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most citedThe Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

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astro-ph.IM2018★ 78 cited

LISA Pathfinder Platform Stability and Drag-free Performance

Michele Armano, Heather Audley, Jonathon Baird +75

The science operations of the LISA Pathfinder mission has demonstrated the feasibility of sub-femto-g free-fall of macroscopic test masses necessary to build a LISA-like gravitatio…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 89 cited

Experimental results from the ST7 mission on LISA Pathfinder

G Anderson, J Anderson, M Anderson +145

The Space Technology 7 Disturbance Reduction System (ST7-DRS) is a NASA technology demonstration payload that operated from January 2016 through July of 2017 on the European Space…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 16 cited

Sensing and control of segmented mirrors with a pyramid wavefront sensor in the presence of spiders

Noah Schwartz, Jean-François Sauvage, Carlos Correia +9

The segmentation of the telescope pupil (by spiders & the segmented M4) create areas of phase isolated by the width of the spiders on the wavefront sensor (WFS), breaking the spati…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 5 cited

ERIS: revitalising an adaptive optics instrument for the VLT

Richard Davies, Simone Esposito, Hans Martin Schmid +63

ERIS is an instrument that will both extend and enhance the fundamental diffraction limited imaging and spectroscopy capability for the VLT. It will replace two instruments that ar…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 4 cited

First light with HiPERCAM on the GTC

Vikram Dhillon, Simon Dixon, Trevor Gamble +20

HiPERCAM is a quintuple-beam imager that saw first light on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in October 2017 and on the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) in February 20…

astro-ph.IM2018

Revisiting the science case for near-UV spectroscopy with the VLT

C. J. Evans, B. Barbuy, B. Castilho +8

In the era of Extremely Large Telescopes, the current generation of 8-10m facilities are likely to remain competitive at far-blue visible wavelengths for the foreseeable future. Hi…