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astro-ph.IM2014★ 2 cited

AstroCloud, a Cyber-Infrastructure for Astronomy Research: Data Archiving and Quality Control

Boliang He, Chenzhou Cui, Dongwei Fan +10

AstroCloud is a cyber-Infrastructure for Astronomy Research initiated by Chinese Virtual Observatory (China-VO) under funding support from NDRC (National Development and Reform com…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 19 cited

The THU-NAOC Transient Survey: the Performance and the First-year Result

Tianmeng Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, Junchen Chen +18

The Tsinghua University-National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) Transient Survey (TNTS) is an automatic survey for a systematic exploration of optical transients (OTs),…

astro-ph.IM2014

Asteroseismic based estimation of the surface gravity for the LAMOST giant stars

Chao Liu, Min Fang, Yue Wu +7

Asteroseismology is one of the most accurate approaches to estimate the surface gravity of a star. However, most of the data from the current spectroscopic surveys do not have aste…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 47 cited

Meteorological data for the astronomical site at Dome A, Antarctica

Yi Hu, Zhaohui Shang, Michael C. B. Ashley +7

We present an analysis of the meteorological data collected at Dome A, Antarctica by the Kunlun Automated Weather Station, including temperatures and wind speeds at eight elevation…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 9 cited

Problems with twilight/supersky flat-field for wide-field robotic telescopes and the solution

Peng Wei, Zhaohui Shang, Bin Ma +3

Twilight/night sky images are often used for flat-fielding CCD images, but the brightness gradient in twilight/night sky causes problems of accurate flat-field correction in astron…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 8 cited

The nonlinear photon transfer curve of CCDs and its effects on photometry

Bin Ma, Zhaohui Shang, Lifan Wang +3

The photon transfer curve (PTC, variance vs. signal level) is a commonly used and effective tool in characterizing CCD performance. It is theoretically linear in the range where ph…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 11 cited

A new method of CCD dark current correction via extracting the dark information from scientific images

Bin Ma, Zhaohui Shang, Yi Hu +3

We have developed a new method to correct dark current at relatively high temperatures for Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) images when dark frames cannot be obtained on the telescope.…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 76 cited

The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) Facility onboard China's Future Space Station

S. N. Zhang, the HERD collaboration

The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) facility is one of several space astronomy payloads of the cosmic lighthouse program onboard China's Space Station, which is plann…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 3 cited

Simulation of Ultra-Long Wavelength interferometer in the Earth orbit and on the lunar surface

Mo Zhang, Maohai Huang, Yihua Yan

We present simulations for interferometer arrays in Earth orbit and on the lunar surface to guide the design and optimization of space-based Ultra-Long Wavelength missions, such as…

astro-ph.IM2014

A Bayesian Method for the Extinction

Hai-Jun Tian, Chao Liu, Jing-Yao Hu +2

We propose a Bayesian method to measure the total Galactic extinction parameters, and . Validation tests based on the simulated data indicate that the method can achieve…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 26 cited

Expansion Techniques for Collisionless Stellar Dynamical Simulations

Yohai Meiron, Baile Li, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann +1

We present GPU implementations of two fast force calculation methods, based on series expansions of the Poisson equation. One is the Self-Consistent Field (SCF) method, which is a…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 3 cited

Measure fiber position errors from spectra data

Jian-Jun Chen, Zhong-Rui Bai, A-Li Luo +1

Precise fiber positioning is crucial to a wide field, multi-fiber spectroscopic survey like LAMOST. Nowadays, most position error measurements are based on CCD photographic and ima…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 1 cited

The Deconvolution of Lunar Brightness Temperature based on Maximum Entropy Method using Chang'E-2 Microwave Data

Shuguo Xing, Yan Su, Jianqing Feng +1

A passive and multi-channel microwave sounder onboard Chang'E-2 orbiter has successfully performed microwave observation of the lunar surface and subsurface structure. Compared wit…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 24 cited

ASERA: A Spectrum Eye Recognition Assistant for Quasar Spectra

Hailong Yuan, Haotong Zhang, Yanxia Zhang +3

Spectral type recognition is an important and fundamental step of large sky survey projects in the data reduction for further scientific research, like parameter measurement and st…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 63 cited

A Bayesian Method for the Intercalibration of Spectra in Reverberation Mapping

Yan-Rong Li, Jian-Min Wang, Chen Hu +2

Flux calibration of spectra in reverberation mapping (RM) is most often performed by assuming the flux constancy of some specified narrow emission lines, which stem from an extende…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 6 cited

Efficient Catalog Matching with Dropout Detection

Dongwei Fan, Tamás Budavári, Alexander S. Szalay +2

Not only source catalogs are extracted from astronomy observations. Their sky coverage is always carefully recorded and used in statistical analyses, such as correlation and lumino…