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astro-ph.IM2026

GRAVITY+: reducing non-common-path aberrations for sub-10 μas astrometric accuracy

Quentin Fournier, Guillaume Bourdarot, Frank Eisenhauer +26

GRAVITY is a state-of-the-art instrument for near-infrared astrometric interferometry that routinely achieves astrometric accuracy of 30-100 microarcsecond in its phase-referenced…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 8 cited

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): From spectrograms to spectra: the SIR spectroscopic Processing Function

Euclid Collaboration, Y. Copin, M. Fumana +348

The Euclid space mission aims to investigate the nature of dark energy and dark matter by mapping the large-scale structure of the Universe. A key component of Euclid's observation…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 33 cited

Advancing European High-Contrast Imaging R&D Towards the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Iva Laginja, Óscar Carrión-González, Romain Laugier +31

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will enable a transformative leap in the direct imaging and characterization of Earth-like exoplanets. For this, NASA is focusing on early in…

astro-ph.IM2025

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): VIS processing and data products

Euclid Collaboration, H. J. McCracken, K. Benson +377

This paper describes the VIS Processing Function (VIS PF) of the Euclid ground segment pipeline, which processes and calibrates raw data from the VIS camera. We present the algorit…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 7 cited

Infrared photometry with InGaAs detectors: First light with SPECULOOS

Peter P. Pedersen, Didier Queloz, Lionel Garcia +15

We present the photometric performance of SPIRIT, a ground-based near-infrared InGaAs CMOS-based instrument (1280 by 1024 pixels, 12 micron pitch), using on-sky results from the SP…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 12 cited

Precision measurements of the magnetic parameters of LISA Pathfinder test masses

M Armano, H Audley, J Baird +76

A precise characterization of the magnetic properties of LISA Pathfinder free falling test-masses is of special interest for future gravitational wave observatory in space. Magneti…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 13 cited

Magnetic-induced force noise in LISA Pathfinder free-falling test masses

M Armano, H Audley, J Baird +76

LISA Pathfinder was a mission designed to test key technologies required for gravitational wave detection in space. Magnetically driven forces play a key role in the instrument sen…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 4 cited

CONCERTO at APEX -- On-sky performance in continuum

W. Hu, A. Beelen, G. Lagache +36

We present the data-processing algorithms and the performance of CONCERTO (CarbON CII line in post-rEionisation and ReionisaTiOn epoch) in continuum by analysing the data from the…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 114 cited

Euclid. III. The NISP Instrument

Euclid Collaboration, K. Jahnke, W. Gillard +434

The Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) on board the Euclid satellite provides multiband photometry and R>=450 slitless grism spectroscopy in the 950-2020nm wavelength…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 103 cited

Euclid. II. The VIS Instrument

Euclid Collaboration, M. S. Cropper, A. Al-Bahlawan +432

This paper presents the specification, design, and development of the Visible Camera (VIS) on the ESA Euclid mission. VIS is a large optical-band imager with a field of view of 0.5…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 16 cited

YOLO-CIANNA: Galaxy detection with deep learning in radio data. I. A new YOLO-inspired source detection method applied to the SKAO SDC1

D. Cornu, P. Salomé, B. Semelin +8

The upcoming Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will set a new standard regarding data volume generated by an astronomical instrument, which is likely to challenge widely adopted data-an…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 4 cited

EUSO-SPB2 Fluorescence Telescope Calibration and Field Tests

Viktoria Kungel, Matteo Battisti, George Filippatos +8

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2), successfully launched from Wanaka, New Zealand on May 13, 2022, is a precursor for a space-based a…

astro-ph.IM2023

Improving VLT/SPHERE without additional hardware: Comparing quasi-static correction strategies

Axel Potier, Zahed Wahhaj, Raphael Galicher +4

Direct imaging is the primary technique currently used to detect young and warm exoplanets and understand their formation scenarios. The extreme flux ratio between an exoplanet and…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 490 cited

The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

Jonathan P. Gardner, John C. Mather, Randy Abbott +1004

Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 22 cited

SKA Science Data Challenge 2: analysis and results

P. Hartley, A. Bonaldi, R. Braun +105

The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will explore the radio sky to new depths in order to conduct transformational science. SKAO data products made available to astronomer…

astro-ph.IM2023

Lessons learned from the NEAR experiment and prospects for the upcoming mid-IR HCI instruments

Prashant Pathak, Markus Kasper, Olivier Absil +6

The mid-infrared (IR) regime is well suited to directly detect the thermal signatures of exoplanets in our solar neighborhood. The NEAR experiment: demonstration of high-contrast i…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 40 cited

The LOFAR LBA Sky Survey II. First data release

F. de Gasperin, H. W. Edler, W. L. Williams +27

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is the only existing radio interferometer able to observe at ultra-low frequencies (<100 MHz) with high resolution (<15") and high sensitivity (<1 m…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 32 cited

Observation of night-time emissions of the Earth in the near UV range from the International Space Station with the Mini-EUSO detector

M. Casolino, D. Barghini, M. Battisti +47

Mini-EUSO (Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a telescope observing the Earth from the International Space Station since 2019. Th…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 19 cited

Differentiable Cosmological Simulation with Adjoint Method

Yin Li, Chirag Modi, Drew Jamieson +5

Rapid advances in deep learning have brought not only myriad powerful neural networks, but also breakthroughs that benefit established scientific research. In particular, automatic…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 11 cited

ShapePipe: A modular weak-lensing processing and analysis pipeline

S. Farrens, A. Guinot, M. Kilbinger +8

We present the first public release of ShapePipe, an open-source and modular weak-lensing measurement, analysis, and validation pipeline written in Python. We describe the design o…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 46 cited

Deep sub-arcsecond widefield imaging of the Lockman Hole field at 144 MHz

F. Sweijen, R. J. van Weeren, H. J. A. Röttgering +11

High quality low-frequency radio surveys have the promise of advancing our understanding of many important topics in astrophysics, including the life cycle of active galactic nucle…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 51 cited

SORA: Stellar Occultation Reduction and Analysis

A. R. Gomes-Júnior, B. E. Morgado, G. Benedetti-Rossi +6

The stellar occultation technique provides competitive accuracy in determining the sizes, shapes, astrometry, etc., of the occulting body, comparable to in-situ observations by spa…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

EUSO@TurLab project in view of Mini-EUSO and EUSO-SPB2 missions

H. Miyamoto, M. E. Bertaina, D. Barghini +37

The TurLab facility is a laboratory, equipped with a 5 m diameter and 1 m depth rotating tank, located in the fourth basement level of the Physics Department of the University of T…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

Simulations studies for the Mini-EUSO detector

H. Miyamoto, F. Fenu, D. Barghini +31

Mini-EUSO is a mission of the JEM-EUSO program flying onboard the International Space Station since August 2019. Since the first data acquisition in October 2019, more than 35 sess…