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astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

Spectral performance of the Microchannel X-ray Telescope on board the SVOM mission

B. Schneider, N. Renault-Tinacci, D. Götz +7

The Microchannel X-ray Telescope (MXT) is an innovative compact X-ray instrument on board the SVOM astronomical mission dedicated to the study of transient phenomena such as gamma-…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 32 cited

Observation of night-time emissions of the Earth in the near UV range from the International Space Station with the Mini-EUSO detector

M. Casolino, D. Barghini, M. Battisti +47

Mini-EUSO (Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a telescope observing the Earth from the International Space Station since 2019. Th…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

Planetary Exploration Horizon 2061 Report, Chapter 4: From planetary exploration goals to technology requirements

Jérémie Lasue, Pierre Bousquet, Michel Blanc +19

This chapter reviews for each province and destination of the Solar System the representative space missions that will have to be designed and implemented by 2061 to address the si…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 18 cited

The Scientific Performance of the Microchannel X-ray Telescope on board the SVOM Mission

D. Gotz, M. Boutelier, V. Burwitz +17

The Microchannel X-ray Telescope (MXT) will be the first focusing X-ray telescope based on a "Lobster-Eye" optical design to be flown on Sino-French mission SVOM. SVOM will be dedi…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 7 cited

StarDICE I: sensor calibration bench and absolute photometric calibration of a Sony IMX411 sensor

Marc Betoule, Sarah Antier, Emmanuel Bertin +18

The Hubble diagram of type-Ia supernovae (SNe-Ia) provides cosmological constraints on the nature of dark energy with an accuracy limited by the flux calibration of currently avail…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 19 cited

Deep Learning-based galaxy image deconvolution

Utsav Akhaury, Jean-Luc Starck, Pascale Jablonka +2

With the onset of large-scale astronomical surveys capturing millions of images, there is an increasing need to develop fast and accurate deconvolution algorithms that generalize w…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 47 cited

Spectroscopic time series performance of the Mid-Infrared Instrument on the JWST

Jeroen Bouwman, Sarah Kendrew, Thomas P. Greene +21

We present here the first ever mid-infrared spectroscopic time series observation of the transiting exoplanet \object{L 168-9 b} with the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the Jame…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 19 cited

Differentiable Cosmological Simulation with Adjoint Method

Yin Li, Chirag Modi, Drew Jamieson +5

Rapid advances in deep learning have brought not only myriad powerful neural networks, but also breakthroughs that benefit established scientific research. In particular, automatic…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 27 cited

Charging of free-falling test masses in orbit due to cosmic rays: results from LISA Pathfinder

LISA Pathfinder Collaboration, M. Armano, H. Audley +72

A comprehensive summary of the measurements made to characterize test mass charging due to the space environment during the LISA Pathfinder mission is presented. Measurements of th…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 22 cited

New Generation Stellar Spectral Libraries in the Optical and Near-Infrared I: The Recalibrated UVES-POP Library for Stellar Population Synthesis

Sviatoslav Borisov, Igor Chilingarian, Evgenii Rubtsov +8

We present re-processed flux calibrated spectra of 406 stars from the UVES-POP stellar library in the wavelength range 320-1025 nm, which can be used for stellar population synthes…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 14 cited

First observation of the cosmic ray shadow of the Moon and the Sun with KM3NeT/ORCA

KM3NeT Collaboration

This article reports the first observation of the Moon and the Sun shadows in the sky distribution of cosmic-ray induced muons measured by the KM3NeT/ORCA detector. The analysed da…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

Precise near-infrared photometry, accounting for precipitable water vapour at SPECULOOS Southern Observatory

Peter P. Pedersen, C. A. Murray, D. Queloz +20

The variability induced by precipitable water vapour (PWV) can heavily affect the accuracy of time-series photometric measurements gathered from the ground, especially in the near-…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 37 cited

The POLARBEAR-2 and Simons Array Focal Plane Fabrication Status

B. Westbrook, P. A. R. Ade, M. Aguilar +90

We present on the status of POLARBEAR-2 A (PB2-A) focal plane fabrication. The PB2-A is the first of three telescopes in the Simon Array (SA), which is an array of three cosmic mic…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 102 cited

The DAWES review 10: The impact of deep learning for the analysis of galaxy surveys

Marc Huertas-Company, François Lanusse

The amount and complexity of data delivered by modern galaxy surveys has been steadily increasing over the past years. Extracting coherent scientific information from these large a…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 14 cited

Enabling the discovery of fast transients: A kilonova science module for the Fink broker

B. Biswas, E. E. O. Ishida, J. Peloton +4

We describe the fast transient classification algorithm in the center of the kilonova (KN) science module currently implemented in the Fink broker and report classification results…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 33 cited

SPECULOOS Northern Observatory: searching for red worlds in the northern skies

Artem Y. Burdanov, Julien de Wit, Michaël Gillon +14

SPECULOOS is a ground-based transit survey consisting of six identical 1-m robotic telescopes. The immediate goal of the project is to detect temperate terrestrial planets transiti…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 16 cited

AO3000 at Subaru: Combining for the first time a NIR WFS using First Light's C-RED ONE and ALPAO's 64x64 DM

Julien Lozi, Kyohoon Ahn, Christophe Clergeon +7

After 16 years of on-sky operation, Subaru Telescope's facility adaptive optics AO188 is getting several major upgrades to become the extreme-AO AO3000 (3000 actuators in the pupil…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

Exoplanet Imaging Data Challenge, phase II: Characterization of exoplanet signals in high-contrast images

F. Cantalloube, V. Christiaens, C. Cantero +10

Today, there exists a wide variety of algorithms dedicated to high-contrast imaging, especially for the detection and characterisation of exoplanet signals. These algorithms are ta…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 6 cited

Probing Photon Statistics in Adaptive Optics Images with SCExAO/MEC

Sarah Steiger, Timothy D. Brandt, Olivier Guyon +11

We present an experimental study of photon statistics for high-contrast imaging with the Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) Exoplanet Camera (MEC) located behind the Suba…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

Redundant Apodized Pupils (RAP) for high-contrast imagers robust to segmentation-due aberrations and island effects

Lucie Leboulleux, Alexis Carlotti, Mamadou N'Diaye +6

The imaging and characterization of a larger range of exoplanets, down to young Jupiters and exo-Earths will require accessing very high contrasts at small angular separations with…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

Controlling petals using fringes: discontinuous wavefront sensing through sparse aperture interferometry at Subaru/SCExAO

Vincent Deo, Sébastien Vievard, Nick Cvetojevic +9

Low wind and petaling effects, caused by the discontinuous apertures of telescopes, are poorly corrected -- if at all -- by commonly used workhorse wavefront sensors (WFSs). Wavefr…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 22 cited

Euclid preparation: XXII. Selection of Quiescent Galaxies from Mock Photometry using Machine Learning

Euclid Collaboration, A. Humphrey, L. Bisigello +206

The Euclid Space Telescope will provide deep imaging at optical and near-infrared wavelengths, along with slitless near-infrared spectroscopy, across ~15,000 sq deg of the sky. Euc…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

Laue and Fresnel lenses

Enrico Virgilli, Hubert Halloin, Gerald Skinner

The low-energy gamma-ray domain is an important window for the study of the high energy Universe. Here matter can be observed in extreme physical conditions and during powerful exp…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 18 cited

Increasing the raw contrast of VLT/SPHERE with the dark-hole technique. II. On-sky wavefront correction and coherent differential imaging

Axel Potier, Johan Mazoyer, Zahed Wahhaj +4

Context. Direct imaging of exoplanets takes advantage of state-of-the-art adaptive optics (AO) systems, coronagraphy, and post-processing techniques. Coronagraphs attenuate starlig…