no code implementations • 7 Mar 2024 • Marcus Birch, Sabino Piazzolla, Preston Hooser, Francis Bennet, Tony Travouillon, William Buehlman
The optical turbulence profile was measured with the downlink optical beam from the Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) Geostationary satellite.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2022 • Marcus Birch, James R. Beattie, Francis Bennet, Nicholas Rattenbury, Michael Copeland, Tony Travouillon, Kate Ferguson, John Cater, Mikhael Sayat
Network capacity and reliability for free space optical communication (FSOC) is strongly driven by ground station availability, dominated by local cloud cover causing an outage, and how availability relations between stations produce network diversity.
no code implementations • 11 Jan 2021 • Kishalay De, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Matthew J. Hankins, Jennifer L. Sokoloski, Scott M. Adams, Michael C. B. Ashley, Aliya-Nur Babul, Ashot Bagdasaryan, Alexander Delacroix, Richard Dekany, Timothee Greffe, David Hale, Jacob E. Jencson, Viraj R. Karambelkar, Ryan M. Lau, Ashish Mahabal, Daniel McKenna, Anna M. Moore, Eran O. Ofek, Manasi Sharma, Roger M. Smith, Jamie Soon, Roberto Soria, Gokul Srinivasaragavan, Samaporn Tinyanont, Tony Travouillon
We perform the first quantitative simulation of a $3\pi$ time domain survey to estimate the Galactic nova rate using PGIR, and derive a rate of $\approx 46\pm13$ yr$^{-1}$.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
