Counting papers with at most 25 authors, so collaboration author lists do not stand in for the people here.
- Universidad de La LagunaES6.1k papers
- Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFR2.2k papers
- National Institute for AstrophysicsIT1.3k papers
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasES1.2k papers
- European Southern ObservatoryCL1.2k papers
- Max Planck Institute for AstronomyDE1.1k papers
- University of PaduaIT1.1k papers
- Instituto de Astrofísica de AndalucíaES1k papers
- Osservatorio Astronomico di PadovaIT1k papers
- University of CambridgeGB989 papers
- California Institute of TechnologyUS984 papers
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesFR963 papers
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Community Lessons from builders of infrared multi-object spectrographs
Solange V. Ramirez, Maren Cosens, Nicholas P. Konidaris +21
We present a summary of lessons learned from our community on the design and construction of infrared multi-object spectrographs. As members of the Magellan Infrared Multi-Object S…
The GOTO Telescope Control System
Martin J. Dyer, Vik S. Dhillon, Stuart Littlefair +21
The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) operates a network of robotic, wide-field survey telescopes searching for optical transients to gravitational-wave signals…
Automation and Modernisation of Legacy BiSON Solar Observatories with the BiSON:NG Platform
S. J. Hale, E. Murray, W. J. Chaplin +4
The Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON) provides long-term, high-precision Sun-as-a-star radial-velocity observations for helioseismology. While most BiSON sites operate…
Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a future NASA flagship mission concept identified by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for large space missions. HWO sh…
Transformer-Based Source Detection and Morphological Classification in LOFAR Deep-Field Continuum Images
Guangwen Chen, Kristian Z. Adami, John Abela +7
Radio source detection and morphological classification are fundamental for exploiting the scientific potential of modern radio continuum surveys. However, the rapidly increasing d…
Photonic integrated circuits for astronomy: A formal description of an integrated photonics-based wavefront sensor (IP-WFS)
Diego Portero-Rodríguez, Hugo García-Vázquez, José Javier Díaz García +3
Context. Solar wavefront sensing has been a challenge for astrophysical instrumentalists, due to the low contrast between the Sun and the sky background compared to night-time obse…
Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). AstroVink: A vision transformer approach to find strong gravitational lens systems
Euclid Collaboration, S. H. Vincken, K. Rojas +302
We present AstroVink, a vision transformer classifier designed for automated identification of strong lens candidates in Euclid imaging. We build upon the DINOv2 encoder, fine tune…
The WEAVE acquisition and guiding software: pattern recognition-based acquisition and multi-fibre guiding
Emanuel Gafton, Gavin B. Dalton, Don Carlos Abrams +19
We present the architecture, implementation, and on-sky validation of the fully automated acquisition and guiding system (AG) developed for the WEAVE instrument on the William Hers…
Euclid: An automated system to match Rubin transient alerts to Euclid observations
C. Duffy, I. M. Hook, C. M. Gutierrez +150
The Vera C. Rubin observatory is expected to produce 10 million transient alerts per night in ugrizy filters, whilst Euclid is a visible to near-infrared space telescope engaged in…
Well-being and career instability across genders in the Spanish Astronomical Society
Maritza A. Lara-Lopez, I. Rebollido, A. Vidal-Garcia +9
We present the results of a comprehensive survey conducted among members of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad Espanola de Astronomia, SEA) to assess well-being, profession…
Euclid. Properties and performance of the NISP signal estimator
Euclid Collaboration, F. Cogato, B. Kubik +292
The Euclid spacecraft, located at the second Lagrangian point of the Sun-Earth system, hosts the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument. NISP is equipped with…
A High-Throughput AES-GCM Implementation on GPUs for Secure, Policy-Based Access to Massive Astronomical Catalogs
Samuel Lemes-Perera, Miguel R. Alarcon, Pino Caballero-Gil +1
The era of large astronomical surveys generates massive image catalogs requiring efficient and secure access, particularly during pre-publication periods where data confidentiality…
Sunrise III: The Wavefront Correction System
Thomas Berkefeld, Alexander Bell, Reiner Volkmer +19
This paper describes the wave-front correction and image stabilisation system (CWS) developed for the Sunrise III balloon-borne telescope, and provides information about its perfor…
Sailing to the next safe harbour in our trip to the early Universe: The massive star population of metal-poor galaxies
N. Castro, M. Garcia, A. Herrero +5
Very metal-poor massive stars in the Local Group are our best proxies for the Universe's first stars, making them essential for modeling reionization and early galactic chemical ev…
Why the Northern Hemisphere Needs a 30-40 m Telescope and the Science at Stake: Northern Local Star-forming Dwarf Galaxies. Analogues of the First Galaxies and Probes of the Cosmic Metallicity Scale
C. Esteban, J. M. Vilchez, J. García-Rojas +15
Star-forming dwarf galaxies in the local Universe, especially extremely metal-poor ones, can be considered analogous to early galaxies of the Epoch of Reionization (z >= 6). Curren…
Why the Northern Hemisphere Needs a 30-40 m Telescope and the Science at Stake: Resolved Stellar Populations Studies in M31 and its Satellites
C. Gallart, E. Fernández-Alvar, A. B. A. Queiroz +48
A 30 m class optical/near-IR telescope in the Northern Hemisphere, equipped for diffraction-limited imaging and high-resolution, multi-object spectroscopy of faint stars, would ena…
Why the Northern Hemisphere Needs a 30-40 m Telescope and the Science at Stake: Mapping formation pathways of nuclear star clusters across galaxies
Francesca Pinna, Isabel Pérez, Anna Ferré-Mateu +21
Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are dense, compact stellar systems only a few parsecs across, located at galaxy centers. Their small sizes make them difficult to resolve spatially. NS…
Why the Northern Hemisphere Needs a 30-40m Telescope and the Science at Stake: from Interstellar Visitors to Planetary Defence
J. de León, N. Pinilla-Alonso, P. Tanga +49
Small Solar system Objects (SSOs) preserve the physical, chemical, and dynamical signatures of the Sun's protoplanetary disk. Upcoming surveys will discover vast numbers of new obj…
The Future of Evolved Planetary Systems
Roberto Raddi, Anna F. Pala, Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas +19
Understanding the formation, evolution, and chemical diversity of exoplanets are now central areas of astrophysics research. White dwarfs provide a uniquely sensitive laboratory fo…
Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). From simulations to sky: Advancing machine-learning lens detection with real Euclid data
Euclid Collaboration, N. E. P. Lines, T. E. Collett +301
In the era of large-scale surveys like Euclid, machine learning has become an essential tool for identifying rare yet scientifically valuable objects, such as strong gravitational…
QUIJOTE-TFGI polarization calibration -- Ground characterization and on-sky validation with Tau A and the Moon
Alessandro Fasano, Mateo Fernández-Torreiro, Guillermo Pascual-Cisneros +6
Our objective is to characterize the QUIJOTE Thirty and Forty GHz instrument (TFGI), calibrate it with a reference calibration signal on the ground, compare our results with on-sky…
Euclid Structural-Thermal-Optical Performance
Euclid Collaboration, A. Anselmi, R. Laureijs +290
The Euclid system performance is defined in terms of image quality metrics tuned to the weak gravitational lensing (WL) cosmological probe. WL induces stringent requirements on the…
The WEAVE-TwiLight-Survey: Expanding WEAVE's Reach to Bright and Low-Surface-Density Targets with a Novel Observing Mode
Thomas Hajnik, Nicholas A. Walton, Giuseppe D'Ago +28
Current-day multi-object spectroscopic surveys are often limited in their ability to observe bright stars due to their low surface densities, resulting in increased observational o…
The miniJPAS and J-NEP surveys: Machine learning for star-galaxy separation
Ana Paula Jeakel, Gabriel Vieira dos Santos, Valerio Marra +27
We present a supervised machine learning classification of sources from the Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) Pathfinder datasets: miniJP…