GroundBIRD: First On-Sky Responsivity Calibration at the Teide Observatory

arXiv:2607.10845 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-07-12 · Read on arXiv

Alessandro Fasano, Yonggil Jo, Ricardo Tanausú Génova-Santos, Makoto Hattori, Shunsuke Honda, Kenichi Karatsu, Chiko Otani, Michael Peel, José Alberto Rubiño-Martín, Yoshinori Sueno, Junya Suzuki, Osamu Tajima, Tomonaga Tanaka, Miku Tsujii, Eunil Won

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-07-12

Comments: To appear in Proceedings of SPIE, Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2026. 13 pages, 6 figures, 1 table

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 47× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Aperture — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 2× in this paper
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture Photometry — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor — 1× in this paper
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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