Small-ELF is a 3.5-meter telescope currently in development that will serve as a technology demonstrator for the much larger telescope named ELF (Exo-Life Finder). The ELF is proposed to be built with a minimum effective diameter of 12- meters and is designed to be scalable to a much larger size. The primary objective of the proposed design

Observational signatures of accretion disc winds have been found in a significant number of low-mass X-ray binaries at either X-ray or optical wavelengths. The 2015 outburst of the black hole transient V404 Cygni provided a unique opportunity for studying both types of outflows in the same system. We used contemporaneous X-ray (Chandra Observatory)

Large-scale magnetic fields reveal themselves through diffuse synchrotron sources observed in galaxy clusters such as radio halos. Total intensity filaments of these sources have been observed in polarization as well, but only in three radio halos out of about 100 currently known. In this paper we analyse new polarimetric Very Large Array data of

This paper describes the preliminary design of the Adaptive Secondary Mirror (ASM) for the European Solar Telescope (EST), as designed by TNO. This ASM will contain 1950 actuators over an optical aperture of Ø80cm. The mirror-shell of this ASM is concave with a radius of 2.156m and has a thickness of 2.5mm. To cope with the high optical heat-load

Model-based systems engineering has as one of its central pillars the single source of truth that is usually a CAD model, or a model defined using a language such as SysML. However, having a single point of truth is not incompatible with using multiple modeling languages. A simple DSL like PORIS allows us to make instrument sketches much more

Polarization is a fundamental property of the light and is very useful to measure the magnetic field vector of the various features that can be observed in the solar atmosphere. Ideally, a solar telescope should not introduce any polarization to the incoming light that could mask the one coming from the Sun. However, some instrumental polarization