Astrophysical: Telescopes

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    Instrumental polarization in the focal plane of telescopes. 2: Effects induced by seeing
    This work quantifies the influence of the terrestrial atmosphere on the instrumental polarization (IP) of telescopes. Our numerical simulations show that seeing...
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    Instrumentation for large telescopes : VII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics
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    Integral field spectroscopy supports atmospheric optics to reveal the finite outer scale of the turbulence
    Context. The spatial coherence wavefront outer scale (ℒ 0) characterizes the size of the largest turbulence eddies in Earth's atmosphere, determining low...
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    Kepler K2 Campaign 9 - II. First space-based discovery of an exoplanet using microlensing
    We present K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, a densely sampled, planetary binary caustic-crossing microlensing event found from a blind search of data gathered from Campaign...
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    Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). I. Improved exoplanet detection yield estimates for a large mid-infrared space-interferometer mission
    Context. One of the long-term goals of exoplanet science is the atmospheric characterization of dozens of small exoplanets in order to understand their...
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    Liverpool telescope 2: a new robotic facility for rapid transient follow-up
    The Liverpool Telescope is one of the world's premier facilities for time domain astronomy. The time domain landscape is set to radically change in the coming...
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    Lucky imaging speckle statistics applied to halo suppression
    In ground based astronomy, the Lucky Imaging (LI) technique consists of selecting the best quality pictures among those that have been taken with a short...
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    MEGARA: The future IFU and MOS of the 10.4 m GTC
    In these proceedings we summarize the characteristics and current status of MEGARA, the future optical IFU and MOS for the 10.4 m GTC. MEGARA is being built by...
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    Mid-IR cosmological spectrophotometric surveys from space: Measuring AGN and star formation at the cosmic noon with a SPICA-like mission
    We use the SPace Infrared telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) project as a template to demonstrate how deep spectrophotometric surveys covering...