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astro-ph.IM2010★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 6 cited

Status and new operation modes of the versatile VLT/NACO

Julien H. V. Girard, Markus Kasper, Sascha P. Quanz +14

This paper aims at giving an update on the most versatile adaptive optics fed instrument to date, the well known and successful NACO . Although NACO is only scheduled for about two…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 98 cited

H-ATLAS: PACS imaging for the Science Demonstration Phase

Edo Ibar, R. J. Ivison, A. Cava +26

We describe the reduction of data taken with the PACS instrument on board the Herschel Space Observatory in the Science Demonstration Phase of the Herschel-ATLAS (H-ATLAS) survey,…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 37 cited

Millimeter-wave bolometer array receiver for the Atacama pathfinder experiment Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (APEX-SZ) instrument

Daniel Schwan, Peter A. R. Ade, Kaustuv Basu +34

The Atacama pathfinder experiment Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (APEX-SZ) instrument is a millimeter-wave cryogenic receiver designed to observe galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich eff…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 8 cited

CEA Bolometer Arrays: the First Year in Space

Nicolas Billot, M. Sauvage, L. Rodriguez +8

The CEA/LETI and CEA/SAp started the development of far-infrared filled bolometer arrays for space applications over a decade ago. The unique design of these detectors makes possib…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 9 cited

The Fringe Detection Laser Metrology for the GRAVITY Interferometer at the VLTI

H. Bartko, S. Gillessen, S. Rabien +19

Interferometric measurements of optical path length differences of stars over large baselines can deliver extremely accurate astrometric data. The interferometer GRAVITY will simul…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 56 cited

GRAVITY: a four-telescope beam combiner instrument for the VLTI

S. Gillessen, F. Eisenhauer, G. Perrin +60

GRAVITY is an adaptive optics assisted Beam Combiner for the second generation VLTI instrumentation. The instrument will provide high-precision narrow-angle astrometry and phase-re…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 7 cited

Dissecting Galaxies with Adaptive Optics

Richard Davies, Hauke Engel, Erin Hicks +5

We describe several projects addressing the growth of galaxies and massive black holes, for which adaptive optics is mandatory to reach high spatial resolution but is also a challe…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 71 cited

MICADO: the E-ELT Adaptive Optics Imaging Camera

R. Davies, MICADO Team

MICADO is the adaptive optics imaging camera for the E-ELT. It has been designed and optimised to be mounted to the LGS-MCAO system MAORY, and will provide diffraction limited imag…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 6 cited

KMOS Data Flow: Reconstructing Data Cubes in One Step

Richard Davies, Alex Agudo Berbel, Erich Wiezorrek +2

KMOS is a multi-object near-infrared integral field spectrometer with 24 deployable pick-off arms. Data processing is inevitably complex. We discuss specific issues and requirement…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 2.2k cited

The Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) on the Herschel Space Observatory

A. Poglitsch, C. Waelkens, N. Geis +80

The Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) is one of the three science instruments on ESA's far infrared and submillimetre observatory. It employs two Ge:Ga photoconduc…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 8 cited

eROSITA on SRG: a X-ray all-sky survey mission

N. Cappelluti, P. Predehl, H. Boehringer +23

eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) is the core instrument on the Russian Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) mission which is scheduled for launch in late…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 646 cited

The AKARI/IRC Mid-Infrared All-Sky Survey

Daisuke Ishihara, Takashi Onaka, Hirokazu Kataza +30

Context : AKARI is the first Japanese astronomical satellite dedicated to infrar ed astronomy. One of the main purposes of AKARI is the all-sky survey performed with six infrared b…