• Caught Doping: Going to Extreme Measures to Detect Ultraviolet Photons byChris Layden| Feb 26, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|0 comments Title:High Efficiency UV/Optical/NIR Detectors for Large Aperture Telescopes and UV Explorer Missions: Development of and Field Observations with Delta-doped Arrays Authors:S • Lupu First Author’s Institution:Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States Status:Published in the the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems [closedaccess] Ultraviolet astronomy is hard • We can learn a lot about the universe throughultraviolet light(light with wavelength between 100-400 nanometers, just shorter than what we can see with our eyes) • Many fascinating objects and poorly understood phenomena, such asmassive metal-poor stars, hot gas in theinterstellar medium, and explosions likekilonovaeorsupernovae, emit copious amounts of ultraviolet light • However, detecting this light is quite the challenge

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  • Title: High Efficiency UV/Optical/NIR Detectors for Large Aperture Telescopes and UV Explorer Missions: Development of and Field Observations with Delta-doped Arrays Authors: S. Nikzad, A. Jewell, M. Hoenk, T. Jones, J. Hennessy, T. Goodsall, A. Carver, C. Shapiro, S. Cheng, E. Hamden, G. Kyne, D. C. Martin, D. Schiminovich, P. Scowen, K. France, S. McCandliss, R. Lupu First Author’s Institution: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States Status: Published in the the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems [closed acc

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