Detection Level Enhancement of Gravitational Microlensing Events from the...
In Astronomy, intensity of the source light is expressed in magnitude. Conventionally, magnitude is defined by logarithmic function of the received flux. This relationship is known as Pogson formulae....
View ArticleIAU Commission 8 Astrometry Transactions Report 2012-2015
Commission 8 has regularly published triennial reports in the past and the current OC therefore voted to adopt a traditional format also for this special Legacy issue of the IAU Transactions. The...
View ArticleHow to coadd images? II. A coaddition image that is optimal for any purpose...
Image coaddition is one of the most basic operations that astronomers perform. In Paper~I, we presented the optimal ways to coadd images in order to detect faint sources and to perfrom flux...
View ArticleHow to coadd images? I. Optimal source detection and photometry using...
Stacks of digital astronomical images are combined in order to increase image depth. The variable seeing conditions, sky background and transparency of ground-based observations make the coaddition...
View ArticleThe Kinematics of Star Formation: Theory and Observation in the Gaia Era
The European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope, launched in 2013, aims to measure the positions, parallaxes, and proper motions of a billion stars in our Galaxy and throughout the Local Group. In...
View ArticleThe prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT detector [Replacement]
A prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT deep-sea neutrino telescope has been installed at 3500m depth 80km offshore the Italian coast. KM3NeT in its final configuration will contain several hundreds...
View ArticleOn Small Satellites for Oceanography: A Survey [Cross-Listing]
The recent explosive growth of small satellite operations driven primarily from an academic or pedagogical need, has demonstrated the viability of commercial-off-the-shelf technologies in space. They...
View ArticleEfficient photonic reformatting of celestial light for diffraction-limited...
The spectral resolution of a dispersive astronomical spectrograph is limited by the trade-off between throughput and the width of the entrance slit. Photonic guided-wave transitions have been proposed...
View ArticleSimulation of cascades caused by UHE and EHE neutrinos in dense media...
A method of simulation of particle cascades induced by ultra-high (>10$^{15}$ eV) and extremely high (>10$^{18}$ eV) energy neutrinos in water or other dense medium has been elaborated. The...
View ArticleThe POLARBEAR-2 and the Simons Array Experiment
We present an overview of the design and status of the \Pb-2 and the Simons Array experiments. \Pb-2 is a Cosmic Microwave Background polarimetry experiment which aims to characterize the arc-minute...
View ArticleA Search for Water in the Atmosphere of HAT-P-26b Using LDSS-3C [Replacement]
The characterization of a physically-diverse set of transiting exoplanets is an important and necessary step towards establishing the physical properties linked to the production of obscuring clouds or...
View ArticleDevelopment of readout electronics for POLARBEAR-2 Cosmic Microwave...
The readout of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers with a large multiplexing factor is key for the next generation Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment, Polarbear-2, having 7,588 TES...
View ArticleDynamic spectral mapping of interstellar plasma lenses [Replacement]
Compact radio sources sometimes exhibit intervals of large, rapid changes in their flux-density, due to lensing by interstellar plasma crossing the line-of-sight. A novel survey program has made it...
View ArticlePerformance of the Birmingham Solar-Oscillations Network (BiSON) [Replacement]
The Birmingham Solar-Oscillations Network (BiSON) has been operating with a full complement of six stations since 1992. Over 20 years later, we look back on the network history. The meta-data from the...
View ArticleCalibrating the absolute amplitude scale for air showers measured at LOFAR...
Air showers induced by cosmic rays create nanosecond pulses detectable at radio frequencies. These pulses have been measured successfully in the past few years at the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) and...
View ArticleDirect measurements of laser light aberration from the ARTEMIS geostationary...
A precise ground based telescope system was developed for laser communication experiments with the geostationary satellite ARTEMIS of ESA. Precise tracking of the satellite was realized by using time...
View ArticleCALET: a high energy astroparticle physics experiment on the ISS
CALET (CALorimetric Electron Telescope) is a high energy astroparticle physics experiment planned for a long exposure mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) by the Japanese Aerospace...
View ArticleImproving Software Citation and Credit
The past year has seen movement on several fronts for improving software citation, including the Center for Open Science's Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, the Software Publishing...
View ArticleThe LSST Data Management System
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a large-aperture, wide-field, ground-based survey system that will image the sky in six optical bands from 320 to 1050 nm, uniformly covering approximately...
View ArticleThe noise properties of 42 millisecond pulsars from the European Pulsar...
The sensitivity of Pulsar Timing Arrays to gravitational waves depends on the noise present in the individual pulsar timing data. Noise may be either intrinsic or extrinsic to the pulsar. Intrinsic...
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