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astro-ph.IM2017★ 9 cited

Developing post-coronagraphic, high-resolution spectroscopy for terrestrial planet characterization on ELTs

N. Jovanovic, O. Guyon, T. Kotani +12

Spectroscopic observations are extremely important for determining the composition, structure, and surface gravity of exoplanetary atmospheres. High resolution spectroscopy of the…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 76 cited

How Many Kilonovae Can Be Found in Past, Present, and Future Survey Datasets?

D. Scolnic, R. Kessler, D. Brout +83

The discovery of a kilonova (KN) associated with the Advanced LIGO (aLIGO)/Virgo event GW170817 opens up new avenues of multi-messenger astrophysics. Here, using realistic simulati…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 39 cited

Demonstration of an efficient, photonic-based astronomical spectrograph on an 8-m telescope

N. Jovanovic, N. Cvetojevic, B. Norris +11

We demonstrate for the first time an efficient, photonic-based astronomical spectrograph on the 8-m Subaru Telescope. An extreme adaptive optics system is combined with pupil apodi…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 19 cited

Mary, a pipeline to aid discovery of optical transients

Igor Andreoni, Colin Jacobs, Sarah Hegarty +3

The ability to quickly detect transient sources in optical images and trigger multi-wavelength follow up is key for the discovery of fast transients. These include events rare and…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 10 cited

Enabling near real-time remote search for fast transient events with lossy data compression

Dany Vohl, Tyler Pritchard, Igor Andreoni +2

We present a systematic evaluation of JPEG2000 (ISO/IEC 15444) as a transport data format to enable rapid remote searches for fast transient events as part of the Deeper Wider Fast…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 5 cited

DES Science Portal: Creating Science-Ready Catalogs

Angelo Fausti Neto, Luiz da Costa, Aurelio Carnero Rosell +55

We present a novel approach for creating science-ready catalogs through a software infrastructure developed for the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We integrate the data products release…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 29 cited

Detector sampling of optical/IR spectra: how many pixels per FWHM?

J. Gordon Robertson

Most optical and IR spectra are now acquired using detectors with finite-width pixels in a square array. This paper examines the effects of such pixellation, using computed simulat…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 21 cited

Modal noise in an integrated photonic lantern fed diffraction-limited spectrograph

N. Cvetojevic, N. Jovanovic, S. Gross +9

In an attempt to develop a streamlined astrophotonic instrument, we demonstrate the realization of an all-photonic device capable of both multimode to single mode conversion and sp…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 107 cited

Forward Global Photometric Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey

D. Burke, E. S. Rykoff, S. Allam +56

Many scientific goals for the Dark Energy Survey (DES) require calibration of optical/NIR broadband photometry that is stable in time and uniform over the celestial sky…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 114 cited

COSMOGRAIL XVI: Time delays for the quadruply imaged quasar DES J0408-5354 with high-cadence photometric monitoring

F. Courbin, V. Bonvin, E. Buckley-Geer +74

We present time-delay measurements for the new quadruply imaged quasar DES J0408-5354, the first quadruply imaged quasar found in the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Our result is made p…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 85 cited

Efficient injection from large telescopes into single-mode fibres: Enabling the era of ultra-precision astronomy

N. Jovanovic, C. Schwab, O. Guyon +9

Photonic technologies offer numerous advantages for astronomical instruments such as spectrographs and interferometers owing to their small footprints and diverse range of function…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 10 cited

Mapping the aberrations of a wide-field spectrograph using a photonic comb

Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Janez Kos, Christopher Betters +4

We demonstrate a new approach to calibrating the spectral-spatial response of a wide-field spectrograph using a fibre etalon comb. Conventional wide-field instruments employed on f…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 8 cited

Collaborative workspaces to accelerate discovery

Bernard Meade, Christopher Fluke, Jeff Cooke +13

By applying a display ecology to the {\em Deeper, Wider, Faster} proactive, simultaneous telescope observing campaign, we have shown a dramatic reduction in the time taken to inspe…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 66 cited

Astrometric calibration and performance of the Dark Energy Camera

G. M. Bernstein, R. Armstrong, A. A. Plazas +53

We characterize the ability of the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) to perform relative astrometry across its 500~Mpix, 3 deg^2 science field of view, and across 4 years of operation. Th…

astro-ph.IM2017

Modelling the Dynamics of a Hypothetical Planet X by way of Gravitational N-body Simulator

Michael J. Cowley, Stephen W. Hughes

This paper describes a novel activity to model the dynamics of a Jupiter-mass, trans-Neptunian planet of a highly eccentric orbit. Despite a history rooted in modern astronomy, "Pl…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 5 cited

Performance of a novel PMMA polymer imaging bundle for field acquisition and wavefront sensing

Samuel Nathan Richards, Sergio Leon-Saval, Michael Goodwin +7

Imaging bundles provide a convenient way to translate a spatially coherent image, yet conventional imaging bundles made from silica fibre optics typically remain expensive with lar…