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astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

Euclid Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer instrument flight model presentation, performance and ground calibration results summary

T. Maciaszek, A. Ealet, W. Gillard +95

The NISP (Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer) is one of the two Euclid instruments. It operates in the near-IR spectral region (950-2020nm) as a photometer and spectrometer.…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 197 cited

The Robotic Multi-Object Focal Plane System of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

Joseph Harry Silber, Parker Fagrelius, Kevin Fanning +97

A system of 5,020 robotic fiber positioners was installed in 2019 on the Mayall Telescope, at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The robots automatically re-target their optical fiber…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

The PAU Survey: Measurements of the 4000 Å spectral break with narrow-band photometry

Pablo Renard, Małgorzata Siudek, Martin B. Eriksen +19

The D4000 spectral break index is one of the most important features in the visible spectrum, as it is a proxy for stellar ages and is also used in galaxy classification. However,…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 8 cited

Euclid preparation: I. The Euclid Wide Survey

R. Scaramella, J. Amiaux, Y. Mellier +238

Euclid is an ESA mission designed to constrain the properties of dark energy and gravity via weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering. It will carry out a wide area imaging…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 18 cited

The PAU survey: Estimating galaxy photometry with deep learning

Laura Cabayol, Martin Eriksen, Adam Amara +14

With the dramatic rise in high-quality galaxy data expected from Euclid and Vera C. Rubin Observatory, there will be increasing demand for fast high-precision methods for measuring…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 22 cited

The PAU Survey: narrowband photometric redshifts using Gaussian processes

John Y. H. Soo, Benjamin Joachimi, Martin Eriksen +16

We study the performance of the hybrid template-machine-learning photometric redshift (photo-) algorithm Delight, which uses Gaussian processes, on a subset of the early data re…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 21 cited

The PAU Survey: Intrinsic alignments and clustering of narrow-band photometric galaxies

Harry Johnston, Benjamin Joachimi, Peder Norberg +20

We present the first measurements of the projected clustering and intrinsic alignments (IA) of galaxies observed by the Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS). With pho…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 63 cited

The PAU Survey: An improved photo- sample in the COSMOS field

Alex Alarcon, Enrique Gaztanaga, Martin Eriksen +21

We present -- and make publicly available -- accurate and precise photometric redshifts in the ACS footprint from the COSMOS field for objects with . The re…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 10 cited

The PAU Survey: Background light estimation with deep learning techniques

Laura Cabayol-Garcia, Martin B. Eriksen, Àlex Alarcón +17

In any imaging survey, measuring accurately the astronomical background light is crucial to obtain good photometry. This paper introduces BKGnet, a deep neural network to predict t…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 37 cited

The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Camera

Cristobal Padilla, Francisco J. Castander, Alex Alarcon +30

The PAU (Physics of the Accelerating Universe) Survey goal is to obtain photometric redshifts (photo-z) and Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) of astronomical objects with a resolu…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 105 cited

Superluminous Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey

C. R. Angus, M. Smith, M. Sullivan +72

We present a sample of 21 hydrogen-free superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I), and one hydrogen-rich SLSN (SLSN-II) detected during the five-year Dark Energy Survey (DES). These SNe,…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 52 cited

First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae From the Dark Energy Survey: Survey Overview and Supernova Spectroscopy

C. B. D'Andrea, M. Smith, M. Sullivan +108

We present spectroscopy from the first three seasons of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN). We describe the supernova spectroscopic program in full: strategy, observ…

astro-ph.EP2018

Rotation period of the minor planet 2010 WC9

Ricard Casas, Alfons Diepvens

Photometric observations of the minor planet 2010 WC9 carried out by one of us (Diepvens) in May 14, 2018 have allowed obtain a lightcurve of around 110 minutes and determin…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 29 cited

The PAU Survey: star-galaxy classification with multi narrow-band data

Laura Cabayol, Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe, Enrique Fernández +18

Classification of stars and galaxies is a well-known astronomical problem that has been treated using different approaches, most of them relying on morphological information. In th…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1.9k cited

Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

Arjun Dey, David J. Schlegel, Dustin Lang +157

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys are a combination of three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall z-band Legacy Surve…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 236 cited

The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design

DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290

DESI (Dark Energy Spectropic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations and the growth of structure through redshift…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 1.3k cited

The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290

DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure through…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 2 cited

The solar rotation in the period 1853-1870 from the sunspot catalogues of Carrington, Peters, and de la Rue

Ricard Casas, José M. Vaquero

R. C. Carrington, C. H. F. Peters, and W. de la Rue observed the sunspots in the second half of the 19th century, determining their heliographic positions between 1853 and 1870, be…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 18 cited

The Sunspot Catalogues of Carrington, Peters, and de la Rue: Quality Control and Machine-readable Versions

R. Casas, J. M. Vaquero

In the 19th century, several astronomers made observations of sunspots, recording their positions and sometimes their areas. These observations were published in the form of extens…

astro-ph2006★ 25 cited

A comprehensive asteroseismic modelling of the high-amplitude delta Scuti star RV Arietis

R. Casas, J. C. Suarez, A. Moya +1

We present a comprehensive asteroseismic study of the double-mode high-amplitude delta Scuti star HD 187642 (RV Arietis). The modelling includes some of the most recent techniques:…