7 papers
Shigatse Astronomical Site Testing. I. Cloud-cover Climatology and Selected Local Meteorological Conditions
Baiyu Zhang, Hejun Yang, Xiaojun Dong +15
As the first paper in a Shigatse astronomical site-testing series, we present a multi-source assessment of cloud cover and selected local meteorological conditions at the Shigatse…
2MASS Re-processing I: The Search for Faint Objects
Zehao Liu, Xiyan Peng, Zhenghong Tang +3
We present an automated, DAOFind-based pipeline developed to reprocess J-band Atlas All Sky Release Survey Images from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). By optimizing the dete…
MCI: Multi-Channel Imager on the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope
Zhen-Ya Zheng, Chun Xu, Xiaohua Liu +37
The Multi-Channel Imager (MCI) is a powerful near-ultraviolet (NUV) and visible imager onboard the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST). The MCI provides three imaging cha…
Mock Observations for the CSST Mission: Multi-Channel Imager--Instrument Simulation
Zhao-Jun Yan, Huan-Yuan Shan, Zhen-Ya Zheng +40
The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST), a two-meter aperture astronomical space telescope under China's manned space program, is equipped with multiple back-end scientif…
Mock Observations for the CSST Mission: Main Surveys--An Overview of Framework and Simulation Suite
Cheng-Liang Wei, Guo-Liang Li, Yue-Dong Fang +26
The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) is a flagship space-based observatory. Its main survey camera is designed to conduct high spatial resolution near-ultraviolet to n…
Mock Observations for the CSST Mission: Multi-Channel Imager--The Cluster Field
Yushan Xie, Xiaokai Chen, Shuai Feng +20
The Multi-Channel Imager (MCI), one of the instruments aboard the China Survey Space Telescope (CSST), is designed to simultaneously observe the sky in three filters, covering wave…