Astrophysical: Instrumentation

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    Observation of global solar oscillations with a modified optical resonance spectrometer.
    In order to test the calibration technique to be used on the GOLF solar oscillation resonant scattering spectrometer on the SOHO mission, observations with a...
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    On-sky demonstration of matched filters for wavefront measurements using ELT-scale elongated laser guide stars
    The performance of adaptive optics systems is partially dependent on the algorithms used within the real-time control system to compute wavefront slope...
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    Optical intensity interferometry observations using the MAGIC Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes
    Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) currently in operation feature large mirrors and order of 1 ns time response to signals of a few photo...
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    Optimal Filter Systems for Photometric Redshift Estimation
    In the coming years, several cosmological surveys will rely on imaging data to estimate the redshift of galaxies, using traditional filter systems with 4-5...
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    Osiris at GTC
    The hardware of the OSIRIS instrument is nearly complete. The instrument commissioning will continue with the validation of the remaining observing modes that...
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    OSIRIS software: the Mask Designer Tool
    OSIRIS is a Day One instrument that will be available at the 10m GTC telescope which is being built at La Palma observatory in the Canary Islands. This optical...
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    OSIRIS tunable imager and spectrograph: Instrument status
    OSIRIS (Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy) is the optical Day One instrument for the GTC and the only Spanish Day One...
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    P-REx: The Piston Reconstruction Experiment for infrared interferometry
    For sensitive infrared interferometry, it is crucial to control the differential piston evolution between the used telescopes. This is classically done by the...
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    PASS - a Permanent All Sky Survey for the detection of transits
    A project to survey the entire visible sky for the presence of transits by extrasolar planets is presented. The experiment would consist of one or two fixed...