Editor-in-Chief: Megan Eckart, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, 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 figure is from "On-sky demonstration of an ultra-fast intensity interferometry instrument utilizing hybrid single photon counting detectors" by Verena G. Leopold et al. in Vol. 11, Issue 3.
Genesis of the James Webb Space Telescope architecture: the designers’ story
Pierre Y. Bely et al.
Special Section on the XRISM X-Ray Observatory
Guest Editors: Catherine Grant, Felix Jaeckel, Kelsey Morgan, Masanobu Ozaki, and François Pajot
Special Section on the PRIMA Probe-Class Mission Concept
Guest Editors: Naseem Rangwala and Matt Griffin
Special Section on the Roman Coronagraph Instrument
Guest Editors: Olivier Guyon
and Motohide Tamura
Special Section on the Arcus Probe-Class Mission Concept
Guest Editors: Randall Smith, Casey DeRoo, and Sarah Trowbridge Heine
Special Section on Ultraviolet Science & Instrumentation: On the Way to Habitable Worlds Observatory and Beyond
Guest Editors: Shouleh Nikzad, Anahita Alavi, David Ardila, Brad Cenko, Erika Hamden
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ISSN: 2329-4124
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CiteScore TM 2024: 5.3
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