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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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astro-ph.IM2009★ 11 cited

Robotic Astronomy with the Faulkes Telescopes and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope

Fraser Lewis, Rachel Street, Paul Roche +2

We present results from ongoing science projects conducted by members of the Faulkes Telescope (FT) team and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT). Many of these project…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 1 cited

Studies of Expolanets and Solar Systems with SPICA

Michihiro Takami, Motohide Tamura, Keigo Enya +13

The SPace Infrared telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) is a proposed mid-to-far infrared (4-200 um) astronomy mission, scheduled for launch in 2017. A single, 3.5m ape…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 22 cited

MUSTANG: 90 GHz Science with the Green Bank Telescope

S. R. Dicker, P. M. Korngut, B. S. Mason +16

MUSTANG is a 90 GHz bolometer camera built for use as a facility instrument on the 100 m Robert C. Byrd Green Bank radio telescope (GBT). MUSTANG has an 8 by 8 focal plane array of…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 694 cited

The 10 Meter South Pole Telescope

J. E. Carlstrom, P. A. R. Ade, K. A. Aird +41

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10 m diameter, wide-field, offset Gregorian telescope with a 966-pixel, multi-color, millimeter-wave, bolometer camera. It is located at the Amu…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 7 cited

SPS: A software simulator for the Herschel-SPIRE photometer

B. Sibthorpe, P. Chanial, M. Griffin

Instrument simulators are becoming ever more useful for planning and analysing large astronomy survey data. In this paper we present a simulator for the Herschel-SPIRE photometer.…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 31 cited

Studies of Millimeter-Wave Atmospheric Noise Above Mauna Kea

J. Sayers, S. R. Golwala, P. A. R. Ade +12

We report measurements of the fluctuations in atmospheric emission (atmospheric noise) above Mauna Kea recorded with Bolocam at 143 and 268 GHz from the Caltech Submillimeter Obser…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 37 cited

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2006: Calibration and Flight Performance

Matthew D. P. Truch, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock +25

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) operated successfully during a 250-hour flight over Antarctica in December 2006 (BLAST06). As part of the calibrati…