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astro-ph.IM2026

Laboratory characterization of Hierarchical Fringe Tracking

Roxanne Ligi, Stéphane Lagarde, Romain Petrov +7

One of the main limitations in long-baseline interferometry lies in its fringe tracking sensitivity. The challenge is therefore to maximize this sensitivity while minimizing the sp…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 8 cited

First Light for the GRAVITY+ Adaptive Optics: Extreme Adaptive Optics for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, F. Allouche +137

GRAVITY+ improves by orders of magnitude the sensitivity, sky-coverage and contrast of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). A central part of this project is the develop…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

The CUBES Science Case

Chris Evans, Stefano Cristiani, Cyrielle Opitom +51

We introduce the scientific motivations for the development of the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES) that is now in construction for the Very Large Telescope. The as…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 4 cited

The Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer Spectral Feature Finder I. The Spectral Feature Finder and Catalogue

R. Hopwood, I. Valtchanov, Locke D. Spencer +11

We provide a detailed description of the Herschel-SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) Spectral Feature Finder (FF). The FF is an automated process designed to extract signif…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 2 cited

Deriving Iodine-free spectra for high-resolution echelle spectrographs

Matías R. Díaz, Stephen A. Shectman, R. Paul Butler +1

We describe a new method to derive clean, iodine-free spectra directly from observations acquired using high-resolution echelle spectrographs equipped with iodine cells. The main m…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 356 cited

The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library

D. S. Aguado, Romina Ahumada, Andres Almeida +230

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years o…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 201 cited

Marvin: A Toolkit for Streamlined Access and Visualization of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Data Set

Brian Cherinka, Brett H. Andrews, José Sánchez-Gallego +11

The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, one of three core programs of the fourth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV), is producing a massi…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 32 cited

The SAGE Photometric Sky Survey: Technical Description

Jie Zheng, Gang Zhao, Wei Wang +4

To investigate in more details of Stellar Abundance and Galactic Evolution (SAGE) and in a huge sample, we are performing a northern sky photometric survey named SAGES with the SAG…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 7 cited

Correcting the extended-source calibration for the Herschel-SPIRE Fourier-Transform Spectrometer

Ivan Valtchanov, R. Hopwood, G. Bendo +20

We describe an update to the Herschel-SPIRE Fourier-Transform Spectrometer (FTS) calibration for extended sources, which incorporates a correction for the frequency-dependent far-f…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 75 cited

Testing photometric redshift measurements with filter definition of the Chinese Space Station Optical Survey (CSS-OS)

Ye Cao, Yan Gong, Xian-Min Meng +11

The Chinese Space Station Optical Survey (CSS-OS) is a major science project of the Space Application System of the China Manned Space Program. This survey is planned to perform bo…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 23 cited

Variable Stars Observed in the Galactic Disk by AST3-1 from Dome A, Antarctica

Lingzhi Wang, Bin Ma, Gang Li +15

AST3-1 is the second-generation wide-field optical photometric telescope dedicated to time domain astronomy at Dome A, Antarctica. Here we present the results of band images su…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 3 cited

Calibration of Herschel SPIRE FTS observations at different spectral resolutions

N. Marchili, R. Hopwood, T. Fulton +11

The SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer on board the Herschel Space Observatory had two standard spectral resolution modes for science observations: high resolution (HR) and low r…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 18 cited

The data processing pipeline for the Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer

T. Fulton, D. A. Naylor, E. T. Polehampton +13

We present the data processing pipeline to generate calibrated data products from the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer on th…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 40 cited

Parque Astronómico de Atacama: An ideal site for millimeter, submillimeter, and mid-infrared astronomy

Ricardo Bustos, Mónica Rubio, Angel Otárola +1

The area of Chajnantor, at more than 5000 meters altitude in northern Chile, offers unique atmospheric and operational conditions which arguably make it the best site in the world…