7 papers
Chang'e 7 Lunar Lander Optical Camera-Telescope: Optical Astronomy from the Moon
Quentin Andrew Parker, Partha Sarathi Pal, Junhao Chen +8
We report the design and manufacture of a new, lightweight, wide-field, optical camera-telescope on board the Chang'e 7 lunar mission (launched in August 2026 and due for lunar tou…
CSST Large Scale Structure Analysis Pipeline: III. Emission-line Redshift Measurement for Slitless Spectra
Jipeng Sui, Hu Zou, Xiaohu Yang +21
The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a forthcoming space-based optical telescope designed to co-orbit with the Chinese Space Station. With a planned slitless spectroscopic s…
Star Proper Motions Based on Two-epoch Observations from the SDSS and DESI Imaging Surveys
Yun-Ao Xiao, Hu Zou, Xin Xu +9
In this study, we present the construction of a new proper motion catalog utilizing the photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Dark Energy Spectroscopic Inst…
An Intermediate-mass Black Hole Lurking in A Galactic Halo Caught Alive during Outburst
C. -C. Jin, D. -Y. Li, N. Jiang +137
Stellar-mass and supermassive black holes abound in the Universe, whereas intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) of ~10^2-10^5 solar masses in between are largely missing observatio…
Detection of an Orphan X-ray Flare from a Blazar Candidate EP240709a with Einstein Probe
Mingjun Liu, Yijia Zhang, Yun Wang +49
Blazars are often observed to flare across multiple wavelengths. Orphan flares from blazars have been only detected a few times, providing an opportunity to understand the structur…
Einstein Probe discovery of EP240408a: a peculiar X-ray transient with an intermediate timescale
Wenda Zhang, Weimin Yuan, Zhixing Ling +136
We report the discovery of a peculiar X-ray transient, EP240408a, by Einstein Probe (EP) and follow-up studies made with EP, Swift, NICER, GROND, ATCA and other ground-based multi-…