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astro-ph.IM2019★ 24 cited

Tips and Tricks in linear imaging polarimetry of extended sources with FORS2 at the VLT

S. González-Gaitán, A. M. Mourão, F. Patat +5

Context: Polarimetry is a very powerful tool to uncover various properties of astronomical objects that remain otherwise hidden in standard imaging or spectroscopic observations. H…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 2 cited

A citizen science exploration of the X-ray transient sky using the EXTraS science gateway

Daniele D'Agostino, Duncan Law-Green, Mike Watson +6

Modern soft X-ray observatories can yield unique insights into time domain astrophysics, and a huge amount of information is stored - and largely unexploited - in data archives. Li…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 203 cited

2SXPS: An improved and expanded Swift X-ray telescope point source catalog

P. A. Evans, K. L. Page, J. P. Osborne +8

We present the 2SXPS (Swift-XRT Point Source) catalog, containing 206,335 point sources detected by the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) in the 0.3--10 keV energy range. This catalog re…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 3 cited

Towards high-resolution astronomical imaging

Craig Mackay, David Buscher, Nahid Chowdhury +8

This paper is a report from a recent meeting on "the Future of high-resolution imaging in the visible and infrared", reviewing the astronomical drivers for development and the tech…

astro-ph.IM2019

Big Science with a nUV-MidIR Rapid-Response 1.3m telescope at L2

Jonathan Grindlay, Edo Berger, Brian Metzger +12

Time-domain Astrophysics (TDA), a foundation of Astronomy, has become a major part of current and projected (2020s) astrophysics. While much has been derived from temporal measures…