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Comparative Methods for Teaching an Astronomical Topic [PDF]

International Astronomical Union Colloquium, 1990
Astronomy has greatly progressed in this decade. The number of people who are interested in astronomical phenomena is certainly increasing as the number of IAU members increases. These people are divided into several categories, depending on their degrees of interests.
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Astrometric Calibration of MagAO-X with Updated Solutions for HD 165054 Field Stars

The Astronomical Journal
MagAO-X is a recently commissioned extreme adaptive optics instrument for the Magellan Clay 6.5 m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. MagAO-X had first light in 2019 and subsequent commissioning observations in 2022 and 2023.
Joseph D. Long, Logan Pearce, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Olivier Guyon, Warren B. Foster, Kyle Van Gorkom, Alexander D. Hedglen, Maggie Y. Kautz, Jay K. Kueny, Jialin Li, Jennifer Lumbres, Eden A. McEwen, Avalon L. McLeod, Lauren Schatz   +15 more
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METHOD FOR EVENING ASTRONOMIC OBSERVATIONS

Galaxy International Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 2022
This article describes the method of organizing astronomy laboratories and observations in general secondary schools. At the same time, we discussed how practical observations can be made in astronomy, and their types.
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Forced Measurement of Astronomical Sources at Low Signal-to-noise

The Astronomical Journal
We propose a modified moment matching algorithm to avoid catastrophic failures for sources with a low signal to noise ratio. The proposed modifications include a method to eliminate nonphysical negative pixel values and a forced single iteration with an ...
A. Dutta, J. R. Peterson, G. Sembroski
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CSST Slitless Spectra: Target Detection and Classification with Yolo

The Astronomical Journal
Addressing the spatial uncertainty and spectral blending challenges in China Space Station Telescope slitless spectroscopy, we present a deep learning-driven, end-to-end framework based on the You Only Look Once (YOLO) models.
Yingying Zhou, Chao Liu, Hao Tian, Xin Zhang, Nan Li   +4 more
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A Formalism for Calibrating the Instrumental Polarization of Radio Interferometric Arrays at Meter Wavelengths Using Unpolarized Sky: A Demonstration Using MWA Observations

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Calibration of instrumental polarization is critical for measuring polarized radio emissions from astrophysical sources to extract the magnetic field information in astrophysical, heliospheric, and terrestrial plasmas.
Devojyoti Kansabanik, Angelos Vourlidas, Soham Dey, Surajit Mondal, Divya Oberoi   +4 more
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AI application to artificial satellite identification in CHEOPS data

Astronomy & Astrophysics
Context. The rapid proliferation of artificial satellites poses a growing challenge to astronomical observations, calling for robust methods to flag and mitigate their impact on scientific data quality.
García-Martín Pablo, Gonçalves Luís, Hellmich Stephan, Billot Nicolas, Merín Bruno   +4 more
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An Efficient Observational Strategy for the Detection of the Oort Cloud

The Astronomical Journal
The Oort cloud is presumably a pristine relic of the solar system formation. Detection of the Oort cloud may provide information regarding the stellar environment in which the Sun was born and on the planetesimal population during the outer planets ...
Eran O. Ofek, Sarah A. Spitzer, Guy Nir
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Forecasting Constraints from Surface Brightness Fluctuations in Galaxy Clusters

The Astrophysical Journal
Studies of surface brightness (SB) fluctuations in the intracluster medium present an indirect estimate of turbulent pressure support and associated Mach numbers.
Charles E. Romero
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All-Sky brightness monitoring of light pollution with astronomical methods

Journal of Environmental Management, 2010
This paper describes a mobile prototype and a protocol to measure light pollution based on astronomical methods. The prototype takes three all-sky images using BVR filters of the Johnson-Cousins astronomical photometric system. The stars are then identified in the images of the Hipparcos and General Catalogue of Photometric Data II astronomical ...
Rabaza, O., Galadí-Enríquez, David, Espín Estrella, A., Aznar Dols, F.   +3 more
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