Astrofísicas: Instrumentación

  • Publicación
    SOPHISM: An End-to-end Software Instrument Simulator
    We present a software simulator for the modeling of astronomical instrumentation, which includes platform effects and software processing. It is an end-to-end...
  • Publicación
    Spectro-polarimetry in the era of large solar telescopes
    This paper discusses some of the challenges of spectro-polarimetric observations with a large aperture solar telescope such as the ATST or the EST. The observer...
  • Publicación
    Spectropolarimetric observations of the solar atmosphere in the Hα 6563 Å line
    We present novel spectropolarimetric observations of the hydrogen Hα line taken with the Zürich Imaging Polarimeter (ZIMPOL) at the Gregory Coudé Telescope of...
  • Publicación
    Spicule emission profiles observed in He i 10 830 Å
    Aims:Off-the-limb observations with high spatial and spectral resolution will help us understand the physical properties of spicules in the solar chromosphere...
  • Publicación
    Spiral Inflow Feeding the Nuclear Starburst in M83, Observed in Hα Emission with the GHαFaS Fabry-Perot Interferometer
    We present observations of the nearby barred starburst galaxy M83 (NGC 5236), with the new Fabry-Perot interferometer GHαFaS mounted on the 4.2 m William...
  • Publicación
    Star tracking for pointing determination of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. Application to the Large-Sized Telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
    We present a novel approach to the determination of the pointing of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) using the trajectories of the stars in...
  • Publicación
    STARE operations experience and its data quality control
    The STARE instrument was the first to detect the transits of an extrasolar planet in 1999. To date it has performed one of the longest running searches for...
  • Publicación
    Statistical structure of the atmospheric optical turbulence at Teide Observatory from recalibrated generalized SCIDAR data
    The characterization of the optical turbulence structure at an astronomical site requires a proper data base of the refractive-index structure constant, ?. Our...
  • Publicación
    Statistics and analysis of high-altitude wind above the Canary Islands observatories
    High-altitude wind has been recently proposed as an important parameter to be taken into account for astronomical site selection. We present here comprehensive...