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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

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astro-ph.IM2026

Multi-sensor fusion for fine-guidance and milliarcsecond-level attitude estimation of balloon-borne telescope

Philippe Voyer, Maya Amit, Steven J. Benton +44

Balloon-borne telescopes rely on fine-guidance systems to achieve milliarcsecond image stability despite residual disturbances from the balloon environment. In these systems, the F…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Radiation damage to the Hubble Space Telescope during two Solar cycles, and correction of Charge Transfer Inefficiency using ArCTIc

Richard Massey, Jacob A. Kegerreis, Juan Paolo Lorenzo Gerardo Barrios +8

From 2002 to 2025, the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys has suffered in the harsh radiation environment above the protection of the Earth's atmosphere. We track…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 4 cited

Full non-LTE spectral line formation II. Two-distribution radiation transfer with coherent scattering in the atom's frame

F. Paletou, M. Sampoorna, C. Peymirat

In the present article, we discuss a numerical method of solution for the so-called "full non-LTE" radiation transfer problem, basic formalism of which was revisited by Paletou & P…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 879 cited

The MUSE second-generation VLT instrument

Bacon R., Accardo M., Adjali L. +65

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is a second-generation VLT panoramic integral-field spectrograph currently in manufacturing, assembly and integration phase. MUSE has a…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

Planetary Exploration Horizon 2061 Report, Chapter 4: From planetary exploration goals to technology requirements

Jérémie Lasue, Pierre Bousquet, Michel Blanc +19

This chapter reviews for each province and destination of the Solar System the representative space missions that will have to be designed and implemented by 2061 to address the si…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 15 cited

MICROSCOPE Mission scenario, ground segment and data processing

Manuel Rodrigues, Pierre Touboul, Gilles Métris +9

Testing the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) to a precision of requires a quantity of data that give enough confidence on the final result: ideally, the longer the measu…