SUNRISE Impressions from a successful science flight
SUNRISE is a balloon-borne telescope with an aperture of one meter. It is equipped with a filter imager for the UV wavelength range between 214 nm and 400 nm...
SYMPA, a dedicated instrument for Jovian seismology. I. Principle and performance
Aims:The detection and measurement of acoustic modes on the giant planets of the solar system is of great interest for the study of the internal structure and...
SYMPA, a dedicated instrument for Jovian seismology. II. Real performance and first results
Aims: SYMPA is the first instrument dedicated to the observation of free oscillations of Jupiter. Its principles and theoretical performance have been presented...
This article reviews the situation for robotization of telescopes and instruments at the Antarctic station Concordia on Dome C. A brain-storming meeting was...
Elmer is a visible imager and spectrograph for the GTC. Elmer Optics has been exhaustively tested at different steps, from the blanks to the final assemblies in...
The 1.5 m telescope GREGOR opens a new window to the understanding of solar small-scale magnetism. The first light instrumentation includes the Gregor Fabry...
This paper presents the characterization of the optical range of the ALHAMBRA photometric system, a 20 contiguous, equal-width, medium-band CCD system with...
The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager is a pair of interferometer arrays operating with six frequency channels spanning 13.9-18.2GHz, for observations on angular...
The Ariel 0.6 - 7.8 μm stellar limb-darkening coefficients
We provide here tables of stellar limb-darkening coefficients (LDCs) for the Ariel ESA M4 space mission. These tables include LDCs corresponding to different...