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astro-ph.IM2020

Design of the Life Signature Detection Polarimeter LSDpol

Christoph U. Keller, Frans Snik, C. H. Lucas Patty +11

Many biologically produced chiral molecules such as amino acids and sugars show a preference for left or right handedness (homochirality). Light reflected by biological materials s…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 97 cited

The carbon footprint of large astronomy meetings

Leonard Burtscher, Didier Barret, Abhijeet P. Borkar +5

The annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society took place in Lyon, France, in 2019, but in 2020 it was held online only due the COVID-19 pandemic. The carbon footprint of…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 43 cited

The nature of point source fringes in mid-infrared spectra acquired with the James Webb Space Telescope

Ioannis Argyriou, Martyn Wells, Alistair Glasse +10

The constructive and destructive interference in different layers of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) detector arrays modulate the detected sign…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 5 cited

Cygnus survey with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope at 325 and 610 MHz: the catalog

Paula Benaglia, C. H. Ishwara-Chandra, Huib Intema +2

Context: Observations at the radio continuum band below the gigahertz band are key when the nature and properties of nonthermal sources are investigated because their radio radiati…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 36 cited

Extending the Breakthrough Listen nearby star survey to other stellar objects in the field

B. S. Wlodarczyk-Sroka, M. A. Garrett, A. P. V. Siemion

We extend the source sample recently observed by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative by including additional stars (with parallaxes measured by Gaia) that also reside within the FWH…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 6 cited

SYMBA: An end-to-end VLBI synthetic data generation pipeline

F. Roelofs, M. Janssen, I. Natarajan +203

Realistic synthetic observations of theoretical source models are essential for our understanding of real observational data. In using synthetic data, one can verify the extent to…