The modern synthetic tracking technique (ST) can make use of small and medium-sized telescopes to detect asteroids fainter than the classic blinking methods, by arbitrary shifting and co-adding more images of the same survey field, if GPU computing resources are available. In the framework of the Romanian ParaSOL project, we developed and tested an

We conduct an extended analysis of dark energy constraints, in support of the findings of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) second data release cosmology key paper, including DESI data, Planck cosmic microwave background observations, and three different supernova compilations. Using a broad range of parametric and nonparametric

Aims. The precision of cosmological constraints from imaging surveys hinges on an accurately estimated redshift distribution n(z) of the tomographic bins, especially their mean redshifts. We assess the effectiveness of the clustering-redshifts technique in constraining Euclid tomographic redshift bins to meet the target uncertainty of σ(⟨z⟩) < 0

Several new galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses have been detected in the early release observations (ERO) from Euclid. The all-sky survey is expected to find 170 000 new systems, which are expected to greatly enhancing studies of dark matter and dark energy, and to constrain the cosmological parameters better. As a first step, we visually

The Euclid Space Telescope will image about 14 000 deg 2 of the extragalactic sky at visible and near-infrared wavelengths, providing a dataset of unprecedented size and richness that will facilitate a multitude of studies into the evolution of galaxies. Although spectroscopy will also be available for some of the galaxies, in the vast majority of

Determining precise and accurate stellar parameters, and in particular ages, is of utmost importance for gaining a deeper understanding of the formation and history of the Milky Way. This is especially true for stars in the galactic halo, which belong to the oldest stars known in our Galaxy. However, due to their distance and scarcity, those