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most citedBeyond CCDs: Characterization of sCMOS detectors for optical astronomy

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astro-ph.IM2026

The second Little UV Camera (LUVCam2) mission

Emily Hu, Suresh Sivanandam, Albert Lau +12

The second Little UltraViolet Camera (LUVCam2) is a 80mm-diameter dual UV-optical space telescope that will observe the UV flares around low-mass stars, with planned flight as a $\…

astro-ph.IM2026

A report on the First Technology Demonstration mission of the Little UV Camera (LUVCam1)

Coby Silayan, Suresh Sivanandam, Aaron Tohuvavohu +13

Here we report on the status of the first on-orbit technology demonstration of the Little UV Camera (LUVCam1). LUVCam1 is a 0.4U payload aboard the 2U cubesat GRBBeta that was laun…

astro-ph.IM2026

LUVCam: A high-performance, low-cost, UV/optical camera for the future of astronomy in space

Aaron Tohuvavohu, Suresh Sivanandam, Jean-Christophe Fronteddu +23

Astronomy-grade cameras with robust performance and heritage in the space environment have long been costly, substantially limiting capacity for space-based astronomy and creating…

astro-ph.HE2026

GRBAlpha, VZLUSAT-2 and GRBBeta -- GRB observations with CubeSats

Jakub Ripa, Marianna Dafcikova, Andras Pal +49

Results from GRBAlpha, VZLUSAT-2 and GRBBeta CubeSats and their on-board gamma-ray detectors for monitoring transients are summarised in this article. GRBAlpha was a 1U CubeSat lau…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Astronomical Optical Interferometry from the Lunar Surface

Gerard van Belle, Tabetha Boyajian, Michelle Creech-Eakman +28

The lunar surface is a compelling location for large, distributed optical facilities, with significant advantages over orbital facilities for high spatial resolution astrophysics.…

astro-ph.HE2025

FRB 20250316A: A Brilliant and Nearby One-Off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 parsec Precision

FRB Collaboration, Thomas C. Abbott, Daniel Amouyal +83

Precise localizations of a small number of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) have enabled multiwavelength follow-up observations rev…

astro-ph.HE2025

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy

Alice P. Curtin, Shion Andrew, Sunil Simha +27

On 2024 December 28, CHIME/FRB detected the thus-far non-repeating FRB 20241228A with a real-time signal-to-noise ratio of . Approximately 112~s later, the X-ray Telescope onb…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

High-cadence observations of galactic nuclei by the future two-band UV-photometry mission QUVIK

Michal Zajaček, Norbert Werner, Henry Best +12

The Quick Ultra-VIolet Kilonova surveyor (QUVIK), a two-band UV space telescope approved for funding as a Czech national science and technology mission, will focus on detecting ear…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 7 cited

Beyond CCDs: Characterization of sCMOS detectors for optical astronomy

Aditya Khandelwal, Sarik Jeram, Ryan Dungee +7

Modern scientific complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (sCMOS) detectors provide a highly competitive alternative to charge-coupled devices (CCDs), the latter of which have hist…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 7 cited

A Summary of Multimessenger Science with Neutron Star Mergers

Eric Burns, Aaron Tohuvavohu, James Buckley +17

Neutron star mergers, referring to both binary neutron star and neutron star black hole mergers, are the canonical multimessenger events. They have been detected across the electro…