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astro-ph.IM2018★ 11 cited

A Balloon-Borne Very Long Baseline Interferometry Experiment in the Stratosphere: Systems Design and Developments

Akihiro Doi, Yusuke Kono, Kimihiro Kimura +33

The balloon-borne very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) experiment is a technical feasibility study for performing radio interferometry in the stratosphere. The flight model has…

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★ 93 cited

First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae From the Dark Energy Survey: Photometric Pipeline and Light Curve Data Release

D. Brout, M. Sako, D. Scolnic +89

We present griz light curves of 251 Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first 3 years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program's (DES-SN) spectroscopically classified sample. T…

astro-ph.IM2018

The Wide Integral Field Infrared Spectrograph: Commissioning Results and On-sky Performance

Suresh Sivanandam, Dae-Sik Moon, R. Elliot Meyer +11

We have recently commissioned a novel infrared ( m) integral field spectrograph (IFS) called the Wide Integral Field Infrared Spectrograph (WIFIS). WIFIS is a unique in…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 8 cited

Non-Zeeman Circular Polarization of Molecular Spectral Lines in the ISM

Mohammed Chamma, Martin Houde, Josep Miquel Girart +1

Accurately measuring the magnetic field in the ISM is essential for understanding star-formation processes. We searched archival data of the Submillimeter Array (SMA) for evidence…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 40 cited

XZ: Deriving redshifts from X-ray spectra of obscured AGN

Charlotte Simmonds, Johannes Buchner, Mara Salvato +2

Context: Redshifts are fundamental for our understanding of extragalactic X-ray sources. Ambiguous counterpart associations, expensive optical spectroscopy and/or multimission mult…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1 cited

Electronics Instrumentation for the Greenland Telescope

Derek Kubo, Chih-Chiang Han, Hiroaki Nishioka +37

The Greenland Telescope project has recently participated in an experiment to image the supermassive black hole shadow at the center of M87 using Very Long Baseline Interferometry…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 124 cited

SPICA - a large cryogenic infrared space telescope Unveiling the obscured Universe

P. R. Roelfsema, H. Shibai, L. Armus +66

Measurements in the infrared wavelength domain allow us to assess directly the physical state and energy balance of cool matter in space, thus enabling the detailed study of the va…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 33 cited

SPIRou: a nIR spectropolarimeter / high-precision velocimeter for the CFHT

JF Donati, D Kouach, M Lacombe +26

SPIRou is a near-infrared (nIR) spectropolarimeter / velocimeter for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), that will focus on two forefront science topics, (i) the quest for h…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 5 cited

Development of a Mach-Zehnder Modulator Photonic Local Oscillator Source

Derek Y. Kubo, Ranjani Srinivasan, Hitoshi Kiuchi +1

This paper describes the development of a photonic local oscillator (LO) source based on a 3-stage Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) device. The MZM laser synthesizer demonstrates the f…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 61 cited

Superresolution Interferometric Imaging with Sparse Modeling Using Total Squared Variation --- Application to Imaging the Black Hole Shadow

Kazuki Kuramochi, Kazunori Akiyama, Shiro Ikeda +5

We propose a new superresolution imaging technique for interferometry using sparse modeling, utilizing two regularization terms: the -norm and a new function named Total Sq…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 71 cited

Realfast: Real-Time, Commensal Fast Transient Surveys with the Very Large Array

C. J. Law, G. C. Bower, S. Burke-Spolaor +8

Radio interferometers have the ability to precisely localize and better characterize the properties of sources. This ability is having a powerful impact on the study of fast radio…