Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems

Editor-in-Chief: Mark Clampin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA

The Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS) covers development, testing, and application of telescopes, instrumentation, techniques, and systems for ground- and space-based astronomy.

On the cover: The images were provided by Anthony Harness of Princeton University, a guest editor of the Special Section on Starshades, and the Microdevices Laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Webinar: Emerging Technologies in Astronomical Instrumentation

Speakers: Evgenya Shkolnik (Arizona State University), Ross Cheriton (National Research Council Canada), Andrei Nomerotski (Brookhaven National Laboratory), and Pieter de Visser (SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research)

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Special Section on Starshades

Guest Editors: Jonathan W. Arenberg, Anthony Harness, Rebecca Jensen-Clem

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Simulations of expected signal and background of gamma-ray sources by large field-of-view detectors aboard CubeSats

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Journal Metrics:
ISSN: 2329-4124
E-ISSN: 2329-4221
CiteScore ^TM 2019: 4.6
Impact Factor^*: 1.436
5-Year Impact Factor ^*: 2.279
h5-index: 24
^{*Source: Journal Impact Factor^TM, from Clarivate, 2021}

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