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astro-ph.GA2025

The VISCACHA Survey: XIII. The extended main-sequence turn-off in intermediate-age low-mass clusters

Stefano Souza, Angeles Pérez-Villegas, Bruno Dias +16

The extended main-sequence turn-off (eMSTO) is a well-known feature observed in young and intermediate-age star clusters, characterized by a significant broadening of the main-sequ…

astro-ph.EP2026

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)

Colin Orion Chandler, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Mario Jurić +305

We report on the observation and measurement of astrometry, photometry, morphology, and activityof the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, also designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) with the NSF-…

astro-ph.GA2017

First results from SAM-FP: Fabry-Perot observations with ground-layer adaptive optics - the structure and kinematics of the core of 30 Doradus

Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Philippe Amram, Bruno Quint +3

The aim of this paper is to present the first data set obtained with SOAR Adaptive Module-Fabry-Parot (SAM-FP), a Fabry-Perot instrument mounted inside the SOAR telescope Adaptive-…

astro-ph.IM2026

An overview of stray light findings and interpretation during on-sky commissioning of LSSTCam

Gabriele Rodeghiero, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Alessio Taranto +78

Wide-field telescopes are intrinsically difficult to shield from unwanted stray and scattered light, while the search to identify sources of contaminating light is frequently a cha…

astro-ph.IM2026

Test Management and Coordination During the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Commissioning and Early Operations Using Zephyr Scale

Bruno Quint, Tiago Ribeiro, Erik Dennihy +3

The commissioning of the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory required coordinating the planning, design, and execution of hundreds of integration and on-sky tests involving different…

astro-ph.IM2013

The Brazilian Tunable Filter Imager for the SOAR telescope

Cláudia Mendes de Oliveira, Keith Taylor, Bruno Quint +22

This paper presents a new Tunable Filter Instrument for the SOAR telescope. The Brazilian Tunable Filter Imager (BTFI) is a versatile, new technology, tunable optical imager to be…

astro-ph.IM2023

DRAGONS -- A Quick Overview

Kathleen Labrie, Chris Simpson, Ricardo Cardenes +10

DRAGONS (Data Reduction for Astronomy from Gemini Observatory North and South) is a platform for the reduction and processing of astronomical data. The Python-based, open-source pa…

astro-ph.IM2025

Variability-finding in Rubin Data Preview 1 with LSDB

Konstantin Malanchev, Melissa DeLucchi, Neven Caplar +56

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory recently released Data Preview 1 (DP1) in advance of the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will enable boundless discoveries in t…

astro-ph.IM2020

Active learning with RESSPECT: Resource allocation for extragalactic astronomical transients

Noble Kennamer, Emille E. O. Ishida, Santiago Gonzalez-Gaitan +12

The recent increase in volume and complexity of available astronomical data has led to a wide use of supervised machine learning techniques. Active learning strategies have been pr…

astro-ph.GA2019

The VISCACHA survey -- deep and resolved photometry of star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds

Bruno Dias, Francisco Maia, Leandro Kerber +24

The VISCACHA (VIsible Soar photometry of star Clusters in tApii and Coxi HuguA\footnote{LMC and SMC names in the Tupi-Guarani language spoken by native people in Brazil}) Survey is…

astro-ph.GA2019

The VISCACHA survey - I. Overview and First Results

Francisco F. S. Maia, Bruno Dias, João F. C. Santos +15

The VISCACHA (VIsible Soar photometry of star Clusters in tApii and Coxi HuguA) Survey is an ongoing project based on deep photometric observations of Magellanic Cloud star cluster…