Highlights of the SKA1-Mid telescope architecture

Spitzer Space Telescope Mid-ir Light Curves of Neptune

We have used the Spitzer Space Telescope in February 2016 to obtain high cadence, high signal-tonoise, 17-hour duration light curves of Neptune at 3.6 and 4.5 μm. The light curve duration was chosen to correspond to the rotation period of Neptune. Both light curves are slowly varying with time, with full amplitudes of 1.1 mag at 3.6 μm and 0.6 mag at 4.5 μm. We have also extracted sparsely samp...

Scientific Highlights from Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei with the MAGIC Telescope

Since 2004, the MAGIC γ-ray telescope has newly discovered 6 TeV blazars. The total set of 13 MAGIC-detected active galactic nuclei includes well-studied objects at other wavelengths like Markarian 501 and the giant radio galaxy M 87, but also the distant the flat-spectrum radio quasar 3C 279, and the newly discovered TeV γ-ray emitter S5 0716+71. In addition, also long-term and multi-wavelengt...

A Brief Summary of Highlights Based on the Workshop held at Space Telescope Science Institute

The Interstellar Gas Seen in the Mid- and Far-infrared: the Promise of Spica Space Telescope

The midand far-IR spectral ranges are critical windows to characterize the physical and chemical processes that transform the interstellar gas and dust into stars and planets. Sources in the earliest phases of star formation and in the latest stages of stellar evolution release most of their energy at these wavelengths. Besides, the midand far-IR ranges provide key spectral diagnostics of the g...

A new mid - infrared map of the BN / KL region using the Keck telescope

We present a new mid-infrared (12.5 μm) map of the BN/KL high-mass star-forming complex in Orion using the LWS instrument at Keck I. Despite poor weather we achieved nearly diffraction-limited images (FWHM = 0.38) over a roughly 25×25 region centered on IRc2 down to a flux limit of ≈ 250 mJy. Many of the known infrared (IR) sources in the region break up into smaller sub-components. We have als...