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1. Filamentary Network and Magnetic Field Structures Revealed with BISTRO in the High-mass Star-forming Region NGC 2264: Global Properties and Local Magnetogravitational Configurations

Author: Jia-Wei Wang, Patrick M. Koch, Seamus D. Clarke, Gary Fuller, Nicolas Peretto, Ya-Wen Tang, Hsi-Wei Yen, Shih-Ping Lai, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Doris Arzoumanian, Doug Johnstone, Ray Furuya, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Chang Won Lee, Derek Ward-Thompson, Valentin J. M. Le Gouellec, Hong-Li Liu, Lapo Fanciullo, Jihye Hwang, Kate Pattle, Frédérick Poidevin, Mehrnoosh Tahani, Takashi Onaka, Mark G. Rawlings, Eun Jung Chung, Junhao Liu, A-Ran Lyo, Felix Priestley, Thiem Hoang, Motohide Tamura, David Berry, Pierre Bastien, Tao-Chung Ching, Simon Coudé, Woojin Kwon, Mike Chen, Chakali Eswaraiah, Archana Soam, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Keping Qiu, Tyler L. Bourke, Do-Young Byun, Zhiwei Chen, Huei-Ru Vivien Chen, Wen Ping Chen, Jungyeon Cho, Minho Choi, Yunhee Choi, Youngwoo Choi, Antonio Chrysostomou, Sophia Dai, James Di Francesco, Pham Ngoc Diep, Yasuo Doi, Yan Duan, Hao-Yuan Duan, David Eden, Jason Fiege, Laura M. Fissel, Erica Franzmann, Per Friberg, Rachel Friesen, Tim Gledhill, Sarah Graves, Jane Greaves, Matt Griffin, Qilao Gu, Ilseung Han, Saeko Hayashi, Martin Houde, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Kazunari Iwasaki, Il-Gyo Jeong, Vera Könyves, Ji-hyun Kang, Miju Kang, Janik Karoly, Akimasa Kataoka, Koji Kawabata, Zacariyya Khan, Mi-Ryang Kim, Kee-Tae Kim, Kyoung Hee Kim, Shinyoung Kim, Jongsoo Kim, Hyosung Kim, Gwanjeong Kim, Florian Kirchschlager, Jason Kirk, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Takayoshi Kusune, Jungmi Kwon, Kevin Lacaille, Chi-Yan Law, Sang-Sung Lee, Hyeseung Lee, Jeong-Eun Lee, Chin-Fei Lee, Dalei Li, Hua-bai Li, Guangxing Li, Di Li, Sheng-Jun Lin, Tie Liu, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Xing Lu, Steve Mairs, Masafumi Matsumura, Brenda Matthews, Gerald Moriarty-Schieven, Tetsuya Nagata, Fumitaka Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Geumsook Park, Harriet Parsons, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lei Qian, Ramprasad Rao, Jonathan Rawlings, Brendan Retter, John Richer, Andrew Rigby, Sarah Sadavoy, Hiro Saito, Giorgio Savini, Masumichi Seta, Ekta Sharma, Yoshito Shimajiri, Hiroko Shinnaga, Xindi Tang, Hoang Duc Thuong, Kohji Tomisaka, Le Ngoc Tram, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Serena Viti, Hongchi Wang, Anthony Whitworth, Jintai Wu, Jinjin Xie, Meng-Zhe Yang, Hyunju Yoo, Jinghua Yuan, Hyeong-Sik Yun, Tetsuya Zenko, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Yapeng Zhang, Guoyin Zhang, Jianjun Zhou, Lei Zhu, Ilse de Looze, Philippe André, C. Darren Dowell, Stewart Eyres, Sam Falle, Jean-François Robitaille, and Sven van Loo
Subjects: Collapsing clouds, Interstellar filaments, Molecular clouds, Interstellar magnetic fields, Interstellar medium, Polarimetry, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We report 850 μ m continuum polarization observations toward the filamentary high-mass star-forming region NGC 2264, taken as part of the B -fields In STar forming Regions Observations large program on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. These data reveal a well-structured nonuniform magnetic field in the NGC 2264C and 2264D regions with a prevailing orientation around 30° from north to east. Field strength estimates and a virial analysis of the major clumps indicate that NGC 2264C is globally dominated by gravity, while in 2264D, magnetic, gravitational, and kinetic energies are roughly balanced. We present an analysis scheme that utilizes the locally resolved magnetic field structures, together with the locally measured gravitational vector field and the extracted filamentary network. From this, we infer statistical trends showing that this network consists of two main groups of filaments oriented approximately perpendicular to one another. Additionally, gravity shows one dominating converging direction that is roughly perpendicular to one of the filament orientations, which is suggestive of mass accretion along this direction. Beyond these statistical trends, we identify two types of filaments. The type I filament is perpendicular to the magnetic field with local gravity transitioning from parallel to perpendicular to the magnetic field from the outside to the filament ridge. The type II filament is parallel to the magnetic field and local gravity. We interpret these two types of filaments as originating from the competition between radial collapsing, driven by filament self-gravity, and longitudinal collapsing, driven by the region's global gravity.
Published: 2024
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2. The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Studying the Complex Magnetic Field of L43

Author: Janik Karoly, Derek Ward-Thompson, Kate Pattle, David Berry, Anthony Whitworth, Jason Kirk, Pierre Bastien, Tao-Chung Ching, Simon Coudé, Jihye Hwang, Woojin Kwon, Archana Soam, Jia-Wei Wang, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Shih-Ping Lai, Keping Qiu, Doris Arzoumanian, Tyler L. Bourke, Do-Young Byun, Huei-Ru Vivien Chen, Wen Ping Chen, Mike Chen, Zhiwei Chen, Jungyeon Cho, Minho Choi, Youngwoo Choi, Yunhee Choi, Antonio Chrysostomou, Eun Jung Chung, Sophia Dai, Victor Debattista, James Di Francesco, Pham Ngoc Diep, Yasuo Doi, Hao-Yuan Duan, Yan Duan, Chakali Eswaraiah, Lapo Fanciullo, Jason Fiege, Laura M. Fissel, Erica Franzmann, Per Friberg, Rachel Friesen, Gary Fuller, Ray Furuya, Tim Gledhill, Sarah Graves, Jane Greaves, Matt Griffin, Qilao Gu, Ilseung Han, Thiem Hoang, Martin Houde, Charles L. H. Hull, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Kazunari Iwasaki, Il-Gyo Jeong, Doug Johnstone, Vera Könyves, Ji-hyun Kang, Miju Kang, Akimasa Kataoka, Koji Kawabata, Francisca Kemper, Jongsoo Kim, Shinyoung Kim, Gwanjeong Kim, Kyoung Hee Kim, Mi-Ryang Kim, Kee-Tae Kim, Hyosung Kim, Florian Kirchschlager, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Patrick M. Koch, Takayoshi Kusune, Jungmi Kwon, Kevin Lacaille, Chi-Yan Law, Chang Won Lee, Hyeseung Lee, Yong-Hee Lee, Chin-Fei Lee, Jeong-Eun Lee, Sang-Sung Lee, Dalei Li, Di Li, Guangxing Li, Hua-bai Li, Sheng-Jun Lin, Hong-Li Liu, Tie Liu, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Junhao Liu, Steven Longmore, Xing Lu, A-Ran Lyo, Steve Mairs, Masafumi Matsumura, Brenda Matthews, Gerald Moriarty-Schieven, Tetsuya Nagata, Fumitaka Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Takashi Onaka, Geumsook Park, Harriet Parsons, Nicolas Peretto, Felix Priestley, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lei Qian, Ramprasad Rao, Jonathan Rawlings, Mark Rawlings, Brendan Retter, John Richer, Andrew Rigby, Sarah Sadavoy, Hiro Saito, Giorgio Savini, Masumichi Seta, Ekta Sharma, Yoshito Shimajiri, Hiroko Shinnaga, Mehrnoosh Tahani, Motohide Tamura, Ya-Wen Tang, Xindi Tang, Kohji Tomisaka, Le Ngoc Tram, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Serena Viti, Hongchi Wang, Jintai Wu, Jinjin Xie, Meng-Zhe Yang, Hsi-Wei Yen, Hyunju Yoo, Jinghua Yuan, Hyeong-Sik Yun, Tetsuya Zenko, Guoyin Zhang, Yapeng Zhang, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Jianjun Zhou, Lei Zhu, Ilse de Looze, Philippe André, C. Darren Dowell, David Eden, Stewart Eyres, Sam Falle, Valentin J. M. Le Gouellec, Frédérick Poidevin, Jean-François Robitaille, and Sven van Loo
Subjects: Stellar-interstellar interactions, Interstellar magnetic fields, Young stellar objects, Dust continuum emission, Starlight polarization, Molecular clouds, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We present observations of polarized dust emission at 850 μ m from the L43 molecular cloud, which sits in the Ophiuchus cloud complex. The data were taken using SCUBA-2/POL-2 on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope as a part of the BISTRO large program. L43 is a dense ( ${N}_{{{\rm{H}}}_{2}}\sim {10}^{22}$ –10 ^23 cm ^−2 ) complex molecular cloud with a submillimeter-bright starless core and two protostellar sources. There appears to be an evolutionary gradient along the isolated filament that L43 is embedded within, with the most evolved source closest to the Sco OB2 association. One of the protostars drives a CO outflow that has created a cavity to the southeast. We see a magnetic field that appears to be aligned with the cavity walls of the outflow, suggesting interaction with the outflow. We also find a magnetic field strength of up to ∼160 ± 30 μ G in the main starless core and up to ∼90 ± 40 μ G in the more diffuse, extended region. These field strengths give magnetically super- and subcritical values, respectively, and both are found to be roughly trans-Alfvénic. We also present a new method of data reduction for these denser but fainter objects like starless cores.
Published: 2023
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3. JCMT BISTRO Observations: Magnetic Field Morphology of Bubbles Associated with NGC 6334

Author: Mehrnoosh Tahani, Pierre Bastien, Ray S. Furuya, Kate Pattle, Doug Johnstone, Doris Arzoumanian, Yasuo Doi, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Simon Coudé, Laura Fissel, Michael Chun-Yuan Chen, Frédérick Poidevin, Sarah Sadavoy, Rachel Friesen, Patrick M. Koch, James Di Francesco, Gerald H. Moriarty-Schieven, Zhiwei Chen, Eun Jung Chung, Chakali Eswaraiah, Lapo Fanciullo, Tim Gledhill, Valentin J. M. Le Gouellec, Thiem Hoang, Jihye Hwang, Ji-hyun Kang, Kyoung Hee Kim, Florian Kirchschlager, Woojin Kwon, Chang Won Lee, Hong-Li Liu, Takashi Onaka, Mark G. Rawlings, Archana Soam, Motohide Tamura, Xindi Tang, Kohji Tomisaka, Anthony P. Whitworth, Jungmi Kwon, Thuong D. Hoang, Matt Redman, David Berry, Tao-Chung Ching, Jia-Wei Wang, Shih-Ping Lai, Keping Qiu, Derek Ward-Thompson, Martin Houde, Do-Young Byun, Huei-Ru Vivien Chen, Wen Ping Chen, Jungyeon Cho, Minho Choi, Yunhee Choi, Antonio Chrysostomou, Pham Ngoc Diep, Hao-Yuan Duan, Jason Fiege, Erica Franzmann, Per Friberg, Gary Fuller, Sarah F. Graves, Jane S. Greaves, Matt J. Griffin, Qilao Gu, Ilseung Han, Jennifer Hatchell, Saeko S. Hayashi, Charles L. H. Hull, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Kazunari Iwasaki, Il-Gyo Jeong, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Miju Kang, Sung-ju Kang, Akimasa Kataoka, Koji S. Kawabata, Francisca Kemper, Gwanjeong Kim, Jongsoo Kim, Kee-Tae Kim, Mi-Ryang Kim, Shinyoung Kim, Jason M. Kirk, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Vera Konyves, Takayoshi Kusune, Kevin Lacaille, Chi-Yan Law, Chin-Fei Lee, Hyeseung Lee, Jeong-Eun Lee, Sang-Sung Lee, Yong-Hee Lee, Dalei Li, Di Li, Hua-bai Li, Junhao Liu, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Tie Liu, Ilse de Looze, A-Ran Lyo, Steve Mairs, Masafumi Matsumura, Brenda C. Matthews, Tetsuya Nagata, Fumitaka Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Geumsook Park, Harriet Parsons, Nicolas Peretto, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lei Qian, Ramprasad Rao, Brendan Retter, John Richer, Andrew Rigby, Hiro Saito, Giorgio Savini, Anna M. M. Scaife, Masumichi Seta, Yoshito Shimajiri, Hiroko Shinnaga, Ya-Wen Tang, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Serena Viti, Hongchi Wang, Hsi-Wei Yen, Hyunju Yoo, Jinghua Yuan, Hyeong-Sik Yun, Tetsuya Zenko, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Guoyin Zhang, Yapeng Zhang, Jianjun Zhou, Lei Zhu, Philippe André, C. Darren Dowell, Stewart P. S. Eyres, Sam Falle, Sven van Loo, and Jean-François Robitaille
Subjects: H II regions, Interstellar magnetic fields, Star formation, Molecular clouds, Dust continuum emission, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We study the H ii regions associated with the NGC 6334 molecular cloud observed in the submillimeter and taken as part of the B -fields In STar-forming Region Observations Survey. In particular, we investigate the polarization patterns and magnetic field morphologies associated with these H ii regions. Through polarization pattern and pressure calculation analyses, several of these bubbles indicate that the gas and magnetic field lines have been pushed away from the bubble, toward an almost tangential (to the bubble) magnetic field morphology. In the densest part of NGC 6334, where the magnetic field morphology is similar to an hourglass, the polarization observations do not exhibit observable impact from H ii regions. We detect two nested radial polarization patterns in a bubble to the south of NGC 6334 that correspond to the previously observed bipolar structure in this bubble. Finally, using the results of this study, we present steps (incorporating computer vision; circular Hough transform) that can be used in future studies to identify bubbles that have physically impacted magnetic field lines.
Published: 2023
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4. First BISTRO Observations of the Dark Cloud Taurus L1495A-B10: The Role of the Magnetic Field in the Earliest Stages of Low-mass Star Formation

Author: Derek Ward-Thompson, Janik Karoly, Kate Pattle, Anthony Whitworth, Jason Kirk, David Berry, Pierre Bastien, Tao-Chung Ching, Simon Coudé, Jihye Hwang, Woojin Kwon, Archana Soam, Jia-Wei Wang, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Shih-Ping Lai, Keping Qiu, Doris Arzoumanian, Tyler L. Bourke, Do-Young Byun, Huei-Ru Vivien Chen, Wen Ping Chen, Mike Chen, Zhiwei Chen, Jungyeon Cho, Minho Choi, Youngwoo Choi, Yunhee Choi, Antonio Chrysostomou, Eun Jung Chung, Sophia Dai, Victor Debattista, James Di Francesco, Pham Ngoc Diep, Yasuo Doi, Hao-Yuan Duan, Yan Duan, Chakali Eswaraiah, Lapo Fanciullo, Jason Fiege, Laura M. Fissel, Erica Franzmann, Per Friberg, Rachel Friesen, Gary Fuller, Ray Furuya, Tim Gledhill, Sarah Graves, Jane Greaves, Matt Griffin, Qilao Gu, Ilseung Han, Saeko Hayashi, Thiem Hoang, Martin Houde, Charles L. H. Hull, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Kazunari Iwasaki, Il-Gyo Jeong, Doug Johnstone, Vera Könyves, Ji-hyun Kang, Miju Kang, Akimasa Kataoka, Koji Kawabata, Francisca Kemper, Jongsoo Kim, Shinyoung Kim, Gwanjeong Kim, Kyoung Hee Kim, Mi-Ryang Kim, Kee-Tae Kim, Hyosung Kim, Florian Kirchschlager, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Patrick M. Koch, Takayoshi Kusune, Jungmi Kwon, Kevin Lacaille, Chi-Yan Law, Chang Won Lee, Hyeseung Lee, Yong-Hee Lee, Chin-Fei Lee, Jeong-Eun Lee, Sang-Sung Lee, Dalei Li, Di Li, Guangxing Li, Hua-bai Li, Sheng-Jun Lin, Hong-Li Liu, Tie Liu, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Junhao Liu, Steven Longmore, Xing Lu, A-Ran Lyo, Steve Mairs, Masafumi Matsumura, Brenda Matthews, Gerald Moriarty-Schieven, Tetsuya Nagata, Fumitaka Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Takashi Onaka, Geumsook Park, Harriet Parsons, Nicolas Peretto, Felix Priestley, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lei Qian, Ramprasad Rao, Jonathan Rawlings, Mark Rawlings, Brendan Retter, John Richer, Andrew Rigby, Sarah Sadavoy, Hiro Saito, Giorgio Savini, Masumichi Seta, Yoshito Shimajiri, Hiroko Shinnaga, Mehrnoosh Tahani, Motohide Tamura, Ya-Wen Tang, Xindi Tang, Kohji Tomisaka, Le Ngoc Tram, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Serena Viti, Hongchi Wang, Jintai Wu, Jinjin Xie, Meng-Zhe Yang, Hsi-Wei Yen, Hyunju Yoo, Jinghua Yuan, Hyeong-Sik Yun, Tetsuya Zenko, Guoyin Zhang, Yapeng Zhang, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Jianjun Zhou, Lei Zhu, Ilse de Looze, Philippe André, C. Darren Dowell, David Eden, Stewart Eyres, Sam Falle, Valentin J. M. Le Gouellec, Frédérick Poidevin, Jean-François Robitaille, and Sven van Loo
Subjects: Interstellar magnetic fields, Molecular clouds, Starlight polarization, Collapsing clouds, Interstellar filaments, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We present BISTRO Survey 850 μ m dust emission polarization observations of the L1495A-B10 region of the Taurus molecular cloud, taken at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). We observe a roughly triangular network of dense filaments. We detect nine of the dense starless cores embedded within these filaments in polarization, finding that the plane-of-sky orientation of the core-scale magnetic field lies roughly perpendicular to the filaments in almost all cases. We also find that the large-scale magnetic field orientation measured by Planck is not correlated with any of the core or filament structures, except in the case of the lowest-density core. We propose a scenario for early prestellar evolution that is both an extension to, and consistent with, previous models, introducing an additional evolutionary transitional stage between field-dominated and matter-dominated evolution, observed here for the first time. In this scenario, the cloud collapses first to a sheet-like structure. Uniquely, we appear to be seeing this sheet almost face on. The sheet fragments into filaments, which in turn form cores. However, the material must reach a certain critical density before the evolution changes from being field dominated to being matter dominated. We measure the sheet surface density and the magnetic field strength at that transition for the first time and show consistency with an analytical prediction that had previously gone untested for over 50 yr.
Published: 2023
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5. Molecular Detectability in Exoplanetary Emission Spectra

Author: Marcell, Tessenyi, Giovanna, Tinetti, Giorgio, Savini, and Enzo, Pascale
Subjects: Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: Of the many recently discovered worlds orbiting distant stars, very little is yet known of their chemical composition. With the arrival of new transit spectroscopy and direct imaging facilities, the question of molecular detectability as a function of signal-to-noise (SNR), spectral resolving power and type of planets has become critical. In this paper, we study the detectability of key molecules in the atmospheres of a range of planet types, and report on the minimum detectable abundances at fixed spectral resolving power and SNR. The planet types considered - hot Jupiters, hot super-Earths, warm Neptunes, temperate Jupiters and temperate super-Earths - cover most of the exoplanets characterisable today or in the near future. We focus on key atmospheric molecules, such as CH4, CO, CO2, NH3, H2O, C2H2, C2H6, HCN, H2S and PH3. We use two methods to assess the detectability of these molecules: a simple measurement of the deviation of the signal from the continuum, and an estimate of the level of confidence of a detection through the use of the likelihood ratio test over the whole spectrum (from 1 to 16$\mu m$). We find that for most planetary cases, SNR=5 at resolution R=300 ($\lambda < 5\mu m$) and R=30 ($\lambda > 5\mu m$) is enough to detect the very strongest spectral features for the most abundant molecules, whereas an SNR comprised between 10 and 20 can reveal most molecules with abundances 10^-6 or lower, often at multiple wavelengths. We test the robustness of our results by exploring sensitivity to parameters such as vertical thermal profile, mean molecular weight of the atmosphere and relative water abundances. We find that our main conclusions remain valid except for the most extreme cases. Our analysis shows that the detectability of key molecules in the atmospheres of a variety of exoplanet cases is within realistic reach, even with low SNR and spectral resolving power., Comment: ICARUS Accepted
Published: 2013
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6. The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) sensitivity and performance

Author: Enzo Pascale, Paul Eccleston, Giorgio Savini, and Giovanna Tinetti
Abstract: The Ariel space mission will characterise spectroscopically the atmospheres of a large and diverse sample of hundreds of exoplanets. Targets will be chosen to cover a wide range of masses, densities, equilibrium temperatures and host stellar types to study the physical mechanisms behind the observed diversity in the population of known exoplanets. With a 1-m class telescope, Ariel will detect the atmospheric signatures from the small
Published: 2022

7. Optical analysis of BISOU: a balloon project to measure the CMB spectral distortions

Author: Neal A. Trappe, Créidhe M. M. O'Sullivan, Bruno Maffei, Nabila Aghanim, Maximilian Abitol, Elia S. Battistelli, Jens Chluba, Xavier Coulon, Paolo de Bernardis, James C. Hill, Alan J. Kogut, Silvia Masi, Luca Pagano, Aditya Rotti, Giorgio Savini, and Andrea Tartari
Published: 2022

8. Broadband coated lens solutions for FIR-mm-wave instruments

Author: Alexey Shitvov, Giorgio Savini, Peter C. Hargrave, Peter A. R. Ade, Carole E. Tucker, Rashmi V. Sudiwala, Jin Zhang, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Berend Winter, Giampaolo Pisano, and Maarten van der Vorst
Published: 2022

9. Monte Carlo transmission line modelling of multilayer optical coatings for performance sensitivity of a dichroic filter for the ARIEL space telescope

Author: Vinooja Thurairethinam, Giorgio Savini, Mario De Lucia, Gerhard Ulbricht, Gary Hawkins, Eoin Baldwin, Deirdre Coffey, Jack Piercy, and Tom Ray
Published: 2022

10. Performance of the polarization leakage correction in the PILOT data

Author: Jean-Philippe Bernard, Adam Bernard, Helene Roussel, Choubani Ilyes, Dana Alina, Aumont Jonathan, Annie Hughes, Isabelle Ristorcelli, Stever Samantha, Tomotake Matsumura, Shinji Sugiyama, Kunimoto Komatsu, Giancarlo de Gasperis, Katia Ferrière, Vincent Guillet, Nathalie Ysard, Paolo de Bernardis, Sylvia Masi, Bruno Maffei, Baptiste Mot, Francois Pajot, Nicolas Ponthieu, Giorgio Savini, Francois Vacher, Peter Ade, Carole Tucker, Bruno Crane, Jean-Pierre Dubois, Yuying Longval, and Valentin Sauvage
Abstract: The Polarized Instrument for Long-wavelength Observation of the Tenuous interstellar medium (PILOT) is a balloon-borne experiment that aims to measure the polarized emission of thermal dust at a wavelength of 240 μm (1.2THz). The PILOT experiment flew from Timmins, Ontario, Canada in 2015 and 2019 and from Alice Springs, Australia in April 2017. The in-flight performance of the instrument during the second flight was described in [1]. In this paper,we present data processing steps that were not presented in [1] and that we have recently implemented to correct for several remaining instrumental effects. The additional data processing concerns corrections related to detector cross-talk and readout circuit memory effects, and leakage from total intensity to polarization. We illustrate the above effects and the performance of our corrections using data obtained during the third flight of PILOT, but the methods used to assess the impact of these effects on the final science-ready data, and our strategies for correcting them will be applied to all PILOT data. We show that the above corrections, and in particular that for the intensity to polarization leakage, which is most critical for accurate polarization measurements with PILOT, are accurate to better than 0.4% as measured on Jupiter during flight#3.
Published: 2022

11. B-fields in Star-forming Region Observations (BISTRO): Magnetic Fields in the Filamentary Structures of Serpens Main

Author: Woojin Kwon, Kate Pattle, Sarah Sadavoy, Charles L. H. Hull, Doug Johnstone, Derek Ward-Thompson, James Di Francesco, Patrick M. Koch, Ray Furuya, Yasuo Doi, Valentin J. M. Le Gouellec, Jihye Hwang, A-Ran Lyo, Archana Soam, Xindi Tang, Thiem Hoang, Florian Kirchschlager, Chakali Eswaraiah, Lapo Fanciullo, Kyoung Hee Kim, Takashi Onaka, Vera Könyves, Ji-hyun Kang, Chang Won Lee, Motohide Tamura, Pierre Bastien, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Shih-Ping Lai, Keping Qiu, David Berry, Doris Arzoumanian, Tyler L. Bourke, Do-Young Byun, Wen Ping Chen, Huei-Ru Vivien Chen, Mike Chen, Zhiwei Chen, Tao-Chung Ching, Jungyeon Cho, Yunhee Choi, Minho Choi, Antonio Chrysostomou, Eun Jung Chung, Simon Coudé, Sophia Dai, Pham Ngoc Diep, Yan Duan, Hao-Yuan Duan, David Eden, Jason Fiege, Laura M. Fissel, Erica Franzmann, Per Friberg, Rachel Friesen, Gary Fuller, Tim Gledhill, Sarah Graves, Jane Greaves, Matt Griffin, Qilao Gu, Ilseung Han, Jennifer Hatchell, Saeko Hayashi, Martin Houde, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Kazunari Iwasaki, Il-Gyo Jeong, Miju Kang, Janik Karoly, Akimasa Kataoka, Koji Kawabata, Francisca Kemper, Kee-Tae Kim, Gwanjeong Kim, Mi-Ryang Kim, Shinyoung Kim, Jongsoo Kim, Jason Kirk, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Takayoshi Kusune, Jungmi Kwon, Kevin Lacaille, Chi-Yan Law, Chin-Fei Lee, Yong-Hee Lee, Hyeseung Lee, Jeong-Eun Lee, Sang-Sung Lee, Dalei Li, Di Li, Hua-bai Li, Sheng-Jun Lin, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Hong-Li Liu, Junhao Liu, Tie Liu, Xing Lu, Steve Mairs, Masafumi Matsumura, Brenda Matthews, Gerald Moriarty-Schieven, Tetsuya Nagata, Fumitaka Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Geumsook Park, Harriet Parsons, Nicolas Peretto, Felix Priestley, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lei Qian, Ramprasad Rao, Jonathan Rawlings, Mark G. Rawlings, Brendan Retter, John Richer, Andrew Rigby, Hiro Saito, Giorgio Savini, Masumichi Seta, Yoshito Shimajiri, Hiroko Shinnaga, Mehrnoosh Tahani, Ya-Wen Tang, Kohji Tomisaka, Le Ngoc Tram, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Serena Viti, Hongchi Wang, Jia-Wei Wang, Anthony Whitworth, Jintai Wu, Jinjin Xie, Hsi-Wei Yen, Hyunju Yoo, Jinghua Yuan, Hyeong-Sik Yun, Tetsuya Zenko, Yapeng Zhang, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Guoyin Zhang, Jianjun Zhou, Lei Zhu, Ilse de Looze, Philippe André, C. Darren Dowell, Stewart Eyres, Sam Falle, Jean-François Robitaille, Sven van Loo, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France
Subjects: POLARIZATION, FOS: Physical sciences, F500, IMAGING POLARIMETRY, 1ST, INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, SCUBA-2, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], LEGACY, Astronomy and Astrophysics, VELOCITY, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, SPITZER, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Physics and Astronomy, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], OUTFLOWS, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), STRENGTHS
Abstract: We present 850 $��$m polarimetric observations toward the Serpens Main molecular cloud obtained using the POL-2 polarimeter on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) as part of the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey. These observations probe the magnetic field morphology of the Serpens Main molecular cloud on about 6000 au scales, which consists of cores and six filaments with different physical properties such as density and star formation activity. Using the histogram of relative orientation (HRO) technique, we find that magnetic fields are parallel to filaments in less dense filamentary structures where $N_{H_2} < 0.93\times 10^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$ (magnetic fields perpendicular to density gradients), while being perpendicular to filaments (magnetic fields parallel to density gradients) in dense filamentary structures with star formation activity. Moreover, applying the HRO technique to denser core regions, we find that magnetic field orientations change to become perpendicular to density gradients again at $N_{H_2} \approx 4.6 \times 10^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$. This can be interpreted as a signature of core formation. At $N_{H_2} \approx 16 \times 10^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$ magnetic fields change back to being parallel to density gradients once again, which can be understood to be due to magnetic fields being dragged in by infalling material. In addition, we estimate the magnetic field strengths of the filaments ($B_{POS} = 60-300~��$G)) using the Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi method and discuss whether the filaments are gravitationally unstable based on magnetic field and turbulence energy densities., 18 pages, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2022

12. The JCMT BISTRO-2 survey : magnetic fields of the massive DR21 filament

Author: Tao-Chung Ching, Keping Qiu, Di Li, Zhiyuan Ren, Shih-Ping Lai, David Berry, Kate Pattle, Ray Furuya, Derek Ward-Thompson, Doug Johnstone, Patrick M. Koch, Chang Won Lee, Thiem Hoang, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Woojin Kwon, Pierre Bastien, Chakali Eswaraiah, Jia-Wei Wang, Kyoung Hee Kim, Jihye Hwang, Archana Soam, A-Ran Lyo, Junhao Liu, Valentin J. M. Le Gouellec, Doris Arzoumanian, Anthony Whitworth, James Di Francesco, Frédérick Poidevin, Tie Liu, Simon Coudé, Mehrnoosh Tahani, Hong-Li Liu, Takashi Onaka, Dalei Li, Motohide Tamura, Zhiwei Chen, Xindi Tang, Florian Kirchschlager, Tyler L. Bourke, Do-Young Byun, Mike Chen, Huei-Ru Vivien Chen, Wen Ping Chen, Jungyeon Cho, Yunhee Choi, Youngwoo Choi, Minho Choi, Antonio Chrysostomou, Eun Jung Chung, Y. Sophia Dai, Pham Ngoc Diep, Yasuo Doi, Yan Duan, Hao-Yuan Duan, David Eden, Lapo Fanciullo, Jason Fiege, Laura M. Fissel, Erica Franzmann, Per Friberg, Rachel Friesen, Gary Fuller, Tim Gledhill, Sarah Graves, Jane Greaves, Matt Griffin, Qilao Gu, Ilseung Han, Saeko Hayashi, Martin Houde, Charles L. H. Hull, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Kazunari Iwasaki, Il-Gyo Jeong, Vera Könyves, Ji-hyun Kang, Miju Kang, Janik Karoly, Akimasa Kataoka, Koji Kawabata, Francisca Kemper, Jongsoo Kim, Mi-Ryang Kim, Shinyoung Kim, Hyosung Kim, Kee-Tae Kim, Gwanjeong Kim, Jason Kirk, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Takayoshi Kusune, Jungmi Kwon, Kevin Lacaille, Chi-Yan Law, Sang-Sung Lee, Hyeseung Lee, Jeong-Eun Lee, Chin-Fei Lee, Yong-Hee Lee, Guangxing Li, Hua-bai Li, Sheng-Jun Lin, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Xing Lu, Steve Mairs, Masafumi Matsumura, Brenda Matthews, Gerald Moriarty-Schieven, Tetsuya Nagata, Fumitaka Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Geumsook Park, Harriet Parsons, Nicolas Peretto, Felix Priestley, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lei Qian, Ramprasad Rao, Mark Rawlings, Jonathan Rawlings, Brendan Retter, John Richer, Andrew Rigby, Sarah Sadavoy, Hiro Saito, Giorgio Savini, Masumichi Seta, Yoshito Shimajiri, Hiroko Shinnaga, Ya-Wen Tang, Kohji Tomisaka, Le Ngoc Tram, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Serena Viti, Hongchi Wang, Jintai Wu, Jinjin Xie, Meng-Zhe Yang, Hsi-Wei Yen, Hyunju Yoo, Jinghua Yuan, Hyeong-Sik Yun, Tetsuya Zenko, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Yapeng Zhang, Guoyin Zhang, Jianjun Zhou, Lei Zhu, Ilse de Looze, Philippe André, C. Darren Dowell, Stewart Eyres, Sam Falle, Jean-François Robitaille, Sven van Loo, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), National Research Foundation of Korea, National Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Ching, Tao-Chung [0000-0001-8516-2532], Qiu, Keping [0000-0002-5093-5088], Li, Di [0000-0003-3010-7661], Ren, Zhiyuan [0000-0003-4659-1742], Lai, Shih-Ping [0000-0001-5522-486X], Berry, David [0000-0001-6524-2447], Pattle, Kate [0000-0002-8557-3582], Furuya, Ray [0000-0003-0646-8782], Ward-Thompson, Derek [0000-0003-1140-2761], Johnstone, Doug [0000-0002-6773-459X], Koch, Patrick M [0000-0003-2777-5861], Lee, Chang Won [0000-0002-3179-6334], Hoang, Thiem [0000-0003-2017-0982], Hasegawa, Tetsuo [0000-0003-1853-0184], Kwon, Woojin [0000-0003-4022-4132], Bastien, Pierre [0000-0002-0794-3859], Eswaraiah, Chakali [0000-0003-4761-6139], Wang, Jia-Wei [0000-0002-6668-974X], Kim, Kyoung Hee [0000-0001-9597-7196], Hwang, Jihye [0000-0001-7866-2686], Soam, Archana [0000-0002-6386-2906], Lyo, A-Ran [0000-0002-9907-8427], Liu, Junhao [0000-0002-4774-2998], Le Gouellec, Valentin JM [0000-0002-5714-799X], Arzoumanian, Doris [0000-0002-1959-7201], Whitworth, Anthony [0000-0002-1178-5486], Francesco, James Di [0000-0002-9289-2450], Poidevin, Frédérick [0000-0002-5391-5568], Liu, Tie [0000-0002-5286-2564], Coudé, Simon [0000-0002-0859-0805], Tahani, Mehrnoosh [0000-0001-8749-1436], Liu, Hong-Li [0000-0003-3343-9645], Onaka, Takashi [0000-0002-8234-6747], Tamura, Motohide [0000-0002-6510-0681], Chen, Zhiwei [0000-0003-0849-0692], Tang, Xindi [0000-0002-4154-4309], Kirchschlager, Florian [0000-0002-3036-0184], Bourke, Tyler L [0000-0001-7491-0048], Byun, Do-Young [0000-0003-1157-4109], Chen, Huei-Ru Vivien [0000-0002-9774-1846], Chen, Wen Ping [0000-0003-0262-272X], Cho, Jungyeon [0000-0003-1725-4376], Chrysostomou, Antonio [0000-0002-9583-8644], Chung, Eun Jung [0000-0003-0014-1527], Dai, Y Sophia [0000-0002-7928-416X], Diep, Pham Ngoc [0000-0002-2808-0888], Doi, Yasuo [0000-0001-8746-6548], Duan, Hao-Yuan [0000-0002-7022-4742], Eden, David [0000-0002-5881-3229], Fanciullo, Lapo [0000-0001-9930-9240], Fissel, Laura M [0000-0002-4666-609X], Franzmann, Erica [0000-0003-2142-0357], Friberg, Per [0000-0002-8010-8454], Friesen, Rachel [0000-0001-7594-8128], Fuller, Gary [0000-0001-8509-1818], Gledhill, Tim [0000-0002-2859-4600], Graves, Sarah [0000-0001-9361-5781], Greaves, Jane [0000-0002-3133-413X], Gu, Qilao [0000-0002-2826-1902], Hayashi, Saeko [0000-0001-5026-490X], Houde, Martin [0000-0003-4420-8674], Hull, Charles LH [0000-0002-8975-7573], Inoue, Tsuyoshi [0000-0002-7935-8771], Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro [0000-0003-4366-6518], Jeong, Il-Gyo [0000-0002-5492-6832], Könyves, Vera [0000-0002-3746-1498], Kang, Ji-hyun [0000-0001-7379-6263], Kang, Miju 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[0000-0002-6906-0103], Matthews, Brenda [0000-0003-3017-9577], Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald [0000-0002-0393-7822], Nagata, Tetsuya [0000-0001-9264-9015], Nakamura, Fumitaka [0000-0001-5431-2294], Ngoc, Nguyen Bich [0000-0002-5913-5554], Ohashi, Nagayoshi [0000-0003-0998-5064], Park, Geumsook [0000-0001-8467-3736], Parsons, Harriet [0000-0002-6327-3423], Pyo, Tae-Soo [0000-0002-3273-0804], Qian, Lei [0000-0003-0597-0957], Rao, Ramprasad [0000-0002-1407-7944], Rawlings, Mark [0000-0002-6529-202X], Rawlings, Jonathan [0000-0001-5560-1303], Richer, John [0000-0002-9693-6860], Rigby, Andrew [0000-0002-3351-2200], Savini, Giorgio [0000-0003-4449-9416], Shimajiri, Yoshito [0000-0001-9368-3143], Shinnaga, Hiroko [0000-0001-9407-6775], Tang, Ya-Wen [0000-0002-0675-276X], Tomisaka, Kohji [0000-0003-2726-0892], Tram, Le Ngoc [0000-0002-6488-8227], Viti, Serena [0000-0001-8504-8844], Wang, Hongchi [0000-0003-0746-7968], Wu, Jintai [0000-0001-7276-3590], Xie, Jinjin [0000-0002-2738-146X], Yen, Hsi-Wei [0000-0003-1412-893X], Yoo, Hyunju [0000-0002-8578-1728], Yun, Hyeong-Sik [0000-0001-6842-1555], Zhang, Chuan-Peng [0000-0002-4428-3183], Zhang, Yapeng [0000-0002-5102-2096], Zhou, Jianjun [0000-0003-0356-818X], André, Philippe [0000-0002-3413-2293], Falle, Sam [0000-0002-9829-0426], Robitaille, Jean-François [0000-0001-5079-8573], van Loo, Sven [0000-0003-4746-8500], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: STAR-FORMING REGIONS, SUBMILLIMETER POLARIZATION, HERSCHEL, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, MU-M POLARIZATION, MOLECULAR CLOUD, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, 1ST, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Physics and Astronomy, 5101 Astronomical Sciences, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), SCUBA-2, GOULD BELT SURVEY, DUST EMISSION, 51 Physical Sciences, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), FAR-INFRARED POLARIMETRY
Abstract: Tao-Chung Ching et al., We present 850 μm dust polarization observations of the massive DR21 filament from the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey, using the POL-2 polarimeter and the SCUBA-2 camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. We detect ordered magnetic fields perpendicular to the parsec-scale ridge of the DR21 main filament. In the subfilaments, the magnetic fields are mainly parallel to the filamentary structures and smoothly connect to the magnetic fields of the main filament. We compare the POL-2 and Planck dust polarization observations to study the magnetic field structures of the DR21 filament on 0.1–10 pc scales. The magnetic fields revealed in the Planck data are well-aligned with those of the POL-2 data, indicating a smooth variation of magnetic fields from large to small scales. The plane-of-sky magnetic field strengths derived from angular dispersion functions of dust polarization are 0.6–1.0 mG in the DR21 filament and ∼0.1 mG in the surrounding ambient gas. The mass-to-flux ratios are found to be magnetically supercritical in the filament and slightly subcritical to nearly critical in the ambient gas. The alignment between column density structures and magnetic fields changes from random alignment in the low-density ambient gas probed by Planck to mostly perpendicular in the high-density main filament probed by James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. The magnetic field structures of the DR21 filament are in agreement with MHD simulations of a strongly magnetized medium, suggesting that magnetic fields play an important role in shaping the DR21 main filament and subfilaments., This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) grant Nos. 11988101, U1931117, 11725313, and 12073061 and the CAS International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences grant No. 114A11KYSB20160008. T.-C.C. is funded by Chinese Academy of Sciences Taiwan Young Talent Program grant No. 2018TW2JB0002. T.-C.C. and C.E. were supported by Special Funding for Advanced Users, budgeted and administrated by Center for Astronomical Mega-Science (CAMS), Chinese Academy of Sciences. K.P. is a Royal Society University Research Fellow, supported by grant No. URF\R1\211322. D.J. is supported by the National Research Council of Canada and by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant. P.M.K. is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) in Taiwan through grants 109-2112-M-001-022 and 110-2112-M-001-057. C.W.L. is supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (NRF-2019R1A2C1010851), and by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT; Project No. 2022-1-840-05). T.H. is supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) through the Mid-career Research Program (2019R1A2C1087045). W.K. was supported by the NRF grant funded by the MSIT (2021R1F1A1061794). C.E. acknowledges the financial support from grant RJF/2020/000071 as a part of Ramanujan Fellowship awarded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. F.P. acknowledges support from the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) under grant No. PID2019-105552RB-C43. M.T. is supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant Nos. 18H05442, 15H02063, and 22000005. J.K. is supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant No. 19K14775. L.F. and F.K. acknowledge the support by the MoST in Taiwan through grant 107-2119-M-001-031-MY3 and Academia Sinica through grant AS-IA-106-M03. L.F. acknowledges the support by the MoST in Taiwan through grants 111-2811-M-005-007 and 109-2112-M-005-003-MY3. C.L.H.H. acknowledges the support of the NAOJ Fellowship and JSPS KAKENHI grants 18K13586 and 20K14527. F.K. is supported by the Spanish program Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2020-001058-M, financed by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. K.Q. is partially supported by National Key R&D Program of China No. 2022YFA1603100, and acknowledges the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) grant U1731237. S.P.L. acknowledges grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan 106-2119-M-007-021-MY3 and 109-2112-M-007-010-MY3. Y.D. acknowledges the support of JSPS KAKENHI grants 25247016 and 18H01250. Y.S.D. is supported by the National Key R&D Program of China for grant No. 2022YFA1605300, and NSFC grants Nos. 12273051, 11933003.
Published: 2022

13. The JCMT BISTRO survey: A spiral magnetic field in a hub-filament structure, monoceros R2

Author: Jihye Hwang, Jongsoo Kim, Kate Pattle, Chang Won Lee, Patrick M. Koch, Doug Johnstone, Kohji Tomisaka, Anthony Whitworth, Ray S. Furuya, Ji-hyun Kang, A-Ran Lyo, Eun Jung Chung, Doris Arzoumanian, Geumsook Park, Woojin Kwon, Shinyoung Kim, Motohide Tamura, Jungmi Kwon, Archana Soam, Ilseung Han, Thiem Hoang, Kyoung Hee Kim, Takashi Onaka, Chakali Eswaraiah, Derek Ward-Thompson, Hong-Li Liu, Xindi Tang, Wen Ping Chen, Masafumi Matsumura, Thuong Duc Hoang, Zhiwei Chen, Valentin J. M. Le Gouellec, Florian Kirchschlager, Frédérick Poidevin, Pierre Bastien, Keping Qiu, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Shih-Ping Lai, Do-Young Byun, Jungyeon Cho, Minho Choi, Youngwoo Choi, Yunhee Choi, Il-Gyo Jeong, Miju Kang, Hyosung Kim, Kee-Tae Kim, Jeong-Eun Lee, Sang-Sung Lee, Yong-Hee Lee, Hyeseung Lee, Mi-Ryang Kim, Hyunju Yoo, Hyeong-Sik Yun, Mike Chen, James Di Francesco, Jason Fiege, Laura M. Fissel, Erica Franzmann, Martin Houde, Kevin Lacaille, Brenda Matthews, Sarah Sadavoy, Gerald Moriarty-Schieven, Mehrnoosh Tahani, Tao-Chung Ching, Y. Sophia Dai, Yan Duan, Qilao Gu, Chi-Yan Law, Dalei Li, Di Li, Guangxing Li, Hua-bai Li, Tie Liu, Xing Lu, Lei Qian, Hongchi Wang, Jintai Wu, Jinjin Xie, Jinghua Yuan, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Guoyin Zhang, Yapeng Zhang, Jianjun Zhou, Lei Zhu, David Berry, Per Friberg, Sarah Graves, Junhao Liu, Steve Mairs, Harriet Parsons, Mark Rawlings, Yasuo Doi, Saeko Hayashi, Charles L. H. Hull, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Kazunari Iwasaki, Akimasa Kataoka, Koji Kawabata, Gwanjeong Kim, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Tetsuya Nagata, Fumitaka Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Tae-Soo Pyo, Hiro Saito, Masumichi Seta, Yoshito Shimajiri, Hiroko Shinnaga, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Tetsuya Zenko, Huei-Ru Vivien Chen, Hao-Yuan Duan, Lapo Fanciullo, Francisca Kemper, Chin-Fei Lee, Sheng-Jun Lin, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Ramprasad Rao, Ya-Wen Tang, Jia-Wei Wang, Meng-Zhe Yang, Hsi-Wei Yen, Tyler L. Bourke, Antonio Chrysostomou, Victor Debattista, David Eden, Stewart Eyres, Sam Falle, Gary Fuller, Tim Gledhill, Jane Greaves, Matt Griffin, Jennifer Hatchell, Janik Karoly, Jason Kirk, Vera Könyves, Steven Longmore, Sven van Loo, Ilse de Looze, Nicolas Peretto, Felix Priestley, Jonathan Rawlings, Brendan Retter, John Richer, Andrew Rigby, Giorgio Savini, Anna Scaife, Serena Viti, Pham Ngoc Diep, Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Le Ngoc Tram, Philippe André, Simon Coudé, C. Darren Dowell, Rachel Friesen, Jean-Franćois Robitaille, National Research Foundation of Korea, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), and National Science Foundation (US)
Subjects: POLARIZATION, CLOUDS, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, REGIONS, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, 1ST, DENSE CORES, MODEL, Physics and Astronomy, GRAVITY, POL-2, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), SCUBA-2
Abstract: Hwang et al., We present and analyze observations of polarized dust emission at 850 μm toward the central 1 × 1 pc hub-filament structure of Monoceros R2 (Mon R2). The data are obtained with SCUBA-2/POL-2 on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) as part of the B-fields in Star-forming Region Observations survey. The orientations of the magnetic field follow the spiral structure of Mon R2, which are well described by an axisymmetric magnetic field model. We estimate the turbulent component of the magnetic field using the angle difference between our observations and the best-fit model of the underlying large-scale mean magnetic field. This estimate is used to calculate the magnetic field strength using the Davis–Chandrasekhar–Fermi method, for which we also obtain the distribution of volume density and velocity dispersion using a column density map derived from Herschel data and the C18O (J = 3 − 2) data taken with HARP on the JCMT, respectively. We make maps of magnetic field strengths and mass-to-flux ratios, finding that magnetic field strengths vary from 0.02 to 3.64 mG with a mean value of 1.0 ± 0.06 mG, and the mean critical mass-to-flux ratio is 0.47 ± 0.02. Additionally, the mean Alfvén Mach number is 0.35 ± 0.01. This suggests that, in Mon R2, the magnetic fields provide resistance against large-scale gravitational collapse, and the magnetic pressure exceeds the turbulent pressure. We also investigate the properties of each filament in Mon R2. Most of the filaments are aligned along the magnetic field direction and are magnetically subcritical., J.H. is supported by the University of Science and Technology (UST) Overseas Training Program 2022, funded by the University of Science and Technology, Korea (No. 2022-017). K.P. is a Royal Society University Research Fellow, supported by grant number URF\R1\211322. C.W.L. was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (NRF- 2019R1A2C1010851), and by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT; Project No. 2022-1-840-05). D.J. and J.d.F. are supported by the National Research Council of Canada and by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants. G.P. is supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF; 2020R1A6A3A01100208) W.K. was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT; NRF-2021R1F1A1061794). M.T. is supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant Nos. 18H05442, 15H02063, and 22000005. J.K. is supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant No. 19K14775. M.M. is supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant No. 20K03276. F.P. acknowledges support from the Spanish State Research Agency Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) under grant number PID2019-105552RB-C43. S.P.L., H.Y.D., S.J.L., and M.Z.Y. acknowledge grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan 106-2119-M-007-021-MY3 and 109-2112-M-007-010-MY3. C.E. acknowledges the financial support from grant RJF/2020/000071 as a part of a Ramanujan Fellowship awarded by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. L.F. and F.K. acknowledge support from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, under grant No. MoST107-2119-M-001-031- MY3 and from Academia Sinica under grant No. AS-IA-106-M03. L.F. acknowledges the support by the MoST in Taiwan through grants 111-2811-M-005-007 and 109-2112-M-005-003-MY3. F.K. acknowledges support from the Spanish program Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2020-001058-M, financed by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. Y.S.D. would like to acknowledge the support from NSFC grants 12273051 and 10878003. M.R. is supported by the international Gemini Observatory, a program of NSFs NOIRLab, which is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation, on behalf of the Gemini partnership of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the Republic of Korea, and the United States of America. The JCMT is operated by the East Asian Observatory on behalf of The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan; Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics; the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute; the Operation, Maintenance and Upgrading Fund for Astronomical Telescopes and Facility Instruments, budgeted from the Ministry of Finance of China. Additional funding support is provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom and participating universities and organizations in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland. Additional funds for the construction of SCUBA-2 were provided by the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
Published: 2022

14. Relative Alignment between the Magnetic Field and Molecular Gas Structure in the Vela C Giant Molecular Cloud Using Low- and High-density Tracers

Author: Laura M. Fissel, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angilè, Peter Ashton, Steven J. Benton, Che-Yu Chen, Maria Cunningham, Mark J. Devlin, Bradley Dober, Rachel Friesen, Yasuo Fukui, Nicholas Galitzki, Natalie N. Gandilo, Alyssa Goodman, Claire-Elise Green, Paul Jones, Jeffrey Klein, Patrick King, Andrei L. Korotkov, Zhi-Yun Li, Vicki Lowe, Peter G. Martin, Tristan G. Matthews, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Fumitaka Nakamura, Calvin B. Netterfield, Amanda Newmark, Giles Novak, Enzo Pascale, Frédérick Poidevin, Fabio P. Santos, Giorgio Savini, Douglas Scott, Jamil A. Shariff, Juan D. Soler, Nicholas E. Thomas, Carole E. Tucker, Gregory S. Tucker, Derek Ward-Thompson, and Catherine Zucker
Published: 2019
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15. The JCMT BISTRO Survey: The Magnetic Field of the Barnard 1 Star-forming Region

Author: Simon Coudé, Pierre Bastien, Martin Houde, Sarah Sadavoy, Rachel Friesen, James Di Francesco, Doug Johnstone, Steve Mairs, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Woojin Kwon, Shih-Ping Lai, Keping Qiu, Derek Ward-Thompson, David Berry, Michael Chun-Yuan Chen, Jason Fiege, Erica Franzmann, Jennifer Hatchell, Kevin Lacaille, Brenda C. Matthews, Gerald H. Moriarty-Schieven, Andy Pon, Philippe André, Doris Arzoumanian, Yusuke Aso, Do-Young Byun, Chakali Eswaraiah, Huei-Ru Chen, Wen Ping Chen, Tao-Chung Ching, Jungyeon Cho, Minho Choi, Antonio Chrysostomou, Eun Jung Chung, Yasuo Doi, Emily Drabek-Maunder, C. Darren Dowell, Stewart P. S. Eyres, Sam Falle, Per Friberg, Gary Fuller, Ray S. Furuya, Tim Gledhill, Sarah F. Graves, Jane S. Greaves, Matt J. Griffin, Qilao Gu, Saeko S. Hayashi, Thiem Hoang, Wayne Holland, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Kazunari Iwasaki, Il-Gyo Jeong, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Akimasa Kataoka, Ji-hyun Kang, Miju Kang, Sung-ju Kang, Koji S. Kawabata, Francisca Kemper, Gwanjeong Kim, Jongsoo Kim, Kee-Tae Kim, Kyoung Hee Kim, Mi-Ryang Kim, Shinyoung Kim, Jason M. Kirk, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Patrick M. Koch, Jungmi Kwon, Jeong-Eun Lee, Chang Won Lee, Sang-Sung Lee, Dalei Li, Di Li, Hua-bai Li, Hong-Li Liu, Junhao Liu, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Tie Liu, Sven van Loo, A-Ran Lyo, Masafumi Matsumura, Tetsuya Nagata, Fumitaka Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Takashi Onaka, Harriet Parsons, Kate Pattle, Nicolas Peretto, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lei Qian, Ramprasad Rao, Mark G. Rawlings, Brendan Retter, John Richer, Andrew Rigby, Jean-François Robitaille, Hiro Saito, Giorgio Savini, Anna M. M. Scaife, Masumichi Seta, Hiroko Shinnaga, Archana Soam, Motohide Tamura, Ya-Wen Tang, Kohji Tomisaka, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Hongchi Wang, Jia-Wei Wang, Anthony P. Whitworth, Hsi-Wei Yen, Hyunju Yoo, Jinghua Yuan, Tetsuya Zenko, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Guoyin Zhang, Jianjun Zhou, and Lei Zhu
Published: 2019
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16. Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years

Author: Giovanna Tinetti, Paul Eccleston, Carole Haswell, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Jérémy Leconte, Theresa Lüftinger, Giusi Micela, Michel Min, Göran Pilbratt, Ludovic Puig, Mark Swain, Leonardo Testi, Diego Turrini, Bart Vandenbussche, Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio, Anna Aret, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, Buchhave, Lars A., Martin Ferus, Matt Griffin, Manuel Guedel, Paul Hartogh, Pedro Machado, Giuseppe Malaguti, Enric Pallé, Mirek Rataj, Tom Ray, Ignasi Ribas, Robert Szabó, Jonathan Tan, Stephanie Werner, Francesco Ratti, Carsten Scharmberg, Jean-Christophe Salvignol, Nathalie Boudin, Jean-Philippe Halain, Martin Haag, Pierre-Elie Crouzet, Ralf Kohley, Kate Symonds, Florian Renk, Andrew Caldwell, Manuel Abreu, Gustavo Alonso, Jerome Amiaux, Michel Berthé, Georgia Bishop, Neil Bowles, Manuel Carmona, Deirdre Coffey, Josep Colomé, Martin Crook, Lucile Désjonqueres, Díaz, José J., Rachel Drummond, Mauro Focardi, Gómez, Jose M., Warren Holmes, Matthijs Krijger, Zsolt Kovacs, Tom Hunt, Richardo Machado, Gianluca Morgante, Marc Ollivier, Roland Ottensamer, Emanuele Pace, Teresa Pagano, Enzo Pascale, Chris Pearson, Søren Møller Pedersen, Moshe Pniel, Stéphane Roose, Giorgio Savini, Richard Stamper, Peter Szirovicza, Janos Szoke, Ian Tosh, Francesc Vilardell, Joanna Barstow, Luca Borsato, Sarah Casewell, Quentin Changeat, Benjamin Charnay, Svatopluk Civiš, Vincent Coudé du Foresto, Athena Coustenis, Nicolas Cowan, Camilla Danielski, Olivier Demangeon, Pierre Drossart, Edwards, Billy N., Gabriella Gilli, Therese Encrenaz, Csaba Kiss, Anastasia Kokori, Masahiro Ikoma, Juan Carlos Morales, Joao Mendonca, Andrea Moneti, Lorenzo Mugnai, Antonio García Muñoz, Ravit Helled, Mihkel Kama, Yamila Miguel, Nikos Nikolaou, Isabella Pagano, Olja Panic, Miriam Rengel, Hans Rickman, Marco Rocchetto, Subhajit Sarkar, Franck Selsis, Jonathan Tennyson, Angelos Tsiaras, Olivia Venot, Krisztián Vida, Waldmann, Ingo P., Sergey Yurchenko, Gyula Szabó, Rob Zellem, Ahmed Al-Refaie, Javier Perez Alvarez, Lara Anisman, Axel Arhancet, Jaume Ateca, Robin Baeyens, Barnes, John R., Taylor Bell, Serena Benatti, Katia Biazzo, Maria Błęcka, Aldo Stefano Bonomo, José Bosch, Diego Bossini, Jeremy Bourgalais, Daniele Brienza, Anna Brucalassi, Giovanni Bruno, Hamish Caines, Simon Calcutt, Tiago Campante, Rodolfo Canestrari, Nick Cann, Giada Casali, Albert Casas, Giuseppe Cassone, Christophe Cara, Ludmila Carone, Nathalie Carrasco, Paolo Chioetto, Fausto Cortecchia, Markus Czupalla, Chubb, Katy L., Angela Ciaravella, Antonio Claret, Riccardo Claudi, Claudio Codella, Maya Garcia Comas, Gianluca Cracchiolo, Patricio Cubillos, Vania Da Peppo, Leen Decin, Clemence Dejabrun, Elisa Delgado-Mena, Anna Di Giorgio, Emiliano Diolaiti, Caroline Dorn, Vanessa Doublier, Eric Doumayrou, Georgina Dransfield, Luc Dumaye, Emma Dunford, Antonio Jimenez Escobar, Vincent Van Eylen, Maria Farina, Davide Fedele, Alejandro Fernández, Benjamin Fleury, Sergio Fonte, Jean Fontignie, Luca Fossati, Bernd Funke, Camille Galy, Zoltán Garai, Andrés García, Alberto García-Rigo, Antonio Garufi, Giuseppe Germano Sacco, Paolo Giacobbe, Alejandro Gómez, Arturo Gonzalez, Francisco Gonzalez-Galindo, Davide Grassi, Caitlin Griffith, Mario Giuseppe Guarcello, Audrey Goujon, Amélie Gressier, Aleksandra Grzegorczyk, Tristan Guillot, Gloria Guilluy, Peter Hargrave, Marie-Laure Hellin, Enrique Herrero, Matt Hills, Benoit Horeau, Yuichi Ito, Niels Christian Jessen, Petr Kabath, Szilárd Kálmán, Yui Kawashima, Tadahiro Kimura, Antonín Knížek, Laura Kreidberg, Ronald Kruid, Kruijssen, Diederik J. 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M. Kruijssen, Petr Kubelík, Luisa Lara, Sebastien Lebonnoi, David Lee, Maxence Lefevre, Tim Lichtenberg, Daniele Locci, Matteo Lombini, Alejandro Sanchez Lopez, Andrea Lorenzani, Ryan MacDonald, Laura Magrini, Jesus Maldonado, Emmanuel Marcq, Alessandra Migliorini, Darius Modirrousta-Galian, Karan Molaverdikhani, Sergio Molinari, Paul Mollière, Vincent Moreau, Giuseppe Morello, Gilles Morinaud, Mario Morvan, Julianne I. Mose, Salima Mouzali, Nariman Nakhjiri, Luca Naponiello, Norio Narita, Valerio Nascimbeni, Athanasia Nikolaou, Vladimiro Noce, Fabrizio Oliva, Pietro Palladino, Andreas Papageorgiou, Vivien Parmentier, Giovanni Pere, Javier Pérez, Santiago Perez-Hoyo, Manuel Perger, Cesare Cecchi Pestellini, Antonino Petralia, Anne Philippon, Arianna Piccialli, Marco Pignatari, Giampaolo Piotto, Linda Podio, Gianluca Polenta, Giampaolo Preti, Theodor Pribulla, Manuel Lopez Puerta, Monica Rainer, Jean-Michel Ree, Paul Rimmer, Séverine Robert, Albert Rosich, Loic Rossi, Duncan Rust, Ayman Saleh, Nicoletta Sanna, Eugenio Schisano, Laura Schreiber, Victor Schwartz, Antonio Scippa, Bálint Seli, Sho Shibata, Caroline Simpson, Oliver Shorttle, N. Skaf, Konrad Skup, Mateusz Sobiecki, Sergio Sousa, Alessandro Sozzetti, Judit Šponer, Lukas Steiger, Paolo Tanga, Paul Tackley, Jake Taylor, Matthias Tecza, Luca Terenzi, Pascal Tremblin, Andrea Tozzi, Amaury Triaud, Loïc Trompet, Shang-Min Tsai, Maria Tsantaki, Diana Valencia, Ann Carine Vandaele, Mathieu Van der Swaelmen, Adibekyan Vardan, Gautam Vasisht, Allona Vazan, Ciro Del Vecchio, Dave Waltham, Piotr Wawer, Thomas Widemann, Paulina Wolkenberg, Gordon Hou Yip, Yuk Yung, Mantas Zilinska, Tiziano Zingale, Paola Zuppella, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Cardon, Catherine
Subjects: [SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics], Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), [SDU.ASTR.IM] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia E Astrofisica, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], [SDU.ASTR.EP] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM]
Abstract: Ariel, the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, was adopted as the fourth medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme to be launched in 2029. During its 4-year mission, Ariel will study what exoplanets are made of, how they formed and how they evolve, by surveying a diverse sample of about 1000 extrasolar planets, simultaneously in visible and infrared wavelengths. It is the first mission dedicated to measuring the chemical composition and thermal structures of hundreds of transiting exoplanets, enabling planetary science far beyond the boundaries of the Solar System. The payload consists of an off-axis Cassegrain telescope (primary mirror 1100 mm x 730 mm ellipse) and two separate instruments (FGS and AIRS) covering simultaneously 0.5-7.8 micron spectral range. The satellite is best placed into an L2 orbit to maximise the thermal stability and the field of regard. The payload module is passively cooled via a series of V-Groove radiators; the detectors for the AIRS are the only items that require active cooling via an active Ne JT cooler. The Ariel payload is developed by a consortium of more than 50 institutes from 16 ESA countries, which include the UK, France, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, and a NASA contribution., Comment: Ariel Definition Study Report, 147 pages. Reviewed by ESA Science Advisory Structure in November 2020. Original document available at: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/documents/1783156/3267291/Ariel_RedBook_Nov2020.pdf/
Published: 2021
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17. The JCMT BISTRO Survey: An 850/450$\mu$m Polarization Study of NGC 2071IR in OrionB

Author: A-Ran Lyo, Jongsoo Kim, Sarah Sadavoy, Doug Johnstone, David Berry, Kate Pattle, Woojin Kwon, Pierre Bastien, Takashi Onaka, James Di Francesco, Ji-Hyun Kang, Ray Furuya, Charles L. H. Hull, Motohide Tamura, Patrick M. Koch, Derek Ward-Thompson, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Thiem Hoang, Doris Arzoumanian, Chang Won Lee, Chin-Fei Lee, Do-Young Byun, Florian Kirchschlager, Yasuo Doi, Kee-Tae Kim, Jihye Hwang, Pham Ngoc Diep, Lapo Fanciullo, Sang-Sung Lee, Geumsook Park, Hyunju Yoo, Eun Jung Chung, Anthony Whitworth, Steve Mairs, Archana Soam, Tie Liu, Xindi Tang, Simon Coudé, Philippe André, Tyler L. Bourke, Huei-Ru Vivien Chen, Zhiwei Chen, Wen Ping Chen, Mike Chen, Tao-Chung Ching, Jungyeon Cho, Minho Choi, Yunhee Choi, Antonio Chrysostomou, Sophia Dai, C. Darren Dowell, Hao-Yuan Duan, Yan Duan, David Eden, Chakali Eswaraiah, Stewart Eyres, Jason Fiege, Laura M. Fissel, Erica Franzmann, Per Friberg, Rachel Friesen, Gary Fuller, Tim Gledhill, Sarah Graves, Jane Greaves, Matt Griffin, Qilao Gu, Ilseung Han, Jannifer Hatchell, Saeko Hayashi, Martin Houde, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Kazunari Iwasaki, Il-Gyo Jeong, Miju Kang, Akimasa Kataoka, Koji Kawabata, Francisca Kemper, Gwanjeong Kim, Mi-Ryang Kim, Shinyoung Kim, Kyoung Hee Kim, Jason Kirk, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Vera Könyves, Takayoshi Kusune, Jungmi Kwon, Kevin Lacaille, Shih-Ping Lai, Chi-Yan Law, Jeong-Eun Lee, Yong-Hee Lee, Hyeseung Lee, Dalei Li, Di Li, Hua-Bai Li, Hong-Li Liu, Junhao Liu, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Xing Lu, Masafumi Matsumura, Brenda Matthews, Gerald Moriarty-Schieven, Tetsuya Nagata, Fumitaka Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Harriet Parsons, Nicolas Peretto, Felix Priestley, Tae-soo Pyo, Lei Qian, Keping Qiu, Ramprasad Rao, Jonathan Rawlings, Mark G. Rawlings, Brendan Retter, John Richer, Andrew Rigby, Hiro Saito, Giorgio Savini, Anna Scaife, Masumichi Seta, Yoshito Shimajiri, Hiroko Shinnaga, Mehrnoosh Tahani, Ya-Wen Tang, Kohji Tomisaka, Le Ngoc Tram, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Serena Viti, Jia-Wei Wang, Hongchi Wang, Jinjin Xie, Hsi-Wei Yen, Jinghua Yuan, Hyeong-Sik Yun, Tetsuya Zenko, Guoyin Zhang, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Yapeng Zhang, Jianjun Zhou, Lei Zhu, Ilse de Looze, Sam Falle, Jean-François Robitaille, Sven van Loo, Lyo, A-Ran [0000-0002-9907-8427], Kim, Jongsoo [0000-0002-1229-0426], Johnstone, Doug [0000-0002-6773-459X], Pattle, Kate [0000-0002-8557-3582], Kwon, Woojin [0000-0003-4022-4132], Bastien, Pierre [0000-0002-0794-3859], Onaka, Takashi [0000-0002-8234-6747], Kang, Ji-Hyun [0000-0001-7379-6263], Furuya, Ray [0000-0003-0646-8782], Hull, Charles L. H. [0000-0002-8975-7573], Tamura, Motohide [0000-0002-6510-0681], Koch, Patrick M. 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[0000-0001-7491-0048], Chen, Zhiwei [0000-0003-0849-0692], Ping Chen, Wen [0000-0002-5519-0628], Ching, Tao-Chung [0000-0001-8516-2532], Cho, Jungyeon [0000-0003-1725-4376], Chrysostomou, Antonio [0000-0002-9583-8644], Eden, David [0000-0002-5881-3229], Franzmann, Erica [0000-0003-2142-0357], Friberg, Per [0000-0002-8010-8454], Friesen, Rachel [0000-0001-7594-8128], Fuller, Gary [0000-0001-8509-1818], Gledhill, Tim [0000-0002-2859-4600], Graves, Sarah [0000-0001-9361-5781], Gu, Qilao [0000-0002-2826-1902], Hatchell, Jannifer [0000-0002-4870-2760], Houde, Martin [0000-0003-4420-8674], Inoue, Tsuyoshi [0000-0002-7935-8771], Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro [0000-0003-4366-6518], Iwasaki, Kazunari [0000-0002-2707-7548], Kang, Miju [0000-0002-5016-050X], Kataoka, Akimasa [0000-0003-4562-4119], Kawabata, Koji [0000-0001-6099-9539], Kemper, Francisca [0000-0003-2743-8240], Kim, Gwanjeong [0000-0003-2011-8172], Kim, Mi-Ryang [0000-0002-1408-7747], Kim, Shinyoung [0000-0001-9333-5608], Kirk, Jason [0000-0002-4552-7477], Kobayashi, Masato I. N. [0000-0003-3990-1204], Könyves, Vera [0000-0002-3746-1498], Kusune, Takayoshi [0000-0002-9218-9319], Kwon, Jungmi [0000-0003-2815-7774], Lacaille, Kevin [0000-0001-9870-5663], Lai, Shih-Ping [0000-0001-5522-486X], Law, Chi-Yan [0000-0003-1964-970X], Lee, Jeong-Eun [0000-0003-3119-2087], Lee, Yong-Hee [0000-0001-6047-701X], Lee, Hyeseung [0000-0003-3465-3213], Li, Di [0000-0003-3010-7661], Li, Hua-Bai [0000-0003-2641-9240], Liu, Junhao [0000-0002-4774-2998], Liu, Sheng-Yuan [0000-0003-4603-7119], Lu, Xing [0000-0003-2619-9305], Matsumura, Masafumi [0000-0002-6906-0103], Matthews, Brenda [0000-0003-3017-9577], Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald [0000-0002-0393-7822], Nagata, Tetsuya [0000-0001-9264-9015], Nakamura, Fumitaka [0000-0001-5431-2294], Ohashi, Nagayoshi [0000-0003-0998-5064], Parsons, Harriet [0000-0002-6327-3423], Pyo, Tae-soo [0000-0002-3273-0804], Qian, Lei [0000-0003-0597-0957], Qiu, Keping [0000-0002-5093-5088], Rao, Ramprasad [0000-0002-1407-7944], Rawlings, Jonathan [0000-0001-5560-1303], Rawlings, Mark G. [0000-0002-6529-202X], Richer, John [0000-0002-9693-6860], Rigby, Andrew [0000-0002-3351-2200], Savini, Giorgio [0000-0003-4449-9416], Shimajiri, Yoshito [0000-0001-9368-3143], Shinnaga, Hiroko [0000-0001-9407-6775], Tang, Ya-Wen [0000-0002-0675-276X], Tomisaka, Kohji [0000-0003-2726-0892], Tram, Le Ngoc [0000-0002-6488-8227], Viti, Serena [0000-0001-8504-8844], Wang, Jia-Wei [0000-0002-6668-974X], Wang, Hongchi [0000-0003-0746-7968], Yen, Hsi-Wei [0000-0003-1412-893X], Yun, Hyeong-Sik [0000-0001-6842-1555], Zhang, Chuan-Peng [0000-0002-4428-3183], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Young stellar object, FAR-INFRARED POLARIZATION, Astrophysics, F500, IMAGING POLARIMETRY, MAGNETIC-FIELDS, Gravitational energy, STAR-FORMATION, interstellar magnetic fields, Bipolar outflow, SCUBA-2, FORMING MOLECULAR CLOUDS, GOULD BELT SURVEY, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, polarimetry, Physics, interstellar medium, SUBMILLIMETER POLARIZATION, Magnetic energy, Center (category theory), Interstellar Matter and the Local Universe, CORES, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Magnetic field, Physics and Astronomy, BIPOLAR OUTFLOW, Space and Planetary Science, star forming regions
Abstract: We present the results of simultaneous 450 $\mu$m and 850 $\mu$m polarization observations toward the massive star forming region NGC 2071IR, a target of the BISTRO (B-fields in Star-Forming Region Observations) Survey, using the POL-2 polarimeter and SCUBA-2 camera mounted on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. We find a pinched magnetic field morphology in the central dense core region, which could be due to a rotating toroidal disk-like structure and a bipolar outflow originating from the central young stellar object, IRS 3. Using the modified Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi method, we obtain a plane-of-sky magnetic field strength of 563$\pm$421 $\mu$G in the central $\sim$0.12 pc region from 850 $\mu$m polarization data. The corresponding magnetic energy density of 2.04$\times$10$^{-8}$ erg cm$^{-3}$ is comparable to the turbulent and gravitational energy densities in the region. We find that the magnetic field direction is very well aligned with the whole of the IRS 3 bipolar outflow structure. We find that the median value of polarization fractions, 3.0 \%, at 450 $\mu$m in the central 3 arcminute region, which is larger than the median value of 1.2 \% at 850 $\mu$m. The trend could be due to the better alignment of warmer dust in the strong radiation environment. We also find that polarization fractions decrease with intensity at both wavelengths, with slopes, determined by fitting a Rician noise model, of $0.59 \pm 0.03$ at 450 $\mu$m and $0.36 \pm 0.04$ at 850 $\mu$m, respectively. We think that the shallow slope at 850 $\mu$m is due to grain alignment at the center being assisted by strong radiation from the central young stellar objects., Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables
Published: 2021

18. Monte Carlo transmission line modelling of multilayer optical coatings for performance sensitivity of exoplanet spectroscopy

Author: Vinooja Thurairethinam and Giorgio Savini
Abstract: Multilayer optical coatings are widely used on the surface of optical components to enhance the transmittance of light in certain spectral regions while reducing it in other regions. Discrepancies between the measured and predicted spectral performance of optical components with such coatings can primarily be attributed to deposition errors and uncertainties in the refractive indices of the materials used for these coatings. Our simulation uses two-dimensional transmission line modelling to evaluate the transmittance of light at a given angle of incidence through multilayer coatings deposited on a substrate material. We perform a number of Monte Carlo simulations to obtain statistical information about the tolerance of the coating performance to systematic and random uncertainties in deposition thickness, refractive index and operating temperature. We present the posterior distributions of the deviations from the nominal performance that result from the propagation of each of these uncertainties for a number of hypothetical scenarios. We find that these uncertainties have the potential to cause significant differences between the designed and achieved performance. Our results indicate that the sensitivity of each layer to the various sources of uncertainties can vary on a case-by-case basis. With the aid of accurate manufacturing recipes and uncertainty amplitudes from commercial manufacturers, this simulation can provide a proficient tool to predict variations in the performance of multilayer optical coatings used in exoplanet spectroscopy.
Published: 2021

19. Exoplanet spectroscopy and photometry with the Twinkle space telescope

Author: Giovanna Tinetti, Marcell Tessenyi, Billy Edwards, Tiziano Zingales, Malena Rice, Giorgio Savini, Enzo Pascale, Subhajit Sarkar, and Ingo Waldmann
Subjects: Solar System, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Photometry (optics), Spitzer Space Telescope, Observatory, law, Planet, Exoplanet atmospheres, Exoplanet photometry and spectroscopy, Space telescope, Twinkle space mission, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Spectral resolution, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Exoplanet, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Original Article, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: The Twinkle space telescope has been designed for the characterisation of exoplanets and Solar System objects. Operating in a low Earth, Sun-synchronous orbit, Twinkle is equipped with a 45 cm telescope and visible (0.4 – 1 μm) and infrared (1.3 – 4.5 μm) spectrometers which can be operated simultaneously. Twinkle is a general observatory which will provide on-demand observations of a wide variety of targets within wavelength ranges that are currently not accessible using other space telescopes or accessible only to oversubscribed observatories in the short-term future. Here we explore the ability of Twinkle’s spectrometers to characterise the currently-known exoplanets. We study the spectral resolution achievable by combining multiple observations for various planetary and stellar types. We also simulate spectral retrievals for some well-known planets (HD 209458 b, GJ 3470 b and 55 Cnc e). From the exoplanets known today, we find that with a single transit or eclipse, Twinkle could probe 89 planets at low spectral resolution (R < 20) as well as 12 planets at higher resolution (R > 20) in channel 1 (1.3 – 4.5 μm). With 10 observations, the atmospheres of 144 planets could be characterised with R 20. By stacking 10 transits, there are 1185 potential targets for study at R < 20 as well as 388 planets at higher resolutions. The majority of targets are found to be large gaseous planets although by stacking multiple observations smaller planets around bright stars (e.g. 55 Cnc e) could be observed with Twinkle. Photometry and low resolution spectroscopy with Twinkle will be useful to refine planetary, stellar and orbital parameters, monitor stellar activity through time and search for transit time and duration variations (TTVs and TDVs). Refinement of these parameters could be used to in the planning of observations with larger space-based observatories such as JWST and ARIEL. For planets orbiting very bright stars, Twinkle observations at higher spectral resolution will enable us to probe the chemical and thermal properties of an atmosphere. Simultaneous coverage across a wide wavelength range will reduce the degeneracies seen with Hubble and provide access to detections of a wide range molecules. There is the potential to revisit them many times over the mission lifetime to detect variations in cloud cover.
Published: 2018

20. The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Revealing the Diverse Magnetic Field Morphologies in Taurus Dense Cores with Sensitive Submillimeter Polarimetry

Author: A-Ran Lyo, Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Jean-François Robitaille, L. M. Fissel, Jonathan Rawlings, Yapeng Zhang, Andrew Rigby, Matthew Joseph Griffin, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Ji-hyun Kang, Sam Falle, Jongsoo Kim, Jason Fiege, Il-Gyo Jeong, Ya-Wen Tang, Kate Pattle, Zhiwei Chen, Rachel Friesen, Florian Kirchschlager, Doris Arzoumanian, Chang Won Lee, Jennifer Hatchell, Ramprasad Rao, Shih-Ping Lai, Sung-ju Kang, Di Li, Kevin Lacaille, Keping Qiu, Eun Jung Chung, Dalei Li, Gerald H. Moriarty-Schieven, Archana Soam, Anthony Peter Whitworth, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Hua-bai Li, Per Friberg, Doug Johnstone, Lei Qian, Thiem Hoang, Kazunari Iwasaki, Lapo Fanciullo, Pham Ngoc Diep, Sarah Graves, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Nicolas Peretto, Harriet Parsons, Jungyeon Cho, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Y. Shimajiri, Martin Houde, Fumitaka Nakamura, John Richer, Kee-Tae Kim, Serena Viti, Derek Ward-Thompson, Jianjun Zhou, Jason M. Kirk, Geumsook Park, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Erica Franzmann, C. Darren Dowell, Woojin Kwon, Mi-Ryang Kim, Sven Van Loo, Tyler Bourke, Mark G. Rawlings, Ilseung Han, Masumichi Seta, Junhao Liu, Motohide Tamura, Minho Choi, Jinghua Yuan, Hao-Yuan Duan, Hong-Li Liu, Wen Ping Chen, Jinjin Xie, Tie Liu, David Eden, S. P. S. Eyres, Yan Duan, Miju Kang, Charles L. H. Hull, Le Ngoc Tram, Koji S. Kawabata, Giorgio Savini, Sophia Dai, Masafumi Matsumura, Chakali Eswaraiah, Tae-Soo Pyo, Francisca Kemper, Yong-Hee Lee, Jia-Wei Wang, Saeko S. Hayashi, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Hsi-Wei Yen, Hyunju Yoo, Sang-Sung Lee, Antonio Chrysostomou, Gwanjeong Kim, Huei-Ru Vivien Chen, Brenda C. Matthews, S. Coude, Qilao Gu, Yasuo Doi, Guoyin Zhang, Tao-Chung Ching, Hiro Saito, Hongchi Wang, Ilse De Looze, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Philippe André, Jihye Hwang, Hiroko Shinnaga, David Berry, Hyeong-Sik Yun, Jane Greaves, Vera Konyves, Do-Young Byun, Ray S. Furuya, Mike Chen, Tim Gledhill, Kyoung Hee Kim, Tetsuya Zenko, Steve Mairs, Jungmi Kwon, Takayoshi Kusune, Chin-Fei Lee, Tetsuya Nagata, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Brendan Retter, Xing Lu, Patrick M. Koch, Yunhee Choi, Chi-Yan Law, Gary A. Fuller, Mehrnoosh Tahani, Takashi Onaka, Pierre Bastien, Xindi Tang, Anna M. M. Scaife, Kohji Tomisaka, Lei Zhu, Sarah Sadavoy, Akimasa Kataoka, Chakali, Eswaraiah [0000-0003-4761-6139], Furuya, Ray S. [0000-0003-0646-8782], Hasegawa, Tetsuo [0000-0003-1853-0184], Ward-Thompson, Derek [0000-0003-1140-2761], Qiu, Keping [0000-0002-5093-5088], Ohashi, Nagayoshi [0000-0003-0998-5064], Pattle, Kate [0000-0002-8557-3582], Sadavoy, Sarah [0000-0001-7474-6874], Hull, Charles L. H. [0000-0002-8975-7573], Berry, David [0000-0001-6524-2447], Doi, Yasuo [0000-0001-8746-6548], Ching, Tao-Chung [0000-0001-8516-2532], Lai, Shih-Ping [0000-0001-5522-486X], Wang, Jia-Wei [0000-0002-6668-974X], Koch, Patrick M. 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[0000-0003-3990-1204], Konyves, Vera [0000-0002-3746-1498], Kusune, Takayoshi [0000-0002-9218-9319], Lacaille, Kevin [0000-0001-9870-5663], Law, Chi-Yan [0000-0003-1964-970X], Lee, Sang-Sung [0000-0002-6269-594X], Lee, Yong-Hee [0000-0001-6047-701X], Matsumura, Masafumi [0000-0002-6906-0103], Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald [0000-0002-0393-7822], Nagata, Tetsuya [0000-0001-9264-9015], Onaka, Takashi [0000-0002-8234-6747], Park, Geumsook [0000-0001-8467-3736], Tang, Xindi [0000-0002-4154-4309], Tomisaka, Kohji [0000-0003-2726-0892], Viti, Serena [0000-0001-8504-8844], Wang, Hongchi [0000-0003-0746-7968], Yoo, Hyunju [0000-0002-8578-1728], Zhang, Yapeng [0000-0002-5102-2096], Falle, Sam [0000-0002-9829-0426], Robitaille, Jean-François [0000-0001-5079-8573], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Eswaraiah, Chakali [0000-0003-4761-6139], Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: low mass stars, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Continuum (design consultancy), AXISYMMETRICAL CLOUD CORES, Astrophysics, F500, MOLECULAR CLOUD, IMAGING POLARIMETRY, 01 natural sciences, AMBIPOLAR-DIFFUSION, STAR-FORMATION, interstellar magnetic fields, Protein filament, CONTRACTION, 0103 physical sciences, SCUBA-2, COLLAPSE, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, dust continuum emission, polarimetry, Physics, Ambipolar diffusion, Star formation, F510, dense interstellar clouds, Astronomy and Astrophysics, GOULD BELT, Magnetic flux, Magnetic field, DARK CLOUDS, Core (optical fiber), Physics and Astronomy, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Space and Planetary Science
Abstract: We have obtained sensitive dust continuum polarization observations at 850 μm in the B213 region of Taurus using POL-2 on SCUBA-2 at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope as part of the B-fields in STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey. These observations allow us to probe magnetic field (B-field) at high spatial resolution (∼2000 au or ∼0.01 pc at 140 pc) in two protostellar cores (K04166 and K04169) and one prestellar core (Miz-8b) that lie within the B213 filament. Using the Davis–Chandrasekhar–Fermi method, we estimate the B-field strengths in K04166, K04169, and Miz-8b to be 38 ± 14, 44 ± 16, and 12 ± 5 μG, respectively. These cores show distinct mean B-field orientations. The B-field in K04166 is well ordered and aligned parallel to the orientations of the core minor axis, outflows, core rotation axis, and large-scale uniform B-field, in accordance with magnetically regulated star formation via ambipolar diffusion taking place in K04166. The B-field in K04169 is found to be ordered but oriented nearly perpendicular to the core minor axis and large-scale B-field and not well correlated with other axes. In contrast, Miz-8b exhibits a disordered B-field that shows no preferred alignment with the core minor axis or large-scale field. We found that only one core, K04166, retains a memory of the large-scale uniform B-field. The other two cores, K04169 and Miz-8b, are decoupled from the large-scale field. Such a complex B-field configuration could be caused by gas inflow onto the filament, even in the presence of a substantial magnetic flux.
Published: 2021
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21. MetaTel: Ongoing work on a meta-material sub-THz telescope for Earth observing

Author: Peter A. R. Ade, Peter Charles Hargrave, Alexey Shitvov, Giampaolo Pisano, Giorgio Savini, Jin Zhang, Ian Walker, Janet Charlton, and Carole Tucker
Subjects: Physics, Earth observation, business.industry, Terahertz radiation, Earth Observing, Flat optics, Metamaterials, THz optics, Physics::Optics, Metamaterial, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Refraction, law.invention, Lens (optics), Telescope, Optics, law, Refracting telescope, Gradient-index optics, business
Abstract: We report on ongoing technology development activities in the build and testing of a refractive telescope composed of metamaterial Gradient Index (GrIn) lenses based on photolithographic meshes. This concept is tailored for Earth Observation, and more precisely limb-scanning in the sub- THz bands addressing emission lines between 50 and 190 GHz. A single GrIn lens design which includes in-built anti-reflection coating layers, allows us to produce sufficient refraction to allow an optical design of a set of compound lenses to create the first THz range telescope fully composed of metamaterials. First lens prototypes have been built and tested spectrally and spatially and compared to analytical models showing good agreement. Prediction of telescope performance is discussed as well as future developments.
Published: 2021

22. Overview of the Medium and High Frequency Telescopes of the LiteBIRD satellite mission

Author: Ludovic Montier, Baptiste Mot, Paolo de Bernardis, Bruno Maffei, Giampaolo Pisano, Fabio Columbro, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Sophie Henrot-Versillé, Luca Lamagna, Joshua Montgomery, Thomas Prouvé, Megan Russell, Giorgio Savini, Samantha Stever, Keith L. Thompson, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Carole Tucker, Benjamin Westbrook, Peter A. Ade, Alexandre Adler, Erwan Allys, Kam Arnold, Didier Auguste, Jonathan Aumont, Ragnhild Aurlien, Jason Austermann, Carlo Baccigalupi, Anthony J. Banday, Ranajoy Banerji, Rita B. Barreiro, Soumen Basak, Jim Beall, Dominic Beck, Shawn Beckman, Juan Bermejo, Marco Bersanelli, Julien Bonis, Julian Borrill, Francois Boulanger, Sophie Bounissou, Maksym Brilenkov, Michael Brown, Martin Bucher, Erminia Calabrese, Paolo Campeti, Alessandro Carones, Francisco J. Casas, Anthony Challinor, Victor Chan, Kolen Cheung, Yuji Chinone, Jean F. Cliche, Loris Colombo, Javier Cubas, Ari Cukierman, David Curtis, Giuseppe D'Alessandro, Nadia Dachlythra, Marco De Petris, Clive Dickinson, Patricia Diego-Palazuelos, Matt Dobbs, Tadayasu Dotani, Lionel Duband, Shannon Duff, Jean M. Duval, Ken Ebisawa, Tucker Elleflot, Hans K. Eriksen, Josquin Errard, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Fabio Finelli, Raphael Flauger, Cristian Franceschet, Unni Fuskeland, Mathew Galloway, Ken Ganga, Jian R. Gao, Ricardo Genova-Santos, Martina Gerbino, Massimo Gervasi, Tommaso Ghigna, Eirik Gjerløw, Marcin L. Gradziel, Julien Grain, Frank Grupp, Alessandro Gruppuso, Tijmen de Haan, Nils W. Halverson, Peter Hargrave, Takashi Hasebe, Masaya Hasegawa, Makoto Hattori, Masashi Hazumi, Daniel Herman, Diego Herranz, Charles A. Hill, Gene Hilton, Yukimasa Hirota, Eric Hivon, Renee A. Hlozek, Yurika Hoshino, Elena de la Hoz, Johannes Hubmayr, Kiyotomo Ichiki, Teruhito Iida, Hiroaki Imada, Kosei Ishimura, Hirokazu Ishino, Greg Jaehnig, Tooru Kaga, Shingo Kashima, Nobuhiko Katayama, Akihiro Kato, Takeo Kawasaki, Reijo Keskitalo, Theodore Kisner, Yohei Kobayashi, Nozomu Kogiso, Alan Kogut, Kazunori Kohri, Eiichiro Komatsu, Kunimoto Komatsu, Kuniaki Konishi, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Ingo Kreykenbohm, Chao-Lin L. Kuo, Akihiro Kushino, Jeff V. Lanen, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Adrian T. Lee, Clément Leloup, François Levrier, Eric Linder, Thibaut Louis, Gemma Luzzi, Thierry Maciaszek, Davide Maino, Muneyoshi Maki, Stefano Mandelli, Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez, Silvia Masi, Tomotake Matsumura, Aniello Mennella, Marina Migliaccio, Yuto Minami, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Gianluca Morgante, Yasuhiro Murata, John A. Murphy, Makoto Nagai, Yuya Nagano, Taketo Nagasaki, Ryo Nagata, Shogo Nakamura, Toshiya Namikawa, Paolo Natoli, Simran Nerval, Toshiyuki Nishibori, Haruki Nishino, Créidhe O'Sullivan, Hideo Ogawa, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Shugo Oguri, Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Izumi S. Ohta, Norio Okada, Nozomi Okada, Luca Pagano, Alessandro Paiella, Daniela Paoletti, Guillaume Patanchon, Julien Peloton, Francesco Piacentini, Gianluca Polenta, Davide Poletti, Giuseppe Puglisi, Damien Rambaud, Christopher Raum, Sabrina Realini, Martin Reinecke, Mathieu Remazeilles, Alessia Ritacco, Gilles Roudil, Jose A. Rubino-Martin, Haruyuki Sakurai, Yuki Sakurai, Maura Sandri, Manami Sasaki, Douglas Scott, Joseph Seibert, Yutaro Sekimoto, Blake Sherwin, Keisuke Shinozaki, Maresuke Shiraishi, Peter Shirron, Giovanni Signorelli, Graeme Smecher, Radek Stompor, Hajime Sugai, Shinya Sugiyama, Aritoki Suzuki, Junichi Suzuki, Trygve L. Svalheim, Eric Switzer, Ryota Takaku, Hayato Takakura, Satoru Takakura, Yusuke Takase, Youichi Takeda, Andrea Tartari, Ellen Taylor, Yutaka Terao, Harald Thommesen, Ben Thorne, Takayuki Toda, Maurizio Tomasi, Mayu Tominaga, Neil Trappe, Matthieu Tristram, Masatoshi Tsuji, Joe Ullom, Gerard Vermeulen, Patricio Vielva, Fabrizio Villa, Michael Vissers, Nicola Vittorio, Ingunn Wehus, Jochen Weller, Joern Wilms, Berend Winter, Edward J. Wollack, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Tetsuya Yoshida, Junji Yumoto, Mario Zannoni, Andrea Zonca, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS (UMR_8023)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), LiteBIRD, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Commission, European Research Council, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Département de Physique de l'ENS-PSL, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Département des Systèmes Basses Températures (DSBT ), Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire des Cryoréfrigérateurs et Cryogénie Spatiale (LCCS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Lystrup, Makenzie, Montier, L, Mot, B, de Bernardis, P, Maffei, B, Pisano, G, Columbro, F, Gudmundsson, J, Henrot-Versillé, S, Lamagna, L, Montgomery, J, Prouvé, T, Russell, M, Savini, G, Stever, S, Thompson, K, Tsujimoto, M, Tucker, C, Westbrook, B, Ade, P, Adler, A, Allys, E, Arnold, K, Auguste, D, Aumont, J, Aurlien, R, Austermann, J, Baccigalupi, C, Banday, A, Banerji, R, Barreiro, R, Basak, S, Beall, J, Beck, D, Beckman, S, Bermejo, J, Bersanelli, M, Bonis, J, Borrill, J, Boulanger, F, Bounissou, S, Brilenkov, M, Brown, M, Bucher, M, Calabrese, E, Campeti, P, Carones, A, Casas, F, Challinor, A, Chan, V, Cheung, K, Chinone, Y, Cliche, J, Colombo, L, Cubas, J, Cukierman, A, Curtis, D, D'Alessandro, G, Dachlythra, N, De Petris, M, Dickinson, C, Diego-Palazuelos, P, Dobbs, M, Dotani, T, Duband, L, Duff, S, Duval, J, Ebisawa, K, Elleflot, T, Eriksen, H, Errard, J, Essinger-Hileman, T, Finelli, F, Flauger, R, Franceschet, C, Fuskeland, U, Galloway, M, Ganga, K, Gao, J, Genova-Santos, R, Gerbino, M, Gervasi, M, Ghigna, T, Gjerløw, E, Gradziel, M, Grain, J, Grupp, F, Gruppuso, A, de Haan, T, Halverson, N, Hargrave, P, Hasebe, T, Hasegawa, M, Hattori, M, Hazumi, M, Herman, D, Herranz, D, Hill, C, Hilton, G, Hirota, Y, Hivon, E, Hlozek, R, Hoshino, Y, de la Hoz, E, Hubmayr, J, Ichiki, K, Iida, T, Imada, H, Ishimura, K, Ishino, H, Jaehnig, G, Kaga, T, Kashima, S, Katayama, N, Kato, A, Kawasaki, T, Keskitalo, R, Kisner, T, Kobayashi, Y, Kogiso, N, Kogut, A, Kohri, K, Komatsu, E, Komatsu, K, Konishi, K, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kreykenbohm, I, Kuo, C, Kushino, A, Lanen, J, Lattanzi, M, Lee, A, Leloup, C, Levrier, F, Linder, E, Louis, T, Luzzi, G, Maciaszek, T, Maino, D, Maki, M, Mandelli, S, Martinez-Gonzalez, E, Masi, S, Matsumura, T, Mennella, A, Migliaccio, M, Minami, Y, Mitsuda, K, Morgante, G, Murata, Y, Murphy, J, Nagai, M, Nagano, Y, Nagasaki, T, Nagata, R, Nakamura, S, Namikawa, T, Natoli, P, Nerval, S, Nishibori, T, Nishino, H, O'Sullivan, C, Ogawa, H, Oguri, S, Ohsaki, H, Ohta, I, Okada, N, Pagano, L, Paiella, A, Paoletti, D, Patanchon, G, Peloton, J, Piacentini, F, Polenta, G, Poletti, D, Puglisi, G, Rambaud, D, Raum, C, Realini, S, Reinecke, M, Remazeilles, M, Ritacco, A, Roudil, G, Rubino-Martin, J, Sakurai, H, Sakurai, Y, Sandri, M, Sasaki, M, Scott, D, Seibert, J, Sekimoto, Y, Sherwin, B, Shinozaki, K, Shiraishi, M, Shirron, P, Signorelli, G, Smecher, G, Stompor, R, Sugai, H, Sugiyama, S, Suzuki, A, Suzuki, J, Svalheim, T, Switzer, E, Takaku, R, Takakura, H, Takakura, S, Takase, Y, Takeda, Y, Tartari, A, Taylor, E, Terao, Y, Thommesen, H, Thorne, B, Toda, T, Tomasi, M, Tominaga, M, Trappe, N, Tristram, M, Tsuji, M, Ullom, J, Vermeulen, G, Vielva, P, Villa, F, Vissers, M, Vittorio, N, Wehus, I, Weller, J, Wilms, J, Winter, B, Wollack, E, Yamasaki, N, Yoshida, T, Yumoto, J, Zannoni, M, Zonca, A, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)
Subjects: cosmological model, experimental methods, detector: satellite, Cosmic microwave background, cosmic background radiation: polarization, detector: noise, magnetic field, 02 engineering and technology, LiteBIRD, cosmic microwave background, polarization measurements, space telescopes, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, law, detector: calibration, media_common, Physics, conductivity: thermal, Settore FIS/05, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Polarization (waves), inflation: model, experimental equipment, B-mode, cosmic radiation, cryogenics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 0210 nano-technology, cosmic background radiation: detector, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), lens, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, LiteBIRD, Polarization measurements, Space telescopes, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, bolometer: superconductivity, frequency: high, Radio spectrum, tensor scalar: ratio, 010309 optics, Telescope, FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], numerical calculations, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), detector: angular resolution, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Gravitational wave, synchrotron radiation, gravitational radiation: primordial, Astronomy, Physics::History of Physics, optics, detector: sensitivity, 13. Climate action, Sky, Satellite, temperature: stability, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online.-- et al., LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led Strategic Large-Class mission designed to search for the existence of the primordial gravitational waves produced during the inflationary phase of the Universe, through the measurements of their imprint onto the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). These measurements, requiring unprecedented sensitivity, will be performed over the full sky, at large angular scales, and over 15 frequency bands from 34 GHz to 448 GHz. The LiteBIRD instruments consist of three telescopes, namely the Low-, Medium-and High-Frequency Telescope (respectively LFT, MFT and HFT). We present in this paper an overview of the design of the Medium-Frequency Telescope (89{224 GHz) and the High-Frequency Telescope (166{448 GHz), the so-called MHFT, under European responsibility, which are two cryogenic refractive telescopes cooled down to 5 K. They include a continuous rotating half-wave plate as the first optical element, two high-density polyethylene (HDPE) lenses and more than three thousand transition-edge sensor (TES) detectors cooled to 100 mK. We provide an overview of the concept design and the remaining specific challenges that we have to face in order to achieve the scientific goals of LiteBIRD., This work is supported in Japan by ISAS/JAXA for Pre-Phase A2 studies, by the acceleration program of JAXA research and development directorate, by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) of MEXT, by the JSPS Core-to-Core Program of A. Advanced Research Networks, and by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP15H05891, JP17H01115, and JP17H01125. The Italian LiteBIRD phase A contribution is supported by the Italian Space Agency (ASI Grants No. 2020-9-HH.0 and 2016-24-H.1-2018), the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF). The French LiteBIRD phase A contribution is supported by the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiale (CNES), by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and by the Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique (CEA). The Canadian contribution is supported by the Canadian Space Agency. The US contribution is supported by NASA grant no. 80NSSC18K0132. Norwegian participation in LiteBIRD is supported by the Research Council of Norway (Grant No. 263011). The Spanish LiteBIRD phase A contribution is supported by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI), project refs. PID2019-110610RB-C21 and AYA2017-84185-P. Funds that support the Swedish contributions come from the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA/Rymdstyrelsen) and the Swedish Research Council (Reg. no. 2019-03959). The German participation in LiteBIRD is supported in part by the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS, which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy (Grant No. EXC-2094 - 390783311). This research used resources of the Central Computing System owned and operated by the Computing Research Center at KEK, as well as resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy. European collaborators acknowledge support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement Nos. 772253, 819478, and 849169). The European Space Agency (ESA) has led a Concurrent Design Facility study, focused on the MHFT and Sub-Kelvin coolers, and funded Technology Research Programmes for “Large radii Half-Wave Plate (HWP) development” (contract number: 4000123266/18/NL/AF) and for the ‘Development of Large Anti-Reflection Coated Lenses for Passive (Sub)Millimeter-Wave Science Instruments” (contract number: 4000128517/19/NL/AS).
Published: 2020

23. LiteBIRD: JAXA's new strategic L-class mission for all-sky surveys of cosmic microwave background polarization

Author: Masashi Hazumi, Peter A. Ade, Alexandre Adler, Erwan Allys, Kam Arnold, Didier Auguste, Jonathan Aumont, Ragnhild Aurlien, Jason Austermann, Carlo Baccigalupi, Anthony J. Banday, R. Banjeri, Rita B. Barreiro, Soumen Basak, Jim Beall, Dominic Beck, Shawn Beckman, Juan Bermejo, Paolo de Bernardis, Marco Bersanelli, Julien Bonis, Julian Borrill, Francois Boulanger, Sophie Bounissou, Maksym Brilenkov, Michael Brown, Martin Bucher, Erminia Calabrese, Paolo Campeti, Alessandro Carones, Francisco J. Casas, Anthony Challinor, Victor Chan, Kolen Cheung, Yuji Chinone, Jean F. Cliche, Loris Colombo, Fabio Columbro, Javier Cubas, Ari Cukierman, David Curtis, Giuseppe D'Alessandro, Nadia Dachlythra, Marco De Petris, Clive Dickinson, Patricia Diego-Palazuelos, Matt Dobbs, Tadayasu Dotani, Lionel Duband, Shannon Duff, Jean M. Duval, Ken Ebisawa, Tucker Elleflot, Hans K. Eriksen, Josquin Errard, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Fabio Finelli, Raphael Flauger, Cristian Franceschet, Unni Fuskeland, Mathew Galloway, Ken Ganga, Jian R. Gao, Ricardo Genova-Santos, Martina Gerbino, Massimo Gervasi, Tommaso Ghigna, Eirik Gjerløw, Marcin L. Gradziel, Julien Grain, Frank Grupp, Alessandro Gruppuso, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Tijmen de Haan, Nils W. Halverson, Peter Hargrave, Takashi Hasebe, Masaya Hasegawa, Makoto Hattori, Sophie Henrot-Versillé, Daniel Herman, Diego Herranz, Charles A. Hill, Gene Hilton, Yukimasa Hirota, Eric Hivon, Renee A. Hlozek, Yurika Hoshino, Elena de la Hoz, Johannes Hubmayr, Kiyotomo Ichiki, Teruhito Iida, Hiroaki Imada, Kosei Ishimura, Hirokazu Ishino, Greg Jaehnig, Tooru Kaga, Shingo Kashima, Nobuhiko Katayama, Akihiro Kato, Takeo Kawasaki, Reijo Keskitalo, Theodore Kisner, Yohei Kobayashi, Nozomu Kogiso, Alan Kogut, Kazunori Kohri, Eiichiro Komatsu, Kunimoto Komatsu, Kuniaki Konishi, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Ingo Kreykenbohm, Chao-Lin L. Kuo, Akihiro Kushino, Luca Lamagna, Jeff V. Lanen, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Adrian T. Lee, Clément Leloup, François Levrier, Eric Linder, Thibaut Louis, Gemma Luzzi, Thierry Maciaszek, Bruno Maffei, Davide Maino, Muneyoshi Maki, Stefano Mandelli, Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez, Silvia Masi, Tomotake Matsumura, Aniello Mennella, Marina Migliaccio, Yuto Minami, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Joshua Montgomery, Ludovic Montier, Gianluca Morgante, Baptiste Mot, Yasuhiro Murata, John A. Murphy, Makoto Nagai, Yuya Nagano, Taketo Nagasaki, Ryo Nagata, Shogo Nakamura, Toshiya Namikawa, Paolo Natoli, Simran Nerval, Toshiyuki Nishibori, Haruki Nishino, Fabio Noviello, Créidhe O'Sullivan, Hideo Ogawa, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Shugo Oguri, Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Izumi S. Ohta, Norio Okada, Nozomi Okada, Luca Pagano, Alessandro Paiella, Daniela Paoletti, Guillaume Patanchon, Julien Peloton, Francesco Piacentini, Giampaolo Pisano, Gianluca Polenta, Davide Poletti, Thomas Prouvé, Giuseppe Puglisi, Damien Rambaud, Christopher Raum, Sabrina Realini, Martin Reinecke, Mathieu Remazeilles, Alessia Ritacco, Gilles Roudil, Jose A. Rubino-Martin, Megan Russell, Haruyuki Sakurai, Yuki Sakurai, Maura Sandri, Manami Sasaki, Giorgio Savini, Douglas Scott, Joseph Seibert, Yutaro Sekimoto, Blake Sherwin, Keisuke Shinozaki, Maresuke Shiraishi, Peter Shirron, Giovanni Signorelli, Graeme Smecher, Samantha Stever, Radek Stompor, Hajime Sugai, Shinya Sugiyama, Aritoki Suzuki, Junichi Suzuki, Trygve L. Svalheim, Eric Switzer, Ryota Takaku, Hayato Takakura, Satoru Takakura, Yusuke Takase, Youichi Takeda, Andrea Tartari, Ellen Taylor, Yutaka Terao, Harald Thommesen, Keith L. Thompson, Ben Thorne, Takayuki Toda, Maurizio Tomasi, Mayu Tominaga, Neil Trappe, Matthieu Tristram, Masatoshi Tsuji, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Carole Tucker, Joe Ullom, Gerard Vermeulen, Patricio Vielva, Fabrizio Villa, Michael Vissers, Nicola Vittorio, Ingunn Wehus, Jochen Weller, Benjamin Westbrook, Joern Wilms, Berend Winter, Edward J. Wollack, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Tetsuya Yoshida, Junji Yumoto, Mario Zannoni, Andrea Zonca, Astrophysique, Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information (CEA-LETI), Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Institut Néel (NEEL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), LiteBIRD, Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Département de Physique de l'ENS-PSL, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Département de Physique de l'ENS-PSL, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Département des Systèmes Basses Températures (DSBT ), Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire des Cryoréfrigérateurs et Cryogénie Spatiale (LCCS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (NEEL - HELFA), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Commission, Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS (UMR_8023)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Lystrup, Makenzie, Hazumi, M, Ade, P, Adler, A, Allys, E, Arnold, K, Auguste, D, Aumont, J, Aurlien, R, Austermann, J, Baccigalupi, C, Banday, A, Banjeri, R, Barreiro, R, Basak, S, Beall, J, Beck, D, Beckman, S, Bermejo, J, de Bernardis, P, Bersanelli, M, Bonis, J, Borrill, J, Boulanger, F, Bounissou, S, Brilenkov, M, Brown, M, Bucher, M, Calabrese, E, Campeti, P, Carones, A, Casas, F, Challinor, A, Chan, V, Cheung, K, Chinone, Y, Cliche, J, Colombo, L, Columbro, F, Cubas, J, Cukierman, A, Curtis, D, D'Alessandro, G, Dachlythra, N, De Petris, M, Dickinson, C, Diego-Palazuelos, P, Dobbs, M, Dotani, T, Duband, L, Duff, S, Duval, J, Ebisawa, K, Elleflot, T, Eriksen, H, Errard, J, Essinger-Hileman, T, Finelli, F, Flauger, R, Franceschet, C, Fuskeland, U, Galloway, M, Ganga, K, Gao, J, Genova-Santos, R, Gerbino, M, Gervasi, M, Ghigna, T, Gjerløw, E, Gradziel, M, Grain, J, Grupp, F, Gruppuso, A, Gudmundsson, J, de Haan, T, Halverson, N, Hargrave, P, Hasebe, T, Hasegawa, M, Hattori, M, Henrot-Versillé, S, Herman, D, Herranz, D, Hill, C, Hilton, G, Hirota, Y, Hivon, E, Hlozek, R, Hoshino, Y, de la Hoz, E, Hubmayr, J, Ichiki, K, Iida, T, Imada, H, Ishimura, K, Ishino, H, Jaehnig, G, Kaga, T, Kashima, S, Katayama, N, Kato, A, Kawasaki, T, Keskitalo, R, Kisner, T, Kobayashi, Y, Kogiso, N, Kogut, A, Kohri, K, Komatsu, E, Komatsu, K, Konishi, K, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kreykenbohm, I, Kuo, C, Kushino, A, Lamagna, L, Lanen, J, Lattanzi, M, Lee, A, Leloup, C, Levrier, F, Linder, E, Louis, T, Luzzi, G, Maciaszek, T, Maffei, B, Maino, D, Maki, M, Mandelli, S, Martinez-Gonzalez, E, Masi, S, Matsumura, T, Mennella, A, Migliaccio, M, Minami, Y, Mitsuda, K, Montgomery, J, Montier, L, Morgante, G, Mot, B, Murata, Y, Murphy, J, Nagai, M, Nagano, Y, Nagasaki, T, Nagata, R, Nakamura, S, Namikawa, T, Natoli, P, Nerval, S, Nishibori, T, Nishino, H, Noviello, F, O'Sullivan, C, Ogawa, H, Oguri, S, Ohsaki, H, Ohta, I, Okada, N, Pagano, L, Paiella, A, Paoletti, D, Patanchon, G, Peloton, J, Piacentini, F, Pisano, G, Polenta, G, Poletti, D, Prouvé, T, Puglisi, G, Rambaud, D, Raum, C, Realini, S, Reinecke, M, Remazeilles, M, Ritacco, A, Roudil, G, Rubino-Martin, J, Russell, M, Sakurai, H, Sakurai, Y, Sandri, M, Sasaki, M, Savini, G, Scott, D, Seibert, J, Sekimoto, Y, Sherwin, B, Shinozaki, K, Shiraishi, M, Shirron, P, Signorelli, G, Smecher, G, Stever, S, Stompor, R, Sugai, H, Sugiyama, S, Suzuki, A, Suzuki, J, Svalheim, T, Switzer, E, Takaku, R, Takakura, H, Takakura, S, Takase, Y, Takeda, Y, Tartari, A, Taylor, E, Terao, Y, Thommesen, H, Thompson, K, Thorne, B, Toda, T, Tomasi, M, Tominaga, M, Trappe, N, Tristram, M, Tsuji, M, Tsujimoto, M, Tucker, C, Ullom, J, Vermeulen, G, Vielva, P, Villa, F, Vissers, M, Vittorio, N, Wehus, I, Weller, J, Westbrook, B, Wilms, J, Winter, B, Wollack, E, Yamasaki, N, Yoshida, T, Yumoto, J, Zannoni, M, and Zonca, A
Subjects: cosmological model, experimental methods, detector: satellite, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Cosmic microwave background, LiteBIRD, cosmic inflation, cosmic microwave background, B-mode polarization, primordial gravi- tational waves, quantum gravity, space telescope, cosmic background radiation: polarization, detector: noise, 02 engineering and technology, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, expansion: multipole, Cosmology, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, B-mode: primordial, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), general relativity, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], B-mode polarization, media_common, Physics, new physics, quantum mechanics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, BICEP, inflation: model, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, error: statistical, experimental equipment, cryogenics, power spectrum: angular dependence, [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], readout, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, dust, control system, 0210 nano-technology, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, cosmic microwave background, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), satellite: Planck, cosmic inflation, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, primordial gravi- tational waves, Cosmic background radiation, space telescope, Lagrangian point, FOS: Physical sciences, LiteBIRD, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, polarization: sensitivity, 010309 optics, FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, gravitation: lens, 0103 physical sciences, ionization, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], cosmic background radiation: power spectrum, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Inflation (cosmology), synchrotron radiation, primordial gravitational waves, gravitational radiation: primordial, Astronomy, calibration, Physics::History of Physics, recombination, detector: sensitivity, angular resolution, Sky, quantum gravity, gravitational radiation: emission, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], Satellite, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], experimental results
Abstract: Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online.-- et al., LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology and fundamental physics. JAXA selected LiteBIRD in May 2019 as a strategic large-class (L-class) mission, with its expected launch in the late 2020s using JAXA’s H3 rocket. LiteBIRD plans to map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization over the full sky with unprecedented precision. Its main scientific objective is to carry out a definitive search for the signal from cosmic inflation, either making a discovery or ruling out well-motivated inflationary models. The measurements of LiteBIRD will also provide us with an insight into the quantum nature of gravity and other new physics beyond the standard models of particle physics and cosmology. To this end, LiteBIRD will perform full-sky surveys for three years at the Sun-Earth Lagrangian point L2 for 15 frequency bands between 34 and 448 GHz with three telescopes, to achieve a total sensitivity of 2.16 µK-arcmin with a typical angular resolution of 0.5◦ at 100 GHz. We provide an overview of the LiteBIRD project, including scientific objectives, mission requirements, top-level system requirements, operation concept, and expected scientific outcomes., This work is supported in Japan by ISAS/JAXA for Pre-Phase A2 studies, by the acceleration program of JAXA research and development directorate, by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) of MEXT, by the JSPS Core-to-Core Program of A. Advanced Research Networks, and by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP15H05891, JP17H01115, and JP17H01125. The Italian LiteBIRD phase A contribution is supported by the Italian Space Agency (ASI Grants No. 2020-9-HH.0 and 2016-24-H.1-2018), the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF). The French LiteBIRD phase A contribution is supported by the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiale (CNES), by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and by the Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique (CEA). The Canadian contribution is supported by the Canadian Space Agency. The US contribution is supported by NASA grant no. 80NSSC18K0132. Norwegian participation in LiteBIRD is supported by the Research Council of Norway (Grant No. 263011). The Spanish LiteBIRD phase A contribution is supported by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI), project refs. PID2019-110610RB-C21 and AYA2017-84185-P. Funds that support the Swedish contributions come from the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA/Rymdstyrelsen) and the Swedish Research Council (Reg. no. 2019-03959). The German participation in LiteBIRD is supported in part by the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS, which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy (Grant No. EXC-2094 - 390783311). This research used resources of the Central Computing System owned and operated by the Computing Research Center at KEK, as well as resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Published: 2020

24. The optical design of the Litebird Medium and High Frequency Telescope

Author: Alessandro Paiella, Créidhe O'Sullivan, Reijo Keskitalo, Bruno Maffei, M. De Petris, P. de Bernardis, J. Austermann, L. Montier, S. Bounissou, Berend Winter, Peter Charles Hargrave, F. Columbro, Tomotake Matsumura, F. Noviello, Johannes Hubmayr, G. Jaehnig, S. Realini, Giampaolo Pisano, N. Trappe, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Sophie Henrot-Versille, A. Ritacco, Luca Lamagna, H. Imada, A. Suzuki, Silvia Masi, B. Mot, Cristian Franceschet, Giorgio Savini, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), and Litebird Joint Study Group
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Computer science, optics: design, satellite, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, cosmic background radiation: polarization, LiteBIRD, model: optical, 02 engineering and technology, LiteBIRD, Cosmic Microwave Background, polarization measurements, millimeter wavelengths,refractive telescopes, space telescopes, optical modeling, Space telescopes, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, 010309 optics, Telescope, law, Cosmic Microwave Background, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Aerospace engineering, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), activity report, detector: design, business.industry, Gravitational wave, gravitational radiation: primordial, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, System optimization, Refractive telescopes, sensitivity, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Polarization (waves), Optical modeling, B-mode, Polarization measurements, Control system, Millimeter wavelengths, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 0210 nano-technology, business, performance, Microwave, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: LiteBIRD is a JAXA strategic L-class mission devoted to the measurement of polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, searching for the signature of primordial gravitational waves in the B-modes pattern of the polarization. The onboard instrumentation includes a Middle and High Frequency Telescope (MHFT), based on a pair of cryogenically cooled refractive telescopes covering, respectively, the 89-224 GHz and the 166-448 GHz bands. Given the high target sensitivity and the careful systematics control needed to achieve the scientific goals of the mission, optical modeling and characterization are performed with the aim to capture most of the physical effects potentially affecting the real performance of the two refractors. We describe the main features of the MHFT, its design drivers and the major challenges in system optimization and characterization. We provide the current status of the development of the optical system and we describe the current plan of activities related to optical performance simulation and validation., Comment: 17 pages, 13 figures, SPIE Proceeding no. 11443-283
Published: 2020

25. Observations of magnetic fields surrounding LkH$\alpha$ 101 taken by the BISTRO survey with JCMT-POL-2

Author: Fumitaka Nakamura, Lapo Fanciullo, Eun Jung Chung, Yan Duan, Sophia Dai, Saeko S. Hayashi, Sven Van Loo, Dalei Li, Nicolas Peretto, Ray S. Furuya, Miju Kang, Tyler Bourke, Mark G. Rawlings, John Richer, Archana Soam, Kee-Tae Kim, Anna M. M. Scaife, Kohji Tomisaka, Jason M. Kirk, Hiroko Shinnaga, Anthony Peter Whitworth, David Berry, Chakali Eswaraiah, Le Ngoc Tram, Masumichi Seta, Serena Viti, Geumsook Park, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Antonio Chrysostomou, Yunhee Choi, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Tae-Soo Pyo, Hongchi Wang, Pham Ngoc Diep, Erica Franzmann, Matthew Joseph Griffin, Francisca Kemper, Kyoung Hee Kim, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Hiro Saito, C. Darren Dowell, Philippe André, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Yong-Hee Lee, Sung-ju Kang, Sam Falle, Mike Chen, Gary A. Fuller, Jongsoo Kim, Chi-Yan Law, Mi-Ryang Kim, Tetsuya Zenko, Thiem Hoang, Tim Gledhill, A-Ran Lyo, Gerald Moriarty-Schieven, Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Takashi Onaka, Pierre Bastien, Motohide Tamura, Harriet Parsons, Hua-bai Li, Takayoshi Kusune, Jungmi Kwon, Xindi Tang, Zhiwei Chen, Tetsuya Nagata, Chin-Fei Lee, Brendan Retter, Guoyin Zhang, Martin Houde, Ji-hyun Kang, Jason Fiege, Il-Gyo Jeong, James Di Francesco, Jane Greaves, Vera Konyves, Do-Young Byun, Junhao Liu, Chang Won Lee, Jia-Wei Wang, Qilao Gu, Patrick M. Koch, Kate Pattle, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Derek Ward-Thompson, Florian Kirchschlager, Doris Arzoumanian, Hyeong-Sik Yun, Jianjun Zhou, Lei Zhu, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Charles L. H. Hull, Koji S. Kawabata, Minho Choi, Hyeseung Lee, Yasuo Doi, Kevin Lacaille, Brenda C. Matthews, Ilseung Han, Per Friberg, S. Coude, Jennifer Hatchell, Ramprasad Rao, Di Li, Jihye Hwang, Jean-François Robitaille, L. M. Fissel, Jonathan Rawlings, Gwanjeong Kim, Huei-Ru Vivien Chen, Sarah Sadavoy, Giorgio Savini, Yapeng Zhang, Shih-Ping Lai, Akimasa Kataoka, Xing Lu, Doug Johnstone, Steve Mairs, Andrew Rigby, Mehrnoosh Tahani, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Hsi-Wei Yen, Hyunju Yoo, Tie Liu, Woojin Kwon, S. L. Kim, Hao-Yuan Duan, Hong-Li Liu, Sang-Sung Lee, Jinjin Xie, Masafumi Matsumura, Tao-Chung Ching, David Eden, Ilse De Looze, Jeong-Eun Lee, S. P. S. Eyres, Rachel Friesen, Jinghua Yuan, Keping Qiu, Sarah Graves, Jungyeon Cho, Wen Ping Chen, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Y. Shimajiri, Lei Qian, Kazunari Iwasaki, and Ya-Wen Tang
Subjects: Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Molecular cloud, Astronomy and Astrophysics, molecular clouds, Astrophysics, F500, Polarization (waves), 01 natural sciences, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, star formation, Redshift, interstellar magnetic fields, Magnetic field, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Gravitational collapse, Radiative transfer, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We report the first high spatial resolution measurement of magnetic fields surrounding LkH$\alpha$ 101, a part of the Auriga-California molecular cloud. The observations were taken with the POL-2 polarimeter on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope within the framework of the B-fields In Star-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey. Observed polarization of thermal dust emission at 850 $\mu$m is found to be mostly associated with the red-shifted gas component of the cloud. The magnetic field displays a relatively complex morphology. Two variants of the Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi method, unsharp masking and structure function, are used to calculate the strength of magnetic fields in the plane of the sky, yielding a similar result of $B_{\rm POS}\sim 115$ $\mathrm{\mu}$G. The mass-to-magnetic-flux ratio in critical value units, $\lambda\sim0.3$, is the smallest among the values obtained for other regions surveyed by POL-2. This implies that the LkH$\alpha$ 101 region is sub-critical and the magnetic field is strong enough to prevent gravitational collapse. The inferred $\delta B/B_0\sim 0.3$ implies that the large scale component of the magnetic field dominates the turbulent one. The variation of the polarization fraction with total emission intensity can be fitted by a power-law with an index of $\alpha=0.82\pm0.03$, which lies in the range previously reported for molecular clouds. We find that the polarization fraction decreases rapidly with proximity to the only early B star (LkH$\alpha$ 101) in the region. The magnetic field tangling and the joint effect of grain alignment and rotational disruption by radiative torques are potential of explaining such a decreasing trend., Comment: 25 pages, 19 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2020

26. Twinkle: a low-Earth orbit, visible and infrared observatory for exoplanet and solar system spectroscopy

Author: Philip Windred, Max Joshua, Billy Edwards, Ben Wilcock, Ian Stotesbury, Giorgio Savini, Marcell Tessenyi, Richard Archer, Giovanna Tinetti, and Jonathan Tennyson
Subjects: Physics, Solar System, Low earth orbit, Infrared, Observatory, Astronomy, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Spectroscopy, Exoplanet
Abstract: The Twinkle Space Mission is a space-based observatory that has been conceived to measure the atmospheric composition of exoplanets, stars and solar system objects. The satellite is based on a high-heritage platform and will carry a 0.45 m telescope with a visible and infrared spectrograph providing simultaneous wavelength coverage from 0.5 - 4.5 μm. The spacecraft will be launched into a Sun-synchronous low-Earth polar orbit and will operate in this highly stable thermal environment for a baseline lifetime of seven years. Twinkle’s rapid pointing and non-sidereal tracking capabilities will enable the observation of a diverse array of Solar System objects, including asteroids and comets. Twinkle aims to provide a visible and near-infrared spectroscopic population study of asteroids and comets to study their surface composition and monitor activity. Its wavelength coverage and position above the atmosphere will make it particularly well-suited for studying hydration features that are obscured by telluric lines from the ground as well as searching for other spectral signatures such as organics, silicates and CO2. Twinkle is available for researchers around the globe in two ways: 1) joining its collaborative multi-year survey programme, which will observe hundreds of exoplanets and solar system objects; and 2) accessing dedicated telescope time on the spacecraft, which they can schedule for any combination of science cases. I will present an overview of Twinkle’s capabilities and discuss the broad range of targets the mission could observe, demonstrating the huge scientific potential of the spacecraft.
Published: 2020

27. Exoplanet Ephemeris Maintenance using Ground- and Space-based Telescopes

Author: Giorgio Savini, Hamish Caines, and Marco Rocchetto
Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Space (mathematics), Ephemeris, Exoplanet
Abstract: Ariel will require precise knowledge of the transit timings for all of its targets. However, the precision we have for each target will degrade significantly over the 8 years until launch, in some cases to the point where the error exceeds the duration of the transit itself. The knowledge of these transits would then be deemed “lost”. To counteract this, and in effect “reset the clock”, we aim to use the Telescope Live network of robotic telescopes to observe such targets. With 1000 targets and an average orbital period of the order of days, the size and usage of the network required needs to be quantified. Here we present results from simulations of these observations for a variety of telescope networks of varying sizes, the number of targets that can be successfully constrained, and the amount of observing time required to do so. From these results we can conclude that a ground-based telescope network containing as few as 2 telescopes of 0.6m aperture can constrain over 60% of the targets with transit depths observable from the ground. A fraction of these exoplanets are difficult to observe with ground-based telescopes as they either have transit depths too shallow to detect due to atmospheric distortion and/or their transit durations are comparable to the length of a night, reducing the probability of observable transits occurring. Such targets would benefit from supplementary observations from space-based observatories, as these do not suffer from either atmospheric distortion or limits on observing time due to Earth’s diurnal cycle.
Published: 2020

28. The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Magnetic Fields Associated with a Network of Filaments in NGC 1333

Author: Jason Fiege, Di Li, Fumitaka Nakamura, Patrick M. Koch, J. S. Richer, Matthew Joseph Griffin, Jason M. Kirk, Miju Kang, Geumsook Park, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Erica Franzmann, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Tetsuya Zenko, Jia-Wei Wang, Qilao Gu, Brendan Retter, Martin Houde, Per Friberg, Junhao Liu, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Keping Qiu, Sam Falle, Minho Choi, Hao Yuan Duan, Philippe André, Jennifer Hatchell, Kate Pattle, Charles L. H. Hull, Sven Van Loo, Gary A. Fuller, Hsi-Wei Yen, Hyunju Yoo, Ramprasad Rao, Yasuo Doi, Takayoshi Kusune, Hiro Saito, Koji S. Kawabata, Kevin Lacaille, Mark G. Rawlings, Takashi Onaka, Pierre Bastien, Woojin Kwon, Mi Ryang Kim, S. P. S. Eyres, Chin-Fei Lee, Tae-Soo Pyo, Giorgio Savini, Yapeng Zhang, Serena Viti, Ya-Wen Tang, Doug Johnstone, Masumichi Seta, Ray S. Furuya, Francisca Kemper, Huei Ru Vivien Chen, Jihye Hwang, Saeko S. Hayashi, Yong-Hee Lee, S. L. Kim, Zhiwei Chen, Sang-Sung Lee, Shih-Ping Lai, Hongchi Wang, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Lei Qian, Wen Ping Chen, Sung-ju Kang, Chuan Peng Zhang, Andrew Rigby, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Kazunari Iwasaki, Thiem Hoang, C. Darren Dowell, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Kyoung Hee Kim, Eun Jung Chung, Masafumi Matsumura, Mehrnoosh Tahani, Chakali Eswaraiah, Michael Chun Yuan Chen, A. Ran Lyo, Gerald Moriarty-Schieven, Ilse De Looze, Jeong-Eun Lee, James Di Francesco, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Yunhee Choi, Dalei Li, Tao Chung Ching, Hua-bai Li, Jane Greaves, Hong-Li Liu, Archana Soam, Vera Konyves, Do-Young Byun, Anthony Peter Whitworth, Brenda C. Matthews, Ilseung Han, Motohide Tamura, Rachel Friesen, Kee-Tae Kim, Simon Coudé, Derek Ward-Thompson, Pham Ngoc Diep, Jianjun Zhou, Gwanjeong Kim, Hyeseung Lee, Anna M. M. Scaife, J.-F. Robitaille, Jinghua Yuan, Y. Shimajiri, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Kohji Tomisaka, Lei Zhu, Hyeong Sik Yun, Lapo Fanciullo, J. H. Kang, Harriet Parsons, Tie Liu, Jongsoo Kim, Tim Gledhill, Nicolas Peretto, Sarah Graves, Sarah Sadavoy, Steve Mairs, Jungmi Kwon, Tetsuya Nagata, Chang Won Lee, Jungyeon Cho, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Akimasa Kataoka, Chi Yan Law, Il Gyo Jeong, Antonio Chrysostomou, Doris Arzoumanian, Guoyin Zhang, Hiroko Shinnaga, and David Berry
Subjects: Physics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Plane (geometry), Star formation, Molecular cloud, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, 01 natural sciences, Magnetic field, Protein filament, Interstellar medium, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Local field, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: We present new observations of the active star formation region NGC 1333 in the Perseus molecular cloud complex from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope B -Fields In Star-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey with the POL-2 instrument. The BISTRO data cover the entire NGC 1333 complex (∼1.5 pc × 2 pc) at 0.02 pc resolution and spatially resolve the polarized emission from individual filamentary structures for the first time. The inferred magnetic field structure is complex as a whole, with each individual filament aligned at different position angles relative to the local field orientation. We combine the BISTRO data with low- and high- resolution data derived from Planck and interferometers to study the multiscale magnetic field structure in this region. The magnetic field morphology drastically changes below a scale of ∼1 pc and remains continuous from the scales of filaments (∼0.1 pc) to that of protostellar envelopes (∼0.005 pc or ∼1000 au). Finally, we construct simple models in which we assume that the magnetic field is always perpendicular to the long axis of the filaments. We demonstrate that the observed variation of the relative orientation between the filament axes and the magnetic field angles are well reproduced by this model, taking into account the projection effects of the magnetic field and filaments relative to the plane of the sky. These projection effects may explain the apparent complexity of the magnetic field structure observed at the resolution of BISTRO data toward the filament network., Erratum published in volume 899, issue 1, 5 p., April 10 2021. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abf2b3
Published: 2020

29. Small bodies science with the Twinkle space telescope

Author: Marcell Tessenyi, Neil Bowles, Giorgio Savini, Sean S. Lindsay, Billy Edwards, Giovanna Tinetti, and C. Arena
Subjects: Physics, Brightness, Solar System, Mechanical Engineering, Visible and near infrared spectroscopy, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Field of view, 01 natural sciences, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, law.invention, 010309 optics, Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Space and Planetary Science, Control and Systems Engineering, Asteroid, law, 0103 physical sciences, Magnitude (astronomy), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation
Abstract: Twinkle is an upcoming 0.45-m space-based telescope equipped with a visible and two near-infrared spectrometers covering the spectral range 0.4 to 4.5 μm with a resolving power R ∼ 250 (λ 2.42 μm). We explore Twinkle’s capabilities for small bodies science and find that, given Twinkle’s sensitivity, pointing stability, and spectral range, the mission can observe a large number of small bodies. The sensitivity of Twinkle is calculated and compared to the flux from an object of a given visible magnitude. The number, and brightness, of asteroids and comets that enter Twinkle’s field of regard is studied over three time periods of up to a decade. We find that, over a decade, several thousand asteroids enter Twinkle’s field of regard with a brightness and nonsidereal rate that will allow Twinkle to characterize them at the instrumentation’s native resolution with SNR > 100. Hundreds of comets can also be observed. Therefore, Twinkle offers researchers the opportunity to contribute significantly to the field of Solar System small bodies research.
Published: 2020

30. Non-gray, Month-long Brightening of KIC 8462852 in the Immediate Aftermath of a Deep Dip

Author: Giorgio Savini, S. J. Fossey, and James Hitchcock
Subjects: Physics, Brightness, Wavelength, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Angstrom, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
Abstract: We present an analysis of the results of long-term multi-band photometric monitoring of the enigmatic star, KIC 8462852. Observations in the $B$, $g'$, $V$, $r'$ and $I_C$ passbands have been acquired at University College London Observatory (UCLO) between May 2017 and September 2018. We interrogate the wavelength dependence of the $\sim$month-long dimming and brightening exhibited by the target star over an 85-day interval, immediately following a days-long $\sim5$ per cent drop in brightness on Julian Date (JD) 2458203. Between JD 2458215--300 we measure brightness variations which correspond to relative extinctions of $A_B/A_V = 1.39\pm0.27$, $A_{g'}/A_V = 1.16\pm0.11$, $A_{r'}/A_V = 0.80\pm0.25$ and $A_{Ic}/A_V = 0.49\pm0.19$, from which we infer an Angstr\"om absorption coefficient of $1.33\pm0.43$ ($R_V \simeq 3.2^{+2.6}_{-1.0}$). As with the days-long `dips', the wavelength dependence of the longer-term brightness variations must also be associated with extinction arising from a dust distribution containing a substantial fraction of sub-micron-sized grains. This implies some common mechanism is responsible for the star's variability over both these short and longer timescales., Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2020
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31. Concept design of low frequency telescope for CMB B-mode polarization satellite LiteBIRD

Author: Mario G. Lattanzi, Carlo Baccigalupi, François Levrier, J. M. Duval, J. Austermann, M. Brilenkov, B. Thorne, Eiichiro Komatsu, D. Rambaud, T. Nagasaki, Peter Shirron, H. Imada, Nozomu Kogiso, Jeff Van Lanen, H. Takakura, T. Kawasaki, Lionel Duband, Ingunn Kathrine Wehus, Y. Hoshino, Tadayasu Dotani, Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez, Tucker Elleflot, S. Beckman, T. Kaga, Shogo Nakamura, A. Kato, Giorgio Savini, S. Bounissou, S. Mandelli, Peter Charles Hargrave, Francois Boulanger, Julien Grain, S. Realini, Reijo Keskitalo, Bruno Maffei, Y. Nagano, Davide Maino, D. Herman, Michael R. Vissers, B. Mot, R. Banerji, N. Katayama, James A. Beall, Johannes Hubmayr, Tomotake Matsumura, Shugo Oguri, G. Patanchon, S. Basak, S. Takakura, Créidhe O'Sullivan, Massimo Gervasi, Y. Takase, S. Stever, A. Carones, Raphael Flauger, F. J. Casas, T. de Haan, Yasuhiro Murata, T. Prouvé, Douglas Scott, P. Vielva, Toshiya Namikawa, Mayu Tominaga, Yuki Sakurai, Luca Lamagna, Eric Hivon, S. Nerval, Ken Ebisawa, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Julian Borrill, Shingo Kashima, Hajime Sugai, M. De Petris, R. Nagata, Ted Kisner, D. W. Curtis, A. Mennella, P. de Bernardis, Alexandre E. Adler, Misao Sasaki, Jiansong Gao, Kam Arnold, K. Ganga, T. Ghigna, Kazunori Kohri, Ben Westbrook, R. Aurlien, T. Toda, Yasuhiro Takeda, U. Fuskeland, Alessandro Gruppuso, Giuseppe Puglisi, A. Ritacco, I. Kreykenbohm, C. Leloup, M. A. Dobbs, Jochen Weller, Joel N. Ullom, Chao-Lin Kuo, M. Migliaccio, Charles A. Hill, E. Allys, Nicola Vittorio, T. Yoshida, R. Takaku, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Alessandro Paiella, J. Aumont, Berend Winter, Junji Yumoto, Yutaka Terao, Aritoki Suzuki, T. Hasebe, Toshiyuki Nishibori, A. Cukierman, P. Campeti, Y. Hirota, Alan J. Kogut, Josquin Errard, S. Sugiyama, L. P. L. Colombo, Anthony Challinor, Yohei Kobayashi, A. Kushino, Gemma Luzzi, Makoto Nagai, M. Sandri, Christopher Raum, Giuseppe D'Alessandro, Masashi Hazumi, Masaya Hasegawa, Renée Hlozek, Silvia Masi, Joseph Seibert, F. Piacentini, J. A. Murphy, Greg Jaehnig, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, Davide Poletti, Michael L. Brown, Blake D. Sherwin, Daniela Paoletti, Joshua Montgomery, F. Columbro, Gianluca Morgante, J. Bermejo, M. Tomasi, Haruki Nishino, P. Diego-Palazuelos, Hirokazu Ishino, T. Iida, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Haruyuki Sakurai, Keith L. Thompson, Javier Cubas, Neil Trappe, Keisuke Shinozaki, Adrian T. Lee, Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Martina Gerbino, D. Herranz, M. Tsuji, Marco Bersanelli, Nadia Dachlythra, M. Russell, E. Gjerløw, Maresuke Shiraishi, E. de la Hoz, Eric V. Linder, Graeme Smecher, Eric R. Switzer, Erminia Calabrese, G. Roudil, Mario Zannoni, T. Maciaszek, L. Pagano, D. Auguste, Frank Grupp, Kosei Ishimura, Fabrizio Villa, Kuniaki Konishi, I. S. Ohta, G. Signorelli, J. Bonis, A. Tartari, Jun-ichi Suzuki, R. B. Barreiro, J. F. Cliche, M. Maki, Douglas H Beck, Ricardo Genova-Santos, A. J. Banday, M. Galloway, T. L. Svalheim, Fabio Finelli, L. A. Montier, H. K. Eriksen, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Karen C. Cheung, Cristian Franceschet, Matthieu Tristram, V. Chan, G. Polenta, Clive Dickinson, N. W. Halverson, Kiyotomo Ichiki, Yuji Chinone, Mathieu Remazeilles, Giampaolo Pisano, Jon E. Gudmundsson, J. Peloton, M. Reinecke, Shannon M. Duff, Carole Tucker, Y. Minanmi, Gene C. Hilton, Martin Bucher, P. A. R. Ade, G. Vermeulen, K. Komatsu, Norio Okada, Thibaut Louis, Sophie Henrot-Versille, Edward J. Wollack, Paolo Natoli, Hideo Ogawa, Jörn Wilms, E. Taylor, Andrea Zonca, Makoto Hattori, Radek Stompor, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Yutaro Sekimoto, Marcin Gradziel, H. 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Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (NEEL - HELFA), and Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Aperture, FOS: Physical sciences, 7. Clean energy, cryogenic telescope, law.invention, Cosmic microwave background, Entrance pupil, Telescope, FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA, Optics, millimeter-wave polarization, space program, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, law, Angular resolution, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Stray light, business.industry, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), Lens (optics), Cardinal point, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: LiteBIRD has been selected as JAXA's strategic large mission in the 2020s, to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization over the full sky at large angular scales. The challenges of LiteBIRD are the wide field-of-view (FoV) and broadband capabilities of millimeter-wave polarization measurements, which are derived from the system requirements. The possible paths of stray light increase with a wider FoV and the far sidelobe knowledge of $-56$ dB is a challenging optical requirement. A crossed-Dragone configuration was chosen for the low frequency telescope (LFT : 34--161 GHz), one of LiteBIRD's onboard telescopes. It has a wide field-of-view ($18^\circ \times 9^\circ$) with an aperture of 400 mm in diameter, corresponding to an angular resolution of about 30 arcminutes around 100 GHz. The focal ratio f/3.0 and the crossing angle of the optical axes of 90$^\circ$ are chosen after an extensive study of the stray light. The primary and secondary reflectors have rectangular shapes with serrations to reduce the diffraction pattern from the edges of the mirrors. The reflectors and structure are made of aluminum to proportionally contract from warm down to the operating temperature at $5\,$K. A 1/4 scaled model of the LFT has been developed to validate the wide field-of-view design and to demonstrate the reduced far sidelobes. A polarization modulation unit (PMU), realized with a half-wave plate (HWP) is placed in front of the aperture stop, the entrance pupil of this system. A large focal plane with approximately 1000 AlMn TES detectors and frequency multiplexing SQUID amplifiers is cooled to 100 mK. The lens and sinuous antennas have broadband capability. Performance specifications of the LFT and an outline of the proposed verification plan are presented., Comment: 21 pages, 14 figures
Published: 2020

32. Dust polarized emission observations of NGC 6334; BISTRO reveals the details of the complex but organized magnetic field structure of the high-mass star-forming hub-filament network

Author: Antonio Chrysostomou, Patrick M. Koch, Ya-Wen Tang, David S. Berry, C. D. Dowell, Ling Zhu, Jongsoo Kim, Jia-Wei Wang, Shih-Ping Lai, Zhiwei Chen, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Jane Greaves, Vera Konyves, Do-Young Byun, Chang Won Lee, Gary A. Fuller, J. M. C. Rawlings, Takashi Onaka, Charles L. H. Hull, Pierre Bastien, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Jason Fiege, Il-Gyo Jeong, J. Hatchell, Hiroko Shinnaga, Pham Ngoc Diep, I. De Looze, Tyler Bourke, Mark G. Rawlings, Jihye Hwang, Tim Gledhill, Di Li, Fumitaka Nakamura, Brenda C. Matthews, Anna M. M. Scaife, J. Di Francesco, Xing Lu, Harriet Parsons, S. Coude, J.-F. Robitaille, Kohji Tomisaka, Koji S. Kawabata, Sincheol Kang, Rachel Friesen, Chi-Yan Law, Xindi Tang, Jason M. Kirk, Mehrnoosh Tahani, S. Mairs, Serena Viti, Jungmi Kwon, Akimasa Kataoka, Masumichi Seta, Geumsook Park, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Tetsuya Nagata, Erica Franzmann, A-Ran Lyo, Sophia Dai, P. Andre, Mingshui Chen, Saeko S. Hayashi, Woojin Kwon, S. L. Kim, Doris Arzoumanian, Junhao Liu, Hsi-Wei Yen, Hyunju Yoo, Chakali Eswaraiah, Y. Shimajiri, Lei Qian, Minho Choi, Yan Duan, Martin Houde, I. Han, Sang-Sung Lee, Kazunari Iwasaki, Masafumi Matsumura, Lapo Fanciullo, Matthew Joseph Griffin, Miju Kang, Tao-Chung Ching, Jeong-Eun Lee, S. P. S. Eyres, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Sarah Sadavoy, Ray S. Furuya, Qilao Gu, D. Johnstone, Hongchi Wang, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Nicolas Peretto, John Richer, Kee-Tae Kim, Keping Qiu, S. Van Loo, Mi-Ryang Kim, Gwanjeong Kim, Gerald Moriarty-Schieven, Motohide Tamura, G. Zhang, A. P. Whitworth, N. B. Ngoc, Sam Falle, Sarah Graves, Hiro Saito, Kyoung Hee Kim, Jinghua Yuan, Wen Ping Chen, Eun Jung Chung, Dalei Li, Sheng-Yuan Liu, L. M. Fissel, Jungyeon Cho, Tetsuya Zenko, Archana Soam, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Giorgio Savini, Brendan Retter, Takayoshi Kusune, Chin-Fei Lee, Yasuo Doi, Kate Pattle, Kevin Lacaille, Hyeong-Sik Yun, J. H. Kang, Hyeseung Lee, Tae-Soo Pyo, Tie Liu, Francisca Kemper, Yong-Hee Lee, Thiem Hoang, Le Ngoc Tram, Chuan Peng Zhang, Derek Ward-Thompson, Jianjun Zhou, Florian Kirchschlager, Per Friberg, Ramprasad Rao, Jinjin Xie, Hua-bai Li, David Eden, Huei Ru Vivien Chen, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Yapeng Zhang, Andrew Rigby, Hao-Yuan Duan, Hong-Li Liu, and Y. K. Choi
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, ISM: structure, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, ISM: clouds, Spectral line, Protein filament, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, polarization, stars: formation, Star formation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ridge (differential geometry), Polarization (waves), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), submillimeter: ISM, ISM: magnetic fields
Abstract: [Abridged] Filaments and hubs have received special attention recently thanks to studies showing their role in star formation. While the column density and velocity structures of both filaments and hubs have been studied, their magnetic fields (B-field) are not yet characterized. We aim to understand the role of the B-field in the dynamical evolution of the NGC 6334 hub-filament network. We present new observations of the dust polarized emission at 850$\mu$m towards NGC 6334 obtained with the JCMT/POL-2. We study the distribution and dispersion of the polarized intensity ($PI$), the polarization fraction ($PF$), and the B-field angle ($\theta_{B}$). We derive the power spectrum of the intensity and $\theta_{B}$ along the ridge crest. Our analyses show a complex B-field structure when observed over the whole region ($\sim10$ pc), however, at smaller scales ($\sim1$ pc), $\theta_{B}$ varies coherently along the filaments. The observed power spectrum of $\theta_{B}$ can be well represented with a power law function with a slope $-1.33\pm0.23$, which is $\sim20\%$ shallower than that of $I$. This result is compatible with the properties of simulated filaments and may indicate the processes at play in the formation of filaments. $\theta_{B}$ rotates from being mostly perpendicular to the filament crests to mostly parallel as they merge with the hubs. This variation of $\theta_{B}$ may be tracing local velocity flows of matter in-falling onto the hubs. Our analysis suggests a variation of the energy balance along the crests of these filaments, from magnetically critical/supercritical at their far ends to magnetically subcritical near the hubs. We detect an increase of $PF$ towards the high-column density star cluster-forming hubs that may result from the increase of grain alignment efficiency due to stellar radiation from the newborn stars., Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2020
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33. A sustainable path for space science

Author: Ben Wilcock, Philip Windred, Richard Archer, Max Joshua, Marcell Tessenyi, Giorgio Savini, Martin Charles Faulkes, Giovanna Tinetti, Jonathan Tennyson, Daniel B. Brown, Ian Stotesbury, and Billy Edwards
Subjects: Engineering, business.industry, Path (graph theory), Sustainability science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space Science, Space (commercial competition), Telecommunications, business, Domain (software engineering), Research data
Abstract: High-performance scientific satellites are currently the exclusive domain of government-funded agencies. The team behind the Twinkle Space Mission is developing a new class of small and sustainable science satellites that leverages recent innovations in the commercial space sector.
Published: 2020

34. Waveguide-integrated THz Quantum-Cascade Lasers for Atmospheric-Research Satellite Payloads

Author: David J. Brooks, Alexander Valavanis, O. Auriacombe, C. Arena, Elena Saenz, Guoyu Yu, Brian N. Ellison, Simon Rea, David Walker, Martin Crook, Alexander Giles Davies, Lianhe Li, Edmund H. Linfield, Giorgio Savini, T. Rawlings, and Yingjun Han
Subjects: Physics, Waveguide (electromagnetism), Terahertz radiation, business.industry, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics::Optics, Cassegrain reflector, Cryocooler, Laser, law.invention, Optics, Narrowband, law, Cascade, Satellite, business
Abstract: Terahertz-frequency quantum-cascade lasers (THz QCLs) are compact, electrically-driven sources of narrowband radiation in the ~2–5-THz band. Numerous scientifically important gas-phase species within the Earth’s upper atmosphere have distinctive spectral features within this band, making QCLs attractive sources for spectroscopic and radiometric atmospheric studies. In this paper, we demonstrate the integration of a QCL with a satellite-compliant cryocooler, precision-micromachined waveguide, a pair of diagonal feedhorns and a Cassegrain telescope, as key steps toward a complete 3.5-THz integrated receiver system.
Published: 2019

35. JCMT BISTRO Survey: Magnetic Fields within the Hub-filament Structure in IC 5146

Author: Jia-Wei Wang, Shih-Ping Lai, Chakali Eswaraiah, Kate Pattle, James Di Francesco, Doug Johnstone, Patrick M. Koch, Tie Liu, Motohide Tamura, Ray S. Furuya, Takashi Onaka, Derek Ward-Thompson, Archana Soam, Kee-Tae Kim, Chang Won Lee, Chin-Fei Lee, Steve Mairs, Doris Arzoumanian, Gwanjeong Kim, Thiem Hoang, Jihye Hwang, Sheng-Yuan Liu, David Berry, Pierre Bastien, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Woojin Kwon, Keping Qiu, Philippe André, Yusuke Aso, Do-Young Byun, Huei-Ru Chen, Michael C. Chen, Wen Ping Chen, Tao-Chung Ching, Jungyeon Cho, Minho Choi, Antonio Chrysostomou, Eun Jung Chung, Simon Coudé, Yasuo Doi, C. Darren Dowell, Emily Drabek-Maunder, Hao-Yuan Duan, Stewart P. S. Eyres, Sam Falle, Lapo Fanciullo, Jason Fiege, Erica Franzmann, Per Friberg, Rachel K. Friesen, Gary Fuller, Tim Gledhill, Sarah F. Graves, Jane S. Greaves, Matt J. Griffin, Qilao Gu, Ilseung Han, Jennifer Hatchell, Saeko S. Hayashi, Wayne Holland, Martin Houde, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Kazunari Iwasaki, Il-Gyo Jeong, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Ji-hyun Kang, Miju Kang, Sung-ju Kang, Akimasa Kataoka, Koji S. Kawabata, Francisca Kemper, Jongsoo Kim, Kyoung Hee Kim, Mi-Ryang Kim, Shinyoung Kim, Jason M. Kirk, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Vera Konyves, Jungmi Kwon, Kevin M. Lacaille, Hyeseung Lee, Jeong-Eun Lee, Sang-Sung Lee, Yong-Hee Lee, Dalei Li, Di Li, Hua-bai Li, Hong-Li Liu, Junhao Liu, A-Ran Lyo, Masafumi Matsumura, Brenda C. Matthews, Gerald H. Moriarty-Schieven, Tetsuya Nagata, Fumitaka Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Geumsook Park, Harriet Parsons, Enzo Pascale, Nicolas Peretto, Andy Pon, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lei Qian, Ramprasad Rao, Mark G. Rawlings, Brendan Retter, John Richer, Andrew Rigby, Jean-François Robitaille, Sarah Sadavoy, Hiro Saito, Giorgio Savini, Anna M. M. Scaife, Masumichi Seta, Hiroko Shinnaga, Ya-Wen Tang, Kohji Tomisaka, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Sven van Loo, Hongchi Wang, Anthony P. Whitworth, Hsi-Wei Yen, Hyunju Yoo, Jinghua Yuan, Hyeong-Sik Yun, Tetsuya Zenko, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Guoyin Zhang, Ya-Peng Zhang, Jianjun Zhou, and Lei Zhu
Subjects: individual objects (IC 5146) [ISM], 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, FOS: Physical sciences, ISM [radio continuum], Probability density function, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Protein filament, ISM: individual objects (IC 5146), ISM: magnetic fields, ISM: structure, polarization, radio continuum: ISM, stars: formation, law, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, formation [stars], Turbulence, F510, Bolometer, magnetic fields [ISM], Astronomy and Astrophysics, Polarimeter, Polarization (waves), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Magnetic field, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), structure [ISM]
Abstract: We present the 850 $\mu$m polarization observations toward the IC5146 filamentary cloud taken using the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) and its associated polarimeter (POL-2), mounted on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), as part of the B-fields In STar forming Regions Observations (BISTRO). This work is aimed at revealing the magnetic field morphology within a core-scale ($\lesssim 1.0$ pc) hub-filament structure (HFS) located at the end of a parsec-scale filament. To investigate whether or not the observed polarization traces the magnetic field in the HFS, we analyze the dependence between the observed polarization fraction and total intensity using a Bayesian approach with the polarization fraction described by the Rice likelihood function, which can correctly describe the probability density function (PDF) of the observed polarization fraction for low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data. We find a power-law dependence between the polarization fraction and total intensity with an index of 0.56 in $A_V\sim$ 20--300 mag regions, suggesting that the dust grains in these dense regions can still be aligned with magnetic fields in the IC5146 regions. Our polarization maps reveal a curved magnetic field, possibly dragged by the contraction along the parsec-scale filament. We further obtain a magnetic field strength of 0.5$\pm$0.2 mG toward the central hub using the Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi method, corresponding to a mass-to-flux criticality of $\sim$ $1.3\pm0.4$ and an Alfv\'{e}nic Mach number of $, Comment: 24 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2019

36. Detailed Characterization of a Lenster - A mm-wave Flat Lens

Author: Elena Saenz, Jin Zhang, Paul Moseley, Peter A. R. Ade, and Giorgio Savini
Subjects: Physics, business.industry, Frequency band, Flat lens, Phase (waves), Metamaterial, 020206 networking & telecommunications, 02 engineering and technology, law.invention, Lens (optics), Optics, law, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Airy disk, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, business, Refractive index, Beam (structure)
Abstract: We perform detailed free-space measurements of a previously published metal-mesh thin, flat gradient index lens using a vector network analyzer. Direct measurements of the transmission and phase of the lens are made over the frequency band of 75–220 GHz, including off axis performance. Beam patterns at 110 and 160 GHz show good agreement with the Airy pattern expectation and demonstrate its relatively broadband performance. We also show that the beam profiles are not affected when it is rotated by 6 degrees with the receiver demonstrating its usability under non-normal illumination.
Published: 2019

37. A dual-port THz Time Domain Spectroscopy System optimized for recovery of a sample’s Jones matrix

Author: Guozhong Zhao, Giorgio Savini, Peter A. R. Ade, Shuai Li, Yang Yu, and Jin Zhang
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Materials science, Terahertz radiation, Polarimetry, lcsh:Medicine, Physics::Optics, Port (circuit theory), Article, law.invention, 03 medical and health sciences, Matrix (mathematics), 0302 clinical medicine, Optics, law, lcsh:Science, Multidisciplinary, business.industry, Orthogonal polarization spectral imaging, lcsh:R, Detector, Polarizer, Laser, 030104 developmental biology, lcsh:Q, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: We describe the design, build and characterization of a novel two-output port configuration for a THz-Time Domain Spectroscopy (TDS) system. By introducing a tilted THz ultra-broadband polarizer, we split the THz beam in two orthogonal polarization detector branches. The probe laser is similarly split (with an optical polarizer) replicating the detection chain to obtain two independent orthogonal polarization detection units. We describe the system’s performance highlighting some of the advantages of this system in one of its two modes of operation: optimized polarimetry for Jones matrix measurements. A bi-refringent sapphire standard was measured to confirm its capabilities and assess the performance of the system showing good agreement with existing literature data.
Published: 2019

38. The geometry of the magnetic field in the Central Molecular Zone measured by PILOT

Author: G. Foënard, A. Lacourt, L. Rodriguez, I. Ristorcelli, L. Montier, Christopher Tibbs, René J. Laureijs, Peter Charles Hargrave, D. Alina, J. A. Tauber, G. de Gasperis, C. Engel, J.-Ph. Bernard, Bruno Maffei, K. Ferrière, F. Pajot, Silvia Masi, Muriel Saccoccio, Annie Hughes, P. de Bernardis, Giorgio Savini, A. M. Magalhes, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, B. Mot, Etienne Perot, P. A. R. Ade, H. Roussel, Vincent Guillet, Johan Montel, Alessandro Buzzelli, Jean-Pierre Dubois, J. B. Durrive, Y. Longval, C. Marty, S. Stever, Maria Salatino, R. Misawa, Anna Mangilli, Jonathan Aumont, Carole Tucker, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Thales Services, THALES, Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Programme National 'Physique et Chimie du Milieu Interstellaire' (PCMI) of CNRS/INSU with INC/INP co-funded by CEA and CNES., Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and THALES [France]
Subjects: Milky Way, data analysis, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, center, Polarization, 0103 physical sciences, Methods, Magnetic pressure, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Balloons, Dust, extinction, Galaxy, Magnetic fields, Physics, Galaxy: center, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Molecular cloud, Galactic Center, POLARIZAÇÃO (ASTRONOMIA), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galactic plane, Polarization (waves), methods: data analysis, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Magnetic field, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: We present the first far infrared (FIR) dust emission polarization map covering the full extent Milky Way's Central molecular zone (CMZ). The data, obtained with the PILOT balloon-borne experiment, covers the Galactic Center region $-2\,^\circ, Comment: 17 pages, 14 figures, submitted to A&A
Published: 2019

39. Relative Alignment between the Magnetic Field and Molecular Gas Structure in the Vela C Giant Molecular Cloud Using Low- and High-density Tracers

Author: Peter A. R. Ade, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Paul Jones, Francesco E. Angilè, Catherine Zucker, Calvin B. Netterfield, Tristan G. Matthews, Jacob Klein, Peter Ashton, N. N. Gandilo, Alyssa A. Goodman, L. M. Fissel, Derek Ward-Thompson, Enzo Pascale, Vicki Lowe, Rachel Friesen, Jamil A. Shariff, Amanda Newmark, N. E. Thomas, Andrei Korotkov, Nicholas Galitzki, Steven J. Benton, Peter G. Martin, Fabio P. Santos, Claire Elise Green, Juan D. Soler, Giorgio Savini, Gregory S. Tucker, Maria Cunningham, Bradley Dober, Yasuo Fukui, Carole Tucker, Giles Novak, Che-Yu Chen, Zhi-Yun Li, Patrick K. King, Frédérick Poidevin, Douglas Scott, Mark J. Devlin, and Fumitaka Nakamura
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, FOS: Physical sciences, Data behind figures, F500, Astrophysics, Extinction-ISM: individual objects (Vela C)-ISM: magnetic fields-ISM: molecules-molecular data Supporting material: interactive figures, Vela, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Perpendicular, Radiative transfer, dust, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Number density, Molecular cloud, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Polarimeter, Polarization (waves), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Magnetic field, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
Abstract: We compare the magnetic field orientation for the young giant molecular cloud Vela C inferred from 500-$\mu$m polarization maps made with the BLASTPol balloon-borne polarimeter to the orientation of structures in the integrated line emission maps from Mopra observations. Averaging over the entire cloud we find that elongated structures in integrated line-intensity, or zeroth-moment maps, for low density tracers such as $^{12}$CO and $^{13}$CO $J$ $\rightarrow$ 1 - 0 are statistically more likely to align parallel to the magnetic field, while intermediate or high density tracers show (on average) a tendency for alignment perpendicular to the magnetic field. This observation agrees with previous studies of the change in relative orientation with column density in Vela C, and supports a model where the magnetic field is strong enough to have influenced the formation of dense gas structures within Vela C. The transition from parallel to no preferred/perpendicular orientation appears to happen between the densities traced by $^{13}$CO and by C$^{18}$O $J$ $\rightarrow$ 1 - 0. Using RADEX radiative transfer models to estimate the characteristic number density traced by each molecular line we find that the transition occurs at a molecular hydrogen number density of approximately $10^3$ cm$^{-3}$. We also see that the Centre-Ridge (the highest column density and most active star-forming region within Vela C) appears to have a transition at a lower number density, suggesting that this may depend on the evolutionary state of the cloud., Comment: 27 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2019

40. Remote-sensing Characterisation of Major Solar System Bodies with the Twinkle Space Telescope

Author: Marcell Tessenyi, Sean S. Lindsay, C. Arena, Neil Bowles, Billy Edwards, Giovanna Tinetti, and Giorgio Savini
Subjects: Solar System, Outer planets, Dwarf planet, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, 010309 optics, Spitzer Space Telescope, Observatory, Planet, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), Mechanical Engineering, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Pluto, Space and Planetary Science, Control and Systems Engineering, Asteroid, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: Remote-sensing observations of Solar System objects with a space telescope offer a key method of understanding celestial bodies and contributing to planetary formation and evolution theories. The capabilities of Twinkle, a space telescope in a low Earth orbit with a 0.45-m mirror, to acquire spectroscopic data of Solar System targets in the visible and infrared are assessed. Twinkle is a general observatory that provides on-demand observations of a wide variety of targets within wavelength ranges that are currently not accessible using other space telescopes or that are accessible only to oversubscribed observatories in the short-term future. We determine the periods for which numerous Solar System objects could be observed and find that Solar System objects are regularly observable. The photon flux of major bodies is determined for comparison to the sensitivity and saturation limits of Twinkle's instrumentation and we find that the satellite's capability varies across the three spectral bands (0.4 to 1, 1.3 to 2.42, and 2.42 to 4.5 μm). We find that for a number of targets, including the outer planets, their large moons, and bright asteroids, the model created predicts that with short exposure times, high-resolution spectra (R ~ 250, λ < 2.42 μm; R ~ 60, λ > 2.42 μm) could be obtained with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of > 100 with exposure times of 10 would be achievable in 300 s (or less) for spectra at Twinkle's native resolution. Fainter or smaller targets (e.g., Pluto) may require multiple observations if resolution or data quality cannot be sacrificed. Objects such as the outer dwarf planet Eris are deemed too small, faint or distant for Twinkle to obtain photometric or spectroscopic data of reasonable quality (SNR > 10) without requiring large amounts of observation time. Despite this, the Solar System is found to be permeated with targets that could be readily observed by Twinkle.
Published: 2019
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41. Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum of the Carina Nebula

Author: Francesco E. Angilè, Calvin B. Netterfield, Peter G. Martin, Frédérick Poidevin, Natalie N. Gandilo, Laura M. Fissel, Fumitaka Nakamura, Nicholas Galitzki, Juan D. Soler, Tristan G. Matthews, Jeff Klein, Nicholas Thomas, Gregory S. Tucker, Peter Ashton, Jamil A. Shariff, Douglas Scott, Andrei Korotkov, Giles Novak, Carole Tucker, Enzo Pascale, Peter A. R. Ade, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Fabio P. Santos, Bradley Dober, Derek Ward-Thompson, Mark J. Devlin, Zhi-Yun Li, Giorgio Savini, Steven J. Benton, and Yasuo Fukui
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Polarimetry, FOS: Physical sciences, F800, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Vela, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, Radiative transfer, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, polarization, Nebula, extinction, Linear polarization, Molecular cloud, instrumentation: polarimeters, Astronomy and Astrophysics, dust, extinction, ISM: individual objects (Carina), ISM: magnetic fields, Polarization (waves), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), dust, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Linear polarization maps of the Carina Nebula were obtained at 250, 350, and 500 $\mu$m during the 2012 flight of the BLASTPol balloon-borne telescope. These measurements are combined with Planck 850 $\mu$m data in order to produce a submillimeter spectrum of the polarization fraction of the dust emission, averaged over the cloud. This spectrum is flat to within $\pm$15% (relative to the 350 $\mu$m polarization fraction). In particular, there is no evidence for a pronounced minimum of the spectrum near 350 $\mu$m, as suggested by previous ground-based measurements of other molecular clouds. This result of a flat polarization spectrum in Carina is consistent with recently-published BLASTPol measurements of the Vela C molecular cloud, and also agrees with a published model for an externally-illuminated, dense molecular cloud by Bethell and collaborators. The shape of the spectrum in Carina does not show any dependence on the radiative environment of the dust, as quantified by the Planck-derived dust temperature or dust optical depth at 353 GHz., Comment: 13 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ
Published: 2019

42. Inflight performance of the PILOT balloon-borne experiment

Author: C. Engel, F. Pajot, J. Martignac, F. Bousqet, Y. Lepennec, S. Maestre, Nicolas Bray, Matthew Joseph Griffin, Peter A. R. Ade, A. Hughes, Silvia Masi, J. Narbonne, G. Foënard, René J. Laureijs, Frederi Mirc, Christopher Tibbs, J. M. Nicot, P. deBernardis, Y. André, G. Roudil, L. Rodriguez, Pierre Tapie, L. Bautista, B. Maffei, P. Etcheto, Etienne Perot, Peter Charles Hargrave, J. A. Tauber, J. P. Dubois, S. Grabarnik, B. Mot, M. Bouzit, L. Montier, O. Boulade, C. Marty, E. Doumayrou, Giampaolo Pisano, Isabelle Ristorcelli, H. Roussel, Nicolas Ponthieu, B. Leriche, A. Mangilli, X. Dupac, C. Tucker, Ph. Gelot, Y. Longval, Giorgio Savini, A. Lacourt, J. Aumont, V. Buttice, R. Misawa, M. Charra, Johan Montel, J. Pimentao, Muriel Saccoccio, W. Marty, B. Crane, M. Chaigneau, J.-P. Bernard, G. Parot, S. Stever, Maria Salatino, O. Simonella, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Point spread function, High energy particle, Far infrared, Residual, 01 natural sciences, Glitches, Background, Inflight performances, Interstellar dust, PILOT, Pointing, Polarization, Responses, Straylight, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cosmic dust, Remote sensing, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), Wavelength, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Space and Planetary Science, Environmental science
Abstract: International audience; The Polarized Instrument for Long-wavelength Observation of the Tenuous interstellar medium (PILOT) is a balloon-borne experiment that aims to measure the polarized emission of thermal dust at a wavelength of 240 µm (1.2 THz). A first PILOT flight of the experiment took place from Timmins, Ontario, Canada, in September 2015 and a second flight took place from Alice Springs, Australia in April 2017. In this paper, we present the inflight performance of the instrument. Here we concentrate on the instrument performance as measured during the second flight, but refer to the performance observed during the first flight, if it was significantly different. We present a short description of the instrument and the flights. We measure the time constants of the detectors using the decay of the observed signal during flight following high energy particle impacts (glitches) and switching off the instrument's internal calibration source. We use these time constants to deconvolve the timelines and analyze the optical quality of the instrument as measured on planets. We then analyze the structure and polarization of the instrumental background. We measure the detector response flat field and its time variations using the signal from the residual atmosphere and from the internal calibration source. Finally, we analyze the spectral and temporal properties of the detector noise. The inflight performance is found to be satisfactory and globally in line with expectations from ground calibrations. We conclude by assessing the expected inflight sensitivity of the instrument in light of the measured inflight performance.
Published: 2019

43. Review: far-infrared instrumentation and technological development for the next decade

Author: Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Meredith A. MacGregor, Michael Zemcov, R. Sankrit, Johannes Staguhn, Dariusz C. Lis, Sabrina Stierwalt, Elisabeth A. C. Mills, Carl Ferkinhoff, William J. Fischer, Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, Jonas Zmuidzinas, J. D. Smith, Eric J. Murphy, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Julia R. Kamenetzky, Alan Rhodes, Jason Glenn, N. Rangwala, Paul F. Goldsmith, Matthew J. Richter, Thomas Nikola, Giorgio Savini, David R. Ardila, Samuel H. Moseley, Charles M. Bradford, David Leisawitz, Kimberly Ennico Smith, David B. Sanders, Duncan Farrah, Mark Lacy, James G. Bartlett, Michael J. DiPirro, Sean Carey, Stephen A. Rinehart, Lisa S. Locke, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), and Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Engineering, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Galactic astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Technology development, 01 natural sciences, 010309 optics, interferometers, spectrographs, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation (computer programming), [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, detectors, instrumentation, Planetary habitability, business.industry, Mechanical Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, telescopes, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), miscellaneous, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Space and Planetary Science, Control and Systems Engineering, instruments, space vehicles, Portfolio, photometers, business, Telecommunications, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, balloons
Abstract: Far-infrared astronomy has advanced rapidly since its inception in the late 1950's, driven by a maturing technology base and an expanding community of researchers. This advancement has shown that observations at far-infrared wavelengths are important in nearly all areas of astrophysics, from the search for habitable planets and the origin of life, to the earliest stages of galaxy assembly in the first few hundred million years of cosmic history. The combination of a still developing portfolio of technologies, particularly in the field of detectors, and a widening ensemble of platforms within which these technologies can be deployed, means that far-infrared astronomy holds the potential for paradigm-shifting advances over the next decade. In this review, we examine current and future far-infrared observing platforms, including ground-based, sub-orbital, and space-based facilities, and discuss the technology development pathways that will enable and enhance these platforms to best address the challenges facing far-infrared astronomy in the 21st century., Invited review article, submitted to the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. Updated in light of referee reports
Published: 2019

44. Erratum: 'The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Magnetic Fields Associated with a Network of Filaments in NGC 1333' (2020, ApJ, 899, 28)

Author: Il Gyo Jeong, Fumitaka Nakamura, Jason M. Kirk, Geumsook Park, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Erica Franzmann, Jongsoo Kim, Doris Arzoumanian, Saeko S. Hayashi, Thiem Hoang, Hongchi Wang, Simon Coudé, Pham Ngoc Diep, Tae-Soo Pyo, Chang Won Lee, Sven Van Loo, Chakali Eswaraiah, Sung-ju Kang, Jihye Hwang, Tao Chung Ching, Per Friberg, Derek Ward-Thompson, Martin Houde, Philippe André, C. Darren Dowell, Francisca Kemper, Sarah Graves, Hsi-Wei Yen, Hyunju Yoo, Hyeseung Lee, Jianjun Zhou, Gerald Moriarty-Schieven, Jason Fiege, Harriet Parsons, Yong-Hee Lee, Jennifer Hatchell, Ramprasad Rao, Yasuo Doi, Y. Shimajiri, Mi Ryang Kim, John Richer, Kee-Tae Kim, Motohide Tamura, Di Li, Chuan Peng Zhang, Woojin Kwon, Mark G. Rawlings, Tim Gledhill, Jia-Wei Wang, Anna M. M. Scaife, J.-F. Robitaille, Kohji Tomisaka, Hong-Li Liu, S. L. Kim, Jungyeon Cho, Masumichi Seta, J. H. Kang, Mehrnoosh Tahani, Tie Liu, A. Ran Lyo, Tetsuya Zenko, Sang-Sung Lee, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Lapo Fanciullo, Hao Yuan Duan, Hua-bai Li, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Nicolas Peretto, Akimasa Kataoka, Patrick M. Koch, Doug Johnstone, Ya-Wen Tang, Eun Jung Chung, Shih-Ping Lai, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Takayoshi Kusune, Chin-Fei Lee, Steve Mairs, Jungmi Kwon, Tetsuya Nagata, Giorgio Savini, Ray S. Furuya, James Di Francesco, Brenda C. Matthews, Dalei Li, Lei Qian, Zhiwei Chen, Michael Chun-Yuan Chen, Ilseung Han, Kate Pattle, Jane Greaves, Miju Kang, Kazunari Iwasaki, Archana Soam, Anthony Peter Whitworth, Kyoung Hee Kim, Charles L. H. Hull, Chi Yan Law, Koji S. Kawabata, Kevin Lacaille, Vera Konyves, Do-Young Byun, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Huei Ru Vivien Chen, Qilao Gu, Masafumi Matsumura, Hyeong Sik Yun, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Lei Zhu, Yunhee Choi, Ilse De Looze, Jeong-Eun Lee, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Yapeng Zhang, Andrew Rigby, Brendan Retter, Sarah Sadavoy, Gwanjeong Kim, Antonio Chrysostomou, Junhao Liu, Minho Choi, Gary A. Fuller, Guoyin Zhang, Takashi Onaka, Pierre Bastien, Hiroko Shinnaga, S. P. S. Eyres, David Berry, Rachel Friesen, Matthew Joseph Griffin, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Sam Falle, Serena Viti, Hiro Saito, Jinghua Yuan, Wen Ping Chen, and Keping Qiu
Subjects: Physics, Brewster's angle, Magnetic structure, Field (physics), F510, Molecular cloud, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Position angle, Magnetic field, symbols.namesake, Space and Planetary Science, Magnitude (astronomy), symbols, Planck
Abstract: In the published article, we presented high-resolution polarimetry data obtained by using JCMT SCUBA-2/POL-2, and compared them with the larger-scale magnetic structure observed by Planck (Planck Collaboration et al. 2020). There was a miscalculation in the analysis of the Planck data for comparison, and the mean position angle of the Planck magnetic field should be corrected from -40° ± 7° to -48° ± 6°. Thus, we replace the descriptions in the published article as follows. In Section 4.2, paragraph 3, the second sentence should read: "The differences between the orientations of IRAS 4A, IRAS 4B, and IRAS 2A are not statistically significant, but they do show significantly different orientations from those of the global B-field observed by Planck (-48° ± 6°; Section 4.1)." In Section 4.1, paragraph 3, the second line should read: "The Planck B-field orientation shows a smoothly and slowly varying field distribution with a position angle of -48° ± 6° in our observed NGC 1333 area." Accordingly, we replace Figures 4, 5, 9, 10, and 17 to reflect the correct Planck data. As described above, this error of modest magnitude is related only to our derivation of the Planck polarization angle, and the JCMT observation results are unaffected. Therefore, all conclusions drawn in the published article are unchanged even after the above correction is applied. The 1 pc scale magnetic field observed by Planck shows a smooth distribution, and the interstellar magnetic field in molecular clouds increases the complexity significantly on the scale of less than 1 pc.
Published: 2021

45. Quasi-optical analysis of a far-infrared spatio-spectral space interferometer concept

Author: C. Bracken, J. F. Lightfoot, Giorgio Savini, Roser Juanola-Parramon, Créidhe O'Sullivan, Anthony Donohoe, and J. A. Murphy
Subjects: Physics, business.industry, Detector, Spectral space, Condensed Matter Physics, Physical optics, 01 natural sciences, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, law.invention, 010309 optics, Ray tracing (physics), Telescope, Interferometry, Optics, Far infrared, law, 0103 physical sciences, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Gaussian beam
Abstract: FISICA (Far-Infrared Space Interferometer Critical Assessment) was a three year study of a far-infrared spatio-spectral double-Fourier interferometer concept. One of the aims of the FISICA study was to set-out a baseline optical design for such a system, and to use a model of the system to simulate realistic telescope beams for use with an end-to-end instrument simulator. This paper describes a two-telescope (and hub) baseline optical design that fulfils the requirements of the FISICA science case, while minimising the optical mass of the system. A number of different modelling techniques were required for the analysis: fast approximate simulation tools such as ray tracing and Gaussian beam methods were employed for initial analysis, with GRASP physical optics used for higher accuracy in the final analysis. Results are shown for the predicted far-field patterns of the telescope primary mirrors under illumination by smooth walled rectangular feed horns. Far-field patterns for both on-axis and off-axis detectors are presented and discussed.
Published: 2016

46. Architecture and performance of the space-based Far-Infrared Interferometer Instrument Simulator

Author: Giorgio Savini, Roser Juanola-Parramon, and Danielle Fenech
Subjects: Physics, business.industry, Spectrum (functional analysis), Detector, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space (mathematics), 01 natural sciences, law.invention, 010309 optics, Telescope, Interferometry, Optics, Far infrared, Space and Planetary Science, law, 0103 physical sciences, Architecture, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Published: 2016

47. Characterizing and reducing the POL-2 instrumental polarization

Author: Sarah Graves, David Berry, Dan Bintley, Per Friberg, Jessica Dempsey, Giorgio Savini, and Harriet Parsons
Subjects: Physics, Pixel, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Linear polarization, Polarimetry, Polarization (waves), 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Dual wavelength, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
Abstract: Sub-millimeter polarization observations using the POL-2 instrument mounted on the dual wavelength (850/450 μm) 10 k pixel sub-millimeter camera SCUBA-2 is in high demand on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). The high level of Instrumental Polarization (IP) generated by the Gore-TexTM wind blind protecting the telescope is a hampering factor for these observations. The wind blind both introduces an overall linear polarization and a four lobed polarization footprint seen on strong point sources after removal of a beam averaged IP. During commissioning an IP model was developed for the 850 μm band but a good 450 μm model was lacking. This paper describes the effort to improve the 850 μm IP model, establish a 450 μm model and the work to understand and model the IP. During the work the wind blind was removed for a month to isolate the contribution of the wind blind from other sources of the IP. A theoretical model for the non wind blind generated IP has been developed. However, a theoretical model for the wind blind IP is still being worked on.
Published: 2018

48. The Balloon Experimental Twin Telescope for infrared interferometry (BETTII): first flight

Author: John Eric Mentzell, J. Vila Hernandez de Lorenzo, Todd J. Veach, Roser Juanola-Parramon, Maxime Rizzo, S. Maher, M. Casalprim Torres, Robert F. Silverberg, Enzo Pascale, Dale J. Fixsen, A. Dhabal, Lee G. Mundy, S. A. Rinehart, P. A. R. Ade, Giorgio Savini, E. Sharp, Henry P. Sampler, David Leisawitz, and Carole Tucker
Subjects: business.industry, Payload, Michelson interferometer, Balloon, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, 010309 optics, Telescope, Bad weather, Interferometry, law, 0103 physical sciences, Environmental science, Aerospace engineering, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract: The Balloon Experimental Twin Telescope for Infrared Interferometry (BETTII) is an 8-meter far-infrared (30-100 μm) double-Fourier Michelson interferometer designed to fly on a high altitude scientific balloon. The project began in 2011, and the payload was declared ready for flight in September 2016. Due to bad weather, the first flight was postponed until June 2017; BETTII was successfully launched on June 8, 2017 for an engineering flight. Over the course of the one night flight, BETTII acquired a large amount of technical data that we are using to characterize the payload. Unfortunately, the flight ended with an anomaly that resulted in destruction of the payload. In this paper, we will discuss the path to BETTII flight, the results of the first flight, and some of the plans for the future.
Published: 2018

49. A First Look at BISTRO Observations of The $\rho$ Oph-A core

Author: Jungmi Kwon, Yasuo Doi, Motohide Tamura, Masafumi Matsumura, Kate Pattle, David Berry, Sarah Sadavoy, Brenda C. Matthews, Derek Ward-Thompson, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Ray S. Furuya, Andy Pon, James Di Francesco, Doris Arzoumanian, Saeko S. Hayashi, Koji S. Kawabata, Takashi Onaka, Minho Choi, Miju Kang, Thiem Hoang, Chang Won Lee, Sang-Sung Lee, Hong-Li Liu, Tie Liu, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Chakali Eswaraiah, Pierre Bastien, Woojin Kwon, Shih-Ping Lai, Keping Qiu, Simon Coudé, Erica Franzmann, Per Friberg, Sarah F. Graves, Jane S. Greaves, Martin Houde, Doug Johnstone, Jason M. Kirk, Patrick M. Koch, Di Li, Harriet Parsons, Ramprasad Rao, Mark G. Rawlings, Hiroko Shinnaga, Sven van Loo, Yusuke Aso, Do-Young Byun, Huei-Ru Chen, Mike C.-Y. Chen, Wen Ping Chen, Tao-Chung Ching, Jungyeon Cho, Antonio Chrysostomou, Eun Jung Chung, Emily Drabek-Maunder, Stewart P. S. Eyres, Jason Fiege, Rachel K. Friesen, Gary Fuller, Tim Gledhill, Matt J. Griffin, Qilao Gu, Jennifer Hatchell, Wayne Holland, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Kazunari Iwasaki, Il-Gyo Jeong, Ji-hyun Kang, Sung-ju Kang, Francisca Kemper, Gwanjeong Kim, Jongsoo Kim, Kee-Tae Kim, Kyoung Hee Kim, Mi-Ryang Kim, Shinyoung Kim, Kevin M. Lacaille, Jeong-Eun Lee, Dalei Li, Hua-bai Li, Junhao Liu, Sheng-Yuan Liu, A-Ran Lyo, Steve Mairs, Gerald H. Moriarty-Schieven, Fumitaka Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Nicolas Peretto, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lei Qian, Brendan Retter, John Richer, Andrew Rigby, Jean-Franois Robitaille, Giorgio Savini, Anna M. M. Scaife, Archana Soam, Ya-Wen Tang, Kohji Tomisaka, Hongchi Wang, Jia-Wei Wang, Anthony P. Whitworth, Hsi-Wei Yen, Hyunju Yoo, Jinghua Yuan, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Guoyin Zhang, Jianjun Zhou, Lei Zhu, Philippe André, C. Darren Dowell, Sam Falle, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Takao Nakagawa, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Akimasa Kataoka, Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Tetsuya Nagata, Hiro Saito, Masumichi Seta, and Tetsuya Zenko
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, ISM: structure, media_common.quotation_subject, Polarimetry, ISM [radio continuum], Astrophysics, individual objects (Ophiuchi) [ISM], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, circumstellar matter, law.invention, ISM: individual objects (Ophiuchi), law, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, media_common, Physics, F990, polarization, formation [stars], Bolometer, Polarimeter, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Magnetic field, radio, Wavelength, Sky, Space and Planetary Science, Degree of polarization, structure [ISM]
Abstract: 著者人数: 122名 (所属. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所(JAXA)(ISAS): 權, 靜美; 中西, 裕之; 中川, 貴雄）, Accepted: 2018-03-26, 資料番号: SA1170332000
Published: 2018

50. TWINKLE: a low earth orbit visible and infrared exoplanet spectroscopy observatory

Author: M. Wells, Giovanna Tinetti, Subhajit Sarkar, S. Prasad, G. S. Wright, A. Vora, B. M. Shaughnessy, Jonathan Tennyson, C. Arena, T. Y. Brooke, Paul Eccleston, Chris Saunders, Mark Leese, Jon Mason, P. Knowles, J. Williams, William Taylor, P. Curry, R. V. Sudiwala, Andreas Papageorgiou, Keith Barnes, A. Saad, Marcell Tessenyi, Naidu Bezawada, Les Hipwood, Berend Winter, Tiziano Zingales, Ian Bryson, Ian Tosh, Jonathan Friend, G. Johnston, Manish R. Patel, Matthew Joseph Griffin, Peter A. R. Ade, A. Macleod, S. Jason, Martin Crook, Giorgio Savini, En. Pascale, A. M. Smith, MacEwen, Howard A., Fazio, Giovanni G., Lystrup, Makenzie, Batalha, Natalie, Siegler, Nicholas, and Tong, Edward C.
Subjects: Physics, Solar System, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Polar orbit, Ecliptic, Astronomy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Exoplanet, Planet, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Terrestrial planet, Satellite, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Eclipse
Abstract: Twinkle is a space mission designed for visible and near-IR spectroscopic observations of extrasolar planets. Twinkle’s highly stable instrument will allow the photometric and spectroscopic observation of a wide range of planetary classes around different types of stars, with a focus on bright sources close to the ecliptic. The planets will be observed through transit and eclipse photometry and spectroscopy, as well as phase curves, eclipse mapping and multiple narrow-band time-series. The targets observed by Twinkle will be composed of known exoplanets mainly discovered by existing and upcoming ground surveys in our galaxy (e.g. WASP, HATNet, NGTS and radial velocity surveys) and will also feature new discoveries by space observatories (K2, GAIA, Cheops, TESS). Twinkle is a small satellite with a payload designed to perform high-quality astrophysical observations while adapting to the design of an existing Low Earth Orbit commercial satellite platform. The SSTL-300 bus, to be launched into a low- Earth sun-synchronous polar orbit by 2019, will carry a half-meter class telescope with two instruments (visible and near-IR spectrographs - between 0.4 and 4.5μm - with resolving power R~300 at the lower end of the wavelength scale) using mostly flight proven spacecraft systems designed by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and a combination of high TRL instrumentation and a few lower TRL elements built by a consortium of UK institutes. The Twinkle design will enable the observation of the chemical composition and weather of at least 100 exoplanets in the Milky Way, including super-Earths (rocky planets 1-10 times the mass of Earth), Neptunes, sub-Neptunes and gas giants like Jupiter. It will also allow the follow-up photometric observations of 1000+ exoplanets in the visible and infrared, as well as observations of Solar system objects, bright stars and disks.
Published: 2018

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