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astro-ph.IM2015★ 15 cited

Apodization in high-contrast long-slit spectroscopy. II. Concept validation and first on-sky results with VLT/SPHERE

A. Vigan, M. N'Diaye, K. Dohlen +20

Spectral characterization of young, giant exoplanets detected by direct imaging is one of the tasks of the new generation of high-contrast imagers. For this purpose, the VLT/SPHERE…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 35 cited

The Hera Saturn Entry Probe Mission

O. Mousis, D. H. Atkinson, T. Spilker +41

The Hera Saturn entry probe mission is proposed as an M--class mission led by ESA with a contribution from NASA. It consists of one atmospheric probe to be sent into the atmosphere…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 53 cited

The prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT detector

KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Adrián-Martínez, M. Ageron +246

A prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT deep-sea neutrino telescope has been installed at 3500m depth 80km offshore the Italian coast. KM3NeT in its final configuration will conta…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 4 cited

THERMAP: a mid-infrared spectro-imager for space missions to small bodies in the inner solar system

O. Groussin, J. Licandro, J. Helbert +28

We present THERMAP, a mid-infrared (8-16 μm) spectro-imager for space missions to small bodies in the inner solar system, developed in the framework of the MarcoPolo-R asteroid sam…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 37 cited

Comparison of absolute gain photometric calibration between Planck/HFI and Herschel/SPIRE at 545 and 857 GHz

B. Bertincourt, G. Lagache, B. Schulz +14

We compare the absolute gain photometric calibration of the Planck/HFI and Herschel/SPIRE instruments on diffuse emission. The absolute calibration of HFI and SPIRE each relies on…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 36 cited

HSIM: a simulation pipeline for the HARMONI integral field spectrograph on the European ELT

S. Zieleniewski, N. Thatte, S. Kendrew +5

We present HSIM: a dedicated pipeline for simulating observations with the HARMONI integral field spectrograph on the European Extremely Large Telescope. HSIM takes high spectral a…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 131 cited

The Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope, III: MIRIM, The MIRI Imager

P. Bouchet, M. Garcia-Marin, P. -O. Lagage +34

In this article, we describe the MIRI Imager module (MIRIM), which provides broad-band imaging in the 5 - 27 microns wavelength range for the James Webb Space Telescope. The imager…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 49 cited

Prime Focus Spectrograph for the Subaru telescope: 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 multifiber spectrograph with 2394 science fibers distributed across a 1.3-deg diameter field of view at the Subaru 8.…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 41 cited

Thermalizing a telescope in Antarctica: Analysis of ASTEP observations

Tristan Guillot, Lyu Abe, Abdelkrim Agabi +13

The installation and operation of a telescope in Antarctica represent particular challenges, in particular the requirement to operate at extremely cold temperatures, to cope with r…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 96 cited

Planck 2015 results. V. LFI calibration

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +206

We present a description of the pipeline used to calibrate the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) timelines into thermodynamic temperatures for the Planck 2015 data release, cov…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 25 cited

Spatio-angular Minimum-variance Tomographic Controller for Multi-Object Adaptive Optics systems

Carlos M. Correia, Kate Jackson, Jean-Pierre Veran +3

Multi-object astronomical adaptive-optics (MOAO) is now a mature wide-field observation mode to enlarge the adaptive-optics-corrected field in a few specific locations over tens of…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 156 cited

Performance of the VLT Planet Finder SPHERE II. Data analysis and Results for IFS in laboratory

D. Mesa, R. Gratton, A. Zurlo +33

We present the performance of the Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) of SPHERE, the high-contrast imager for the ESO VLT telescope designed to perform imaging and spectroscopy of ex…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 13 cited

Instrumentation for comparing night sky quality and atmospheric conditions of CTA site candidates

Christian Fruck, Markus Gaug, Jean-Pierre Ernenwein +14

Many atmospheric and climatic criteria have to be taken into account for the selection of a suitable site for the next generation of imaging air-shower Cherenkov telescopes, the "C…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 2 cited

Validation Through Simulations of a Cn2 Profiler for the ESO/VLT Adaptive Optics Facility

A. Garcia-Rissmann, A. Guesalaga, J. Kolb +3

The Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF) project envisages transforming one of the VLT units into an adaptive telescope and providing its ESO (European Southern Observatory) second gener…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 62 cited

Planck 2015 results. II. Low Frequency Instrument data processing

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +213

We present an updated description of the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) data processing pipeline, associated with the 2015 data release. We point out the places where our re…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 2.5k cited

The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

Shadab Alam, Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto +271

The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fib…