Counting papers with at most 25 authors, so collaboration author lists do not stand in for the people here.
- D. Stern3 profiles493 · h 97
- F. Harrison2 profiles182 · h 58
- P. Eisenhardt3 profiles168 · h 59
- S. Boggs124 · h 60
- F. Christensen123 · h 58
- C. Hailey120 · h 59
- W. Craig2 profiles120 · h 49
- S. Stanford2 profiles117 · h 75
- S. Turyshev116 · h 38
- D. Walton2 profiles108 · h 53
- K. Stapelfeldt104 · h 70
- D. Mawet98 · h 53
- California Institute of TechnologyUS4.7k papers
- Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFR2k papers
- Center for Astrophysics Harvard & SmithsonianUS1.3k papers
- Goddard Space Flight CenterUS1.2k papers
- University of California, BerkeleyUS1.2k papers
- University of ArizonaUS1k papers
- Infrared Processing and Analysis CenterUS1k papers
- University College LondonGB984 papers
- Princeton UniversityUS925 papers
- University of CambridgeGB871 papers
- Institut d'Astrophysique de ParisFR858 papers
- Space Telescope Science InstituteUS808 papers
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Speckle Suppression with the Project 1640 Integral Field Spectrograph
Justin R. Crepp, Laurent Pueyo, Douglas Brenner +15
Project 1640 is a high-contrast imaging instrument recently commissioned at Palomar observatory. A combination of a coronagraph with an integral field spectrograph (IFS), Project 1…
Pulsars with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder
I. H. Stairs, M. J. Keith, Z. Arzoumanian +33
The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a 36-element array with a 30-square-degree field of view being built at the proposed SKA site in Western Australia. We a…
Parameter distributions of Keplerian orbits
Dmitry Savransky, Eric Cady, N. Jeremy Kasdin
Starting with just the assumption of uniformly distributed orbital orientations, we derive expressions for the distributions of the Keplerian orbital elements as functions of arbit…
A New High Contrast Imaging Program at Palomar Observatory
Sasha Hinkley, Ben R. Oppenheimer, Neil Zimmerman +19
We describe a new instrument that forms the core of a long-term high contrast imaging program at the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory. The primary scientific thrust i…
The PHASES Differential Astrometry Data Archive. I. Measurements and Description
Matthew W. Muterspaugh, Benjamin F. Lane, S. R. Kulkarni +6
The Palomar High-precision Astrometric Search for Exoplanet Systems (PHASES) monitored 51 sub-arcsecond binary systems to determine precision binary orbits, study the geometries of…
Improved models of upper-level wind for several astronomical observatories
Lewis C. Roberts, L. William Bradford
An understanding of wind speed and direction as a function of height are critical to the proper modeling of atmospheric turbulence. We have used radiosonde data from launch sites n…
Antenna-coupled TES Bolometer Arrays for BICEP2/Keck and SPIDER
A. Orlando, R. W Aikin, M. Amiri +28
BICEP2/Keck and SPIDER are cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeters targeting the B-mode polarization induced by primordial gravitational waves from inflation. They will be u…
Astronomical Image Simulation for Telescope and Survey Development
Benjamin M. Dobke, David E. Johnston, Richard Massey +4
We present the 'simage' software suite for the simulation of artificial extragalactic images, based empirically around real observations of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF). The s…
PIONIER: a visitor instrument for the VLTI
J. -P. Berger, G. Zins, B. Lazareff +35
PIONIER is a 4-telescope visitor instrument for the VLTI, planned to see its first fringes in 2010. It combines four ATs or four UTs using a pairwise ABCD integrated optics combine…
Science drivers and requirements for an Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST): Implications for technology development and synergies with other future facilities
Marc Postman, Tom Brown, Kenneth Sembach +11
The Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) is a concept for an 8-meter to 16-meter UVOIR space observatory for launch in the 2025-2030 era. ATLAST will allow a…
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE): Mission Description and Initial On-orbit Performance
Edward L. Wright, Peter R. M. Eisenhardt, Amy Mainzer +35
The all sky surveys done by the Palomar Observatory Schmidt, the European Southern Observatory Schmidt, and the United Kingdom Schmidt, the InfraRed Astronomical Satellite and the…
The 2010 Interferometric Imaging Beauty Contest
Fabien Malbet, William Cotton, Gilles Duvert +9
We present the results of the fourth Optical/IR Interferometry Imaging Beauty Contest. The contest consists of blind imaging of test data sets derived from model sources and distri…
Absolute polarization angle calibration using polarized diffuse Galactic emission observed by BICEP
Tomotake Matsumura, Peter Ade, Denis Barkats +25
We present a method of cross-calibrating the polarization angle of a polarimeter using BICEP Galactic observations. \bicep\ was a ground based experiment using an array of 49 pairs…
Corrugated Silicon Platelet Feed Horn Array for CMB Polarimetry at 150 GHz
Joseph W. Britton, John P. Nibarger, Ki Won Yoon +7
Next generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropy measurements will feature focal plane arrays with more than 600 millimeter-wave detectors. We make use of…
ARCONS: A highly multiplexed superconducting optical to near-IR camera
Benjamin A. Mazin, Kieran O'Brien, Sean McHugh +4
We report on the development of ARCONS, the ARray Camera for Optical to Near-IR Spectrophotometry. This photon counting integral field unit (IFU), being built at UCSB and Caltech w…
MILCA, a Modified Internal Linear Combination Algorithm to extract astrophysical emissions from multi-frequency sky maps
G. Hurier, J. F. Macias-Perez, S. R. Hildebrandt
The analysis of current Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments is based on the interpretation of multi-frequency sky maps in terms of different astrophysical components and…
Modeling and characterization of the SPIDER half-wave plate
Sean A. Bryan, Peter A. R. Ade, Mandana Amiri +42
Spider is a balloon-borne array of six telescopes that will observe the Cosmic Microwave Background. The 2624 antenna-coupled bolometers in the instrument will make a polarization…
The Optimal Gravitational Lens Telescope
J. Surdej, C. Delacroix, P. Coleman +8
Given an observed gravitational lens mirage produced by a foreground deflector (cf. galaxy, quasar, cluster,...), it is possible via numerical lens inversion to retrieve the real s…
The Herschel-SPIRE instrument and its in-flight performance
M. J. Griffin, A. Abergel, A. Abreu +176
The Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE), is the Herschel Space Observatory`s submillimetre camera and spectrometer. It contains a three-band imaging photometer operat…
In-flight calibration of the Herschel-SPIRE instrument
B. M. Swinyard, P. Ade, J-P. Baluteau +55
SPIRE, the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver, is the Herschel Space Observatory's submillimetre camera and spectrometer. It contains a three-band imaging photometer operati…
Planck pre-launch status: calibration of the Low Frequency Instrument flight model radiometers
F. Villa, L. Terenzi, M. Sandri +71
The Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) on-board the ESA Planck satellite carries eleven radiometer subsystems, called Radiometer Chain Assemblies (RCAs), each composed of a pair of pse…
Experimental Demonstration of Time-Delay Interferometry for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Glenn de Vine, Brent Ware, Kirk McKenzie +3
We report on the first demonstration of time-delay interferometry (TDI) for LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. TDI was implemented in a laboratory experiment designed to…
On-Sky Demonstration of a Linear Band-limited Mask with Application to Visual Binary Stars
Justin R. Crepp, Eugene Serabyn, Joseph Carson +2
We have designed and built the first band-limited coronagraphic mask used for ground-based high-contrast imaging observations. The mask resides in the focal plane of the near-infra…
The effects of charge transfer inefficiency (CTI) on galaxy shape measurements
Jason Rhodes, Alexie Leauthaud, Chris Stoughton +4
(Abridged) We examine the effects of charge transfer inefficiency (CTI) during CCD readout on galaxy shape measurements required by studies of weak gravitational lensing. We simula…