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On-sky Fibre-Target-Alignment of the 4MOST instrument: calibration and performance
Roland Winkler, Weijia Sun, Daniel Sablowski +9
The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) is a new wide-field, fibre-fed spectroscopic survey facility for the VISTA telescope at ESOs Paranal Observatory. The instr…
The MUSE second-generation VLT instrument
Bacon R., Accardo M., Adjali L. +65
The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is a second-generation VLT panoramic integral-field spectrograph currently in manufacturing, assembly and integration phase. MUSE has a…
The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package
The Astropy Collaboration, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Pey Lian Lim +133
The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly-developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomical communit…
The Data Processing Pipeline for the MUSE Instrument
Peter M. Weilbacher, Ralf Palsa, Ole Streicher +12
Processing of raw data from modern astronomical instruments is nowadays often carried out using dedicated software, so-called "pipelines" which are largely run in automated operati…
The Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package
The Astropy Collaboration, A. M. Price-Whelan, B. M. Sipőcz +134
The Astropy project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly-developed Python packages that provide commonly-needed functionality to the astronomical communit…
Debian Astro: An open computing platform for astronomy
Ole Streicher
Debian Astro is a Debian Pure Blend that aims to distribute the available astronomy software within the Debian operating system. Using Debian as the foundation has unique advantage…
The Astropy Problem
Demitri Muna, Michael Alexander, Alice Allen +151
The Astropy Project (http://astropy.org) is, in its own words, "a community effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between Pyth…
The MUSE Data Reduction Pipeline: Status after Preliminary Acceptance Europe
Peter M. Weilbacher, Ole Streicher, Tanya Urrutia +3
MUSE, a giant integral field spectrograph, is about to become the newest facility instrument at the VLT. It will see first light in February 2014. Here, we summarize the properties…
Learning from FITS: Limitations in use in modern astronomical research
Brian Thomas, Tim Jenness, Frossie Economou +35
The Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) standard has been a great boon to astronomy, allowing observatories, scientists and the public to exchange astronomical information easil…
Astropy: A Community Python Package for Astronomy
The Astropy Collaboration, Thomas P. Robitaille, Erik J. Tollerud +42
We present the first public version (v0.2) of the open-source and community-developed Python package, Astropy. This package provides core astronomy-related functionality to the com…
Reduction and analysis of MUSE data
J. Richard, R. Bacon, P. M. Weilbacher +10
MUSE, the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, is a 2nd generation integral-field spectrograph under final assembly to see first light at the Very Large Telescope in 2013. By capturi…
Mapping Luminous Blue Compact Galaxies with VIRUS-P: morphology, line ratios and kinematics
L. M. Cairos, N. Caon, B. Garcia-Lorenzo +4
[abridged] We carry out an integral field spectroscopy (IFS) study of a sample of luminous BCGs, with the aim to probe the morphology, kinematics, dust extinction and excitation me…
A 2D multiwavelength study of the ionized gas and stellar population in the Giant HII Region NGC 588
A. Monreal-Ibero, M. Relaño, C. Kehrig +5
(ABRIDGED) We present an analysis of NGC588 based on IFS data with PMAS, together with Spitzer images at 8 mi and 24 mi. The extinction distribution in the optical shows complex st…
The Baikal Neutrino Telescope - Results and Plans
R. Wischnewski
New results from the Baikal neutrino telescope NT200, based on the first 5 years of operation (1998-2003), are presented. We derive an all-flavor limit on the diffuse flux of astro…
Simultaneous measurements of water optical properties by AC9 transmissometer and ASP-15 Inherent Optical Properties meter in Lake Baikal
V. Balkanov et al., A. Capone, R. Masullo +3
Measurements of optical properties in media enclosing Cherenkov neutrino telescopes are important not only at the moment of the selection of an adequate site, but also for the cont…
BAIKAL experiment: status report
G. Domogatsky
We review the present status of the Baikal Neutrino Project and present the results obtained with the deep underwater neutrino telescope NT-200.
A search for very high energy neutrinos with the Baikal Neutrino Telescope
Zh. -A. Dzhilkibaev
We present the results of a search for high energy neutrinos with the Baikal underwater Cherenkov detector {\it NT-200.} An upper limit on the () diffuse flux of $…
Results from the AMANDA High Energy Neutrino Detector
E. Andres, P. Askebjer, X. Bai +2
This paper briefly summarizes the search for astronomical sources of high-energy neutrinos using the AMANDA-B10 detector. The complete data set from 1997 was analyzed. For E_mu>10…
The Lake Baikal neutrino experiment: selected results
BAIKAL Collaboration, V. Balkanov
We review the present status of the lake Baikal Neutrino Experiment and present selected physical results gained with the consequetive stages of the stepwise increasing detector: f…
The Lake Baikal neutrino experiment
BAIKAL Collaboration, V. Balkanov
We rewiew the present status of the Baikal Neutrino Project and present the results of a search for high energy neutrinos with the detector intermediate stage NT-96.
The Lake Baikal Experiment: Selected Results
Baikal Collaboration, presented by Zh. Dzhilkibaev
We review the present status of the Baikal Neutrino Project. The construction and performance of the large deep underwater Cherenkov detector NT-200 with 192 PMTs, which is current…
The optical module of the Baikal deep underwater neutrino telescope
R. I. Bagduev
A deep underwater Cherenkov telescope has been operating since 1993 in stages of growing size at 1.1 km depth in Lake Baikal. The key component of the telescope is the Optical Modu…
The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope
F. Halzen
With an effective telescope area of order m for TeV neutrinos, a threshold near 50 GeV and a pointing accuracy of 2.5 degrees per muon track, the AMANDA detector r…
The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope and the Indirect Search for Dark Matter
F. Halzen
With an effective telescope area of order 10^4 m^2, a threshold of ~50 GeV and a pointing accuracy of 2.5 degrees, the AMANDA detector represents the first of a new generation of h…