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astro-ph.IM2016★ 27 cited

Wavelet-Bayesian inference of cosmic strings embedded in the cosmic microwave background

J. D. McEwen, S. M. Feeney, H. V. Peiris +3

Cosmic strings are a well-motivated extension to the standard cosmological model and could induce a subdominant component in the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CM…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 74 cited

The Deep and Transient Universe in the SVOM Era: New Challenges and Opportunities - Scientific prospects of the SVOM mission

J. Wei, B. Cordier, S. Antier +77

To take advantage of the astrophysical potential of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), Chinese and French astrophysicists have engaged the SVOM mission (Space-based multi-band astronomical V…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 97 cited

The Euclid mission design

Giuseppe D Racca, Rene Laureijs, Luca Stagnaro +39

Euclid is a space-based optical/near-infrared survey mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) to investigate the nature of dark energy, dark matter and gravity by observing the g…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 2.1k cited

Gaia Data Release 1. Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties

Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A. Brown, A. Vallenari +5

At about 1000 days after the launch of Gaia we present the first Gaia data release, Gaia DR1, consisting of astrometry and photometry for over 1 billion sources brighter than magni…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 7.1k cited

The Gaia mission

Gaia Collaboration

Gaia is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 90 cited

Convolution kernels for multi-wavelength imaging

Alexandre Boucaud, Marco Bocchio, Alain Abergel +3

Astrophysical images issued from different instruments and/or spectral bands often require to be processed together, either for fitting or comparison purposes. However each image i…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 55 cited

VIS: the visible imager for Euclid

Mark Cropper, S. Pottinger, S. Niemi +33

Euclid-VIS is the large format visible imager for the ESA Euclid space mission in their Cosmic Vision program, scheduled for launch in 2020. Together with the near infrared imaging…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 31 cited

The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer: the Composition and Dynamics of the Faint Universe

Alan McConnachie, Carine Babusiaux, Michael Balogh +173

MSE is an 11.25m aperture observatory with a 1.5 square degree field of view that will be fully dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy. More than 3200 fibres will feed spectrograph…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 9 cited

The NIKA2 commissioning campaign: performance and first results

A. Catalano, R. Adam, P. Ade +39

The New IRAM KID Array 2 (NIKA 2) is a dual-band camera operating with three frequency-multiplexed kilopixels arrays of Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors (LEKID) cooled a…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 244 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: The polarization-sensitive ACTPol instrument

R. J. Thornton, P. A. R. Ade, S. Aiola +53

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is designed to make high angular resolution measurements of anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at millimeter wavelengths. W…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 369 cited

State of the Field: Extreme Precision Radial Velocities

Debra Fischer, Guillem Anglada-Escude, Pamela Arriagada +53

The Second Workshop on Extreme Precision Radial Velocities defined circa 2015 the state of the art Doppler precision and identified the critical path challenges for reaching 10 cm/…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 35 cited

Detection and Removal of Artifacts in Astronomical Images

Shantanu Desai, Joseph Mohr, Emmanuel Bertin +2

Astronomical images from optical photometric surveys are typically contaminated with transient artifacts such as cosmic rays, satellite trails and scattered light. We have develope…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 33 cited

Assessment of Systematic Chromatic Errors that Impact Sub-1% Photometric Precision in Large-Area Sky Surveys

T. S. Li, D. L. DePoy, J. L. Marshall +69

Meeting the science goals for many current and future ground-based optical large-area sky surveys requires that the calibrated broadband photometry is stable in time and uniform ov…