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astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

Uranus Study Report: KISS

Mark Hofstadter, Ravit Helled, David J. Stevenson +27

Determining the internal structure of Uranus is a key objective for planetary science. Knowledge of Uranus's bulk composition and the distribution of elements is crucial to underst…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

A celestial reference frame derived from observations with the Very Long Baseline Interferometry Global Observing System

Hana Krasna, Christopher S. Jacobs, Matthias Schartner +1

Aims: We computed a celestial reference frame (CRF) from Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Global Observing System (VGOS) data after five years of regular observations (155…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

MAUVE: An Ultraviolet Astrophysics Probe Mission Concept

Mayura Balakrishnan, Rory Bowens, Fernando Cruz Aguirre +18

We present the mission concept "Mission to Analyze the UltraViolet universE" (MAUVE), a wide-field spectrometer and imager conceived during the inaugural NASA Astrophysics Mission…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 30 cited

First Very Long Baseline Interferometry Detections at 870μm

Alexander W. Raymond, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Keiichi Asada +276

The first very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) detections at 870m wavelength (345GHz frequency) are reported, achieving the highest diffraction-limited angular resolutio…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

The assembly, characterization, and performance of SISTINE

Nicholas Nell, Kevin France, Nicholas Kruczek +6

The Suborbital Imaging Spectrograph for Transition region Irradiance from Nearby Exoplanet host stars (SISTINE) is a rocket-borne ultraviolet (UV) imaging spectrograph designed to…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

NEW-MUSIC: The Next-generation Extended-Wavelength Multiband Sub/millimeter Inductance Camera

Sunil R. Golwala, Andrew D. Beyer, Daniel Cunnane +9

The Next-generation Extended Wavelength-MUltiband Sub/millimeter Inductance Camera (NEW-MUSIC) on the Leighton Chajnantor Telescope (LCT) will be a first-of-its-kind, six-band, tra…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

An Instrument Error Budget for Space-Based Absolute Flux Measurements of the Sky Synchrotron Spectrum Below 20 MHz

Julie Rolla, Andrew Romero-Wolf, Joseph Lazio

This work describes the instrumental error budget for space-based measurements of the absolute flux of the sky synchrotron spectrum at frequencies below the ionospheric cutoff (<20…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

Simulated performance of energy-resolving detectors towards exoplanet imaging with the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Sarah Steiger, Laurent Pueyo, Emiel H. Por +5

One of the primary science goals of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) as defined by the Astro2020 decadal survey is the imaging of the first Earth-like planet around a Sun-lik…

astro-ph.IM2024

Mid-order wavefront control for exoplanet imaging: preliminary characterization of the segmented deformable mirror and Zernike wavefront sensor on HiCAT

B. Buralli, M. N'Diaye, R. Pourcelot +13

We study a mid-order wavefront sensor (MOWFS) to address fine cophasing errors in exoplanet imaging with future large segmented aperture space telescopes. Observing Earth analogs a…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Challenges in focal plane and telescope calibration for High-Precision Space Astrometry

F. Malbet, M. Lizzana, F. Pancher +10

With sub-microarcsecond angular accuracy, the \theia telescope will be capable of revealing the architectures of nearby exoplanetary systems down to the mass of Earth. This researc…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Ultraviolet Technology To Prepare For The Habitable Worlds Observatory

Sarah Tuttle, Mark Matsumura, David R. Ardila +22

We present here the current state of a collection of promising ultraviolet technologies in preparation for the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Working with experts representing a sig…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

SuperBIT Superpressure Flight Instrument Overview and Performance: Near diffraction-limited Astronomical Imaging from the Stratosphere

Ajay S. Gill, Steven J. Benton, Christopher J. Damaren +26

SuperBIT was a 0.5-meter near-ultraviolet to near-infrared wide-field telescope that launched on a NASA superpressure balloon into the stratosphere from New Zealand for a 45-night…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

In-Flight Performance of Spider's 280 GHz Receivers

Elle C. Shaw, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +84

SPIDER is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the cosmic microwave background at degree-angular scales in the presence of Galactic foregrounds. SPIDER has mapped a large sky…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Cosmic ray susceptibility of the Terahertz Intensity Mapper detector arrays

Lun-Jun Liu, Reinier M. J. Janssen, Bruce Bumble +26

We report on the effects of cosmic ray interactions with the Kinetic Inductance Detector (KID) based focal plane array for the Terahertz Intensity Mapper (TIM). TIM is a NASA-funde…

astro-ph.IM2024

Advancing Ultraviolet Detector Technology for future missions: Investigating the dark current plateau in silicon detectors using photon-counting EMCCDs

Aafaque R. Khan, Erika Hamden, Gillian Kyne +14

Understanding the noise characteristics of high quantum efficiency silicon-based ultraviolet detectors, developed by the Microdevices Lab at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is criti…

astro-ph.IM2024

From SuperBIT to GigaBIT: Informing next-generation balloon-borne telescope design with Fine Guidance System flight data

Philippe Voyer, Steven J. Benton, Christopher J. Damaren +28

The Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) is a near-diffraction-limited 0.5m telescope that launched via NASA's super-pressure balloon technology on April 16, 2…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 45 cited

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Programme overview and pipeline for compact- and diffuse-emission photometry

J. -C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, M. Bolzonella +260

The Euclid ERO showcase Euclid's capabilities in advance of its main mission, targeting 17 astronomical objects, from galaxy clusters, nearby galaxies, globular clusters, to star-f…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

Design and Performance of 30/40 GHz Diplexed Focal Plane for BICEP Array

Corwin Shiu, Ahmed Soliman, Roger O'Brient +11

We demonstrate a wide-band diplexed focal plane suitable for observing low-frequency foregrounds that are important for cosmic microwave background polarimetry. The antenna element…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 103 cited

Euclid. II. The VIS Instrument

Euclid Collaboration, M. S. Cropper, A. Al-Bahlawan +432

This paper presents the specification, design, and development of the Visible Camera (VIS) on the ESA Euclid mission. VIS is a large optical-band imager with a field of view of 0.5…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 58 cited

SPHEREx: NASA's Near-Infrared Spectrophotmetric All-Sky Survey

Brendan P. Crill, Michael Werner, Rachel Akeson +51

SPHEREx, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and ices Explorer, is a NASA MIDEX mission planned for launch in 2024. SPHEREx will carry ou…

astro-ph.IM2024

Analyzing the Atmospheric Dispersion Correction of the Gemini Planet Imager: residual dispersion above design requirements

Malachi Noel, Jason J. Wang, Bruce Macintosh +6

The Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector (ADC) of the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) corrects the chromatic dispersion caused by differential atmospheric refraction (DAR), making it an imp…

astro-ph.IM2024

Thermal control of long delay lines in a high-resolution astrophotonic spectrograph

Gregory P. Sercel, Pradip R. Gatkine, Nemanja Jovanovic +4

High-resolution astronomical spectroscopy carried out with a photonic Fourier transform spectrograph (FTS) requires long asymmetrical optical delay lines that can be dynamically tu…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

Laboratory demonstration of a Photonic Lantern Nuller in monochromatic and broadband light

Yinzi Xin, Daniel Echeverri, Nemanja Jovanovic +11

Photonic lantern nulling (PLN) is a method for enabling the detection and characterization of close-in exoplanets by exploiting the symmetries of the ports of a mode-selective phot…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

The BLAST Observatory: A Sensitivity Study for Far-IR Balloon-borne Polarimeters

The BLAST Observatory Collaboration, Gabriele Coppi, Simon Dicker +21

Sensitive wide-field observations of polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust grains will allow astronomers to address key outstanding questions about the life cycle of ma…