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astro-ph.IM2021★ 16 cited

Refractive index and extinction coefficient of vapor-deposited water ice in the UV-Vis range

Jiao He, Sharon J. M. Diamant, Siyu Wang +4

Laboratory results of the optical properties of vapor-deposited water ice, specifically the refractive index and extinction coefficient, are available mainly for a selective set of…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 12 cited

Degree-Scale Galactic Radio Emission at 122 MHz around the North Celestial Pole with LOFAR-AARTFAAC

B. K. Gehlot, L. V. E. Koopmans, A. R. Offringa +11

Aims: Contamination from bright diffuse Galactic thermal and non-thermal radio emission poses crucial challenges in experiments aiming to measure the 21-cm signal of neutral hydrog…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

ISPY -- NaCo Imaging Survey for Planets around Young stars. CenteR: the impact of centering and frame selection

N. Godoy, J. Olofsson, A. Bayo +18

Abridged: Direct imaging has made significant progress over the past decade leading to the detection of several giant planets. Observing strategies and data rates vary from instrum…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 34 cited

Faint objects in motion: the new frontier of high precision astrometry

Fabien Malbet, Céline Boehm, Alberto Krone-Martins +83

Sky survey telescopes and powerful targeted telescopes play complementary roles in astronomy. In order to investigate the nature and characteristics of the motions of very faint ob…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 5 cited

DESHIMA 2.0: Rapid redshift surveys and multi-line spectroscopy of dusty galaxies

M. Rybak, T. Bakx, J. Baselmans +7

We present a feasibility study for the high-redshift galaxy part of the Science Verification Campaign with the 220-440 GHz DESHIMA 2.0 integrated superconducting spectrometer on th…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 20 cited

DESHIMA 2.0: development of an integrated superconducting spectrometer for science-grade astronomical observations

Akio Taniguchi, Tom J. L. C. Bakx, Jochem J. A. Baselmans +32

Integrated superconducting spectrometer (ISS) technology will enable ultra-wideband, integral-field spectroscopy for (sub)millimeter-wave astronomy, in particular, for uncovering t…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

SCExAO, a testbed for developing high-contrast imaging technologies for ELTs

Kyohoon Ahn, Olivier Guyon, Julien Lozi +21

To directly detect exoplanets and protoplanetary disks, the development of high accuracy wavefront sensing and control (WFS&C) technologies is essential, especially for ground-base…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 17 cited

The relativistic Pythagorean three-body problem

Tjarda C. N. Boekholt, Arend Moerman, Simon F. Portegies Zwart

We study the influence of relativity on the chaotic properties and dynamical outcomes of an unstable triple system; the Pythagorean three-body problem. To this end, we extend the B…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

Wavelength Calibration and Resolving Power of the JWST MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer

A. Labiano, I. Argyriou, J. Alvarez-Marquez +13

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on-board JWST will provide imaging, coronagraphy, low-resolution spectroscopy and medium-resolution spectroscopy at unprecedented sensitivity lev…

astro-ph.IM2021

The Santa Cruz Extreme AO Lab (SEAL): Design and First Light

Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Daren Dillon, Benjamin Gerard +9

The Santa Cruz Extreme AO Lab (SEAL) is a new visible-wavelength testbed designed to advance the state of the art in wavefront control for high contrast imaging on large, segmented…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

PMT gain calibration and monitoring based on highly compressed hit information in KM3NeT

Bouke Jung, Maarten de Jong, Paolo Fermani

The cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope, which consists of large-scale 3D-arrays of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) currently under construction on the Mediterranean seabed, relies on…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 43 cited

Euclid preparation: XVI. Exploring the ultra low-surface brightness Universe with Euclid/VIS

A. S. Borlaff, P. Gómez-Alvarez, B. Altieri +180

While Euclid is an ESA mission specifically designed to investigate the nature of Dark Energy and Dark Matter, the planned unprecedented combination of survey area ( d…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 88 cited

Sub-arcsecond imaging with the International LOFAR Telescope I. Foundational calibration strategy and pipeline

L. K. Morabito, N. J. Jackson, S. Mooney +71

[abridged] The International LOFAR Telescope is an interferometer with stations spread across Europe. With baselines of up to ~2,000 km, LOFAR has the unique capability of achievin…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

Full characterization of the instrumental polarization effects of the spectropolarimetric mode of SCExAO-CHARIS

G. J. Joost `t Hart, Rob G. van Holstein, Steven P. Bos +19

SCExAO at the Subaru telescope is a visible and near-infrared high-contrast imaging instrument employing extreme adaptive optics and coronagraphy. The instrument feeds the near-inf…

astro-ph.IM2021

Spatial polarization modulators: distinguishing diffraction effects from spatial polarization modulation

Willeke Mulder, David S. Doelman, Christoph U. Keller +2

Are we alone? In our quest to find life beyond Earth, we use our own planet to develop and verify new methods and techniques to remotely detect life. Our Life Signature Detection p…

astro-ph.IM2021

Matching Bayesian and frequentist coverage probabilities when using an approximate data covariance matrix

Will J. Percival, Oliver Friedrich, Elena Sellentin +1

Observational astrophysics consists of making inferences about the Universe by comparing data and models. The credible intervals placed on model parameters are often as important a…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 15 cited

Graph Neural Networks for reconstruction and classification in KM3NeT

S. Reck, D. Guderian, G. Vermariën +1

KM3NeT, a neutrino telescope currently under construction in the Mediterranean Sea, consists of a network of large-volume Cherenkov detectors. Its two different sites, ORCA and ARC…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 15 cited

Observation and calibration strategies for large-scale multi-beam velocity-resolved mapping of the [CII] emission in the Orion molecular cloud

R. Higgins, S. Kabanovic, C. Pabst +15

Context. The [CII] 158micron far-infrared fine-structure line is one of the dominant cooling lines of the star-forming interstellar medium (ISM). Hence [CII] emission originates in…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 41 cited

Selection Functions in Astronomical Data Modeling, with the Space Density of White Dwarfs as Worked Example

Hans-Walter Rix, David W. Hogg, Douglas Boubert +6

Statistical studies of astronomical data sets, in particular of cataloged properties for discrete objects, are central to astrophysics. One cannot model those objects' population p…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

3D-M3: High-spatial resolution spectroscopy with extreme AO and 3D printed micro-lenslets

Theodoros Anagnos, Mareike Trappen, Blaise C. Kuo Tiong +20

By combining IFS with ExAO we are now able to resolve objects close to the diffraction-limit of large telescopes, exploring new science cases. We introduce an IFU designed to coupl…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 8 cited

First on-sky demonstration of spatial Linear Dark Field Control with the vector-Apodizing Phase Plate at Subaru/SCExAO

S. P. Bos, K. L. Miller, J. Lozi +9

One of the key noise sources that currently limits high-contrast imaging observations for exoplanet detection is quasi-static speckles. Quasi-static speckles originate from slowly…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 10 cited

Spectral and angular differential imaging with SPHERE/IFS. Assessing the performance of various PCA-based approaches to PSF subtraction

S. Kiefer, A. J. Bohn, S. P. Quanz +2

Angular differential imaging (ADI) and spectral differential imaging (SDI) are commonly used for direct detection and characterisation of young, Jovian exoplanets in datasets obtai…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 134 cited

Gaia Photometric Science Alerts

S. T. Hodgkin, D. L. Harrison, E. Breedt +108

Since July 2014, the Gaia mission has been engaged in a high-spatial-resolution, time-resolved, precise, accurate astrometric, and photometric survey of the entire sky. Aims: We pr…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 91 cited

PyAutoLens: Open-Source Strong Gravitational Lensing

James. W. Nightingale, Richard G. Hayes, Ashley Kelly +14

Strong gravitational lensing, which can make a background source galaxy appears multiple times due to its light rays being deflected by the mass of one or more foreground lens gala…