The internal alignment and validation of a powered ADC for SOXS

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 12184 (2022) 1218480-1218480-10

Authors:

Federico Battaini, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Riccardo Claudi, Matteo Munari, Ricardo Zanmar Sánchez, Matteo Aliverti, Mirko Colapietro, Davide Ricci, Luigi Lessio, Marco Dima, S Di Filippo, Federico Biondi, Sergio Campana, Pietro Schipani, Andrea Baruffolo, Sagi Ben-Ami, Giulio Capasso, Rosario Cosentino, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Ofir Hershko, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Marco Landoni, Giuliano Pignata, Adam Rubin, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, David Young, Jani Achrén, José Antonio Araiza-Durán, Iair Arcavi, Anna Brucalassi, Rachel Bruch, Enrico Cappellaro, Massimo Della Valle, Marco De Pascale, Rosario Di Benedetto, Sergio D'Orsi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Matteo Genoni, Marcos Hernandez Díaz, Jari Kotilainen, Gianluca Li Causi, Laurent Marty, Seppo Mattila, Michael Rappaport, Marco Riva, Bernardo Salasnich, Stephen Smartt, Maximilian Stritzinger, Héctor Pérez Ventura

Optical Characterization of OMT-Coupled TES Bolometers for LiteBIRD

JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS (2022)

Authors:

J Hubmayr, PAR Ade, A Adler, E Allys, D Alonso, K Arnold, D Auguste, J Aumont, R Aurlien, JE Austermann, S Azzoni, C Baccigalupi, AJ Banday, R Banerji, RB Barreiro, N Bartolo, S Basak, E Battistelli, L Bautista, JA Beall, D Beck, S Beckman, K Benabed, J Bermejo-Ballesteros, M Bersanelli, J Bonis, J Borrill, F Bouchet, F Boulanger, S Bounissou, M Brilenkov, ML Brown, M Bucher, E Calabrese, M Calvo, P Campeti, A Carones, FJ Casas, A Catalano, A Challinor, V Chan, K Cheung, Y Chinone, C Chiocchetta, SE Clark, L Clermont, S Clesse, J Cliche, F Columbro, JA Connors, A Coppolecchia, W Coulton, J Cubas, A Cukierman, D Curtis, F Cuttaia, G D'Alessandro, K Dachlythra, P de Bernardis, T de Haan, E de la Hoz, M De Petris, S Della Torre, JJ Daz Garca, C Dickinson, P Diego-Palazuelos, M Dobbs, T Dotani, D Douillet, E Doumayrou, L Duband, A Ducout, SM Duf, JM Duval, K Ebisawa, T Ellefot, HK Eriksen, J Errard, T Essinger-Hileman, S Farrens, F Finelli, R Flauger, K Fleury-Frenette, C Franceschet, U Fuskeland, L Galli, S Galli, M Galloway, K Ganga, JR Gao, RT Genova-Santos, M Georges, M Gerbino, M Gervasi, T Ghigna, S Giardiello, E Gjerlw, R Gonzlez Gonzles, ML Gradziel, J Grain, L Grandsire, F Grupp, A Gruppuso, JE Gudmundsson, NW Halverson, J Hamilton, P Hargrave, T Hasebe, M Hasegawa, M Hattori, M Hazumi, S Henrot-Versill, B Hensley, D Herman, D Herranz, GC Hilton, E Hivon, RA Hlozek, D Hoang, AL Hornsby, Y Hoshino, K Ichiki, T Iida, T Ikemoto, H Imada, K Ishimura, H Ishino, G Jaehnig, M Jones, T Kaga, S Kashima, N Katayama, A Kato, T Kawasaki, R Keskitalo, C Kintziger, T Kisner, Y Kobayashi, N Kogiso, A Kogut, K Kohri, E Komatsu, K Komatsu, K Konishi, N Krachmalnicof, I Kreykenbohm, CL Kuo, A Kushino, L Lamagna, JV Lanen, G Laquaniello, M Lattanzi, AT Lee, C Leloup, F Levrier, E Linder, MJ Link, AI Lonappan, T Louis, G Luzzi, J Macias-Perez, T Maciaszek, B Mafei, D Maino, M Maki, S Mandelli, M Maris, B Marquet, E Martnez-Gonzlez, FA Martire, S Masi, M Massa, M Masuzawa, S Matarrese, FT Matsuda, T Matsumura, L Mele, A Mennella, M Migliaccio, Y Minami, K Mitsuda, A Moggi, M Monelli, A Monfardini, J Montgomery, L Montier, G Morgante, B Mot, Y Murata, JA Murphy, M Nagai, Y Nagano, T Nagasaki, R Nagata, S Nakamura, R Nakano, T Namikawa, F Nati, P Natoli, S Nerval, N Neto Godry Farias, T Nishibori, H Nishino, F Noviello, GC O'Neil, C O'Sullivan, K Odagiri, H Ochi, H Ogawa, S Oguri, H Ohsaki, IS Ohta, N Okada, L Pagano, A Paiella, D Paoletti, G Pascual Cisneros, A Passerini, G Patanchon, V Pelgrim, J Peloton, V Pettorino, F Piacentini, M Piat, G Piccirilli, F Pinsard, G Pisano, J Plesseria, G Polenta, D Poletti, T Prouv, G Puglisi, D Rambaud, C Raum, S Realini, M Reinecke, CD Reintsema, M Remazeilles, A Ritacco, P Rosier, G Roudil, J Rubino-Martin, M Russell, H Sakurai, Y Sakurai, M Sandri, M Sasaki, G Savini, D Scott, J Seibert, Y Sekimoto, B Sherwin, K Shinozaki, M Shiraishi, P Shirron, A Shitvov, G Signorelli, G Smecher, F Spinella, J Starck, S Stever, R Stompor, R Sudiwala, S Sugiyama, R Sullivan, A Suzuki, J Suzuki, T Suzuki, TL Svalheim, E Switzer, R Takaku, H Takakura, S Takakura, Y Takase, Y Takeda, A Tartari, D Tavagnacco, A Taylor, E Taylor, Y Terao, L Terenzi, J Thermeau, H Thommesen, KL Thompson, B Thorne, T Toda, M Tomasi, M Tominaga, N Trappe, M Tristram, M Tsuji, M Tsujimoto, C Tucker, R Ueki, JN Ullom, K Umemori, L Vacher, J Van Lanen, G Vermeulen, P Vielva, F Villa, MR Vissers, N Vittorio, B Wandelt, W Wang, IK Wehus, J Weller, B Westbrook, G Weymann-Despres, J Wilms, B Winter, EJ Wollack, NY Yamasaki, T Yoshida, J Yumoto, K Watanuki, A Zacchei, M Zannoni, A Zonca

Search and identification of transient and variable radio sources using MeerKAT observations: a case study on the MAXI J1820+070 field

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 517:2 (2022) 2894-2911

Authors:

A Rowlinson, J Meijn, J Bright, AJ van der Horst, S Chastain, S Fijma, R Fender, I Heywood, RAMJ Wijers, PA Woudt, A Andersson, GR Sivakoff, E Tremou, LN Driessen

First light for GRAVITY Wide: Large separation fringe tracking for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

Astronomy and Astrophysics 665 (2022)

Authors:

R Abuter, F Allouche, A Amorim, C Bailet, M Bauböck, JP Berger, P Berio, A Bigioli, O Boebion, ML Bolzer, H Bonnet, G Bourdarot, P Bourget, W Brandner, Y Clénet, B Courtney-Barrer, Y Dallilar, R Davies, D Defrère, A Delboulbé, F Delplancke, R Dembet, PT De Zeeuw, A Drescher, A Eckart, C Douard, F Eisenhauer, M Fabricius, H Feuchtgruber, G Finger, NM Förster Schreiber, E Garcia, P Garcia, F Gao, E Gendron, R Genzel, JP Gil, S Gillessen, T Gomes, F Gonté, C Gouvret, P Guajardo, S Guieu, M Hartl, X Haubois, F Hauå Mann, G Heiåel, T Henning, S Hippler, S Hönig, M Horrobin, N Hubin, E Jacqmart, L Jochum, L Jocou, A Kaufer, P Kervella, H Korhonen, L Kreidberg, S Lacour, S Lagarde, O Lai, V Lapeyrère, R Laugier, JB Le Bouquin, J Leftley, P Léna, D Lutz, F Mang, A Marcotto, D Maurel, A Mérand, F Millour, N More, H Nowacki, M Nowak, S Oberti, T Ott, L Pallanca, L Pasquini, T Paumard, K Perraut, G Perrin, R Petrov, O Pfuhl, N Pourré, S Rabien, C Rau, S Robbe-Dubois, S Rochat, M Salman, M Schöller, J Schubert, N Schuhler, J Shangguan, T Shimizu, S Scheithauer, A Sevin, F Soulez, A Spang

Abstract:

GRAVITY+ is the upgrade for GRAVITY and the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) with wide-separation fringe tracking, new adaptive optics, and laser guide stars on all four 8 m Unit Telescopes (UTs) to enable ever-fainter, all-sky, high-contrast, milliarcsecond interferometry. Here we present the design and first results of the first phase of GRAVITY+, known as GRAVITY Wide. GRAVITY Wide combines the dual-beam capabilities of the VLTI and the GRAVITY instrument to increase the maximum separation between the science target and the reference star from 2 arcseconds with the 8 m UTs up to several 10 arcseconds, limited only by the Eartha's turbulent atmosphere. This increases the sky-coverage of GRAVITY by two orders of magnitude, opening up milliarcsecond resolution observations of faint objects and, in particular, the extragalactic sky. The first observations in 2019-2022 include the first infrared interferometry of two redshift z ~ 2 quasars, interferometric imaging of the binary system HD 105913A, and repeat observations of multiple star systems in the Orion Trapezium Cluster. We find the coherence loss between the science object and fringe-tracking reference star well described by the turbulence of the Eartha's atmosphere. We confirm that the larger apertures of the UTs result in higher visibilities for a given separation due to the broader overlap of the projected pupils on the sky and provide predictions for visibility loss as a function of separation to be used for future planning.

ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science case, baseline design and path to construction

GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY IX 12184 (2022) ARTN 1218424

Authors:

A Marconi, M Abreu, V Adibekyan, V Alberti, S Albrecht, J Alcaniz, M Aliverti, C Allende Prieto, JD Alvarado Gomez, PJ Amado, M Amate, MI Andersen, E Artigau, C Baker, V Baldini, A Balestra, SA Barnes, F Baron, SCC Barros, SM Bauer, M Beaulieu, O Bellido-Tirado, B Benneke, T Bensby, EA Bergin, K Biazzo, A Bik, JL Birkby, N Blind, I Boisse, E Bolmont, M Bonaglia, X Bonfils, F Borsa, A Brandeker, W Brandner, CH Broeg, M Brogi, D Brousseau, A Brucalassi, J Brynnel, LA Buchhave, DF Buscher, A Cabral, G Calderone, R Calvo-Ortega, F Cantalloube, BL Canto Martins, L Carbonaro, G Chauvin, B Chazelas, A-L Cheffot, YS Cheng, A Chiavassa, L Christensen, R Cirami, NJ Cook, RJ Cooke, I Coretti, S Covino, N Cowan, G Cresci, S Cristiani, V Cunha Parro, G Cupani, V D'Odorico, I de Castro Leao, A De Cia, JR De Medeiros, F Debras, M Debus, O Demangeon, M Dessauges-Zavadsky, P Di Marcantonio, F Dionies, R Doyon, J Dunn, D Ehrenreich, JP Faria, C Feruglio, M Fisher, A Fontana, M Fumagalli, T Fusco, J Fynbo, O Gabella, W Gaessler, E Gallo, X Gao, L Genolet, M Genoni, P Giacobbe, E Giro, RS Goncalves, OA Gonzalez, JI Gonzalez Hernandez, F Gracia Temich, MG Haehnelt, C Haniff, A Hatzes, R Helled, HJ Hoeijmakers, P Huke, AS Jaervinen, SP Jaervinen, A Kaminski, AJ Korn, D Kouach, G Kowzan, L Kreidberg, M Landoni, A Lanotte, A Lavail, J Li, J Liske, C Lovis, S Lucatello, D Lunney, MJ MacIntosh, N Madhusudhan, L Magrini, R Maiolino, L Malo, AWS Man, T Marquart, EL Marques, CJAP Martins, AM Martins, P Maslowski, E Mason, CA Mason, RA McCracken, P Mergo, G Micela, T Mitchell, P Molliere, MA Monteiro, D Montgomery, C Mordasini, J Morin, A Mucciarelli, MT Murphy, M N'Diaye, B Neichel, AT Niedzielski, E Niemczura, L Nortmann, P Noterdaeme, NJ Nunes, L Oggioni, E Oliva, H Onel, L Origlia, G Ostlin, E Palle, P Papaderos, G Pariani, J Penate Castro, F Pepe, L Perreault Levasseur, P Petit, L Pino, J Piqueras, A Pollo, K Poppenhaeger, A Quirrenbach, E Rauscher, R Rebolo, EMA Redaelli, S Reffert, DT Reid, A Reiners, P Richter, M Riva, S Rivoire, C Rodriguez-Lopez, IU Roederer, D Romano, S Rousseau, J Rowe, S Salvadori, N Sanna, NC Santos, P Santos Diaz, J Sanz-Forcada, M Sarajlic, J-F Sauvage, S Schaefer, RP Schiavon, TM Schmidt, C Selmi, S Sivanandam, M Sordet, R Sordo, F Sortino, D Sosnowska, SG Sousa, E Stempels, KG Strassmeier, A Suarez Mascareno, A Sulich, X Sun, NR Tanvir, F Tenegi-Sangines, S Thibault, SJ Thompson, A Tozzi, M Turbet, P Vallee, R Varas, KA Venn, J-P Veran, A Verma, M Viel, G Wade, C Waring, M Weber, J Weder, B Wehbe, J Weingrill, M Woche, M Xompero, E Zackrisson, A Zanutta, MR Zapatero Osorio, M Zechmeister, J Zimara