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On the reconstruction of motion of a binary star moving in the external gravitational field of Kerr black hole by its redshift: We present a research of the time evolution of the redshift of light received from the binary star that moves in the external gravitational field of Kerr black hole. We formulate a method fo...
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Towards an overall astrometric error budget with MICADO-MCAO: MICADO is the Multi-AO Imaging Camera for Deep Observations, and it will be one of the first light instruments of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Doing high precision multi-object differential astrometry behind ELT is particularly effective given the in...
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In-flight performance and calibration of the Grating Wheel Assembly sensors (NIRSpec/JWST): The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on board of the James Webb Space Telescope will be the first multi-object spectrograph in space offering ~250,000 configurable micro-shutters, apart from being equipped with an integral...
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Nanosatellite aerobrake maneuvering device: In this paper, we present the project of the heliogyro solar sail unit for deployment of CubeSat constellation and satellite deorbiting. The ballistic calculations show that constellation deployment period can vary from 0.18 years for 450km initial orbit and 2 CubeSats up to ...
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Radio interferometric imaging of spatial structure that varies with time and frequency: The spatial-frequency coverage of a radio interferometer is increased by combining samples acquired at different times and observing frequencies. However, astrophysical sources often contain complicated spatial structure that vari...
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Fundamentals of impulsive energy release in the corona: It is essential that there be coordinated and co-optimized observations in X-rays, gamma-rays, and EUV during the peak of solar cycle 26 (~2036) to significantly advance our understanding of impulsive energy release in the corona. The open questions include: What ...
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The outreach activities in the astronomical research institutions and the role of librarians: what happens in Italy: The outreach activities can be considered a new frontier of all the main astronomical research institutions worldwide and are a part of their mission that earns great appreciation from the general publ...
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The image slicer for the Subaru Telescope High Dispersion Spectrograph: We report on the design, manufacturing, and performance of the image slicer for the High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS) on the Subaru Telescope. This instrument is a Bowen-Walraven type image slicer providing five 0.3 arcsec x 1.5 arcsec images with...
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The Power of Simultaneous Multi-frequency Observations for mm-VLBI: Beyond Frequency Phase Transfer: Atmospheric propagation effects at millimeter wavelengths can significantly alter the phases of radio signals and reduce the coherence time, putting tight constraints on high frequency Very Long Baseline Interferometr...
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Enhancing Science from Future Space Missions and Planetary Radar with the SKA: Both Phase 1 of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA1) and the full SKA have the potential to dramatically increase the science return from future astrophysics, heliophysics, and especially planetary missions, primarily due to the greater sensi...
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Small Telescope Exoplanet Transit Surveys: XO: The XO project aims at detecting transiting exoplanets around bright stars from the ground using small telescopes. The original configuration of XO (McCullough et al. 2005) has been changed and extended as described here. The instrumental setup consists of three identical ...
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Fireball streak detection with minimal CPU processing requirements for the Desert Fireball Network data processing pipeline: The detection of fireballs streaks in astronomical imagery can be carried out by a variety of methods. The Desert Fireball Network--DFN--uses a network of cameras to track and triangulate incom...
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On the Angular Resolution of Pair-Conversion $γ$-Ray Telescopes: I present a study of the several contributions to the single-photon angular resolution of pair telescopes in the MeV energy range. I examine some test cases, the presently active {\sl Fermi} LAT, the ``pure-silicon'' projects ASTROGAM and AMEGO-X, and the...
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Search for Ultra-High Energy Photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory: One of key scientific objectives of the Pierre Auger Observatory is the search for ultra-high energy photons. Such photons could originate either in the interactions of energetic cosmic-ray nuclei with the cosmic microwave background (so-called cos...
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Comparison of Different Trigger and Readout Approaches for Cameras in the Cherenkov Telescope Array Project: The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a next-generation ground-based observatory for g -rays with energies between some ten GeV and a few hundred TeV. CTA is currently in the advanced design phase and will co...
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Spectrum Sharing Dynamic Protection Area Neighborhoods for Radio Astronomy: To enforce incumbent protection through a spectrum access system (SAS) or future centralized shared spectrum system, dynamic protection area (DPA) neighborhood distances are employed. These distances are distance radii, in which citizen broad...
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ORIGIN: Blind detection of faint emission line galaxies in MUSE datacubes: One of the major science cases of the MUSE integral field spectrograph is the detection of Lyman-alpha emitters at high redshifts. The on-going and planned deep fields observations will allow for one large sample of these sources. An efficient...
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Historic evolution of the optical design of the Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics Relay for the Extremely Large Telescope: The optical design of the Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics Relay for the Extremely Large Telescope experienced many modifications since Phase A conclusion in late 2009. These modifications were due ...
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Precise measurement of the absolute fluorescence yield of the 337 nm band in atmospheric gases: A measurement of the absolute fluorescence yield of the 337 nm nitrogen band, relevant to ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) detectors, is reported. Two independent calibrations of the fluorescence emission induced by a ...
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Inference of Unresolved Point Sources At High Galactic Latitudes Using Probabilistic Catalogs: Detection of point sources in images is a fundamental operation in astrophysics, and is crucial for constraining population models of the underlying point sources or characterizing the background emission. Standard techniqu...
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An FFT-based Solution Method for the Poisson Equation on 3D Spherical Polar Grids: The solution of the Poisson equation is a ubiquitous problem in computational astrophysics. Most notably, the treatment of self-gravitating flows involves the Poisson equation for the gravitational field. In hydrodynamics codes using s...
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Radio interferometric gain calibration as a complex optimization problem: Recent developments in optimization theory have extended some traditional algorithms for least-squares optimization of real-valued functions (Gauss-Newton, Levenberg-Marquardt, etc.) into the domain of complex functions of a complex variable. Thi...
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Near-IR and visual high resolution polarimetric imaging with AO systems: Many spectacular polarimetric images have been obtained in recent years with adaptive optics (AO) instruments at large telescopes because they profit significantly from the high spatial resolution. This paper summarizes some basic principles for A...
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Analysis of the Bayesian Cramer-Rao lower bound in astrometry: Studying the impact of prior information in the location of an object: Context. The best precision that can be achieved to estimate the location of a stellar-like object is a topic of permanent interest in the astrometric community. Aims. We analyse bou...
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Development of HPD Clusters for MAGIC-II: MAGIC-II is the second imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope of the MAGIC observatory, which has recently been inaugurated on Canary island of La Palma. We are currently developing a new camera based on clusters of hybrid photon detectors (HPD) for the upgrade of MAGIC-II. Th...
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The RoboPol sample of optical polarimetric standards: Optical polarimeters are typically calibrated using measurements of stars with known and stable polarization parameters. However, there is a lack of such stars available across the sky. Many of the currently available standards are not suitable for medium and large ...
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The infrared imaging spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: electronics-cable architecture: The InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a first-light instrument for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). It combines a diffraction limited imager and an integral field spectrograph. This paper focuses on the electrical system of IRIS....
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Spectropolarimeter on-board the Aditya-L1: Polarization Modulation and Demodulation: One of the major science goals of the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) payload aboard the Aditya-L1 mission is to map the coronal magnetic field topology and the quantitative estimation of longitudinal magnetic field on routi...
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Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): autoz spectral redshift measurements, confidence and errors: The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey has obtained spectra of over 230000 targets using the Anglo-Australian Telescope. To homogenise the redshift measurements and improve the reliability, a fully automatic redshift cod...
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A new sky subtraction technique for low surface brightness data: We present a new approach to the sky subtraction for long-slit spectra suitable for low-surface brightness objects based on the controlled reconstruction of the night sky spectrum in the Fourier space using twilight or arc-line frames as references. It ca...
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Cosmic Ray in the Northern Hemisphere: Results from the Telescope Array Experiment: The Telescope Array (TA) is the largest ultrahigh energy (UHE) cosmic ray observatory in the northern hemisphere TA is a hybrid experiment with a unique combination of fluorescence detectors and a stand-alone surface array of scintill...
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Speckle correction in polychromatic light with the self-coherent camera for the direct detection of exoplanets: Direct detection is a very promising field in exoplanet science. It allows the detection of companions with large separation and allows their spectral analysis. A few planets have already been detected and ...
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MeerKATHI -- an end-to-end data reduction pipeline for MeerKAT and other radio telescopes: MeerKATHI is the current development name for a radio-interferometric data reduction pipeline, assembled by an international collaboration. We create a publicly available end-to-end continuum- and line imaging pipeline for Meer...
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On the efficiency of techniques for the reduction of impulsive noise in astronomical images: The impulsive noise in astronomical images originates from various sources. It develops as a result of thermal generation in pixels, collision of cosmic rays with image sensor or may be induced by high readout voltage in Elec...
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The Qatar Exoplanet Survey: The Qatar Exoplanet Survey (QES) is discovering hot Jupiters and aims to discover hot Saturns and hot Neptunes that transit in front of relatively bright host stars. QES currently operates a robotic wide-angle camera system to identify promising transiting exoplanet candidates among which ar...
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Your data is your dogfood: DevOps in the astronomical observatory: DevOps is the contemporary term for a software development culture that purposefully blurs distinction between software development and IT operations by treating "infrastructure as code." DevOps teams typically implement practices summarised by the coll...
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An Automated Pipeline for the VST Data Log Analysis: The VST Telescope Control Software logs continuously detailed information about the telescope and instrument operations. Commands, telemetries, errors, weather conditions and anything may be relevant for the instrument maintenance and the identification of problem so...
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Serendipitous Science from the K2 Mission: The K2 mission is a repurposed use of the Kepler spacecraft to perform high-precision photometry of selected fields in the ecliptic. We have developed an aperture photometry pipeline for K2 data which performs dynamic automated aperture mask selection, background estimation an...
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Cosmic Microwave Background Mapmaking with a Messenger Field: We apply a messenger field method to solve the linear minimum-variance mapmaking equation in the context of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations. In simulations, the method produces sky maps that converge significantly faster than those from a conj...
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KLLR: A scale-dependent, multivariate model class for regression analysis: The underlying physics of astronomical systems governs the relation between their measurable properties. Consequently, quantifying the statistical relationships between system-level observable properties of a population offers insights into th...
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Deep sub-arcsecond widefield imaging of the Lockman Hole field at 144 MHz: High quality low-frequency radio surveys have the promise of advancing our understanding of many important topics in astrophysics, including the life cycle of active galactic nuclei (AGN), particle acceleration processes in jets, the history o...
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Multi-messenger Astronomy: a Bayesian approach: After the discovery of the gravitational waves and the observation of neutrinos of cosmic origin, we have entered a new and exciting era where cosmic rays, neutrinos, photons and gravitational waves will be used simultaneously to study the highest energy phenomena in the ...
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MOSAIX: a tool to built large mosaics from GALEX images: Large sky surveys are providing a huge amount of information for studies of the interstellar medium, the galactic structure or the cosmic web. Setting into a common frame information coming from different wavelengths, over large fields of view, is needed for this...
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The Experiment for Cryogenic Large-aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM): The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a cryogenic balloon-borne instrument that will survey galaxy and star formation history over cosmological time scales. Rather than identifying individual objects, EXCLAIM w...
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UNI Astronomical Observatory - OAUNI: First light: We show the actual status of the project to implement the Astronomical Observatory of the National University of Engineering (OAUNI), including its first light. The OAUNI was installed with success at the site of the Huancayo Observatory on the peruvian central Andes. ...
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Real-time exposure control and instrument operation with the NEID spectrograph GUI: The NEID spectrograph on the WIYN 3.5-m telescope at Kitt Peak has completed its first full year of science operations and is reliably delivering sub-m/s precision radial velocity measurements. The NEID instrument control system uses ...
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Transforming the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) into the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE): A Conceptual Observatory Building and Facilities Design: The Canada France Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT) plans to repurpose its observatory on the summit of Maunakea and operate a new wide field spectroscopi...
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21 cm Intensity Mapping: Using the 21 cm line, observed all-sky and across the redshift range from 0 to 5, the large scale structure of the Universe can be mapped in three dimensions. This can be accomplished by studying specific intensity with resolution ~ 10 Mpc, rather than via the usual galaxy redshift survey. The ...
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Flowdown of the TMT astrometry error budget(s) to the IRIS design: TMT has defined the accuracy to be achieved for both absolute and differential astrometry in its top-level requirements documents. Because of the complexities of different types of astrometric observations, these requirements cannot be used to specify s...
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A Study of the Compact Water Vapor Radiometer for Phase Calibration of the Karl G. Janksy Very Large Array: We report on laboratory test results of the Compact Water Vapor Radiometer (CWVR) prototype for the NSF's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), a five-channel design centered around the 22 GHz water vapor line...
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Spatial intensity interferometry on three bright stars: The present articlereports on the first spatial intensity interferometry measurements on stars since the observations at Narrabri Observatory by Hanbury Brown et al. in the 1970's. Taking advantage of the progresses in recent years on photon-counting detectors and...
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Optimisation of a Hydrodynamic SPH-FEM Model for a Bioinspired Aerial-aquatic Spacecraft on Titan: Titan, Saturn's largest moon, supports a dense atmosphere, numerous bodies of liquid on its surface, and as a richly organic world is a primary focus for understanding the processes that support the development of life....
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The Low Earth Orbit Satellite Population and Impacts of the SpaceX Starlink Constellation: I discuss the current low Earth orbit artificial satellite population and show that the proposed `megaconstellation' of circa 12,000 Starlink internet satellites would dominate the lower part of Earth orbit, below 600 km, with ...
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Initial follow-up of optical transients with COLORES using the BOOTES network: The Burst Observer and Optical Transient Exploring System (BOOTES) is a network of telescopes that allows the continuous monitoring of transient astrophysical sources. It was originally devoted to the study of the optical emission from gam...
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Short Spacing Considerations for the ngVLA: The next generation Very Large Array project (ngVLA) would represent a major step forward in sensitivity and resolution for radio astronomy, with ability to achieve 2 milli-arcsec resolution at 100 GHz (assuming a maximum baseline of 300 km). For science on spatial scales of ...
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ESA Voyage 2050 white paper -- Faint objects in motion: the new frontier of high precision astrometry: Sky survey telescopes and powerful targeted telescopes play complementary roles in astronomy. In order to investigate the nature and characteristics of the motions of very faint objects, a flexibly-pointed instrumen...
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Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager onboard AstroSat : a multi-faceted hard X-ray instrument: The AstroSat satellite is designed to make multi-waveband observations of astronomical sources and the Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) instrument of AstroSat covers the hard X-ray band. CZTI has a large area position sensitiv...
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Solving Kepler's equation with CORDIC double iterations: In a previous work, we developed the idea to solve Kepler's equation with a CORDIC-like algorithm, which does not require any division, but still multiplications in each iteration. Here we overcome this major shortcoming and solve Kepler's equation using only bit...
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Theia: Faint objects in motion or the new astrometry frontier: In the context of the ESA M5 (medium mission) call we proposed a new satellite mission, Theia, based on relative astrometry and extreme precision to study the motion of very faint objects in the Universe. Theia is primarily designed to study the local dark ...
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Speckle Space-Time Covariance in High-Contrast Imaging: We introduce a new framework for point-spread function (PSF) subtraction based on the spatio-temporal variation of speckle noise in high-contrast imaging data where the sampling timescale is faster than the speckle evolution timescale. One way that space-time cova...
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The Cherenkov Telescope Array On-Site integral sensitivity: observing the Crab: The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future large observatory in the very high energy (VHE) domain. Operating from 20 GeV to 300 TeV, it will be composed of tens of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) displaced in a large area ...
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Super-resolution Full Polarimetric Imaging for Radio Interferometry with Sparse Modeling: We propose a new technique for radio interferometry to obtain super-resolution full polarization images in all four Stokes parameters using sparse modeling. The proposed technique reconstructs the image in each Stokes parameter ...
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The Tianlai project: a 21cm cosmology experiment: In my talk at the 2nd Galileo-Xu Meeting, I presented several different topics in 21cm cosmology for which I have done research. These includes the 21cm signature of the first stars[1,2], the 21cm signal from the IGM and minihalos[3], effect of dark matter annihila- tio...
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What Does a Successful Postdoctoral Fellowship Publication Record Look Like?: Obtaining a prize postdoctoral fellowship in astronomy and astrophysics involves a number of factors, many of which cannot be quantified. One criterion that can be measured is the publication record of an applicant. The publication records ...
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Event reconstruction with the proposed large area Cherenkov air shower detector SCORE: The proposed SCORE detector consists of a large array of light collecting modules designed to sample the Cherenkov light front of extensive air showers in order to detect high energy gamma-rays. A large spacing of the detector stat...
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Design and performance of the Spider instrument: Here we describe the design and performance of the Spider instrument. Spider is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background polarization imager that will map part of the sky at 90, 145, and 280 GHz with sub-degree resolution and high sensitivity. This paper discusses the...
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Entering into the Wide Field Adaptive Optics Era on Maunakea: As part of the National Science Foundation funded "Gemini in the Era of MultiMessenger Astronomy" (GEMMA) program, Gemini Observatory is developing GNAO, a widefield adaptive optics (AO) facility for Gemini-North on Maunakea, the only 8m-class open-access te...
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Nanosatellite aerobrake maneuvering device: In this paper, we present the project of the heliogyro solar sail unit for deployment of CubeSat constellation and satellite deorbiting. The ballistic calculations show that constellation deployment period can vary from 0.18 years for 450km initial orbit and 2 CubeSats up to ...
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A multi-method approach to radial-velocity measurement for single-object spectra: The derivation of radial velocities from large numbers of spectra that typically result from survey work, requires automation. However, except for the classical cases of slowly rotating late-type spectra, existing methods of measuring D...
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First results about on-ground calibration of the Silicon Tracker for the AGILE satellite: The AGILE scientific instrument has been calibrated with a tagged $\gamma$-ray beam at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) of the INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF). The goal of the calibration was the measure of the Point Spr...
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In-flight performance of the DAMPE silicon tracker: DAMPE (DArk Matter Particle Explorer) is a spaceborne high-energy cosmic ray and gamma-ray detector, successfully launched in December 2015. It is designed to probe astroparticle physics in the broad energy range from few GeV to 100 TeV. The scientific goals of DAMPE ...
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New Dark Matter Detector using Nanoscale Explosives: We present nanoscale explosives as a novel type of dark matter detector and study the ignition properties. When a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle WIMP from the Galactic Halo elastically scatters off of a nucleus in the detector, the small amount of energy deposit...
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Cosmic Inference: Constraining Parameters With Observations and Highly Limited Number of Simulations: Cosmological probes pose an inverse problem where the measurement result is obtained through observations, and the objective is to infer values of model parameters which characterize the underlying physical system --...
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aTmcam: A Simple Atmospheric Transmission Monitoring Camera For Sub 1% Photometric Precision: Traditional color and airmass corrections can typically achieve ~0.02 mag precision in photometric observing conditions. A major limiting factor is the variability in atmospheric throughput, which changes on timescales of le...
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Two-index model for characterizing site-specific night sky brightness patterns: Determining the all-sky radiance distribution produced by artificial light sources is a computationally demanding task that generally requires an intensive calculation load. We develop in this work an analytic formulation that provides th...
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Per aspera ad astra simul: Through difficulties to the stars together: In this article, we detail the strategic partnerships "Per Aspera Ad Astra Simul" and "European Collaborating Astronomers Project: Espa\~na-Czechia-Slovakia". These strategic partnerships were conceived to foment international collaboration for educ...
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From Photometric Redshifts to Improved Weather Forecasts: machine learning and proper scoring rules as a basis for interdisciplinary work: The amount, size, and complexity of astronomical data-sets and databases are growing rapidly in the last decades, due to new technologies and dedicated survey telescopes. Besides ...
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Revisiting the Solar Research Cyberinfrastructure Needs: A White Paper of Findings and Recommendations: Solar and Heliosphere physics are areas of remarkable data-driven discoveries. Recent advances in high-cadence, high-resolution multiwavelength observations, growing amounts of data from realistic modeling, and ope...
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Measurement of the atmospheric primary aberrations by 4-aperture DIMM: The present paper investigates and discusses the ability of the Hartmann test with 4-aperture DIMM to measure the atmospheric primary aberrations which, in turn, can be used for calculation of the atmospheric coherence time. Through performing numer...
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A Hybrid Algorithm of Fast Invariant Imbedding and Doubling-Adding Methods for Efficient Multiple Scattering Calculations: An efficient hybrid numerical method for multiple scattering calculations is proposed. We use the well established doubling--adding method to find the reflection function of the lowermost homogen...
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GALAXY package for N-body simulation: This posting announces public availability of the GALAXY software package developed by the author over the past 40 years. It is a highly efficient code for the evolution of (almost) isolated, collisionless stellar systems, both disk-like and ellipsoidal. In addition to the N-body c...
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Impact of infrasound atmospheric noise on gravity detectors used for astrophysical and geophysical applications: Density changes in the atmosphere produce a fluctuating gravity field that affect gravity strainmeters or gravity gradiometers used for the detection of gravitational-waves and for geophysical applications...
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Camera Calibration of the CTA-LST prototype: The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory that is expected to reach one order of magnitude better sensitivity than that of current telescope arrays. The Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) have an essential role in extending the energy range ...
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Cryogenic characterization of the Planck sorption cooler system flight model: This paper is part of the Prelaunch status LFI papers published on JINST: http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.proc5/1748-0221 Two continuous closed-cycle hydrogen Joule-Thomson (J-T) sorption coolers have been fabricated and assembl...
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Real-Time Analysis sensitivity evaluation of the Cherenkov Telescope Array: The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the new generation very high-energy gamma-ray observatory, will improve the flux sensitivity of the current Cherenkov telescopes by an order of magnitude over a continuous range from about 10 GeV to above ...
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Performance of the ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array: Installation of the ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array (HRA) on the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica has been completed. This detector serves as a pilot program to the ARIANNA neutrino telescope, which aims to measure the diffuse flux of very high energy neutrinos by observing t...
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Consistent SPH Simulations of Protostellar Collapse and Fragmentation: We study the consistency and convergence of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), as a function of the interpolation parameters, namely the number of particles $N$, the number of neighbors $n$, and the smoothing length $h$, using simulations of the...
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SPECULOOS exoplanet search and its prototype on TRAPPIST: One of the most significant goals of modern science is establishing whether life exists around other suns. The most direct path towards its achievement is the detection and atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with potentially habitable surface...
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An Electron-Tracking Compton Telescope for a Survey of the Deep Universe by MeV gamma-rays: Photon imaging for MeV gammas has serious difficulties due to huge backgrounds and unclearness in images, which are originated from incompleteness in determining the physical parameters of Compton scattering in detection, e.g....
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Optimized Large-Scale CMB Likelihood And Quadratic Maximum Likelihood Power Spectrum Estimation: We revisit the problem of exact CMB likelihood and power spectrum estimation with the goal of minimizing computational cost through linear compression. This idea was originally proposed for CMB purposes by Tegmark et al.\...
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India's first robotic eye for time domain astrophysics: the GROWTH-India telescope: We present the design and performance of the GROWTH-India telescope, a 0.7 m robotic telescope dedicated to time-domain astronomy. The telescope is equipped with a 4k back-illuminated camera giving a 0.82-degree field of view and sens...
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Three editions of the Star Catalogue of Tycho Brahe: Tycho Brahe completed his catalogue with the positions and magnitudes of 1004 fixed stars in 1598. This catalogue circulated in manuscript form. Brahe edited a shorter version with 777 stars, printed in 1602, and Kepler edited the full catalogue of 1004 stars, printe...
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Overview of the SAPHIRA Detector for AO Applications: We discuss some of the unique details of the operation and behavior of Leonardo SAPHIRA detectors, particularly in relation to their usage for adaptive optics wavefront sensing. SAPHIRA detectors are 320$\times$256@24 $\mu$m pixel HgCdTe linear avalanche photodiode ...
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A semi-supervised Machine Learning search for never-seen Gravitational-Wave sources: By now, tens of gravitational-wave (GW) events have been detected by the LIGO and Virgo detectors. These GWs have all been emitted by compact binary coalescence, for which we have excellent predictive models. However, there might be ...
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A Site Evaluation Campaign for a Ground Based Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope in Romania: Around the world, several scientific projects share the interest of a global network of small Cherenkov telescopes for monitoring observations of the brightest blazars - the DWARF network. A small, ground based, imaging atmosphe...
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The Future of Astronomical Data Infrastructure: Meeting Report: The astronomical community is grappling with the increasing volume and complexity of data produced by modern telescopes, due to difficulties in reducing, accessing, analyzing, and combining archives of data. To address this challenge, we propose the establ...
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Bayesian jackknife tests with a small number of subsets: Application to HERA 21cm power spectrum upper limits: We present a Bayesian jackknife test for assessing the probability that a data set contains biased subsets, and, if so, which of the subsets are likely to be biased. The test can be used to assess the presen...
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The Astro-WISE Optical Image Pipeline: Development and Implementation: We have designed and implemented a novel way to process wide-field astronomical data within a distributed environment of hardware resources and humanpower. The system is characterized by integration of archiving, calibration, and post-calibration an...
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3C84, BL Lac. Earth based VLBI test for the RADIOASTRON project: Results of processing of data of a VLBI experiment titled RAPL01 are presented. These VLBI observations were made on 4th February, 2010 at 6.28 cm between the 100-m antenna of the Max Planck Institute (Effelsberg, Germany), Puschino 22-m antenna (Astro Sp...
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IVOA Recommendation: Space-Time Coordinate Metadata for the Virtual Observatory Version 1.33: This document provides a complete design description of the Space-Time Coordinate (STC) metadata for the Virtual Observatory. It explains the various components, highlights some implementation considerations, presents a comp...
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