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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★ 62 cited

Effect of filters on the time-delay interferometry residual laser noise for LISA

Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Marc Lilley, Antoine Petiteau +1

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a European Space Agency mission that aims to measure gravitational waves in the millihertz range. Laser frequency noise enters the…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 89 cited

Experimental results from the ST7 mission on LISA Pathfinder

G Anderson, J Anderson, M Anderson +145

The Space Technology 7 Disturbance Reduction System (ST7-DRS) is a NASA technology demonstration payload that operated from January 2016 through July of 2017 on the European Space…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1 cited

Learning sparse representations on the sphere

Florent Sureau, Felix Voigtlaender, Malte Wust +2

Many representation systems on the sphere have been proposed in the past, such as spherical harmonics, wavelets, or curvelets. Each of these data representations is designed to ext…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 20 cited

Measurements of tropospheric ice clouds with a ground-based CMB polarization experiment, POLARBEAR

Satoru Takakura, Mario A. O. Aguilar-Faúndez, Yoshiki Akiba +45

The polarization of the atmosphere has been a long-standing concern for ground-based experiments targeting cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. Ice crystals in upper tro…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 23 cited

The XXL Survey XXIV. The final detection pipeline

L. Faccioli, F. Pacaud, J. -L. Sauvageot +7

A well characterised detection pipeline is an important ingredient for X-ray cluster surveys. We present the final development of the XXL Survey pipeline. The pipeline optimally us…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 24 cited

First observations of speed of light tracks by a fluorescence detector looking down on the atmosphere

G. Abdellaoui, S. Abe, J. H. Adams +311

EUSO-Balloon is a pathfinder mission for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory onboard the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM-EUSO). It was launched on the moonless night of the 25$^…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 8 cited

Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) - The Prime Focus Subsystems: Requirements and Interfaces

Alexis Hill, Alexandre Blin, David Horville +2

MSE will be a massively multiplexed survey telescope, including a segmented primary mirror which feeds fibers at the prime focus, including an array of approximately four thousand…

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

Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE): Implementing systems engineering methodology for the development of a new facility

Kei Szeto, Alexis Hill, Nicolas Flagey +6

Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer will be a 10-m class highly multiplexed survey telescope, including a segmented primary mirror and robotic fiber positioners at the prime focus. MSE…

astro-ph.IM2018

Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Advancing from Conceptual Design

Kei Szeto, Doug Simons, Steven Bauman +5

The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) project has completed its Conceptual Design Phase. This paper is a status report of the MSE project regarding its technical and programmat…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 18 cited

Review of high-contrast imaging systems for current and future ground- and space-based telescopes I. Coronagraph design methods and optical performance metrics

G. Ruane, A. Riggs, J. Mazoyer +29

The Optimal Optical Coronagraph (OOC) Workshop at the Lorentz Center in September 2017 in Leiden, the Netherlands gathered a diverse group of 25 researchers working on exoplanet in…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 18 cited

Fast Coherent Differential Imaging on Ground-Based Telescopes using the Self-Coherent Camera

Benjamin L. Gerard, Christian Marois, Raphaël Galicher

Direct imaging and spectral characterization of exoplanets using extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) is a key science goal of future extremely large telescopes and space observatories.…

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★ 126 cited

Astrometric and photometric accuracies in high contrast imaging: The SPHERE speckle calibration tool (SpeCal)

R. Galicher, A. Boccaletti, D. Mesa +21

The consortium of the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch installed at the Very Large Telescope (SPHERE/VLT) has been operating its guaranteed observation time (2…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 21 cited

Long-term monitoring of the ANTARES optical module efficiencies using decays in sea water

ANTARES collaboration, A. Albert, M. André +124

Cherenkov light induced by radioactive decay products is one of the major sources of background light for deep-sea neutrino telescopes such as ANTARES. These decays are at the same…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 21 cited

Numerical estimation of wavefront error breakdown in adaptive optics

Florian Ferreira, Eric Gendron, Gérard Rousset +1

Adaptive optics (AO) system performance is improved using post-processing techniques, such as point spread function (PSF) deconvolution. The PSF estimation involves characterizatio…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 38 cited

Gaia Data Release 2. Calibration and mitigation of electronic offset effects in the data

N. C. Hambly, M. Cropper, S. Boudreault +30

The European Space Agency Gaia satellite was launched into orbit around L2 in December 2013. This ambitious mission has strict requirements on residual systematic errors resulting…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 17 cited

K-Stacker: Keplerian image recombination for the direct detection of exoplanets

M. Nowak, H. Le Coroller, L. Arnold +5

We present a proof of concept for a new algorithm which can be used to detect exoplanets in high contrast images. The algorithm properly combines mutliple observations acquired dur…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 17 cited

The Effects of Bandpass Variations on Foreground Removal Forecasts for Future CMB Experiments

J. T. Ward, D. Alonso, J. Errard +2

Time-dependent and systematic variations in band gain and central frequencies of instruments used to study the Cosmic Microwave Background are important factors in the data-to-map…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 23 cited

ATLAS Probe: Breakthrough Science of Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology, Milky Way, and the Solar System

Yun Wang, Massimo Robberto, Mark Dickinson +37

ATLAS (Astrophysics Telescope for Large Area Spectroscopy) Probe is a concept for a NASA probe-class space mission. It is the follow-up space mission to WFIRST, boosting its scient…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 50 cited

Impact of infrasound atmospheric noise on gravity detectors used for astrophysical and geophysical applications

Donatella Fiorucci, Jan Harms, Matteo Barsuglia +2

Density changes in the atmosphere produce a fluctuating gravity field that affect gravity strainmeters or gravity gradiometers used for the detection of gravitational-waves and for…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 137 cited

The LiteBIRD Satellite Mission - Sub-Kelvin Instrument

A. Suzuki, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +149

Inflation is the leading theory of the first instant of the universe. Inflation, which postulates that the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion an instant after its birth…