Ground-based photometric follow-up for exoplanet detections with the PLATO mission
Detections of transiting planets from the upcoming PLATO mission are expected to face significant contamination from contaminating eclipsing binaries, resulting...
Ground-based photometry of space-based transit detections: photometric follow-up of the CoRoT mission
The motivation, techniques and performance of the ground-based photometric follow-up of transit detections by the CoRoT space mission are presented. Its...
Ground-based search for lightning in Jupiter with GTC/OSIRIS fast photometry and tunable filters
Context. Lightning flashes in Jupiter have been observed by spacecraft orbiting the planet, but so far, they have escaped optical detection from Earth. However...
Ground-based tests of JEM-EUSO components at the Telescope Array site, "EUSO-TA"
We are conducting tests of optical and electronics components of JEMEUSO at the Telescope Array site in Utah with a ground-based "EUSO-TA" detector. The tests...
Ground-based transit observations of the super-Earth GJ 1214 b
Context. GJ 1214 b is one of the few known transiting super-Earth-sized exoplanets with a measured mass and radius. It orbits an M-dwarf, only 14.55 pc away...
GroundBIRD: A CMB Polarization Experiment with MKID Arrays
GroundBIRD is a ground-based experiment for a precise observation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarizations. To achieve high sensitivity at large...
GroundBIRD: Observation of CMB Polarization with a Rapid Scanning and MKIDs
Cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is an afterglow from the Big Bang. CMB contains rich information about the early stage of the universe. In...