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astro-ph.IM2021

The InSight HP Penetrator (Mole) on Mars: Soil Properties Derived From the Penetration Attempts and Related Activities

T. Spohn, T. L. Hudson, E. Marteau +31

The NASA InSight Lander on Mars includes the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package HP to measure the surface heat flow of the planet. The package uses temperature sensors t…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 72 cited

The InSight HP mole on Mars: Lessons learned from attempts to penetrate to depth in the Martian soil

T. Spohn, T. L. Hudson, L. Witte +13

The NASA InSight mission payload includes the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package HP to measure the surface heat flow. The package was designed to use a small penetrator…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 42 cited

Observing the Sun as a star: Design and early results from the NEID solar feed

Andrea S. J. Lin, Andrew Monson, Suvrath Mahadevan +27

Efforts with extreme-precision radial velocity (EPRV) instruments to detect small-amplitude planets are largely limited, on many timescales, by the effects of stellar variability a…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 5 cited

A multi-chroic kinetic inductance detectors array using hierarchical phased array antenna

Shibo Shu, Andrew Beyer, Peter K. Day +3

We present a multi-chroic kinetic inductance detector (KID) pixel design integrated with a broadband hierarchical phased-array antenna. Each low-frequency pixel consists of four hi…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

A kinetic inductance detectors array design for high background conditions at 150 GHz

Shibo Shu, Jack Sayers, Peter K. Day

We present a design for an array of kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) integrated with phased array antennas for imaging at 150 GHz under high background conditions. The microstri…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

In-flight gain monitoring of SPIDER's transition-edge sensor arrays

J. P. Filippini, A. E. Gambrel, A. S. Rahlin +67

Experiments deploying large arrays of transition-edge sensors (TESs) often require a robust method to monitor gain variations with minimal loss of observing time. We propose a sens…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 18 cited

COMAP Early Science: III. CO Data Processing

Marie K. Foss, Håvard T. Ihle, Jowita Borowska +30

We describe the first season COMAP analysis pipeline that converts raw detector readouts to calibrated sky maps. This pipeline implements four main steps: gain calibration, filteri…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

Plastic Laminate Antireflective Coatings for Millimeter-wave Optics in BICEP Array

Marion Dierickx, P. A. R. Ade, Zeeshan Ahmed +82

The BICEP/Keck series of experiments target the Cosmic Microwave Background at degree-scale resolution from the South Pole. Over the next few years, the "Stage-3" BICEP Array (BA)…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 20 cited

COMAP Early Science: II. Pathfinder Instrument

James W. Lamb, Kieran A. Cleary, David P. Woody +32

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a new technique for tracing the global properties of galaxies over cosmic time. Detection of the very faint signals from redshifted carbon monoxide…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

Onboard Dynamic Image Exposure Control for the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS)

Tahina Ramiaramanantsoa, Judd D. Bowman, Evgenya L. Shkolnik +19

The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) is a 6U CubeSat under development to monitor the flaring and chromospheric activity of M dwarfs at near-ultraviolet (NUV) and far…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

The Photo-z Infrared Telescope (PIRT) -- a space instrument for rapid follow up of high-redshift gamma-ray bursts and electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events

M. Seiffert, A. Balady, T. -C. Chang +17

The Photo-z InfraRed Telescope (PIRT) is an instrument on the Gamow Explorer, currently proposed for a NASA Astrophysics Medium Explorer. PIRT works in tandem with a companion wide…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 34 cited

Faint objects in motion: the new frontier of high precision astrometry

Fabien Malbet, Céline Boehm, Alberto Krone-Martins +83

Sky survey telescopes and powerful targeted telescopes play complementary roles in astronomy. In order to investigate the nature and characteristics of the motions of very faint ob…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

Characterization of an Instrument Model for Exoplanet Transit Spectrum Estimation through Wide Scale Analysis on HST Data

Noah Huber-Feely, Mark R. Swain, Gael Roudier +1

Instrument models (IMs) enable the reduction of systematic error in transit spectroscopy light curve data, but, since the model formulation can influence the estimation of science…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 14 cited

High spectral resolution multi-tone Spacecraft Doppler tracking software: Algorithms and implementations

Guifré Molera Calvés, Sergei V. Pogrebenko, Jan F. Wagner +5

We present a software package for single-dish data processing of spacecraft signals observed with VLBI-equipped radio telescopes. The Spacecraft Doppler tracking (SDtracker) softwa…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

Time-Resolved Photometry of the High-Energy Radiation of M Dwarfs with the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS)

Tahina Ramiaramanantsoa, Judd D. Bowman, Evgenya L. Shkolnik +18

Know thy star, know thy planet,... especially in the ultraviolet (UV). Over the past decade, that motto has grown from mere wish to necessity in the M dwarf regime, given that the…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

Development of Superconducting On-chip Fourier Transform Spectrometers

R. Basu Thakur, A. Steiger, S. Shu +6

Superconducting On-chip Fourier Transform Spectrometers (SOFTS) are broadband, compact and electronic interferometers. Being extremely compact, SOFTS can fit into standard antenna…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 11 cited

The SLAC T-510 experiment for radio emission from particle showers: detailed simulation study and interpretation

K. Bechtol, K. Belov, K. Borch +26

Over the last several decades, radio detection of air showers has been widely used to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. We developed an experiment under controlled laboratory c…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

Design of the vacuum high contrast imaging testbed for CDEEP, the Coronagraphic Debris and Exoplanet Exploring Pioneer

Erin R. Maier, Ewan S. Douglas, Daewook Kim +26

The Coronagraphic Debris Exoplanet Exploring Payload (CDEEP) is a Small-Sat mission concept for high contrast imaging of circumstellar disks. CDEEP is designed to observe disks in…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 8 cited

The TESS Mission Target Selection Procedure

Michael Fausnaugh, Ed Morgan, Roland Vanderspek +61

We describe the target selection procedure by which stars are selected for 2-minute and 20-second observations by TESS. We first list the technical requirements of the TESS instrum…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment: 256-Element Array Status and Overview

Devin Crichton, Moumita Aich, Adam Amara +97

The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) is a radio interferometer array currently in development, with an initial 256-element array to be deployed at the S…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 43 cited

Euclid preparation: XVI. Exploring the ultra low-surface brightness Universe with Euclid/VIS

A. S. Borlaff, P. Gómez-Alvarez, B. Altieri +180

While Euclid is an ESA mission specifically designed to investigate the nature of Dark Energy and Dark Matter, the planned unprecedented combination of survey area ( d…

astro-ph.IM2021

LUVOIR-ECLIPS closed-loop adaptive optics performance and contrast predictions

Axel Potier, Garreth Ruane, Pin Chen +8

One of the primary science goals of the Large UV/Optical/Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) mission concept is to detect and characterize Earth-like exoplanets orbiting nearby stars with d…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 20 cited

Flight mask designs of the Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument

A J Eldorado Riggs, Dwight Moody, Jessica Gersh-Range +17

Over the past two decades, thousands of confirmed exoplanets have been detected; the next major challenge is to characterize these other worlds and their stellar systems. Much info…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

A Mission to Nature's Telescope for High-Resolution Imaging of an Exoplanet

Louis D. Friedman, Darren Garber, Slava G. Turyshev +4

The solar gravitational lens (SGL) provides a factor of amplification for viewing distant point sources beyond our solar system. As such, it may be used for resolved imag…