4 papers
Science from the In Situ Exploration of the Proxima Centauri System
T. Marshall Eubanks, Jean Schneider, Bruce Bills +11
In the future interstellar exploration at near-relativistic speeds will be possible using beamed energy laser propulsion. With this, spacecraft as small as gm mass picospacecraft b…
The SPHEREx Satellite Mission
James J. Bock, Asad M. Aboobaker, Joseph Adamo +111
SPHEREx, a NASA explorer satellite launched on 11 March 2025, is carrying out the first all-sky near-infrared spectral survey. The satellite observes in 102 spectral bands from 0.7…
Integrated Galaxy Light from Stacking Random Pointings in the Dark Energy Survey Data
Jenna E. Moore, Seth H. Cohen, Philip Mauskopf +1
We present a new technique for measuring the integrated galaxy light (IGL) with stacked image data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We extract arcminute cutouts from n…
Intensity Interferometer Results on Sirius with 0.25 m Telescopes
Thomas J. Mozdzen, Richard M. Scott, Ricardo R. Rodriguez +1
We present the successful measurement of the squared visibility of Sirius at a telescope separation of 3.3 m using small 0.25 m Newtonian-style telescopes in an urban backyard sett…