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Assessment of sky brightness in central Portugal: the Dark Sky destination "Aldeias do Xisto" case study
Domingos Barbosa, Dalmiro Maia, Bruno Morgado +5
A combination of remote sensing techniques, open space data and field testing was developed to derive astronomical and meteorological parameters and assess Dark Sky brightness of t…
A Cloud-native Agile approach to cyber platform prototyping and integration for astronomy: the ENGAGE SKA case
Domingos Barbosa, Diogo Regateiro, João Paulo Barraca +13
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory is gearing up the formal construction of its two radio interferometers in Australia and South Africa after the end of design and pre-co…
PASO -- Astronomy and Space Situational Awareness in a Dark Sky Destination
Domingos Barbosa, Bruno Coelho, Miguel Bergano +17
The Pampilhosa da Serra Space Observatory (PASO) is located in the center of the continental Portuguese territory, in the heart of a certified Dark Sky destination by the Starlight…
Cyber-Cosmos: A New Citizen Science Concept in A Dark Sky Destination
Domingos Barbosa, Bruno Coelho, Miguel Bergano +8
Astrotourism and related citizen science activities are becoming a major trend of a sustainable, high-quality tourism segment, core elements to the protection of Dark skies in many…
A Portuguese radar tracking sensor for Space Debris monitoring
João Pandeirada, Miguel Bergano, Paulo Marques +6
The increase in space debris is a threat to space assets, space based-operations and led to a common effort to develop programs for dealing with this increase. As part of the Portu…
Radio astronomy and Space science in Azores: enhancing the Atlantic VLBI infrastructure cluster
Domingos Barbosa, Bruno Coelho, Sonia Antón +10
Radio astronomy and Space Infrastructures in the Azores have a great scientific and industrial interest because they benefit from a unique geographical location in the middle of th…
New SST Optical Sensor of Pampilhosa da Serra: studies on image processing algorithms and multi-filter characterization of Space Debris
Bruno Coelho, Domingos Barbosa, Miguel Bergano +5
As part of the Portuguese Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) System, two new Wide Field of View (2.3deg x 2.3deg) small aperture (30cm) telescopes will be deployed in 2021, at t…
Design of pulsed waveforms for space debris detection with ATLAS
João Pandeirada, Miguel Bergano, Paulo Marques +4
ATLAS is the first Portuguese radar system that aims to detect space debris. The article introduces the system and provides a brief description of its capabilities. The system is c…
Development of the first Portuguese radar tracking sensor for Space Debris
João Pandeirada, Miguel Bergano, João Neves +4
Currently, space debris represents a threat for satellites and space-based operations, both in-orbit and during the launching process. The yearly increase in space debris represent…
Portuguese SKA White Book
Domingos Barbosa, Sonia Antón, João Paulo Barraca +4
This white book stems from the contributions presented at the Portuguese SKA Days, held on the 6th and 7th February 2018 with the presence of the SKA Deputy Director General Alista…
ThunderKAT: The MeerKAT Large Survey Project for Image-Plane Radio Transients
R. Fender, P. A. Woudt, R. Armstrong +59
ThunderKAT is the image-plane transients programme for MeerKAT. The goal as outlined in 2010, and still today, is to find, identify and understand high-energy astrophysical process…
Design, Environmental and Sustainability Constraints of new African Observatories: The example of the Mozambique Radio Astronomy Observatory
Domingos Barbosa, Claudio Paulo, Valerio A. R. M. Ribeiro +9
The Mozambique Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) will be a first milestone towards development of radioastronomy in Mozambique. Development of MRAO will constitute a preparation s…