The small size telescope projects for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
The small size telescopes (SSTs), spread over an area of several square km, dominate the CTA sensitivity in the photon energy range from a few TeV to over 100 TeV, enabling for the detailed exploration...
View ArticlePerformance of the SST-1M telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array...
The single mirror small-size telescope (SST-1M) is one of the telescope projects being proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array observatory by a sub-consortium of Polish and Swiss institutions. The...
View ArticleThe SST-1M camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
The prototype camera of the single-mirror Small Size Telescopes (SST-1M) proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project has been designed to be very compact and to deliver high performance...
View ArticleStatus of the Cherenkov Telescope Array’s Large Size Telescopes
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory, will be deployed over two sites in the two hemispheres. Both sites will be equipped with four Large Size Telescopes (LSTs), which are crucial to achieve...
View ArticlePerformance of the Mechanical Structure of the SST-2M GCT Proposed for the...
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium aims to create the next generation Very High Energy gamma-ray observatory. It will be devoted to the observation of gamma rays over a wide band of energy,...
View ArticleDirect exoplanet detection and characterization using the ANDROMEDA method:...
Context. The direct detection of exoplanets with high-contrast imaging requires advanced data processing methods to disentangle potential planetary signals from bright quasi-static speckles. Among...
View ArticleCamera calibration strategy of the SST-1M prototype of the Cherenokov...
The SST-1M telescope is one of the prototypes under construction proposed to be part of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array. It uses a standard Davis-Cotton design for the optics and telescope...
View ArticleTARGET: toward a solution for the readout electronics of the Cherenkov...
TARGET is an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed to read out signals recorded by the photosensors in cameras of very-high-energy gamma-ray telescopes exploiting the imaging of...
View ArticleFirst Light with ALES: A 2-5 Micron Adaptive Optics Integral Field...
Integral field spectrographs are an important technology for exoplanet imaging, due to their ability to take spectra in a high-contrast environment, and improve planet detection sensitivity through...
View ArticleTuning target selection algorithms to improve galaxy redshift estimates
We showcase machine learning (ML) inspired target selection algorithms to determine which of all potential targets should be selected first for spectroscopic follow up. Efficient target selection can...
View ArticlePulse-shape discrimination between electron and nuclear recoils in a NaI(Tl)...
We report on the response of a high light-output NaI(Tl) crystal to nuclear recoils induced by neutrons from an Am-Be source and compare the results with the response to electron recoils produced by...
View ArticleDEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search [Replacement]
The DEAP-3600 experiment is located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, in Sudbury, Ontario. It is a single-phase detector that searches for dark matter particle interactions within a 1000-kg fiducial mass...
View ArticleA Sparse Gaussian Process Framework for Photometric Redshift Estimation...
Accurate photometric redshifts are a lynchpin for many future experiments to pin down the cosmological model and for studies of galaxy evolution. In this study, a novel sparse regression framework for...
View ArticleSparse representations and convex optimization as tools for LOFAR radio...
Compressed sensing theory is slowly making its way to solve more and more astronomical inverse problems. We address here the application of sparse representations, convex optimization and proximal...
View ArticleWavelength Self-Calibration and Sky Subtraction for Fabry-Perot...
We describe techniques concerning wavelength calibration and sky subtraction to maximise the scientific utility of data from tunable filter instruments. While we specifically address data from the...
View ArticleReal-time atmospheric monitoring for the Cherenkov Telescope Array using a...
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based very high energy gamma-ray instruments and is planned to be built on two sites (one in each hemisphere) in the coming years,...
View ArticleDevelopment of the optical system for the SST-1M telescope of the Cherenkov...
The prototype of a Davies-Cotton small size telescope (SST-1M) has been designed and developed by a consortium of Polish and Swiss institutions and proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)...
View ArticleDesign of a prototype device to calibrate the Large Size Telescope camera of...
The Cherenkov Telescope Array is a project that aims to exploring the highest energy region of electromagnetic spectrum. Two arrays, one for each hemisphere, will cover the full sky in a range from few...
View ArticleATLAST detector needs for direct spectroscopic biosignature characterization...
Are we alone? Answering this ageless question will be a major focus for astrophysics in coming decades. Our tools will include unprecedentedly large UV-Optical-IR space telescopes working with advanced...
View ArticleImproving the Data Quality of Advanced LIGO Based on Early Engineering Run...
The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors have completed their initial upgrade phase and will enter the first observing run in late 2015, with detector...
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