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KiDS+VIKING-450: A new combined optical & near-IR dataset for cosmology and astrophysics

We present the curation and verification of a new combined optical and near infrared dataset for cosmology and astrophysics, derived from the combination of $ugri$-band imaging from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) and $ZY\!J\!H\!K_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Angus H. Wright , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Konrad Kuijken , Thomas Erben , Robert Blake , Hugo Buddelmeijer , Ami Choi , Nicholas Cross , Jelte T. A. de Jong , Alastair Edge , Carlos Gonzalez-Fernandez , Eduardo González Solares , Aniello Grado , Catherine Heymans , Mike Irwin , Aybuke Kupcu Yoldas , James R. Lewis , Robert G. Mann , Nicola Napolitano , Mario Radovich , Peter Schneider , Cristóbal Sifón , William Sutherland , Eckhard Sutorius , Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn

A dual-band millimeter-wave kinetic inductance camera for the IRAM 30-meter telescope

Context. The Neel IRAM KIDs Array (NIKA) is a fully-integrated measurement system based on kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) currently being developed for millimeter wave astronomy. In a first technical run, NIKA was successfully tested…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 A. Monfardini , A. Benoit , A. Bideaud , L. J. Swenson , M. Roesch , F. X. Desert , S. Doyle , A. Endo , A. Cruciani , P. Ade , A. M. Baryshev , J. J. A. Baselmans , O. Bourrion , M. Calvo , P. Camus , L. Ferrari , C. Giordano , C. Hoffmann , S. Leclercq , J. F. Macias-Perez , P. Mauskopf , K. F. Schuster , C. Tucker , C. Vescovi , S. J. C. Yates

Mid-infrared observations of young stellar objects in the vicinity of sigma Orionis

We present new mid-infrared observations of objects in the vicinity of the O-star sigma Orionis, obtained with TIMMI-2 at ESO. By constraining their near- and mid-infrared spectral energy distributions, we established the nature of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joana M. Oliveira , Jacco Th. van Loon

Euclid. II. The VIS Instrument

This paper presents the specification, design, and development of the Visible Camera (VIS) on the ESA Euclid mission. VIS is a large optical-band imager with a field of view of 0.54 deg^2 sampled at 0.1" with an array of 609 Megapixels and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Euclid Collaboration , M. S. Cropper , A. Al-Bahlawan , J. Amiaux , S. Awan , R. Azzollini , K. Benson , M. Berthe , J. Boucher , E. Bozzo , C. Brockley-Blatt , G. P. Candini , C. Cara , R. A. Chaudery , R. E. Cole , P. Danto , J. Denniston , A. M. Di Giorgio , B. Dryer , J. -P. Dubois , J. Endicott , M. Farina , E. Galli , L. Genolet , J. P. D. Gow , P. Guttridge , M. Hailey , D. Hall , C. Harper , H. Hoekstra , A. D. Holland , B. Horeau , D. Hu , R. E. James , A. Khalil , R. King , T. Kitching , R. Kohley , C. Larcheveque , A. Lawrenson , P. Liebing , S. J. Liu , J. Martignac , R. Massey , H. J. McCracken , L. Miller , N. Murray , R. Nakajima , S. -M. Niemi , J. W. Nightingale , S. Paltani , A. Pendem , A. Philippon , C. Plana , P. Pool , S. Pottinger , G. D. Racca , J. Rhodes , A. Rousseau , K. Ruane , M. Salatti , J. -C. Salvignol , A. Sciortino , A. Short , J. Skottfelt , S. J. A. Smit , I. Swindells , M. Szafraniec , P. D. Thomas , W. Thomas , E. Tommasi , S. Tosti , F. Visticot , D. M. Walton , G. Willis , B. Winter , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , H. Aussel , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , A. Basset , R. Bender , F. Bernardeau , C. Bodendorf , T. Boenke , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , R. Casas , S. Casas , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Crocce , J. -G. Cuby , J. -C. Cuillandre , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , J. Dinis , C. Dolding , M. Douspis , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , A. Ealet , M. Fabricius , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , P. Fosalba , S. Fotopoulou , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , P. Franzetti , P. -A. Frugier , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , K. George , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , P. Gómez-Alvarez , B. R. Granett , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , O. Herent , J. Hoar , M. S. Holliman , W. Holmes , I. Hook , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , S. Ilić , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , B. Kubik , K. Kuijken , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , O. Lahav , R. Laureijs , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , J. Lorenzo Alvarez , G. Mainetti , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , D. C. Masters , S. Maurogordato , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , J. J. Mohr , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , C. Neissner , R. C. Nichol , T. Nutma , C. Padilla , K. Paech , F. Pasian , J. A. Peacock , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Refregier , A. Renzi , G. Riccio , Hans-Walter Rix , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , C. Rosset , E. Rossetti , H. J. A. Rottgering , B. Rusholme , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , A. G. Sánchez , D. Sapone , M. Sauvage , R. Scaramella , J. A. Schewtschenko , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , A. Secroun , E. Sefusatti , G. Seidel , M. Seiffert , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , J. -L. Starck , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , D. Tavagnacco , A. N. Taylor , H. I. Teplitz , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , A. Veropalumbo , S. Wachter , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , E. Zucca , A. Biviano , M. Bolzonella , A. Boucaud , C. Burigana , M. Calabrese , P. Casenove , D. Di Ferdinando , J. A. Escartin Vigo , G. Fabbian , R. Farinelli , F. Finelli , J. Gracia-Carpio , H. Israel , N. Mauri , H. N. Nguyen-Kim , A. Pezzotta , M. Pöntinen , C. Porciani , V. Scottez , M. Tenti , M. Viel , M. Wiesmann , Y. Akrami , V. Allevato , S. Anselmi , E. Aubourg , M. Ballardini , D. Bertacca , M. Bethermin , A. Blanchard , L. Blot , S. Borgani , A. S. Borlaff , S. Bruton , R. Cabanac , A. Calabro , G. Calderone , G. Canas-Herrera , A. Cappi , C. S. Carvalho , T. Castro , K. C. Chambers , R. Chary , S. Contarini , A. R. Cooray , O. Cordes , M. Costanzi , O. Cucciati , S. Davini , B. De Caro , G. Desprez , A. Díaz-Sánchez , S. Di Domizio , H. Dole , S. Escoffier , A. G. Ferrari , P. G. Ferreira , I. Ferrero , A. Finoguenov , A. Fontana , F. Fornari , L. Gabarra , K. Ganga , J. García-Bellido , V. Gautard , E. Gaztanaga , F. Giacomini , F. Gianotti , G. Gozaliasl , A. Gregorio , A. Hall , W. G. Hartley , H. Hildebrandt , J. Hjorth , M. Huertas-Company , O. Ilbert , A. Jimenez Muñoz , S. Joudaki , J. J. E. Kajava , V. Kansal , D. Karagiannis , C. C. Kirkpatrick , F. Lacasa , J. Le Graet , L. Legrand , G. Libet , A. Loureiro , J. Macias-Perez , M. Magliocchetti , C. Mancini , F. Mannucci , R. Maoli , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Matthew , L. Maurin , C. J. R. McPartland , R. B. Metcalf , M. Migliaccio , M. Miluzio , P. Monaco , C. Moretti , G. Morgante , S. Nadathur , Nicholas A. Walton , J. Odier , M. Oguri , L. Patrizii , V. Popa , D. Potter , A. Pourtsidou , P. Reimberg , I. Risso , P. -F. Rocci , R. P. Rollins , M. Sahlén , C. Scarlata , J. Schaye , A. Schneider , M. Schultheis , M. Sereno , F. Shankar , G. Sikkema , A. Silvestri , P. Simon , A. Spurio Mancini , J. Stadel , S. A. Stanford , K. Tanidis , C. Tao , N. Tessore , G. Testera , M. Tewes , R. Teyssier , S. Toft , S. Tosi , A. Troja , M. Tucci , C. Valieri , J. Valiviita , D. Vergani , F. Vernizzi , G. Verza , P. Vielzeuf , J. R. Weaver , L. Zalesky , I. A. Zinchenko , M. Archidiacono , F. Atrio-Barandela , T. Bouvard , F. Caro , P. Dimauro , P. -A. Duc , Y. Fang , A. M. N. Ferguson , T. Gasparetto , C. M. Gutierrez , I. Kovačić , S. Kruk , A. M. C. Le Brun , T. I. Liaudat , A. Montoro , A. Mora , C. Murray , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , E. Sarpa , A. Viitanen , J. Lesgourgues , J. Martín-Fleitas , D. Scott

A Novel Portable and Wearable Broadband Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Device for In-Vivo Oxygenation and Metabolism Measurements

Broadband NIRS (bNIRS) is an extension of fNIRS that provides the same assessment of oxygenation biomarkers along with a valuable marker for oxygen metabolism at a cellular level, the oxidation state of cytochrome-c-oxidase (oxCCO). bNIRS…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Musa Talati , Frederic Lange , Dimitrios Airantzis , Danial Chitnis , Temisan Illukwe , Darshana Gopal , Paola Pinti , Niccole Ranaei-Zamani , Olayinka Kowobari , Sara Hillman , Dimitrios Siassakos , Anna David , Subhabrata Mitra , Ilias Tachtsidis

The VIRMOS deep imaging survey IV: Near-infrared observations

In this paper we present a new deep, wide-field near-infrared imaging survey. Our J- and K-band observations in four separate fields complement optical BVRI, ultraviolet and spectroscopic observations undertaken as part of the VIMOS-VLT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Iovino , H. J. McCracken , B. Garilli , S. Foucaud , O. Le Fevre , D. Maccagni , P. Saracco , S. Bardelli , G. Busarello , M. Scodeggio , A. Zanichelli , L. Paioro , D. Bottini , V. Le Brun , J. P. Picat , R. Scaramella , L. Tresse , G. Vettolani , C. Adami , M. Arnaboldi , S. Arnouts , M. Bolzonella , A. Cappi , S. Charlot , P. Ciliegi , T. Contini , P. Franzetti , I. Gavignaud , L. Guzzo , O. Ilbert , B. Marano , C. Marinoni , A. Mazure , B. Meneux , R. Merighi , S. Paltani , R. Pello , A. Pollo , L. Pozzetti , M. Radovich , G. Zamorani , E. Zucca , E. Bertin , M. Bondi , A. Bongiorno , O. Cucciati , L. Gregorini , G. Mathez , Y. Mellier , P. Merluzzi , V. Ripepi , D. Rizzo

The NIKA2 large field-of-view millimeter continuum camera for the 30-m IRAM telescope

Millimeter-wave continuum astronomy is today an indispensable tool for both general Astrophysics studies and Cosmology. General purpose, large field-of-view instruments are needed to map the sky at intermediate angular scales not accessible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Remi Adam , Amar Adane , P. A. R. Ade , Philippe André , Aina Andrianasolo , Herve Aussel , Alexandre Beelen , Alain Benoit , Aurelien Bideaud , Nicolas Billot , Olivier Bourrion , Andrea Bracco , Martino Calvo , Andrea Catalano , Gregoire Coiffard , Barbara Comis , Marco De Petris , François-Xavier Désert , Simon Doyle , E. F. C. Driessen , Ruth Evans , Johannes Goupy , Carsten Kramer , Guilaine Lagache , Samuel Leclercq , Jean-Paul Leggeri , Jean-François Lestrade , Juan-Francisco Macias-Perez , Philip Mauskopf , Frederic Mayet , Anaelle Maury , Alessandro Monfardini , Santiago Navarro , Enzo Pascale , Laurence Perotto , Giampaolo Pisano , Nicolas Ponthieu , Vincent Reveret , Andrew Rigby , Alessia Ritacco , Charles Romero , Helene Roussel , Florian Ruppin , Karl Schuster , Albrecht Sievers , Sebastien Triqueneaux , Carole Tucker , Robert Zylka

Mapping of interstellar clouds with infrared light scattered from dust: TMC-1N

Mapping of near-infrared (NIR) scattered light is a recent method for the study of interstellar clouds, complementing other, more commonly used methods, like dust emission and extinction. Our goal is to study the usability of this method on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-04-10 J. Malinen , M. Juvela , V. -M. Pelkonen , M. G. Rawlings

VSI: the VLTI spectro-imager

The VLTI Spectro Imager (VSI) was proposed as a second-generation instrument of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer providing the ESO community with spectrally-resolved, near-infrared images at angular resolutions down to 1.1…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Malbet , D. Buscher , G. Weigelt , P. Garcia , M. Gai , D. Lorenzetti , J. Surdej , J. Hron , R. Neuhaeuser , P. Kern , L. Jocou , J. -P. Berger , O. Absil , U. Beckmann , L. Corcione , G. Duvert , M. Filho , P. Labeye , E. Le Coarer , G. Li Causi , J. Lima , K. Perraut , E. Tatulli , E. Thiebaut , J. Young , G. Zins , A. Amorim , B. Aringer , T. Beckert , M. Benisty , X. Bonfils , A. Cabral , A. Chelli , O. Chesneau , A. Chiavassa , R. Corradi , M. de Becker , A. Delboulbe , G. Duchene , T. Forveille , C. Haniff , E. Herwats , K. -H. Hofmann , J. -B. Le Bouquin , S. Ligori , D. Loreggia , A. Marconi , A. Moitinho , B. Nisini , P. -O. Petrucci , J. Rebordao , R. Speziali , L. Testi , F. Vitali

Near-infrared and optical observations of galactic warps: A common, unexplained feature of most discs

Context: Warps occurring in galactic discs have been studied extensively in HI and in the optical, but rarely in the near-infrared (NIR) bands that trace the older stellar populations. Aims: We provide NIR data of nearby edge-on galaxies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-14 A. Guijarro , R. F. Peletier , E. Battaner , J. Jiménez-Vicente , R. de Grijs , E. Florido

A Search for Peculiar Objects with the NASA Orbital Debris Observatory 3-m Liquid Mirror Telescope

The NASA Orbital Debris Observatory (NODO) astronomical survey uses a transit 3-m liquid mirror telescope to observe a strip of sky in 20 narrow-band filters. In this article, we analyze a subset of data from the 1996 observing season. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 R. Cabanac , E. F. Borra , M. Beauchemin

Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies: Atlas of Near-Infrared Images

A sample of 27 ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) systems has been imaged at 1.6 microns using the HST Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). These ULIRGs are from a larger sample also imaged with HST in the I-band.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Bushouse , K. Borne , L. Colina , R. Lucas , M. Rowan-Robinson , A. Baker , D. Clements , A. Lawrence , S. Oliver

A new era of spectroscopy: SINFONI, NIR integral field spectroscopy at the diffraction limit of an 8m telescope

SINFONI, the SINgle Faint Object Near-infrared Investigation, is an instrument for the Very Large Telescope (VLT), which will start its operation mid 2002 and allow for the first time near infrared (NIR) integral field spectroscopy at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Mengel , F. Eisenhauer , M. Tecza , N. Thatte , C. Roehrle , K. Bickert , J. Schreiber

On-Sky Operations with the ALES Integral Field Spectrograph

The integral field spectrograph configuration of the LMIRCam science camera within the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) facilitates 2 to 5 $\mu$m spectroscopy of directly imaged gas-giant exoplanets. The mode, dubbed ALES,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-09 Jordan M. Stone , Andrew J. Skemer , Philip Hinz , Zack Briesemeister , Travis Barman , Charles E. Woodward , Mike Skrutskie , Jarron Leisenring

NICS-TNG low-resolution 0.85-2.45um spectra of L-Dwarfs: a near-infrared spectral classification scheme for faint dwarfs

We present complete near-infrared (0.85-2.45 um), low-resolution (~100) spectra of a sample of 26 disk L-dwarfs with reliable optical spectral type classification. The observations have been obtained with NICS at the TNG using a prism-based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. Testi , F. D'Antona , F. Ghinassi , J. Licandro , A. Magazzu' , R. Maiolino , F. Mannucci , A. Marconi , N. Nagar , A. Natta , E. Oliva

The Future of Far-Infrared / Submillimeter Astrophysics with Single-Dish Telescopes

Although far-IR -- mm-wave astronomy has now been developing for several decades, access to this portion of the spectrum remains difficult and limited. Relative to their optical-wavelength counterparts, the submillimeter observatories are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 C. Matt Bradford , Jonas Zmuidzinas

Fluorescence Imaging In Vivo at Wavelengths beyond 1500 nm

Compared to imaging in the visible and near-infrared regions below 900 nm, imaging in the second near-infrared window (NIR-II, 1000-1700 nm) is a promising method for deep-tissue high-resolution optical imaging in vivo mainly due to the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Shuo Diao , Jeffrey L. Blackburn , Guosong Hong , Alexander L. Antaris , Junlei Chang , Justin Z. Wu , Bo Zhang , Kai Cheng , Calvin J. Kuo , Hongjie Dai

Optical Properties of Iron Silicates in the Infrared to Millimeter as a Function of Temperatures and Wavelength

The Optical Properties of Astronomical Silicates with Infrared Techniques (OPASI-T) program utilizes multiple instruments to provide spectral data over a wide range of temperature and wavelengths. Experimental methods include Vector Network…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 C. R. Richey , R. E. Kinzer , G. Cataldo , E. J. Wollack , J. A. Nuth , D. J. Benford , R. F. Silverberg , S. A. Rinehart

Design of a custom wideband camera for MISTRAL imager-spectrograph

MISTRAL is a visible and near infrared imager and spectrograph working with the $1.93m$ telescope at L'Observatoire de Haute-Provence. The goal of the present project is to design and build one custom lens covering the entire working band…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-03 Eduard Muslimov , Jerome Schmitt , Christophe Adami , Michel Dennefeld , Marc Ferrari

Tying Spitzer's IRS Calibration to IRAC: Observations of IRS Standard Stars

We present 3.6 and 4.5 um photometry for a set of 61 standard stars observed by Spitzer's Infrared Spectrograph (IRS). The photometry was obtained with the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on Spitzer in order to help tie the calibration of IRAC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-29 Kathleen E. Kraemer , Charles W. Engelke , Bailey A. Renger , G. C. Sloan