3 papers
astro-ph.IM2020
Performance Verification of the EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph
Ryan T. Blackman, Debra A. Fischer, Colby A. Jurgenson +25
The EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph (EXPRES) is a new Doppler spectrograph designed to reach a radial velocity measurement precision sufficient to detect Earth-like exoplanets orbit…
astro-ph.IM2019
Synthetic tracking using ZTF Long Dwell Datasets
Chengxing Zhai, Quanzhi Ye, Michael Shao +4
The Zwicky Transit Factory (ZTF) is a powerful time domain survey facility with a large field of view. We apply the synthetic tracking technique to integrate a ZTF's long-dwell dat…
astro-ph.EP2018
A Constellation of MicroSats to Search for NEOs
Michael Shao, Hanying Zhou, Slava G. Turyshev +3
Large or even medium sized asteroids impacting the Earth can cause damage on a global scale. Existing and planned concepts for finding near-Earth objects (NEOs) with diameter of 14…