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Estimation of distribution functions, their jumps and interval probabilities under measurement error
Kairat Mynbaev, Carlos Martins-Filho, Chad Brown
We consider the classical additive measurement-error model , where the latent random variable has unknown distribution and the error has a known distribution.…
Visplot: A visibility plot and observation scheduling tool for astronomical observatories
Emanuel Gafton, Illa R. Losada
We present Visplot, a free, open-source, web-based tool for hardware-aware visibility analysis and heuristic scheduling of both sidereal and non-sidereal astronomical observations.…
The WEAVE acquisition and guiding software: pattern recognition-based acquisition and multi-fibre guiding
Emanuel Gafton, Gavin B. Dalton, Don Carlos Abrams +19
We present the architecture, implementation, and on-sky validation of the fully automated acquisition and guiding system (AG) developed for the WEAVE instrument on the William Hers…
WEAVE imaging spectroscopy of NGC 6720: an iron bar in the Ring
R. Wesson, J. E. Drew, M. J. Barlow +23
We present spatially resolved spectroscopic observations of the planetary nebula NGC 6720, the Ring Nebula, taken during the science verification phase of WEAVE, a new instrument m…