of the sky in the 5--10 keV band down to a flux of about 5 10^-14 erg cm-2 s-1. The extrapolation of the HELLAS logN--logS towards fainter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Comastri , F. Fiore , C. Vignali , G. Matt , G. C. Perola , F. La Franca

The Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) is under study for the proposed Black Hole Finder Probe, one of the three Einstein Probe missions in NASA's proposed Beyond Einstein Program. EXIST would have unique capabilities: it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jonathan E. Grindlay

The Pierre Auger Observatory has been designed to study the highest-energy cosmic rays in nature (E > 10^{18.5} eV). The determination of their arrival direction, energy and composition is performed by the analysis of the atmospheric…

A next-generation medium-energy gamma-ray telescope targeting the MeV range would address open questions in astrophysics regarding how extreme conditions accelerate cosmic-ray particles, produce relativistic jet outflows, and more. One…

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is a project to map $\sim9300$ sq deg of the sky using twelve bands (seven narrow and five broadbands). Observations are performed with the T80-South telescope, a robotic telescope…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-31 Fabio R. Herpich , Felipe Almeida-Fernandes , Gustavo B. Oliveira Schwarz , Erik V. R. Lima , Lilianne Nakazono , Javier Alonso-García , Marcos A. Fonseca-Faria , Marilia J. Sartori , Guilherme F. Bolutavicius , Gabriel Fabiano de Souza , Eduardo A. Hartmann , Liana Li , Luna Espinosa , Antonio Kanaan , William Schoenell , Ariel Werle , Eduardo Machado-Pereira , Luis A. Gutiérrez-Soto , Thaís Santos-Silva , Analia V. Smith Castelli , Eduardo A. D. Lacerda , Cassio L. Barbosa , Hélio D. Perottoni , Carlos E. Ferreira Lopes , Raquel Ruiz Valença , Pierre Augusto Re Martho , Clecio R. Bom , Charles J. Bonatto , Maiara S. Carvalho , Vitor Cernic , Roberto Cid Fernandes , Paula Coelho , Ariana Cortesi , Barbara Cubillos Palma , Lia Doubrawa , Vincenzo Sivero Ferreira Alberice , Fredi Quispe Huaynasi , Gabriel Jacob Perin , Marcelo Jaque Arancibia , Angela Krabbe , Ciria Lima-Dias , Luis Lomelí-Núñez , Raimundo Lopes de Oliveira , Amanda R. Lopes , André Luiz Figueiredo , Elismar Lösch , Felipe Navarete , Julia Mello de Oliveira , Roderik Overzier , Vinicius M. Placco , Fernando V. Roig , Mariana Rubet , André Santos , Victor Hugo Sasse , Julia Thaina-Batista , Sergio Torres-Flores , Timothy C. Beers , Alvaro Alvarez-Candal , Stavros Akras , Swayamtrupta Panda , Guilherme Limberg , José Luis Nilo Castellón , Eduardo Telles , Paulo Afranio Lopes , Gissel Dayana Pardo Montaguth , Leandro Beraldo e Silva , Pedro K. Humire , Marcelo Borges Fernandes , Vinícius Cordeiro , Tiago Ribeiro , Claudia Mendes de Oliveira

We present the 2SXPS (Swift-XRT Point Source) catalog, containing 206,335 point sources detected by the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) in the 0.3--10 keV energy range. This catalog represents a significant improvement over 1SXPS, with double…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 P. A. Evans , K. L. Page , J. P. Osborne , A. P. Beardmore , R. Willingale , D. N. Burrows , J. A. Kennea , M. Perri , M. Capalbi , G. Tagliaferri , S. B. Cenko