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astro-ph.IM2015★ 126 cited

The Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope: IV. The Low Resolution Spectrometer

S. Kendrew, S. Scheithauer, P. Bouchet +13

The Low Resolution Spectrometer of the MIRI, which forms part of the imager module, will provide R~100 long-slit and slitless spectroscopy from 5 to 12 micron. The design is optimi…

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★ 24 cited

Next Generation Very Large Array Memo No. 5: Science Working Groups -- Project Overview

C. L. Carilli, M. McKinnon, J. Ott +17

We summarize the design, capabilities, and some of the priority science goals of a next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA). The ngVLA is an interferometric array with 10x larger e…

astro-ph.IM2015

Sapporo2: A versatile direct -body library

Jeroen Bédorf, Evghenii Gaburov, Simon Portegies Zwart

Astrophysical direct -body methods have been one of the first production algorithms to be implemented using NVIDIA's CUDA architecture. Now, almost seven years later, the GPU is…

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★ 57 cited

The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: A Quantitative Comparison Between SCUBA-2 Data Reduction Methods

S. Mairs, D. Johnstone, H. Kirk +18

Performing ground-based submillimetre observations is a difficult task as the measurements are subject to absorption and emission from water vapour in the Earth's atmosphere and ti…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 52 cited

The ASKAP/EMU Source Finding Data Challenge

A. M. Hopkins, M. T. Whiting, N. Seymour +31

The Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) is a proposed radio continuum survey of the Southern Hemisphere up to declination +30 deg., with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pa…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 105 cited

The LOFAR Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS) I. Survey description and first results

G. H. Heald, R. F. Pizzo, E. Orrú +147

We present the Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS), the first northern-sky LOFAR imaging survey. In this introductory paper, we first describe in detail the motivation and de…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 16 cited

The Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope, X. Operations and Data Reduction

Karl D. Gordon, C. H. Chen, Rachel E. Anderson +26

We describe the operations concept and data reduction plan for the Mid- Infrared Instrument (MIRI) for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The overall JWST operations concept is…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 238 cited

The Mid-Infrared Instrument for JWST, II: Design and Build

G. S. Wright, David Wright, G. B. Goodson +70

The Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides measurements over the wavelength range 5 to 28.5 microns. MIRI has, within a single 'package',…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 472 cited

The Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope I: Introduction

G. H. Rieke, G. S. Wright, T. Boeker +15

MIRI (the Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)) operates from 5 to 28.5 microns and combines over this range: 1.) unprecedented sensitivity levels; 2.)…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 8 cited

How Astronomers View Education and Public Outreach: An Exploratory Study

Lisa Dang, Pedro Russo

Over the past few years, there have been a few studies on the development of an interest in science and scientists' views on public outreach. Yet, to date, there has been no global…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 49 cited

Machine Learning based photometric redshifts for the KiDS ESO DR2 galaxies

Stefano Cavuoti, Massimo Brescia, Crescenzo Tortora +9

We estimated photometric redshifts (zphot) for more than 1.1 million galaxies of the ESO Public Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) Data Release 2. KiDS is an optical wide-field imaging surv…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 58 cited

Calibrating the absolute amplitude scale for air showers measured at LOFAR

A. Nelles, J. R. Hörandel, T. Karskens +74

Air showers induced by cosmic rays create nanosecond pulses detectable at radio frequencies. These pulses have been measured successfully in the past few years at the LOw Frequency…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 1 cited

The General Single-Dish Data Format: A Retrospective

Tim Jenness, Elizabeth B. Stobie, Ronald J. Maddalena +5

The General Single-Dish Data format (GSDD) was developed in the mid-1980s as a data model to support centimeter, millimeter and submillimeter instrumentation at NRAO, JCMT, the Uni…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 76 cited

Laboratory Photo-chemistry of PAHs: Ionization versus Fragmentation

Junfeng Zhen, Pablo Castellanos, Daniel M. Paardekooper +5

Interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are expected to be strongly processed by vacuum ultraviolet photons. Here, we report experimental studies on the ionization and…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 135 cited

An Overview of the 2014 ALMA Long Baseline Campaign

ALMA Partnership, E. B. Fomalont, C. Vlahakis +246

A major goal of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is to make accurate images with resolutions of tens of milliarcseconds, which at submillimeter (submm) wavel…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 84 cited

The ALMA Band 9 receiver - Design, construction, characterization, and first light

A. M. Baryshev, R. Hesper, F. P. Mena +24

We describe the design, construction, and characterization of the Band 9 heterodyne receivers (600-720 GHz) for the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA). The ALMA…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 9 cited

SETI reloaded, Next Generation Radio Telescopes, Transients and Cognitive Computing

Michael A. Garrett

The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) using radio telescopes is an area of research that is now more than 50 years old. Thus far, both targeted and wide-area surveys…

astro-ph.IM2015

Preliminary design of the full-Stokes UV and visible spectropolarimeter for UVMag/Arago

Martin Pertenais, Coralie Neiner, Laurent Pares +3

The UVMag consortium proposed the space mission project Arago to ESA at its M4 call. It is dedicated to the study of the dynamic 3D environment of stars and planets. This space mis…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 139 cited

The SFXC software correlator for Very Long Baseline Interferometry: Algorithms and Implementation

A. Keimpema, M. M. Kettenis, S. V. Pogrebenko +13

In this paper a description is given of the SFXC software correlator, developed and maintained at the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE). The software is designed to run on…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 7 cited

Fiber scrambling for high-resolution spectrographs. II. A double fiber scrambler for Keck Observatory

Julien F. P. Spronck, Debra A. Fischer, Zachary Kaplan +4

We have designed a fiber scrambler as a prototype for the Keck HIRES spectrograph, using double scrambling to stabilize illumination of the spectrometer and a pupil slicer to incre…