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Roman CCS White Paper: Optimizing the HLTDS Cadence at Fixed Depth: The current proposal for the High Latitude Time Domain Survey (HLTDS) is two tiers (wide and deep) of multi-band imaging and prism spectroscopy with a cadence of five days (Rose et al., 2021). The five-day cadence is motivated by the desire to measure ...
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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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Design and optimization of a dispersive unit based on cascaded volume phase holographic gratings: We describe a dispersive unit consisting of cascaded volume-phase holographic gratings for spectroscopic applications. Each of the gratings provides high diffractive efficiency in a relatively narrow wavelength range and...
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IVOA Recommendation: Simple Cone Search Version 1.03: This specification defines a simple query protocol for retrieving records from a catalog of astronomical sources. The query describes sky position and an angular distance, defining a cone on the sky. The response returns a list of astronomical sources from the catal...
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Intrinsic Instrumental Polarization and High-Precision Pulsar Timing: Radio telescopes are used to accurately measure the time of arrival (ToA) of radio pulses in pulsar timing experiments that target mostly millisecond pulsars (MSPs) due to their high rotational stability. This allows for detailed study of MSPs and fo...
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Effects of transients in LIGO suspensions on searches for gravitational waves: This paper presents an analysis of the transient behavior of the Advanced LIGO suspensions used to seismically isolate the optics. We have characterized the transients in the longitudinal motion of the quadruple suspensions during Advanced...
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The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III: The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new near-...
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Probing the Spacetime Around Supermassive Black Holes with Ejected Plasma Blobs: Millimeter-wavelength VLBI observations of the supermassive black holes in Sgr A* and M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope could potentially trace the dynamics of ejected plasma blobs in real time. We demonstrate that the trajectory and ti...
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SISPO: Space Imaging Simulator for Proximity Operations: This paper describes the architecture and demonstrates the capabilities of a newly developed, physically-based imaging simulator environment called SISPO, developed for small solar system body fly-by and terrestrial planet surface mission simulations. The image s...
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The PLATO Payload Data Processing System SpaceWire network: PLATO has been selected and adopted by ESA as the third medium-class Mission (M3) of the Cosmic Vision Program, to be launched in 2026 with a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from the French Guiana. Its Payload is based on a suite of 26 telescopes and cameras in order to d...
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Strong Lens Time Delay Challenge: I. Experimental Design: The time delays between point-like images in gravitational lens systems can be used to measure cosmological parameters. The number of lenses with measured time delays is growing rapidly; the upcoming \emph{Large Synoptic Survey Telescope} (LSST) will monitor $\s...
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IVOA Recommendation: IVOA Astronomical Data Query Language Version 2.00: This document describes the Astronomical Data Query Language (ADQL). ADQL has been developed based on SQL92. This document describes the subset of the SQL grammar supported by ADQL. Special restrictions and extensions to SQL92 have been defined in...
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Woofer-tweeter deformable mirror control for closed-loop adaptive optics: theory and practice: Deformable mirrors with very high order correction generally have smaller dynamic range of motion than what is required to correct seeing over large aperture telescopes. As a result, systems will need to have an architectur...
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Background analysis and status of the ANAIS dark matter project: ANAIS (Annual modulation with NaI Scintillators) is a project aiming to set up at the new facilities of the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC), a large scale NaI(Tl) experiment in order to explore the DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation positive result using ...
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Gaia Data Release 3: Gaia scan-angle dependent signals and spurious periods: Context: Gaia DR3 time series data may contain spurious signals related to the time-dependent scan angle. Aims: We aim to explain the origin of scan-angle dependent signals and how they can lead to spurious periods, provide statistics to ide...
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An elastic lidar system for the H.E.S.S. Experiment: The H.E.S.S. experiment in Namibia, Africa, is a high energy gamma ray tele- scope sensitive in the energy range from 100 Gev to a few tens of TeV, via the use of the atmospheric Cherenkov technique. To minimize the systematic errors on the derived fluxes of the meas...
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Large-aperture wide-bandwidth antireflection-coated silicon lenses for millimeter wavelengths: The increasing scale of cryogenic detector arrays for sub-millimeter and millimeter wavelength astrophysics has led to the need for large aperture, high index of refraction, low loss, cryogenic refracting optics. Silicon wi...
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Non-linear parameter estimation for the LTP experiment: analysis of an operational exercise: The precursor ESA mission LISA-Pathfinder, to be flown in 2013, aims at demonstrating the feasibility of the free-fall, necessary for LISA, the upcoming space-born gravitational wave observatory. LISA Technology Package (LTP)...
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Galaxy Image Classification using Hierarchical Data Learning with Weighted Sampling and Label Smoothing: With the development of a series of Galaxy sky surveys in recent years, the observations increased rapidly, which makes the research of machine learning methods for galaxy image recognition a hot topic. Available ...
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STROBE-X: X-ray Timing and Spectroscopy on Dynamical Timescales from Microseconds to Years: We present the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X), a probe-class mission concept selected for study by NASA. It combines huge collecting area, high throughput, broad energy coverage...
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Historical astronomical data: urgent need for preservation, digitization enabling scientific exploration: Over the past decades and even centuries, the astronomical community has accumulated a signif-icant heritage of recorded observations of a great many astronomical objects. Those records con-tain irreplaceable inf...
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Homography-Based Correction of Positional Errors in MRT Survey: The Mauritius Radio Telescope (MRT) images show systematics in the positional errors of sources when compared to source positions in the Molonglo Reference Catalogue (MRC). We have applied two-dimensional homography to correct positional errors in the imag...
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SAT.STFR.FRQ (UWA) Detail Design Report (MID): The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world's most sensitive radio telescope operating in the 50 MHz to 14 GHz frequency range. Construction of the SKA is divided into phases, with the first phase (SKA1) accounting for the first 1...
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Understanding synthesis imaging dynamic range: We develop a general framework for quantifying the many different contributions to the noise budget of an image made with an array of dishes or aperture array stations. Each noise contribution to the visibility data is associated with a relevant correlation timescale and f...
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Unveiling the Dynamic Infrared Sky with Gattini-IR: While optical and radio transient surveys have enjoyed a renaissance over the past decade, the dynamic infrared sky remains virtually unexplored. The infrared is a powerful tool for probing transient events in dusty regions that have high optical extinction, and for d...
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Multimessenger Astronomy and Astrophysics Synergies: A budget neutral strategy is proposed for NSF to lead the implementation of multimessenger astronomy and astrophysics, as outlined in the Astro2010 Decadal Survey. The emerging capabilities for simultaneous measurements of physical and astronomical data through the d...
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Sensitivity curves for searches for gravitational-wave backgrounds: We propose a graphical representation of detector sensitivity curves for stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds that takes into account the increase in sensitivity that comes from integrating over frequency in addition to integrating over time. This...
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The performance of the bolometer array and readout system during the 2012/2013 flight of the E and B experiment (EBEX): EBEX is a balloon-borne telescope designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation. During its eleven day science flight in the Austral Summer of 2012, it operated 9...
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Detectability of Galactic Faraday Rotation in Multi-wavelength CMB Observations: A Cross-Correlation Analysis of CMB and Radio Maps: We introduce a new cross-correlation method to detect and verify the astrophysical origin of Faraday Rotation (FR) in multiwavelength surveys. FR is well studied in radio astronomy from...
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Conditional Density Estimation Tools in Python and R with Applications to Photometric Redshifts and Likelihood-Free Cosmological Inference: It is well known in astronomy that propagating non-Gaussian prediction uncertainty in photometric redshift estimates is key to reducing bias in downstream cosmological analyses. ...
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Efficient generation and optimization of stochastic template banks by a neighboring cell algorithm: Placing signal templates (grid points) as efficiently as possible to cover a multi-dimensional parameter space is crucial in computing-intensive matched-filtering searches for gravitational waves, but also in similar s...
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Space very long baseline interferometry in China: Space very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) has unique applications in high-resolution imaging of fine structure of astronomical objects and high-precision astrometry due to the key long space-Earth or space-space baselines beyond the Earth's diameter. China has been...
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A linearized approach to radial velocity extraction: High-precision radial velocity (RV) measurements are crucial for exoplanet detection and characterisation. Efforts to achieve ~10 cm/s precision have been made over the recent decades, with significant advancements in instrumentation, data reduction techniques, and s...
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Estimating Extinction using Unsupervised Machine Learning: Dust extinction is the most robust tracer of the gas distribution in the interstellar medium, but measuring extinction is limited by the systematic uncertainties involved in estimating the intrinsic colors to background stars. In this paper we present a new tec...
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Supersonic turbulence simulations with GPU-based high-order Discontinuous Galerkin hydrodynamics: We investigate the numerical performance of a Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) hydrodynamics implementation when applied to the problem of driven, isothermal supersonic turbulence. While the high-order element-based spectral ...
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Mechanical cryocooler noise observed in the ground testing of the Resolve X-ray microcalorimeter onboard XRISM: Low-temperature detectors often use mechanical coolers as part of the cooling chain in order to reach sub-Kelvin operating temperatures. The microphonics noise caused by the mechanical coolers is a general ...
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Low-frequency wideband timing of InPTA pulsars observed with the uGMRT: High-precision measurements of the pulsar dispersion measure (DM) are possible using telescopes with low-frequency wideband receivers. We present an initial study of the application of the wideband timing technique, which can simultaneously measure...
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Flexure updates to MOSFIRE on the Keck I telescope: We present a recent evaluation and updates applied to the Multi-Object Spectrometer For Infra-Red Exploration (MOSFIRE) on the Keck I telescope. Over the course of significantly long integrations, when MOSFIRE sits on one mask for $>$4 hours, a slight drift in mask st...
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First on-sky results of a FIOS prototype, a Fabry Perot Based Instrument for Oxygen Searches: The upcoming Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) are expected to have the collecting area required to detect potential biosignature gases such as molecular oxygen, $\mathrm{O_2}$, in the atmosphere of terrestrial planets aroun...
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Development of Dual-Gain SiPM Boards for Extending the Energy Dynamic Range: Astronomical observations with gamma rays in the range of several hundred keV to hundreds of MeV currently represent the least explored energy range. To address this so-called MeV gap, we designed and built a prototype CsI:Tl calorimeter ins...
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First 230 GHz VLBI Fringes on 3C 279 using the APEX Telescope: We report about a 230 GHz very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) fringe finder observation of blazar 3C 279 with the APEX telescope in Chile, the phased submillimeter array (SMA), and the SMT of the Arizona Radio Observatory (ARO). We installed VLBI equip...
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First observations and magnitude measurement of Starlink's Darksat: Measure the Sloan g' magnitudes of the Starlink's STARLINK-1130 (Darksat) and 1113 LEO communication satellites and determine the effectiveness of the Darksat darkening treatment at 475.4\,nm. Two observations of the Starlink's Darksat LEO communicatio...
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The ROAD to discovery: machine learning-driven anomaly detection in radio astronomy spectrograms: As radio telescopes increase in sensitivity and flexibility, so do their complexity and data-rates. For this reason automated system health management approaches are becoming increasingly critical to ensure nominal teles...
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Effects of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Volcanic Eruption on Observations at Paranal Observatory: The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on 15 January 2022 with an energy equivalent to around 61 megatons of TNT. The explosion was bigger than any other volcanic eruption so far in the 21st century. Huge quantit...
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A Constrained Transport Scheme for MHD on Unstructured Static and Moving Meshes: Magnetic fields play an important role in many astrophysical systems and a detailed understanding of their impact on the gas dynamics requires robust numerical simulations. Here we present a new method to evolve the ideal magnetohydrodyn...
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Optical Cross Correlation Filters: An Economical Approach for Identifying SNe Ia and Estimating their Redshifts: Large photometric surveys of transient phenomena, such as Pan-STARRS and LSST, will locate thousands to millions of type Ia supernova candidates per year, a rate prohibitive for acquiring spectroscopy to d...
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Autocollimating compensator for controlling aspheric optical surfaces: A compensator (null-corrector) for testing aspheric optical surfaces is proposed, which enables i) independent verification of optical elements and assembling of the compensator itself, and ii) ascertaining the compensator position in a control layo...
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An optimized algorithm for multi-scale wideband deconvolution of radio astronomical images: We describe a new multi-scale deconvolution algorithm that can also be used in multi-frequency mode. The algorithm only affects the minor clean loop. In single-frequency mode, the minor loop of our improved multi-scale algorit...
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An Overview of CHIME, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment: The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a drift scan radio telescope operating across the 400-800 MHz band. CHIME is located at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton, BC Canada. The instrument is design...
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The JEM-EUSO Mission: Contributions to the ICRC 2013: Contributions of the JEM-EUSO Collaboration to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (The Astroparticle Physics Conference) Rio de Janeiro, July, 2013.
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Data mining techniques on astronomical spectra data. I : Clustering Analysis: Clustering is an effective tool for astronomical spectral analysis, to mine clustering patterns among data. With the implementation of large sky surveys, many clustering methods have been applied to tackle spectroscopic and photometric data...
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Advanced Kelvin Probe Operational Methodology for Space Applications: We present a novel methodology for the operation of macroscopic Kelvin Probe instruments. The methodology is based on the use of a harmonic backing potential signal to drive the tip-sample variable capacitance and on a Fourier representation of the t...
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Improvements to the Search for Cosmic Dawn Using the Long Wavelength Array: We present recent improvements to the search for the global Cosmic Dawn signature using the Long Wavelength Array station located on the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, USA (LWA-SV). These improvements are both in the method...
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Effects of $150-1000$ eV Electron Impacts on Pure Carbon Monoxide Ices using the Interstellar Energetic-Process System (IEPS): Pure CO ice has been irradiated with electrons of energy in the range $150-1000$~eV with the Interstellar Energetic-Process System (IEPS). The main products of irradiation are carbon chains C...
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Bayesian inference for pulsar timing models: The extremely regular, periodic radio emission from millisecond pulsars makes them useful tools for studying neutron star astrophysics, general relativity, and low-frequency gravitational waves. These studies require that the observed pulse times of arrival be fit to complex...
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VOEvent Standard for Fast Radio Bursts: Fast radio bursts are a new class of transient radio phenomena currently detected as millisecond radio pulses with very high dispersion measures. As new radio surveys begin searching for FRBs a large population is expected to be detected in real-time, triggering a range of multi-...
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Study on the gain and photon detection efficiency drops of silicon photomultipliers under bright background conditions: The use of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) in imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes is expected to extend the observation times of very-high-energy gamma-ray sources, particularly within the hig...
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Evolution of Data Formats in Very-High-Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy: Most major scientific results produced by ground-based gamma-ray telescopes in the last 30 years have been obtained by expert members of the collaborations operating these instruments. This is due to the proprietary data and software policies adopted by...
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Perspectives on Reproducibility and Sustainability of Open-Source Scientific Software from Seven Years of the Dedalus Project: As the Science Mission Directorate contemplates establishing an open code policy, we consider it timely to share our experiences as the developers of the open-source partial differential equa...
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A broadband scalar optical vortex coronagraph: In recent years, new coronagraphic schemes have been proposed, the most promising being the optical vortex phase mask coronagraphs. In our work, a new scheme of broadband optical scalar vortex coronagraph is proposed and characterized experimentally in the laboratory. Our ...
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The LOFAR View of Cosmic Magnetism: The origin of magnetic fields in the Universe is an open problem in astrophysics and fundamental physics. Polarization observations with the forthcoming large radio telescopes will open a new era in the observation of magnetic fields and should help to understand their origin. At low...
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Optimal PSF modeling for weak lensing: complexity and sparsity: We investigate the impact of point spread function (PSF) fitting errors on cosmic shear measurements using the concepts of complexity and sparsity. Complexity, introduced in a previous paper, characterizes the number of degrees of freedom of the PSF. For i...
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Design and performance of a Collimated Beam Projector for telescope transmission measurement using a broadband light source: Type Ia supernovae are the most direct cosmological probe to study dark energy in the recent Universe, for which the photometric calibration of astronomical instruments remains one major source...
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Gravitational Waves from Orphan Memory: Gravitational-wave memory manifests as a permanent distortion of an idealized gravitational-wave detector and arises generically from energetic astrophysical events. For example, binary black hole mergers are expected to emit memory bursts a little more than an order of magnitude...
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The Lexington Benchmarks for Numerical Simulations of Nebulae: We present the results of a meeting on numerical simulations of ionized nebulae held at the University of Kentucky in conjunction with the celebration of the 70th birthdays of Profs. Donald Osterbrock and Michael Seaton.
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The KaVA and KVN Pulsar Project: We present our work towards using the Korean VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometer) Network (KVN) and VLBI Exploration of Radio Astronomy (VERA) arrays combined into the KVN and VERA Array (KaVA) for observations of radio pulsars at high frequencies ($\simeq$22-GHz). Pulsar astronomy ...
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Separating the EoR Signal with a Convolutional Denoising Autoencoder: A Deep-learning-based Method: When applying the foreground removal methods to uncover the faint cosmological signal from the epoch of reionization (EoR), the foreground spectra are assumed to be smooth. However, this assumption can be seriously vio...
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The Signal-to-Noise Ratio for Photon Counting After Photometric Corrections: Photon counting is a mode of processing astronomical observations of low-signal targets that have been observed using an electron-multiplying charge-coupled device (EMCCD). In photon counting, the EMCCD amplifies the signal, and a thresholdi...
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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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fastRESOLVE: fast Bayesian imaging for aperture synthesis in radio astronomy: The standard imaging algorithm for interferometric radio data, CLEAN, is optimal for point source observations, but suboptimal for diffuse emission. Recently, RESOLVE, a new Bayesian algorithm has been developed, which is ideal for extended...
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Atacama Compact Array Correlator for Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array: We have developed a FX-architecture digital spectro-correlator, Atacama Compact Array Correlator for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The ACA Correlator processes four pairs of dual polarization signals, whose bandwidt...
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The Pégase.3 code of spectrochemical evolution of galaxies: documentation and complements: P\'egase.3 is a Fortran 95 code modeling the spectral evolution of galaxies from the far-ultraviolet to submillimeter wavelengths. It also follows the chemical evolution of their stars, gas and dust. For a given scenario (a s...
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On-sky performance of the SPT-3G frequency-domain multiplexed readout: Frequency-domain multiplexing (fMux) is an established technique for the readout of large arrays of transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers. Each TES in a multiplexing module has a unique AC voltage bias that is selected by a resonant filter. This s...
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Pre-flight integration and characterization of the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope: We present the results of integration and characterization of the SPIDER instrument after the 2013 pre-flight campaign. SPIDER is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to probe the primordial gravitational wave signal in the degree-scal...
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BICEP3: a 95 GHz refracting telescope for degree-scale CMB polarization: BICEP3 is a 550 mm-aperture refracting telescope for polarimetry of radiation in the cosmic microwave background at 95 GHz. It adopts the methodology of BICEP1, BICEP2 and the Keck Array experiments - it possesses sufficient resolution to search f...
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The optimization of satellite orbit for Space-VLBI observation: By sending one or more telescopes into space, Space-VLBI (SVLBI) is able to achieve even higher angular resolution and is therefore the trend of the VLBI technique. For SVLBI program, the design of satellite orbits plays an important role for the success o...
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HIDE & SEEK: End-to-End Packages to Simulate and Process Radio Survey Data: As several large single-dish radio surveys begin operation within the coming decade, a wealth of radio data will become available and provide a new window to the Universe. In order to fully exploit the potential of these data sets, it is impo...
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An Extension of the Athena++ Framework for Fully Conservative Self-Gravitating Hydrodynamics: Numerical simulations of self-gravitating flows evolve a momentum equation and an energy equation that account for accelerations and gravitational energy releases due to a time-dependent gravitational potential. In this work...
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Performance of multi-detector hybrid statistic in targeted compact binary coalescence search: In this paper we compare the performance of two likelihood ratio based detection statistics namely maximum likelihood ratio statistic and {\it hybrid} statistic designed for the detection of gravitational waves from compact ...
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A Joint Roman Space Telescope and Rubin Observatory Synthetic Wide-Field Imaging Survey: We present and validate 20 deg$^2$ of overlapping synthetic imaging surveys representing the full depth of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope High-Latitude Imaging Survey (HLIS) and five years of observations of the Vera C. Ru...
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Kinematic Modelling of Disc Galaxies using Graphics Processing Units: With large-scale Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) surveys of thousands of galaxies currently under-way or planned, the astronomical community is in need of methods, techniques and tools that will allow the analysis of huge amounts of data. We focus ...
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A proposal for relative in-flight flux self-calibrations for spectro-photometric surveys: We present a method for the in-flight relative flux self-calibration of a spectro-photometer instrument, general enough to be applied to any upcoming galaxy survey on satellite. The instrument response function, that accounts fo...
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Target Detection Framework for Lobster Eye X-Ray Telescopes with Machine Learning Algorithms: Lobster eye telescopes are ideal monitors to detect X-ray transients, because they could observe celestial objects over a wide field of view in X-ray band. However, images obtained by lobster eye telescopes are modified by t...
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Searching for high-energy neutrinos in coincidence with gravitational waves with the ANTARES and VIRGO/LIGO detectors: Cataclysmic cosmic events can be plausible sources of both gravitational waves (GW) and high-energy neutrinos (HEN). Both GW and HEN are alternative cosmic messengers that may escape very dense media...
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A Laser Frequency Comb System for Absolute Calibration of the VTT Echelle Spectrograph: A wavelength calibration system based on a laser frequency comb (LFC) was developed in a co-operation between the Kiepenheuer-Institut f\"ur Sonnenphysik, Freiburg, Germany and the Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Quantenoptik, Garching,...
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A Novel Technique to Observe Rapidly Pulsating Objects Using Spectral Wave-Interaction Effects: Conventional techniques that measure rapid time variations are inefficient or inadequate to discover and observe rapidly pulsating astronomical sources. It is therefore conceivable that there exist some classes of objects ...
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A Cryogenic Integrated Noise Calibration and Coupler Module Using a MMIC LNA: A new cryogenic noise calibration source for radio astronomy receivers is presented. Dissipated power is only 4.2 mW, allowing it to be integrated with the cold part of the receiver. Measured long-term stability, sensitivity to bias voltage...
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Deep learning method for identifying mass composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays: We introduce a novel method for identifying the mass composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays using deep learning. The key idea of the method is to use a chain of two neural networks. The first network predicts the type of a p...
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Aerosol characterization using satellite remote sensing of light pollution sources at night: A demanding challenge in atmospheric research is the night-time characterization of aerosols using passive techniques, that is, by extracting information from scattered light that has not been emitted by the observer. Satelli...
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Wavefront error tolerancing for direct imaging of exo-Earths with a large segmented telescope in space: Direct imaging of exo-Earths and search for life is one of the most exciting and challenging objectives for future space observatories. Segmented apertures in space will be required to reach the needed large diamet...
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A Visible-light Lyot Coronagraph for SCExAO/VAMPIRES: We describe the design and initial results from a visible-light Lyot coronagraph for SCExAO/VAMPIRES. The coronagraph is comprised of four hard-edged, partially transmissive focal plane masks with inner working angles of 36 mas, 55 mas, 92 mas, and 129 mas, respecti...
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SST-GATE: A dual mirror telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array: The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's first open observatory for very high energy gamma-rays. Around a hundred telescopes of different sizes will be used to detect the Cherenkov light that results from gamma-ray induced air showers i...
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Synthetic tracking using ZTF Long Dwell Datasets: The Zwicky Transit Factory (ZTF) is a powerful time domain survey facility with a large field of view. We apply the synthetic tracking technique to integrate a ZTF's long-dwell dataset, which consists of 133 nominal 30-second exposure frames spanning about 1.5 hours, to...
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PESummary: the code agnostic Parameter Estimation Summary page builder: PESummary is a Python software package for processing and visualising data from any parameter estimation code. The easy to use Python executable scripts and extensive online documentation has resulted in PESummary becoming a key component in the in...
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Gaussian phase autocorrelation as an accurate compensator for FFT-based atmospheric phase screen simulations: Accurately simulating the atmospheric turbulence behaviour is always challenging. The well-known FFT based method falls short in correctly predicting both the low and high frequency behaviours. Sub-harmonic c...
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The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope -- IV. Aperture Masking Interferometry: The James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (JWST-NIRISS) flies a 7-hole non-redundant mask (NRM), the first such interferometer in space, operating at 3-5 ...
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On Surface Brightness and Flux Calibration for Point and Compact Extended Sources in the AKARI Far-IR All-Sky Survey (AFASS) Maps: The AKARI Infrared Astronomical Satellite produced the all-sky survey (AFASS) maps in the far-IR at roughly arc-minute spatial resolution, enabling us to investigate the whole sky in the ...
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Waveguide-Type Multiplexer for Multiline Observation of Atmospheric Molecules using Millimeter-Wave Spectroradiometer: In order to better understand the variation mechanism of ozone abundance in the middle atmosphere, the simultaneous monitoring of ozone and other minor molecular species, which are related to ozone d...
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Gaia Early Data Release 3. Building the Gaia DR3 source list -- Cross-match of Gaia observations: The Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) contains results derived from 78 billion individual field-of-view transits of 2.5 billion sources collected by the European Space Agency's Gaia mission during its first 34 months...
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Cleaning radio interferometric images using a spherical wavelet decomposition: The deconvolution, or cleaning, of radio interferometric images often involves computing model visibilities from a list of clean components, in order that the contribution from the model can be subtracted from the observed visibilities. Th...
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