The XXL Survey I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 592 (2016) ARTN A1

Authors:

M Pierre, F Pacaud, C Adami, S Alis, B Altieri, N Baran, C Benoist, M Birkinshaw, A Bongiorno, MN Bremer, M Brusa, A Butler, P Ciliegi, L Chiappetti, N Clerc, PS Corasaniti, J Coupon, C De Breuck, J Democles, S Desai, J Delhaize, J Devriendt, Y Dubois, D Eckert, A Elyiv, S Ettori, A Evrard, L Faccioli, A Farahi, C Ferrari, E Finet, S Fotopoulou, N Fourmanoit, P Gandhi, E Gastaldello, R Gastaud, I Georgantopoulos, P Giles, L Guennou, V Guglielmo, C Horellou, K Husband, M Huynh, A Lovino, M Kilbinger, E Koulouridis, S Lavoie, AMC Le Brun, JP Le Fevre, C Lidman, M Lieu, CA Lin, A Mantz, BJ Maughan, S Maurogordato, IG McCarthy, S McGee, JB Melin, O Melnyk, F Menanteau, M Novak, S Paltani, M Plionis, BM Poggianti, D Pomarede, E Pompei, TJ Ponman, ME Ramos-Ceja, P Ranalli, D Rapetti, S Raychaudury, TH Reiprich, H Rottgering, E Rozo, E Rykoff, T Sadibekova, J Santos, JL Sauvageot, C Schimd, M Sereno, GP Smith, V Smolcic, S Snowden, D Spergel, S Stanford, J Surdej, P Valageas, A Valotti, I Valtchanov, C Vignali, J Willis, F Ziparo

The Far Infrared Spectroscopic Explorer (FIRSPEX): probing the lifecycle of the ISM in the universe

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 9904 (2016) 99042k-99042k-7

Authors:

Dimitra Rigopoulou, Martin Caldwell, Brian N Ellison, Chris Pearson, E Caux, Asantha Cooray, JD Gallego, M Gerin, JR Goicoechea, Paul Goldsmith, Carsten Kramer, DC Lis, Sergio Molinari, V Ossenkopf-Okada, Giorgio Savini, BK Tan, Xander Tielens, S Viti, Martina Wiedner, G Yassin

Improving the full spectrum fitting method: accurate convolution with Gauss-Hermite functions

(2016)

SDSS-IV MaNGA IFS Galaxy Survey --- Survey Design, Execution, and Initial Data Quality

(2016)

Authors:

Renbin Yan, Kevin Bundy, David R Law, Matthew A Bershady, Brett Andrews, Brian Cherinka, Aleksandar M Diamond-Stanic, Niv Drory, Nicholas MacDonald, José R Sánchez-Gallego, Daniel Thomas, David A Wake, Anne-Marie Weijmans, Kyle B Westfall, Kai Zhang, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca, Francesco Belfiore, Dmitry Bizyaev, Guillermo A Blanc, Michael R Blanton, Joel Brownstein, Michele Cappellari, Richard D'Souza, Eric Emsellem, Hai Fu, Patrick Gaulme, Mark T Graham, Daniel Goddard, James E Gunn, Paul Harding, Amy Jones, Karen Kinemuchi, Cheng Li, Hongyu Li, Roberto Maiolino, Shude Mao, Claudia Maraston, Karen Masters, Michael R Merrifield, Daniel Oravetz, Kaike Pan, John K Parejko, Sebastian F Sanchez, David Schlegel, Audrey Simmons, Karun Thanjavur, Jeremy Tinker, Christy Tremonti, Remco van den Bosch, Zheng Zheng

Natural guide-star processing for wide-field laser-assisted AO systems

Adaptive Optics Systems V Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (2016)

Authors:

Carlos M Correia, Benoit Neichel, Jean-Marc Conan, Cyril Petit, Jean-Francois Sauvage, Thierry Fusco, Joel DR Vernet, Niranjan Thatte

Abstract:

Sky-coverage in laser-assisted AO observations largely depends on the system's capability to guide on the faintest natural guide-stars possible. Here we give an up-to-date status of our natural guide-star processing tailored to the European-ELT's visible and near-infrared (0.47 to 2.45 μm) integral field spectrograph — Harmoni.
We tour the processing of both the isoplanatic and anisoplanatic tilt modes using the spatio-angular approach whereby the wavefront is estimated directly in the pupil plane avoiding a cumbersome explicit layered estimation on the 35-layer profiles we're currently using.
Taking the case of Harmoni, we cover the choice of wave-front sensors, the number and field location of guide-stars, the optimised algorithms to beat down angular anisoplanatism and the performance obtained with different temporal controllers under split high-order/low-order tomography or joint tomography. We consider both atmospheric and far greater telescope wind buffeting disturbances. In addition we provide the sky-coverage estimates thus obtained.