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Astronomical Catalogs: An Overview
A catalog is a list of items in alphabetic, numeric, or some other systematic order. A variant spelling is catalogue which is particularly popular in...
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Astronomical Travels in Asia
This paper is an account of my astronomical travels in some of the economically develo** countries of Asia. Included in these travels were China...
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Mining Pixels: The Extraction and Classification of Astronomical Sources
In most imaging surveys, detecting sources and classifying them in an automatic way may be seen as the very first stage of the data-mining process....
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Radio astronomical images object detection and segmentation: a benchmark on deep learning methods
In recent years, deep learning has been successfully applied in various scientific domains. Following these promising results and performances, it...
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Astronomical Tent Observatories in the Late Eighteenth Century
From the mid-eighteenth century, long-haul oceanic voyages of exploration and discovery routinely carried astronomical tent observatoriesTent...
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Cosmic Peepholes: A Timeline of Astronomical Tools and Techniques
Our ever-increasing knowledge of the cosmos comes from our ever-improving telescopes and related instruments. Thanks to earlier pioneers, we are now...
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Full spectral coverage generation for calibration of astronomical telescope spectrographs
Calibrating astronomical telescopes necessitates a broadband spectrum that extends into the mid-infrared region, as well as pulse energy that attains...
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Essays on Astronomical History and Heritage A Tribute to Wayne Orchiston on his 80th Birthday
This multidisciplinary work celebrates Wayne Orchiston's career and accomplishments in historical and cultural astronomy on the occasion of his 80th...
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A Mobile Full-Revolving Radiometric Complex for Astronomical and Atmospheric Research
Abstract—A radiometric complex for astronomical and atmospheric research in the 3-mm wavelength range has been developed. The radiometer is assembled...
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Astronomical Instrumentation, Technology Transfer, and Its Impact on Industry (1974–Present)
From the start, both necessity and my personal conviction ensured that the building of instrumentation would be a normal activity for the IAC. I have...
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Astronomical Site Testing (1961–1974)
As soon as I got to Izaña in January 1961 I immediately got down to work. I had managed to find out, roughly, what astronomical site testing was all...
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Searching for long faint astronomical high energy transients: a data driven approach
HERMES Pathfinder is an in-orbit demonstration consisting of a constellation of six 3U nano-satellites hosting simple but innovative detectors for...
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Hardware for Near-Infrared Observations—Adaptive Optics, Instrumentation, and Detectors
Following on the discussion of the properties of the near-infrared sky, we now describe the hardware suite required to successfully carry out...
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Astronomy in Rome After Secchi and His Legacy at the Astronomical Observatory of Rome
The year 2018 marked both the bicentenary of Angelo Secchi’s birth and 80 years since foundation of the Astronomical Observatory of Rome (OAR). The...
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Information Hub of the Russian Virtual Observatory
The ultimate goal of the Russian Virtual Observatory (RVO) initiative is to provide every astronomer with on-line access to the rich volumes of data...
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The potential of small satellites for scientific and astronomical discovery
The development of small satellites for telecommunication constellations in low-Earth orbit provides a unique opportunity to the astronomical...
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Daytime Sky Quality at El Leoncito, Argentina
We characterize the daytime sky quality in terms of brightness, cloud coverage, and main weather variables at the Carlos Ulrico Cesco station of the...
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Astrophotonics: astronomy and modern optics
Much of the progress in astronomy has been driven by instrumental developments, from the first telescopes to fiber fed spectrographs. In this review,...
