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astro-ph.IM2018★ 78 cited

LISA Pathfinder Platform Stability and Drag-free Performance

Michele Armano, Heather Audley, Jonathon Baird +75

The science operations of the LISA Pathfinder mission has demonstrated the feasibility of sub-femto-g free-fall of macroscopic test masses necessary to build a LISA-like gravitatio…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 44 cited

QuasarNET: Human-level spectral classification and redshifting with Deep Neural Networks

Nicolas Busca, Christophe Balland

We introduce QuasarNET, a deep convolutional neural network that performs classification and redshift estimation of astrophysical spectra with human-expert accuracy. We pose these…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 2 cited

Modeling and budgeting fiber injection efficiency for the Maunakea spectroscopic explorer (MSE)

Nicolas Flagey, Kei Seto, Shan Mignon +3

The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) will each year obtain millions of spectra in the optical to near-infrared, at low (R ~ 3,000) to high (R ~ 40,000) spectral resolution by…

astro-ph.IM2018

The science calibration challenges of next generation highly multiplexed optical spectroscopy: the case of the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer

Alan W. McConnachie, Nicolas Flagey, Pat Hall +4

MSE is an 11.25m telescope with a 1.5 sq.deg. field of view. It can simultaneously obtain 3249 spectra at R=3000 from 360-1800nm, and 1083 spectra at R=40000 in the optical. The la…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 3 cited

Reproducibility and monitoring of the instrumental particle background for the X-Ray Integral Field Unit

Edoardo Cucchetti, Etienne Pointecouteau, Didier Barret +7

The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) is the cryogenic imaging spectrometer on board the future X-ray observatory \textsl{Athena}. With a hexagonal array of 3840 AC-biased Transiti…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 5 cited

Progress in the Construction and Testing of the Tianlai Radio Interferometers

Santanu Das, Christopher J. Anderson, Reza Ansari +44

The Tianlai Pathfinder is designed to demonstrate the feasibility of using a wide field of view radio interferometers to map the density of neutral hydrogen in the Universe after t…

astro-ph.IM2018

The science case for POLLUX, a high-resolution UV spectropolarimeter onboard LUVOIR

Jean-Claude Bouret, Coralie Neiner, Ana I. Gómez de Castro +9

POLLUX is a high-resolution, UV spectropolarimeter proposed for the 15-meter primary mirror option of LUVOIR. The instrument Phase 0 study is supported by the French Space Agency (…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 28 cited

MeerTime - the MeerKAT Key Science Program on Pulsar Timing

M. Bailes, E. Barr, N. D. R. Bhat +28

The MeerKAT telescope represents an outstanding opportunity for radio pulsar timing science with its unique combination of a large collecting area and aperture efficiency (effectiv…