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Calibration of the NEVOD-EAS array for detection of extensive air showers: In this paper we discuss the calibration of the NEVOD-EAS array which is a part of the Experimental Complex NEVOD, as well as the results of studying the response features of its scintillation detectors. We present the results of the detectors...
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The RATT PARROT: serendipitous discovery of a peculiarly scintillating pulsar in MeerKAT imaging observations of the Great Saturn-Jupiter Conjunction of 2020. I. Dynamic imaging and data analysis: We report on a radiopolarimetric observation of the Saturn-Jupiter Great Conjunction of 2020 using the MeerKAT L-band s...
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Enhanced models for stellar Doppler noise reveal hints of a 13-year activity cycle of 55 Cancri: We consider the impact of Doppler noise models on the statistical robustness of the exoplanetary radial-velocity fits. We show that the traditional model of the Doppler noise with an additive jitter can generate large non...
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Analysis of active optics correction for a large honeycomb mirror: In the development of space-based large telescope systems, having the capability to perform active optics correction allows correcting wavefront aberrations caused by thermal perturbations so as to achieve diffraction-limited performance with relaxed st...
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The Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search Program: We are undertaking an astrometric search for gas giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting nearby low mass dwarf stars with the 2.5-m du Pont telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. We have built two specialized astrometric cameras, the Carnegie Astrometric Plan...
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Unrolling PALM for sparse semi-blind source separation: Sparse Blind Source Separation (BSS) has become a well established tool for a wide range of applications - for instance, in astrophysics and remote sensing. Classical sparse BSS methods, such as the Proximal Alternating Linearized Minimization (PALM) algorithm, ne...
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Thermal control of long delay lines in a high-resolution astrophotonic spectrograph: High-resolution astronomical spectroscopy carried out with a photonic Fourier transform spectrograph (FTS) requires long asymmetrical optical delay lines that can be dynamically tuned. For example, to achieve a spectral resolution of...
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Characterization Of Inpaint Residuals In Interferometric Measurements of the Epoch Of Reionization: Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is one of the systematic challenges preventing 21cm interferometric instruments from detecting the Epoch of Reionization. To mitigate the effects of RFI on data analysis pipelines, nu...
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Analysis Methods for Gamma-ray Astronomy: The launch of the Fermi satellite in 2008, with its Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board, has opened a new era for the study of gamma-ray sources at GeV ($10^9$ eV) energies. Similarly, the commissioning of the third generation of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs)...
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Coherent Imaging with Photonic Lanterns: Photonic Lanterns (PLs) are tapered waveguides that gradually transition from a multi-mode fiber geometry to a bundle of single-mode fibers (SMFs). They can efficiently couple multi-mode telescope light into a multi-mode fiber entrance at the focal plane and convert it into mult...
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The ASTRO-H X-ray Astronomy Satellite: The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), with a planned launch in 2015. The ASTRO-H mission is equipped with a suite of sensitive instruments with the high...
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JUDE (Jayant's UVIT Data Explorer) Pipeline User Manual: We have written a reference manual to use JUDE (Jayant's UVIT data Explorer) data pipeline software for processing and reducing the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) Level~1 data into event lists and images -- Level~2 data. The JUDE pipeline is written in the ...
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Reconstruction of Cherenkov radiation signals from extensive air showers of cosmic rays using data of a wide field-of-view telescope: The operation of a wide field-of-view (WFOV) Cherenkov telescope is described. The detection of extensive air showers (EAS) of cosmic rays (CR) is based upon the coincidence with signa...
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Technical Note: Asteroid Detection Demonstration from SkySat-3 B612 Data using Synthetic Tracking: We report results from analyzing the B612 asteroid observation data taken by the sCMOS cameras on board of Planet SkySat-3 using the synthetic tracking technique. The analysis demonstrates the expected sensitivity impro...
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AMEGO-X: MeV gamma-ray Astronomy in the Multimessenger Era: Recent detections of gravitational wave signals and neutrinos from gamma-ray sources have ushered in the era of multi-messenger astronomy, while highlighting the importance of gamma-ray observations for this emerging field. AMEGO-X, the All-sky Medium Energy G...
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Multi-Chroic Feed-Horn Coupled TES Polarimeters: Multi-chroic polarization sensitive detectors offer an avenue to increase both the spectral coverage and sensitivity of instruments optimized for observations of the cosmic-microwave background (CMB) or sub-mm sky. We report on an effort to adapt the Truce Collaboration ...
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AnisoCADO: a python package for analytically generating adaptive optics point spread functions for the Extremely Large Telescope: AnisoCADO is a Python package for generating images of the point spread function (PSF) for the european extremely large telescope (ELT). The code allows the user to set many of the most im...
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AstroDAbis: Annotations and Cross-Matches for Remote Catalogues: Astronomers are good at sharing data, but poorer at sharing knowledge. Almost all astronomical data ends up in open archives, and access to these is being simplified by the development of the global Virtual Observatory (VO). This is a great advance, but...
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Building models for extended radio sources: implications for Epoch of Reionisation science: We test the hypothesis that limitations in the sky model used to calibrate an interferometric radio telescope, where the model contains extended radio sources, will generate bias in the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) power spectr...
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CAPTURE: A continuum imaging pipeline for the uGMRT: 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 data REduction - CAPTURE. It...
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Arm-Locking with the GRACE Follow-On Laser Ranging Interferometer: Arm-locking is a technique for stabilizing the frequency of a laser in an inter-spacecraft interferometer by using the spacecraft separation as the frequency reference. A candidate technique for future space-based gravitational wave detectors such as th...
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Correcting for Telluric Absorption: Methods, Case Studies, and Release of the TelFit Code: Ground-based astronomical spectra are contaminated by the Earth's atmosphere to varying degrees in all spectral regions. We present a Python code that can accurately fit a model to the telluric absorption spectrum present in as...
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PandExo: A Community Tool for Transiting Exoplanet Science with JWST & HST: As we approach the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) era, several studies have emerged that aim to: 1) characterize how the instruments will perform and 2) determine what atmospheric spectral features could theoretically be detected using tra...
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Differential HBT Method for Binary Stars: Two photon correlations are studied for a binary star system. It is investigated how the differential Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) approach can be used in order to determine orbital parameters of a binary star.
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4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals: We introduce the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), a new high-multiplex, wide-field spectroscopic survey facility under development for the four-metre-class Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at Parana...
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Optimizing Gravitational-Wave Detector Design for Squeezed Light: Achieving the quantum noise targets of third-generation detectors will require 10 dB of squeezed-light enhancement as well as megawatt laser power in the interferometer arms - both of which require unprecedented control of the internal optical losses. In...
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SORA: Stellar Occultation Reduction and Analysis: The stellar occultation technique provides competitive accuracy in determining the sizes, shapes, astrometry, etc., of the occulting body, comparable to in-situ observations by spacecraft. With the increase in the number of known Solar System objects expected from the L...
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Astrophysics Source Code Library: Here we grow again!: The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) is a free online registry of research codes; it is indexed by ADS and Web of Science and has over 1300 code entries. Its entries are increasingly used to cite software; citations have been doubling each year since 2012 an...
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Seeing Black Holes : from the Computer to the Telescope: Astronomical observations are about to deliver the very first telescopic image of the massive black hole lurking at the Galactic Center. The mass of data collected in one night by the Event Horizon Telescope network, exceeding everything that has ever been done i...
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Cn2 profile from Shack-Hartmann data with CO-SLIDAR data processing: Cn2 profile monitoring usually makes use of wavefront slope correlations or of scintillation pattern correlations. Wavefront slope correlations provide sensitivity to layers close to the receiving plane. In addition, scintillation correlations allow a...
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On Optimal Geometry for Space Interferometers: This paper examines options for orbit configurations for a space interferometer. In contrast to previously presented concepts for space very long baseline interferometry, we propose a combination of regular and retrograde near-Earth circular orbits in order to achieve a fa...
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Technical Note: Asteroid Detection Demonstration from SkySat-3 B612 Data using Synthetic Tracking: We report results from analyzing the B612 asteroid observation data taken by the sCMOS cameras on board of Planet SkySat-3 using the synthetic tracking technique. The analysis demonstrates the expected sensitivity impro...
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WAHRSIS: A Low-cost, High-resolution Whole Sky Imager With Near-Infrared Capabilities: Cloud imaging using ground-based whole sky imagers is essential for a fine-grained understanding of the effects of cloud formations, which can be useful in many applications. Some such imagers are available commercially, but their ...
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The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope project: The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) project is a scientific collaboration in observational astrophysics between the Li{\`e}ge Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics (Li{\`e}ge University, Belgium), the Aryabatta Research Institute of observational sci...
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The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus: The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) is an open, interoperable and community-supported thesaurus which unifies the existing divergent and isolated Astronomy & Astrophysics vocabularies into a single high-quality, freely-available open thesaurus formalizing astronomical concepts and the...
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The International Pulsar Timing Array: The International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) is an organisation whose raison d'etre is to facilitate collaboration between the three main existing PTAs (the EPTA in Europe, NANOGrav in North America and the PPTA in Australia) in order to realise the benefits of combined PTA data s...
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Systematics in the ALMA Proposal Review Rankings: The results from the ALMA proposal peer review process in Cycles 0-6 are analyzed to identify any systematics in the scientific rankings that may signify bias. Proposal rankings are analyzed with respect to the experience level of a Principal Investigator (PI) in submit...
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RSM detection map for direct exoplanet detection in ADI sequences: Beyond the choice of wavefront control systems or coronographs, advanced data processing methods play a crucial role in disentangling potential planetary signals from bright quasi-static speckles. Among these methods, angular differential imaging (ADI) ...
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The star catalogue of Wilhelm IV, Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel: Accuracy of the catalogue and of the measurements: We analyse a manuscript star catalogue by Wilhem IV, Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel, from 1586. From measurements of altitudes and of angles between stars, given in the catalogue, we find that the measurement ...
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Efficient least-squares basket-weaving: We report on a novel method to solve the basket-weaving problem. Basket-weaving is a technique that is used to remove scan-line patterns from single-dish radio maps. The new approach applies linear least-squares and works on gridded maps from arbitrarily sampled data, which great...
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A template method for measuring the iron spectrum in cosmic rays with Cherenkov telescopes: The energy-dependent abundance of elements in cosmic rays plays an important role in understanding their acceleration and propagation. Most current results are obtained either from direct measurements by balloon- or satellite-...
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Characterization and correction of charge-induced pixel shifts in DECam: Interaction of charges in CCDs with the already accumulated charge distribution causes both a flux dependence of the point-spread function (an increase of observed size with flux, also known as the brighter/fatter effect) and pixel-to-pixel correl...
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Optimal Probabilistic Catalogue Matching for Radio Sources: Cross-matching catalogues from radio surveys to catalogues of sources at other wavelengths is extremely hard, because radio sources are often extended, often consist of several spatially separated components, and often no radio component is coincident with the...
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Reaching Diverse Groups in Long-Term Astronomy Public Engagement Efforts: Professional astronomy is historically not an environment of diverse identities. In recognizing that public outreach efforts affect career outcomes for young people, it is important to assess the demographics of those being reached and continuall...
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Analysis of a Custom Support Vector Machine for Photometric Redshift Estimation and the Inclusion of Galaxy Shape Information: Aims: We present a custom support vector machine classification package for photometric redshift estimation, including comparisons with other methods. We also explore the efficacy of includin...
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COMAP Early Science: II. Pathfinder Instrument: Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a new technique for tracing the global properties of galaxies over cosmic time. Detection of the very faint signals from redshifted carbon monoxide (CO), a tracer of star formation, pushes the limits of what is feasible with a total-power i...
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Stout: Cloudy's Atomic and Molecular Database: We describe a new atomic and molecular database we developed for use in the spectral synthesis code Cloudy. The design of Stout is driven by the data needs of Cloudy, which simulates molecular, atomic, and ionized gas with kinetic temperatures 2.8 K < T < 1e10 K and densit...
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Adapting the PyCBC pipeline to find and infer the properties of gravitational waves from massive black hole binaries in LISA: The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), due for launch in the mid 2030s, is expected to observe gravitational waves (GW)s from merging massive black hole binaries (MBHB)s. These signals...
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Astrobiological Complexity with Probabilistic Cellular Automata: Search for extraterrestrial life and intelligence constitutes one of the major endeavors in science, but has yet been quantitatively modeled only rarely and in a cursory and superficial fashion. We argue that probabilistic cellular automata (PCA) represen...
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A Novel Greedy Approach To Harmonic Summing Using GPUs: Incoherent harmonic summing is a technique which is used to improve the sensitivity of Fourier domain search methods. A one dimensional harmonic sum is used in time-domain radio astronomy as part of the Fourier domain periodicity search, a type of search used to d...
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The Simons Observatory 220 and 280 GHz Focal-Plane Module: Design and Initial Characterization: The Simons Observatory (SO) will detect and map the temperature and polarization of the millimeter-wavelength sky from Cerro Toco, Chile across a range of angular scales, providing rich data sets for cosmological and astro...
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High-Contrast Testbeds for Future Space-Based Direct Imaging Exoplanet Missions: Instrumentation techniques in the field of direct imaging of exoplanets have greatly advanced over the last two decades. Two of the four NASA-commissioned large concept studies involve a high-contrast instrument for the imaging and spect...
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Planck-LFI radiometers tuning: "This paper is part of the Prelaunch status LFI papers published on JINST: http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.proc5/jinst" This paper describes the Planck Low Frequency Instrument tuning activities performed through the ground test campaigns, from Unit to Satellite Levels. Tuning...
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A tomographic algorithm to determine tip-tilt information from laser guide stars: Laser Guide Stars (LGS) have greatly increased the sky-coverage of Adaptive Optics (AO) systems. Due to the up-link turbulence experienced by LGSs, a Natural Guide Star (NGS) is still required, preventing full sky-coverage. We present a...
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Information field theory: Non-linear image reconstruction and signal analysis deal with complex inverse problems. To tackle such problems in a systematic way, I present information field theory (IFT) as a means of Bayesian, data based inference on spatially distributed signal fields. IFT is a statistical field theory, ...
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Optimum Acceptance Regions for Direct Dark Matter Searches: Most experiments that search for direct interactions of WIMP dark matter with a target can distinguish the dominant electronrecoil background from the nuclear recoil signal, based on some discrimination parameter. An acceptance region is defined inthe paramete...
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The BINGO Project II: Instrument Description: The measurement of diffuse 21-cm radiation from the hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen (HI signal) in different redshifts is an important tool for modern cosmology. However, detecting this faint signal with non-cryogenic receivers in single-dish telescopes is a challe...
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Automated Speckle Interferometry of Known Binaries: Astronomers have been measuring the separations and position angles between the two components of binary stars since William Herschel began his observations in 1781. In 1970, Anton Labeyrie pioneered a method, speckle interferometry, that overcomes the usual resolutio...
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LIGO series, dimension of embedding and Kolmogorov's complexity: The interpretation of the series recorded by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory is a very important issue. Naturally, it is not free of controversy. Here we apply two methods widely used in the study of nonlinear dynamical systems, na...
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4MOST Consortium Survey 10: The Time-Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES): The Time-Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES) is focused on the spectroscopic follow-up of extragalactic optical transients and variable sources selected from forthcoming large sky surveys such as that from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSS...
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Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) - A Science-Oriented, University 3U CubeSat: The Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) is a 3-Unit (3U) CubeSat developed at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU). Over 40 students contributed to the projec...
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Daemons: Detection at Pulkovo, Gran Sasso, and Soudan: During a week of the March maximum in 2011, two oppositely installed direction-sensitive TEU-167d Dark Electron Multipliers (DEMs) recorded a flux of daemons from the near-Earth almost circular heliocentric orbits (NEACHOs). The flux measured from above is f \appro...
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On the Estimation of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers Using the Steepness Parameter of the Lateral Distribution of Cherenkov Radiation: Using Monte Carlo simulation of extensive air showers, we showed that the maximum depth of showers, $X_{max}$ can be estimated using $P=Q(100)/Q(200)$, the ratio of Cher...
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Applied Machine-Learning Models to Identify Spectral Sub-Types of M Dwarfs from Photometric Surveys: M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Solar Neighborhood and they are prime targets for searching for rocky planets in habitable zones. Consequently, a detailed characterization of these stars is in demand. The ...
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The SVOM gamma-ray burst mission: We briefly present the science capabilities, the instruments, the operations, and the expected performance of the SVOM mission. SVOM (Space-based multiband astronomical Variable Objects Monitor) is a Chinese-French space mission dedicated to the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) in the ...
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Optimal detuning for quantum filter cavities: Vacuum quantum fluctuations impose a fundamental limit on the sensitivity of gravitational-wave interferometers, which rank among the most sensitive precision measurement devices ever built. The injection of conventional squeezed vacuum reduces quantum noise in one quadratu...
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Sub-Kelvin Cooling for the BICEP Array Project: In the field of astrophysics, the faint signal from distant galaxies and other dim cosmological sources at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths require the use of high-sensitivity experiments. Cryogenics and the use of low-temperature detectors are essential to the ac...
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Concept of multiple-cell cavity for axion dark matter search: In cavity-based axion dark matter search experiments exploring high mass regions, multiple-cavity design is considered to increase the detection volume within a given magnet bore. We introduce a new idea, referred to as multiple-cell cavity, which provides v...
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KilonovaNet: Surrogate Models of Kilonova Spectra with Conditional Variational Autoencoders: Detailed radiative transfer simulations of kilonova spectra play an essential role in multimessenger astrophysics. Using the simulation results in parameter inference studies requires building a surrogate model from the simul...
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Reduced Order Estimation of the Speckle Electric Field History for Space-Based Coronagraphs: In high-contrast space-based coronagraphs, one of the main limiting factors for imaging the dimmest exoplanets is the time varying nature of the residual starlight (speckles). Modern methods try to differentiate between the i...
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A High Sensitivity Fourier Transform Spectrometer for Cosmic Microwave Background Observations: The QUIJOTE Experiment was developed to study the polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) over the frequency range of 10-50 GHz. Its first instrument, the Multi Frequency Instrument (MFI), measures in the ran...
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A Parallel Monte Carlo Code for Simulating Collisional N-body Systems: We present a new parallel code for computing the dynamical evolution of collisional N-body systems with up to N~10^7 particles. Our code is based on the the Henon Monte Carlo method for solving the Fokker-Planck equation, and makes assumptions of sp...
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The LSST era of supermassive black holes accretion-disk reverberation mapping: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will detect an unprecedentedly large sample of actively accreting supermassive black holes with typical accretion disk (AD) sizes of a few light days. This brings us to f...
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Application of the optimised next neighbour image cleaning method to the VERITAS array: Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, such as the VERITAS array, are subject to the Night Sky Background (NSB) and electronic noise, which contribute to the total signal of pixels in the telescope camera. The contribution of n...
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Using multiobjective optimization to reconstruct interferometric data (II): polarimetry and time dynamics: In Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), signals from multiple antennas combine to create a sparsely sampled virtual aperture, its effective diameter determined by the largest antenna separation. The inheren...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics in ICAD History: The International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) is a significant event for researchers and practitioners interested in exploring the use of sound in conveying information and data. Since its inception in 1994, the conference has served as a vital forum for exchanging id...
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Broadband spectroscopy of astrophysical ice analogs. I. Direct measurement of complex refractive index of CO ice using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy: Context: Reliable, directly measured optical properties of astrophysical ice analogs in the infrared (IR) and terahertz (THz) range are missing. These parameters...
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Response of the XENON100 Dark Matter Detector to Nuclear Recoils: Results from the nuclear recoil calibration of the XENON100 dark matter detector installed underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy are presented. Data from measurements with an external 241AmBe neutron source are compared wit...
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Charge Transfer Inefficiency in the Hubble Space Telescope since Servicing Mission 4: We update a physically-motivated model of radiation damage in the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys/Wide Field Channel, using data up to mid 2010. We find that Charge Transfer Inefficiency increased dramatically bef...
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Explicit expansion of the three-body disturbing function for arbitrary eccentricities and inclinations: Since the original work of Hansen and Tisserand in the XIXth century, there have been many variations in the analytical expansion of the three-body disturbing function in series of the semi-major axis ratio. With t...
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Agile Earth observation satellite scheduling over 20 years: formulations, methods and future directions: Agile satellites with advanced attitude maneuvering capability are the new generation of Earth observation satellites (EOSs). The continuous improvement in satellite technology and decrease in launch cost have boo...
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Research Performance of Turkish Astronomers in the Period of 1980-2010: We investigated the development of astronomy and astrophysics research productivity in Turkey in terms of publication output and their impacts as reflected in the Science Citation Index (SCI) for the period 1980-2010. It includes 838 refereed publi...
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Astronomical Imagery: Considerations For a Contemporary Approach with JPEG2000: The new wide-field radio telescopes, such as: ASKAP, MWA, LOFAR, eVLA and SKA; will produce spectral-imaging data-cubes (SIDC) of unprecedented size -- in the order of hundreds of Petabytes. Servicing such data as images to the end-user i...
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Tokyo Axion Helioscope: The idea of a magnetic axion helioscope was first proposed by Pierre Sikivie in 1983. Tokyo axion helioscope was built exploiting its detection principle with a dedicated cryogen-free superconducting magnet and PIN photodiodes for x-ray detectors. Solar axions, if exist, would be converted into ...
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Dome C site testing: long term statistics of integrated optical turbulence parameters at ground level: We present long term site testing statistics obtained at Dome C, Antarctica with various experiments deployed within the Astroconcordia programme since 2003. We give values of integrated turbulence parameters in the...
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Classification methods for noise transients in advanced gravitational-wave detectors II: performance tests on Advanced LIGO data: The data taken by the advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors contains short duration noise transients that limit the significance of astrophysical detections and reduce the d...
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A Novel Source of Tagged Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils: For sufficiently wide resonances, nuclear resonance fluorescence behaves like elastic photo-nuclear scattering while retaining the large cross-section characteristic of resonant photo-nuclear absorption. We show that NRF may be used to characterize the signals produc...
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Agile Software Engineering and Systems Engineering at SKA Scale: Systems Engineering (SE) is the set of processes and documentation required for successfully realising large-scale engineering projects, but the classical approach is not a good fit for software-intensive projects, especially when the needs of the differe...
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The Transients Handler System for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory: The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will be the largest and most advanced ground-based facility for gamma-ray astronomy. Several dozens of telescopes will be operated at both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. With the advent...
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A Study of the Effect of Molecular and Aerosol Conditions in the Atmosphere on Air Fluorescence Measurements at the Pierre Auger Observatory: The air fluorescence detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory is designed to perform calorimetric measurements of extensive air showers created by cosmic rays of above 10^18 eV...
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WOMBAT: A Scalable and High Performance Astrophysical MHD Code: We present a new code for astrophysical magneto-hydrodynamics specifically designed and optimized for high performance and scaling on modern and future supercomputers. We describe a novel hybrid OpenMP/MPI programming model that emerged from a collaboratio...
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FACT: Towards Robotic Operation of an Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope: The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) became operational at La Palma in October 2011. Since summer 2012, due to very smooth and stable operation, it is the first telescope of its kind that is routinely operated from remote, without the need for...
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The Large Array Survey Telescope -- Pipeline. I. Basic image reduction and visit coaddition: The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is a wide-field telescope designed to explore the variable and transient sky with a high cadence and to be a test-bed for cost-effective telescope design. A LAST node is composed of 48 ...
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matvis: A matrix-based visibility simulator for fast forward modelling of many-element 21 cm arrays: Detection of the faint 21 cm line emission from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionisation will require not only exquisite control over instrumental calibration and systematics to achieve the necessary dynamic range of...
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SSTRED: Data- and metadata-processing pipeline for CHROMIS and CRISP: Context: Data from ground-based, high-resolution solar telescopes can only be used for science with calibrations and processing, which requires detailed knowledge about the instrumentation. [...] Aims: We aim to provide observers with a user-friendly...
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Measurements of diffusion of volatiles in amorphous solid water: application to interstellar medium environments: The diffusion of atoms and molecules in ices covering dust grains in dense clouds in interstellar space is an important but poorly characterized step in the formation of complex molecules in space. Here w...
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Towards 10 cm/s radial velocity accuracy on the Sun using a Fourier transform spectrometer: The IAG solar observatory is producing high-fidelity, ultra-high-resolution spectra (R>500000) of the spatially resolved surface of the Sun using a Fourier Transform spectrometer (FTS). The radial velocity (RV) calibration of ...
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Ray-tracing 3D dust radiative transfer with DART-Ray: code upgrade and public release: We present an extensively updated version of the purely ray-tracing 3D dust radiation transfer code DART-Ray. The new version includes five major upgrades : 1) a series of optimizations for the ray-angular density and the scattered...
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Design, pointing control, and on-sky performance of the mid-infrared vortex coronagraph for the VLT/NEAR experiment: Vortex coronagraphs have been shown to be a promising avenue for high-contrast imaging in the close-in environment of stars at thermal infrared (IR) wavelengths. They are included in the baseline desig...
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Spread spectrum for imaging techniques in radio interferometry: We consider the probe of astrophysical signals through radio interferometers with small field of view and baselines with non-negligible and constant component in the pointing direction. In this context, the visibilities measured essentially identify with a...
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