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BUBBLY: A method for detecting and characterizing interstellar bubbles using Fabry-Perot spectroscopy
Artemi Camps-Fariña, Javier Zaragoza-Cardiel, John E. Beckman +4
We present a new method for the detection and characterization of expansion in galaxy discs based on Hα Fabry-Perot spectroscopy, taking advantage of the high spatial and velocity…
Active optics for high-dynamic variable curvature mirrors
Emmanuel Hugot, Marc Ferrari, Gerard R. Lemaitre +5
Variable curvature mirrors of large amplitude are designed by using finite element analysis. The specific case studied reaches at least a 800 μm sag with an optical quality better…
Design and development of a freeform active mirror for an astronomy application
Zalpha Challita, Tibor Agócs, Emmanuel Hugot +10
The advent of extremely large telescopes will bring unprecedented light-collecting power and spatial resolution, but it will also lead to a significant increase in the size and com…
Collision-free motion planning for fiber positioner robots: discretization of velocity profiles
Laleh Makarem, Jean-Paul Kneib, Denis Gillet +6
The next generation of large-scale spectroscopic survey experiments such as DESI, will use thousands of fiber positioner robots packed on a focal plate. In order to maximize the ob…
The Carlina-type diluted telescope: Stellar fringes on Deneb
H. Le Coroller, J. Dejonghe, F. Hespeels +11
Context. The performance of interferometers has largely been increased over the last ten years. But the number of observable objects is still limited due to the low sensitivity and…
Compensation of high-order quasi-static aberrations on SPHERE with the coronagraphic phase diversity (COFFEE)
B. Paul, J. -F. Sauvage, L. M. Mugnier +6
The second-generation instrument SPHERE, dedicated to high-contrast imaging, will soon be in operation on the European Very Large Telescope. Such an instrument relies on an extreme…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Technical Overview
Yue Shen, W. N. Brandt, Kyle S. Dawson +36
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping project (SDSS-RM) is a dedicated multi-object RM experiment that has spectroscopically monitored a sample of 849 broad-line quasa…
Optical Design of the SuMIRe PFS Spectrograph
Sandrine Pascal, Sebastien Vives, Robert Barkhouser +1
The SuMIRe Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS), developed for the 8-m class SUBARU telescope, will consist of four identical spectrographs, each receiving 600 fibers from a 2394 fiber r…
The near infrared camera for the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph
Stephen A. Smee, James E. Gunn, Mirek Golebiowski +10
We present the detailed design of the near infrared camera for the SuMIRe (Subaru Measurement of Images and Redshifts) Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) being developed for the Subaru…
Current status of the Spectrograph System for the SuMIRe/PFS
S. Vives, D. Le Mignant, J. E. Gunn +17
The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a new facility instrument for Subaru Telescope which will be installed in around 2017. It is a multi-object spectrograph fed by about 2400 fib…
Progress with the Prime Focus Spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope: a massively multiplexed optical and near-infrared fiber spectrograph
Hajime Sugai, Naoyuki Tamura, Hiroshi Karoji +81
The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is an optical/near-infrared multi-fiber spectrograph with 2394 science fibers, which are distributed in 1.3 degree diameter field of view at Suba…
Towards a reliability assessment of the Cn2 and wind speed vertical profiles retrieved from GeMS
Benoit Neichel, Elena Masciadri, Andrés R. Guesalaga +2
The advent of a new generation of Adaptive Optics systems called Wide Field AO (WFAO) mark the beginning of a new era. By using multiple Guide Stars (GSs), either Laser Guide Stars…
High-contrast imager for Complex Aperture Telescopes (HiCAT): 2. Design overview and first light results
Mamadou N'Diaye, Elodie Choquet, Sylvain Egron +13
We present a new high-contrast imaging testbed designed to provide complete solutions in wavefront sensing, control and starlight suppression with complex aperture telescopes. The…
Telluric-line subtraction in high-accuracy velocimetry: a PCA-based approach
Étienne Artigau, Nicola Astudillo-Defru, Xavier Delfosse +8
Optical velocimetry has led to the detection of more than 500 planets to date and there is a strong effort to push m/s velocimetry to the near-infrared to access cooler and lighter…
SPIRou: the near-infrared spectropolarimeter/high-precision velocimeter for the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope
Étienne Artigau, Driss Kouach, Jean-François Donati +30
SPIRou is a near-IR échelle spectropolarimeter and high-precision velocimeter under construction as a next-generation instrument for the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope. It is desig…
Deep sea tests of a prototype of the KM3NeT digital optical module
S. Adrián-Martínez, M. Ageron, F. Aharonian +247
The first prototype of a photo-detection unit of the future KM3NeT neutrino telescope has been deployed in the deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea. This digital optical module has…
Calibration of the Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer
B. M. Swinyard, E. T. Polehampton, R. Hopwood +21
The Herschel SPIRE instrument consists of an imaging photometric camera and an imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS), both operating over a frequency range of 450-1550 GHz.…
Cn2 and wind profiler method to quantify the frozen flow decay using wide-field laser guide stars adaptive optics
Andrés Guesalaga, Benoit Neichel, Angela Cortes +2
We use spatio-temporal cross-correlations of slopes from five Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors to analyse the temporal evolution of the atmospheric turbulence layers at different a…
Gemini multi-conjugate adaptive optics system review II: Commissioning, operation and overall performance
Benoit Neichel, François Rigaut, Fabrice Vidal +30
The Gemini Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics System - GeMS, a facility instrument mounted on the Gemini South telescope, delivers a uniform, near diffraction limited images at near i…
Herschel SPIRE FTS Relative Spectral Response Calibration
Trevor Fulton, Rosalind Hopwood, Jean-Paul Baluteau +9
Herschel/SPIRE Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) observations contain emission from both the Herschel Telescope and the SPIRE Instrument itself, both of which are typically orde…
Herschel SPIRE FTS telescope model correction
Rosalind Hopwood, Trevor Fulton, Edward T. Polehampton +8
Emission from the Herschel telescope is the dominant source of radiation for the majority of SPIRE Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) observations, despite the exceptionally low…
Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer: Calibration of its Bright-source Mode
Nanyao Lu, Edward T. Polehampton, Bruce M. Swinyard +10
The Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) of the Spectral and Photometric Imaging REceiver (SPIRE) on board the ESA Herschel Space Observatory has two detector setting modes: (a) a…
Relative pointing offset analysis of calibration targets with repeated observations with Herschel-SPIRE Fourier-Transform Spectrometer
Ivan Valtchanov, Rosalind Hopwood, Edward Polehampton +9
We present a method to derive the relative pointing offsets for SPIRE Fourier-Transform Spectrometer (FTS) solar system object (SSO) calibration targets, which were observed regula…
Herschel SPIRE FTS Spectral Mapping Calibration
Dominique Benielli, Edward Polehampton, Rosalind Hopwood +12
The Herschel SPIRE Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) performs spectral imaging in the 447-1546 GHz band. It can observe in three spatial sampling modes: sparse mode, with a sing…