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Observational and Theoretical Astronomy [PDF]

Nature, 1933
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Astronomy: A conversation about observation [PDF]

Nature, 2012
In the spirit of the Lindau Meeting, we present a dialogue between a Nobel laureate and a young researcher. This interchange started online, where it continues to unfold. Here is a digest of this conversation, which has developed across time and space.
John, Mather, Minnie, Mao
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Fill in the blanks in the parameter space of observational astronomy. [PDF]

Innovation (Camb), 2023
Qian L.
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COSMICA: A Novel Dataset for Astronomical Object Detection with Evaluation Across Diverse Detection Architectures [PDF]

Journal of Imaging
Accurate and efficient detection of celestial objects in telescope imagery is a fundamental challenge in both professional and amateur astronomy. Traditional methods often struggle with noise, varying brightness, and object morphology.
Evgenii Piratinskii, Irina Rabaev
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Astronomy Lab I: Photometric Experiments for Physics Students [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2023
As physics laboratories are an integral part of the physics education across the globe, astronomy laboratories are also a necessary part of the astronomy education.
Reza Rezaei
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REQUIEM-2D: A Diversity of Formation Pathways in a Sample of Spatially Resolved Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z ∼ 2

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
REQUIEM-2D (Resolving Quiescent Magnified Galaxies with 2D Grism Spectroscopy) comprises a sample of eight massive ( ${\rm{log}}({M}_{\ast }/{M}_{\odot })\gt 10.6$ ) strongly lensed quiescent galaxies at z ∼ 2.
Mohammad Akhshik, Katherine E. Whitaker, Joel Leja, Johan Richard, Justin S. Spilker, Mimi Song, Gabriel Brammer, Rachel Bezanson, Harald Ebeling, Anna R. Gallazzi, Guillaume Mahler, Lamiya A. Mowla, Erica J. Nelson, Camilla Pacifici, Keren Sharon, Sune Toft, Christina C. Williams, Lillian Wright, Johannes Zabl   +18 more
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Optical Polarimetry in Undergraduate Education [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2019
Polarimetry plays an important part in observational astronomy, but it is all too often given limited attention in astronomy textbooks. Coupled with a sometimes confusing mathematical introduction, students may feel that polarization is a difficult ...
Topasna Gregory
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A Nondetection of Iron in the First High-resolution Emission Study of the Lava Planet 55 Cnc e

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
Close-in lava planets represent an extreme example of terrestrial worlds, but their high temperatures may allow us to probe a diversity of crustal compositions.
Kaitlin C. Rasmussen, Miles H. Currie, Celeste Hagee, Christiaan van Buchem, Matej Malik, Arjun B Savel, Matteo Brogi, Emily Rauscher, Victoria Meadows, Megan Mansfield, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Jean-Michel Desert, Joost P. Wardenier, Lorenzo Pino, Michael Line, Vivien Parmentier, Andreas Seifahrt, David Kasper, Madison Brady, Jacob L. Bean   +19 more
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Solving the Traveling Telescope Problem with Mixed-integer Linear Programming

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
The size and complexity of modern astronomical surveys has grown to the point where, in many cases, traditional human scheduling of observations are tedious at best and impractical at worst.
Luke B. Handley, Erik A. Petigura, Velibor V. Mišić   +2 more
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Testing general relativity with gravitational-wave catalogs: The insidious nature of waveform systematics

iScience, 2021
Summary: Gravitational-wave observations of binary black holes allow new tests of general relativity (GR) to be performed on strong, dynamical gravitational fields.
Christopher J. Moore, Eliot Finch, Riccardo Buscicchio, Davide Gerosa   +3 more
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