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20062024
most citedDesign Concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

902 citations · 6.3k across the 42 of their papers we have counts for

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44 papers

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

The time-variable ultraviolet sky: Active Galactic Nuclei, Stars and White Dwarfs

Rolf Buehler, Julian Schliwinski

Here, we present the 1UVA catalog of time variable ultraviolet (UV) sources. We describe a new analysis pipeline, the VAriable Source Clustering Analysis (VASCA). We apply the pipe…

astro-ph.IM2023

ULTRASAT: A wide-field time-domain UV space telescope

Y. Shvartzvald, E. Waxman, A. Gal-Yam +41

The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is scheduled to be launched to geostationary orbit in 2026. It will carry a telescope with an unprecedentedly large field o…

astro-ph.IM2022

The scientific payload of the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT)

Sagi Ben-Ami, Yossi Shvartzvald, Eli Waxman +45

The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is a space-borne near UV telescope with an unprecedented large field of view (200 sq. deg.). The mission, led by the Weizma…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 31 cited

Introducing the MeVCube concept: a CubeSat for MeV observations

Giulio Lucchetta, Markus Ackermann, David Berge +1

Despite the impressive progress achieved both by X-ray and gamma-ray observatories in the last few decades, the energy range between and $\sim50\;\mathrm{Me…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

Characterization of a CdZnTe detector for a low-power CubeSat application

Giulio Lucchetta, Markus Ackermann, David Berge +5

We report spectral and imaging performance of a pixelated CdZnTe detector custom designed for the \emph{MeVCube} project: a small Compton telescope on a CubeSat platform. \emph{MeV…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 5 cited

Sensor characterization for the ULTRASAT space telescope

Benjamin Bastian-Querner, Nirmal Kaipachery, Daniel Küsters +31

The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomical Satellite is a scientific space mission carrying an astronomical telescope. The mission is led by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel…