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astro-ph.IM2017★ 12 cited

The NIKA2 instrument at 30-m IRAM telescope: performance and results

A. Catalano, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +84

The New IRAM KID Arrays 2 (NIKA2) consortium has just finished installing and commissioning a millimetre camera on the IRAM 30 m telescope. It is a dual-band camera operating with…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 73 cited

Scientific Synergy Between LSST and Euclid

Jason Rhodes, Robert C. Nichol, Éric Aubourg +34

Euclid and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) are poised to dramatically change the astronomy landscape early in the next decade. The combination of high cadence, deep, wid…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 19 cited

Mining the Kilo-Degree Survey for solar system objects

M. Mahlke, H. Bouy, B. Altieri +7

The search for minor bodies in the solar system promises insights into its formation history. Wide imaging surveys offer the opportunity to serendipitously discover and identify th…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 1 cited

Making 3D movies of Northern Lights

Eric Hivon, Jean Mouette, Thierry Legault

We describe the steps necessary to create three-dimensional (3D) movies of Northern Lights or Aurorae Borealis out of real-time images taken with two distant high-resolution fish-e…

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★ 3 cited

CFHQSIR: a Y-band extension of the CFHTLS-Wide survey

S. Pipien, S. Basa, J. -G. Cuby +6

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) has been conducted over a five-year period at the CFHT with the MegaCam instrument, totaling 450 nights of observations. T…

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★ 52 cited

Theia: Faint objects in motion or the new astrometry frontier

The Theia Collaboration, Celine Boehm, Alberto Krone-Martins +96

In the context of the ESA M5 (medium mission) call we proposed a new satellite mission, Theia, based on relative astrometry and extreme precision to study the motion of very faint…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 160 cited

The NIKA2 large field-of-view millimeter continuum camera for the 30-m IRAM telescope

Remi Adam, Amar Adane, P. A. R. Ade +45

Millimeter-wave continuum astronomy is today an indispensable tool for both general Astrophysics studies and Cosmology. General purpose, large field-of-view instruments are needed…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 124 cited

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Survey requirements and mission design

J. Delabrouille, P. de Bernardis, F. R. Bouchet +200

Future observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation have the potential to answer some of the most fundamental questions of modern physics and cosmology. In this p…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 45 cited

VESPA: a community-driven Virtual Observatory in Planetary Science

S. Erard, B. Cecconi, P. Le Sidaner +39

The VESPA data access system focuses on applying Virtual Observatory (VO) standards and tools to Planetary Science. Building on a previous EC-funded Europlanet program, it has reac…

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★ 43 cited

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: The Instrument

P. de Bernardis, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. A. Baselmans +126

We describe a space-borne, multi-band, multi-beam polarimeter aiming at a precise and accurate measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The instrument is…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 21 cited

VICS82: the VISTA-CFHT Stripe 82 near-infrared survey

J. E. Geach, Y-T. Lin, M. Makler +14

We present the VISTA-CFHT Stripe 82 (VICS82) survey: a near-infrared (J+Ks) survey covering 150 square degrees of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) equatorial Stripe 82 to an ave…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 19 cited

Inferring the photometric and size evolution of galaxies from image simulations

Sébastien Carassou, Valérie de Lapparent, Emmanuel Bertin +1

Current constraints on models of galaxy evolution rely on morphometric catalogs extracted from multi-band photometric surveys. However, these catalogs are altered by selection effe…

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★ 1.4k cited

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Pau Amaro-Seoane, Heather Audley, Stanislav Babak +81

Following the selection of The Gravitational Universe by ESA, and the successful flight of LISA Pathfinder, the LISA Consortium now proposes a 4 year mission in response to ESA's c…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 17 cited

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection

Olivier Martineau-Huynh, Mauricio Bustamante, Washington Carvalho +19

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a planned array of ~200 000 radio antennas deployed over ~200 000 km2 in a mountainous site. It aims primarly at detecting h…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 9 cited

The Euclid Data Processing Challenges

Pierre Dubath, Nikolaos Apostolakos, Andrea Bonchi +37

Euclid is a Europe-led cosmology space mission dedicated to a visible and near infrared survey of the entire extra-galactic sky. Its purpose is to deepen our knowledge of the dark…