Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Authors and titles for recent submissions

• Fri, 21 Jun 2024
• Wed, 19 Jun 2024
• Tue, 18 Jun 2024
• Mon, 17 Jun 2024
• Fri, 14 Jun 2024

See today's new changes

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 (showing 24 of 24 entries )

[1] arXiv:2406.14542 [pdf, html, other]

Title: $\texttt{cunuSHT}$: GPU Accelerated Spherical Harmonic Transforms on Arbitrary Pixelizations

Sebastian Belkner, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Julien Carron, Nathanael Schaeffer, Martin Reinecke

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[2] arXiv:2406.14101 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Peculiar Velocity Reconstruction From Simulations and Observations Using Deep Learning Algorithms

Yuyu Wang, Xiaohu Yang

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[3] arXiv:2406.14089 [pdf, html, other]

Title: The Simons Observatory: Alarms and Detector Quality Monitoring

David V. Nguyen, Sanah Bhimani, Nicholas Galitzki, Brian J. Koopman, Jack Lashner, Laura Newburgh, Max Silva-Feaver, Kyohei Yamada

Comments: 14 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. To be presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[4] arXiv:2406.13915 [pdf, html, other]

Title: The Blue Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (BlueMUSE) on the VLT: End-To-End simulator 'BlueSi'

Martin Wendt, Norberto Castro, Sven Martens, John Pharo, Peter M. Weilbacher, Davor Krajnović, Johan Richard

Comments: 20 pages, 13 figures

Journal-ref: Proc. SPIE 13101-78, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII, (18 June 2024)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[5] arXiv:2406.13914 [pdf, html, other]

Title: The Blue Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (BlueMUSE) on the VLT: science drivers and overview of instrument design

Johan Richard, Rémi Giroud, Florence Laurent, Davor Krajnović, Alexandre Jeanneau, Roland Bacon, Manuel Abreu, Angela Adamo, Ricardo Araujo, Nicolas Bouché, Jarle Brinchmann, Zhemin Cai, Norberto Castro, Ariadna Calcines, Diane Chapuis, Adélaïde Claeyssens, Luca Cortese, Emanuele Daddi, Christopher Davison, Michael Goodwin, Robert Harris, Matthew Hayes, Mathilde Jauzac, Andreas Kelz, Jean-Paul Kneib, Audrey A. Lanotte, Jon Lawrence, Vianney Le Bouteiller, Rémy Le Breton, Matthew Lehnert, Angel Lopez Sanchez, Helen McGregor, Anna F. McLeod, Manuel Monteiro, Simon Morris, Cyrielle Opitom, Arlette Pécontal, David Robertson, Jesse van de Sande, Russell Smith, Matthias Steinmetz, Mark Swinbank, Tanya Urrutia, Anne Verhamme, Peter M. Weilbacher, Martin Wendt, François Wildi, Jessica Zheng, The BlueMUSE consortium

Comments: 20 pages, 10 figures, proceedings of the SPIE astronomical telescopes and instrumentation conference, Yokohama, 16-21 June

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[6] arXiv:2406.13913 [pdf, html, other]

Title: The Blue Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (BlueMUSE) on the VLT: characterization of two VPHG prototypes based on dichromated gelatin and photopolymer recording materials

Alexandre Jeanneau, Andrea Bianco, Andrew Clawson, Michele Frangiamore, Elroy Pearson, Laurent Pinard, Jürgen Schmoll, Johan Richard, Rémi Giroud, Florence Laurent, Roland Bacon

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Presented at SPIE "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation", June 2024, in Yokohama, as part of "Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VI"

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[7] arXiv:2406.13854 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Overview of the Optical Design of the CMB-S4 Large Aperture Telescopes and Camera Optics

Patricio A. Gallardo, Kathleen Harrington, Roberto Puddu, Bradford Benson, John Carlstrom, Nick Emerson, Jeff McMahon, Tyler Natoli, Johanna M. Nagy, Michael D. Niemack, John Ruhl

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[8] arXiv:2406.13673 [pdf, html, other]

Title: The EUSO-SPB2 Fluorescence Telescope for the Detection of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

James H. Adams Jr., Denis Allard, Phillip Alldredge, Luis Anchordoqui, Anna Anzalone, Matteo Battisti, Alexander A. Belov, Mario Bertaina, Peter F. Bertone, Sylvie Blin-Bondil, Julia Burton, Francesco S. Cafagna, Marco Casolino, Karel Černý, Mark J. Christ, Roberta Colalillo, Hank J. Crawford, Alexandre Creusot, Austin Cummings, Rebecca Diesing, Alessandro Di Nola, Toshikazu Ebisuzaki, Johannes Eser, Silvia Ferrarese, George Filippatos, William W. Finch, Flavia Flaminio, Claudio Fornaro, Duncan Fuehne, Christer Fuglesang, Diksha Garg, Alessio Golzio, Fausto Guarino, Claire Guépin, Tobias Heibges, Eleanor G. Judd, Pavel A. Klimov, John F. Krizmanic, Viktoria Kungel, Luke Kupari, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Massimiliano Manfrin, Wlodzimierz Marszal, John N. Matthews, Marco Mese, Stephan S. Meyer, Marco Mignone, Hiroko Miyamoto, Alexey S. Murashov, Jane M. Nachtman, Angela V. Olinto, Yasar Onel, Giuseppe Osteria, Beatrice Panico, Ètienne Parizot, Tom Paul, Miroslav Pech, Francesco Perfetto, Lech W. Piotrowski, Zbigniew Plebaniak, Jonatan Posliguaaa, Guillaume Prévôtb, Marika Przybylakae, Patrick Reardona, Mary Hall Reno, Marco Ricci, Fred Sarazin, P. Schovánek, Valentina Scotti, Kenji Shinozaki, Jorge F. Soriano, Ben K. Stillwell, Jacek Szabelski, Yoshiyuki Takizawa, Daniil Trofimov, Fredrik Unel, Laura Valore, Tonia M. Venters, John Watts Jr., Lawrence Wiencke, Hannah Wistrand, Roy Young

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[9] arXiv:2406.13587 [pdf, html, other]

Title: The Precursor Small Aperture Telescope (PreSAT) CMB polarimeter

Matthew A. Petroff, Zeeshan Ahmed, James J. Bock, Marion Dierickx, Sofia Fatigoni, David C. Goldfinger, Paul K. Grimes, Shawn W. Henderson, Kirit S. Karkare, John M. Kovac, Hien T. Nguyen, Scott N. Paine, Anna R. Polish, Thibault Romand, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Abigail G. Vieregg

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Proc. SPIE

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[10] arXiv:2406.13199 [pdf, html, other]

Title: New methods for ALMA angular-scale based observation scheduling, quality assessment, and beam shaping II: refinements

Dirk Petry, María Díaz Trigo, Rüdiger Kneissl, Ignacio Toledo, Atsushi Miyazaki, Toshinobu Takagi, Ashley Barnes, Francesca Bonanomi

Comments: 12 pages, 18 figures, to be published in the proceedings of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, paper no. 13098-27

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[11] arXiv:2406.13156 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Development of RFSoC-based direct sampling highly multiplexed microwave SQUID readout for future CMB and submillimeter surveys

Chao Liu, Zeeshan Ahmed, Shawn W. Henderson, Ryan Herbst, Larry Ruckman, Thomas Satterthwaite

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[12] arXiv:2406.12917 [pdf, html, other]

Title: The Black Hole Explorer: Motivation and Vision

Michael D. Johnson, Kazunori Akiyama, Rebecca Baturin, Bryan Bilyeu, Lindy Blackburn, Don Boroson, Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano, Andrew Chael, Chi-kwan Chan, Dominic Chang, Peter Cheimets, Cathy Chou, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Joseph Farah, Peter Galison, Ronald Gamble, Charles F. Gammie, Zachary Gelles, Jose L. Gomez, Samuel E. Gralla, Paul Grimes, Leonid I. Gurvits, Shahar Hadar, Kari Haworth, Kazuhiro Hada, Michael H. Hecht, Mareki Honma, Janice Houston, Ben Hudson, Sara Issaoun, He Jia, Svetlana Jorstad, Jens Kauffmann, Yuri Y. Kovalev, Peter Kurczynski, Robert Lafon, Alexandru Lupsasca, Robert Lehmensiek, Chung-Pei Ma, Daniel P. Marrone, Alan P. Marscher, Gary J. Melnick, Ramesh Narayan, Kotaro Niinuma, Scott C. Noble, Eric J. Palmer, Daniel C. M. Palumbo, Lenny Paritsky, Eliad Peretz, Dominic Pesce, Alexander Plavin, Eliot Quataert, Hannah Rana, Angelo Ricarte, Freek Roelofs, Katia Shtyrkova, Laura C. Sinclair, Jeffrey Small, Sridharan Tirupati Kumara, Ranjani Srinivasan, Andrew Strominger, Paul Tiede, Edward Tong, Jade Wang, Jonathan Weintroub, Maciek Wielgus, George Wong, Xinyue Alice Zhang

Comments: Proceedings for SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[13] arXiv:2406.14531 (cross-list from astro-ph.EP) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Roman FFP Revolution: Two, Three, Many Plutos

Andrew Gould (OSU, MPIA), Jennifer C. Yee (CfA), Subo Dong (PKU, Kavli)

Comments: 46 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[14] arXiv:2406.14444 (cross-list from astro-ph.EP) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Combining reference-star and angular differential imaging for high-contrast imaging of extended sources

Sandrine Juillard, Sophia Stasevic, Valentin Christiaens, Olivier Absil, Julien Milli

Comments: 21 pages, 18 figures, Accepted to A&A

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[15] arXiv:2406.14297 (cross-list from cs.AI) [pdf, html, other]

Title: AI in Space for Scientific Missions: Strategies for Minimizing Neural-Network Model Upload

Jonah Ekelund, Ricardo Vinuesa, Yuri Khotyaintsev, Pierre Henri, Gian Luca Delzanno, Stefano Markidis

Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[16] arXiv:2406.14291 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Post-Newtonian expansions of extreme mass ratio inspirals of spinning bodies into Schwarzschild black holes

Viktor Skoupý, Vojtěch Witzany

Comments: 22 pages, 8 figures

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[17] arXiv:2406.14268 (cross-list from astro-ph.HE) [pdf, html, other]

Title: A hierarchical Bayesian approach to point source analysis in high-energy neutrino telescopes

F. Capel, J. Kuhlmann, C. Haack, M. Ha Minh, H. Niederhausen, L. Schumacher

Comments: Submitted to ApJ

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[18] arXiv:2406.14173 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Time-Delay Interferometry for ASTROD-GW

Gang Wang

Comments: This master's thesis was originally written in Chinese and submitted in 2011. This version is quickly translated with the assistance of ChatGPT. In Chapter 7, a second-generation TDI bank was developed, and some of the TDI observables are related to recent works (arXiv:2403.01490 and arXiv:2406.11305). Comments and feedback are welcome

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[19] arXiv:2406.13959 (cross-list from physics.optics) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Multifrequency-resolved Hanbury Brown-Twiss Effect

Joseph Ferrantini, Jesse Crawford, Sergei Kulkov, Jakub Jirsa, Aaron Mueninghoff, Lucas Lawrence, Stephen Vintskevich, Tommaso Milanese, Samuel Burri, Ermanno Bernasconi, Claudio Bruschini, Michal Marcisovsky, Peter Svihra, Andrei Nomerotski, Paul Stankus, Edoardo Charbon, Raphael A. Abrahao

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[20] arXiv:2406.13710 (cross-list from astro-ph.EP) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Velocity Analysis of Moving Objects in Earth Observation Satellite Images Using Multi-Spectral Push Broom Scanning

Eric Keto, Wesley Andres Watters

Comments: Submitted to Remote Sensing

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[21] arXiv:2406.13697 (cross-list from astro-ph.EP) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Detection of Moving Objects in Earth Observation Satellite Images: Verification

Eric Keto, Wesley Andres Watters

Comments: Submitted to the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[22] arXiv:2406.13638 (cross-list from physics.data-an) [pdf, html, other]

Title: XENONnT WIMP Search: Signal & Background Modeling and Statistical Inference

XENON Collaboration: E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe, S. Ahmed Maouloud, L. Althueser, B. Andrieu, E. Angelino, D. Antón Martin, F. Arneodo, L. Baudis, M. Bazyk, L. Bellagamba, R. Biondi, A. Bismark, K. Boese, A. Brown, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, J. M. R. Cardoso, A. P. Cimental Chávez, A. P. Colijn, J. Conrad, J. J. Cuenca-García, V. D'Andrea, L. C. Daniel Garcia, M. P. Decowski, C. Di Donato, P. Di Gangi, S. Diglio, K. Eitel, A. Elykov, A. D. Ferella, C. Ferrari, H. Fischer, T. Flehmke, M. Flierman, W. Fulgione, C. Fuselli, P. Gaemers, R. Gaior, M. Galloway, F. Gao, S. Ghosh, R. Giacomobono, R. Glade-Beucke, L. Grandi, J. Grigat, H. Guan, M. Guida, P. Gyoergy, R. Hammann, A. Higuera, C. Hils, L. Hoetzsch, N. F. Hood, M. Iacovacci, Y. Itow, J. Jakob, F. Joerg, Y. Kaminaga, M. Kara, P. Kavrigin, S. Kazama, M. Kobayashi, A. Kopec, F. Kuger, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, L. Levinson, I. Li, S. Li, S. Liang, Y.-T. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, K. Liu, J. Loizeau, F. Lombardi, J. Long, J. A. M. Lopes, T. Luce, Y. Ma, C. Macolino, J. Mahlstedt, A. Mancuso, L. Manenti, F. Marignetti, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, K. Martens, J. Masbou, E. Masson, S. Mastroianni, A. Melchiorre, M. Messina, A. Michael, K. Miuchi, A. Molinario, S. Moriyama, K. Morå

Comments: 20 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[23] arXiv:2406.13463 (cross-list from astro-ph.HE) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Exploring pulsar timing precision: A comparative study of polarization calibration methods for NANOGrav data from the Green Bank Telescope

Lankeswar Dey, Maura A. McLaughlin, Haley M. Wahl, Paul B. Demorest, Zaven Arzoumanian, Harsha Blumer, Paul R. Brook, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, H. Thankful Cromartie, Megan E. DeCesar, Timothy Dolch, Justin A. Ellis, Robert D. Ferdman, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, William Fiore, Emmanuel Fonseca, Nate Garver-Daniels, Peter A. Gentile, Joseph Glaser, Deborah C. Good, Ross J. Jennings, Megan L. Jones, Michael T. Lam, Duncan R. Lorimer, Jing Luo, Ryan S. Lynch, Cherry Ng, David J. Nice, Timothy T. Pennucci, Nihan S. Pol, Scott M. Ransom, Renée Spiewak, Ingrid H. Stairs, Kevin Stovall, Joseph K. Swiggum

Comments: 21 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, submitted to Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[24] arXiv:2406.13037 (cross-list from astro-ph.EP) [pdf, html, other]

Title: Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): XIII. The Value of Combining Thermal Emission and Reflected Light for the Characterization of Earth Twins

E. Alei, S. P. Quanz, B. S. Konrad, E. O. Garvin, V. Kofman, A. Mandell, D. Angerhausen, P. Mollière, M. R. Meyer, T. Robinson, S. Rugheimer, the LIFE Collaboration

Comments: 16 pages (main text, incl. 12 figures) + appendix; accepted for publication in A&A (current version: post 1st revision). Thirteenth paper of LIFE telescope series

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 (showing first 1 of 9 entries )

[25] arXiv:2406.12509 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Towards an astronomical use of new-generation geodetic observations. I. From the correlator to full-polarization images

V. Pérez-Díez, I. Martí-Vidal, E. Albentosa-Ruiz, J. González-García, F. Jaron, T. Savolainen, M.H. Xu, R. Bachiller

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)