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Prime Focus Spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope: Overview of Science Operations
Masayuki Tanaka, Akira Arai, Wanqiu He +30
The paper presents the science operation framework for Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS or 'Onohi'ula in its Hawaiian name) installed at the 8.2m Subaru Telescope on the summit of Mau…
Tools for High Precision Photometry from Wide-Field Color Images
Kaloyan Penev, Angel Romero, S. Javad Jafarzadeh +3
We present AstroWISP: a collection of image processing tools for source extraction, background determination, point spread function/pixel response function fitting, and aperture ph…
Utilizing Small Telescopes Operated by Citizen Scientists for Transiting Exoplanet Follow-up
Robert T. Zellem, Kyle A. Pearson, Ethan Blaser +41
Due to the efforts by numerous ground-based surveys and NASA's Kepler and TESS, there will be hundreds, if not thousands, of transiting exoplanets ideal for atmospheric characteriz…
The Huntsman Telescope
Lee R. Spitler, Fergus D. Longbottom, Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes +6
The Huntsman Telescope, located at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, is a system of ten telephoto Canon lenses designed for low surface brightness imaging in the Southern sky…
Engaging Citizen Scientists to Keep Transit Times Fresh and Ensure the Efficient Use of Transiting Exoplanet Characterization Missions
Robert T. Zellem, Anya Biferno, David R. Ciardi +16
This white paper advocates for the creation of a community-wide program to maintain precise mid-transit times of exoplanets that would likely be targeted by future platforms. Given…
astroplan: An Open Source Observation Planning Package in Python
Brett M. Morris, Erik Tollerud, Brigitta Sipocz +9
We present astroplan - an open source, open development, Astropy affiliated package for ground-based observation planning and scheduling in Python. astroplan is designed to provide…