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Open Astronomy

ISSN: 2543-6376

Editor-in-chief: Beatriz Barbuy

Impact Factor: 0.935

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Special / Topical Issues:

The Hubble Tension: Current Research and New Perspectives
Submission deadline: 30th of December 2022
Modern Stellar Astronomy 2022
Submission deadline: 15th of December 2022

Past events:

New Technology for Space Environment Detection Based on Beidou Constellation
New Progress in Astrodynamics Applications
Modern Stellar Astronomy 2021
The Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX) 2021
Astromineralogy and cosmochemistry of the Kaba meteorite: A massage from the early Solar System

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Open Astronomy is a peer-reviewed, fully open access online journal, that publishes research, reviews and news spanning all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics.

The journal disseminates research in both observational and theoretical astronomy, astrophysics, solar physics, cosmology, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, high energy particles physics, planetary science, space science and astronomy-related astrobiology, presenting as well the surveys dedicated to astronomical history and education.

Open Astronomy (formerly Baltic Astronomy) was founded by the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy (Lithuania) in 1992 and acquired by De Gruyter in 2016.

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Detailed information on Editorial Policy, Publication Ethics, Instructions for Authors etc. can be found below and in the Supplementary Information section.

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12th Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics (Vrdnik, Serbia, June 3-7, 2019)
Guest Editors: Luka C. Popovic, Dragana Ilic, and Andjelka Kovacevic
The deadline for submitting papers is by July 31st, 2019.

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Volume 31 Issue 1

January 2022

This article is devoted to the discovery of comets at the Vilnius Observatory together with the orbital analysis of dynamically interesting comets, namely 322P. We studied the orbital evolution of comet 322P with and without non-gravitational effects. It turned out that many of the comet’s orbital clones go into and out of retrograde orbits, sometimes repeatedly. The reason for such dramatic changes in the inclination of the orbit is the origin of comet 322P close to mean motion resonance 3:1 with Jupiter, ejecting them from there and, consequently, bringing the clones closer to the terrestrial group of planets. In this way, the clones of comet 322P enter retrograde orbits and reside there several ky to several My.

We have the estimated masses of components of visual binaries from their spectral classification. We have selected pairs in which the less massive component looks more evolved. Spectral observations of some of these pairs were made, and at least one pair, HD 156331, was confirmed to have components of different ages. Since mass exchange is excluded in wide binaries, it means that HD 156331 can be formed by capture.

Special Issue: The Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX) 2021

Open Access January 24, 2022

ANALOG-1 ISS – The first part of an analogue mission to guide ESA’s robotic moon exploration efforts

Kjetil Wormnes, William Carey, Thomas Krueger, Leonardo Cencetti, Emiel den Exter, Stephen Ennis, Edmundo Ferreira, Antonio Fortunato, Levin Gerdes, Lukas Hann, Chiara Lombardi, Erica Luzzi, Sebastian Martin, Matteo Massironi, Samuel Payler, Aaron Pereira, Angelo Pio Rossi, Riccardo Pozzobon, Francesco Sauro, Philippe Schoonejans, Frank van der Hulst, Jessica Grenouilleau

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The European Space Agency’s ANALOG-1 experiment is the culmination of 12 distinct METERON experiments carried out since 2011. These all address aspects of teleoperating a robotic asset from an orbital platform, i.e., technical implementation, user interfaces, autonomy and operations. The ANALOG-1 technology demonstration and operations concept experiment is based upon the surface mission scenario segment of the notional EL3 sample return mission. This segment focuses on the control of a lunar surface robotic asset from the Earth and from the Lunar Gateway. The experiment is taking place in two parts, with the first successfully completed from the ISS in November 2019. It assessed the effectiveness of a state-of-the-art robotic control interface to control a complex mobile robot from orbit, as well as evaluating the scientific interactions, during robotic-assisted geology exploration, between crew in orbit and scientists on the ground. Luca Parmitano operated the robot while he was on the ISS. For this experiment, a complex control station had been installed on the ISS. The experiment demonstrated the advantage of having an immersive control station and high level of robotic dexterity, with Luca finishing all his assigned and secondary geology targets ahead of time.

Open Access March 10, 2022

Lunar PNT system concept and simulation results

Sergey Kaplev, Maxim Titov, Tamara Valentirova, Igor Mozharov, Alexei Bolkunov, Valeriy Yaremchuk

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The revived interest of many countries and the growing number of ongoing and scheduled missions to the Moon increases the significance of supporting navigation system development. A number of publications are based on multi-Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signal reception from the opposite side of the Earth using high-gain antennas and lunar augmentation constellations. While the accuracy of such systems could be sufficient, the positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) service dependency on circumterestrial navigation sources prevents the use of advanced navigation technologies honed in circumlunar space for further Mars and other celestial body missions, which is one of the major goals of lunar exploration. Moreover, orbit determination and time synchronization (ODTS) method descriptions and estimations are usually skipped in the studies of lunar augmentations. An alternative concept of the Lunar Navigation Satellite System (LNSS) is proposed based on Earth-dependency reduction principal and on-board ODTS. The advantage of the proposed approach is that LNSS-like systems could be adapted for other celestial bodies taking into account aspects such as their shape, dynamics, perturbations, as well as exploration priority regions. The baseline LNSS constellation of three circular orbits with three satellites each has been chosen as the result of multicriterion analysis of orbital stability and geometry. Station keeping requires less than 15 m/s for 10 years without significant changes in navigation performance in the prioritized Polar Regions. The full cycle of LNSS operation from ODTS and signal generation to its reception, processing, and obtaining navigation solutions has been simulated to obtain positioning accuracy for different types of users. Positioning accuracy of space users in approach/departure phases, in near-lunar orbits, as well as static users on a lunar surface is confirmed on a level of a few tens of meters. The same accuracy is achievable by dynamic users on a lunar surface during route stops or also in motion in case of LNSS constellation expansion or deployment of ground-based augmentation beacons in on-site exploration zones.

Special Issue: New Progress in Astrodynamics Applications

Open Access May 20, 2022

Message from the Guest Editor of the Special Issue on New Progress in Astrodynamics Applications

In order to deal with the shortage of spacecraft telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C) resources and the high complexity of planning and scheduling in the future, based on the current situation of the TT&C network in China, the construction requirements of space–ground integration TT&C network are put forward, and the basic framework is constructed. Referring to the random access mechanism of ground cellular mobile communication system, access once encountered TT&C mode is designed. This work introduces its basic idea, gives an example of the implementation process in the new form, designs the protocol stack system of random access TT&C, and probes into the key technologies, such as spacecraft access optimization selection strategy and panoramic (airspace) multi-beam and multi-target simultaneous TT&C technology, for reference of further research.

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Volume 1 (1992)

5-year Impact Factor	0.724
Cite Score	1.4
Impact Factor	0.935
Journal Citation Indicator	0.15
SCImago Journal Rank	0.326
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.440

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Editorial

Editor-in-Chief
Beatriz Barbuy, IAG, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Managing Editor
Katarzyna Gajewska, De Gruyter

Editorial Advisory Board
Ramesh Chandra, DSB Campus, Kumaun University, Nainital, India
Suresh Chandra, Amity Institute of Applied Sciences, Amity University, India
Christopher J. Corbally, Vatican Observatory Research Group, Steward Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Marcello Giroletti, INAF, Institute of Radioastronomy, Italy
Martin Hendry, University of Glasgow, School of Physics and Astronomy, UK
Maciej R. Konacki, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of Polish Academy of Science, Poland
Ignacio Negueruela, University of Alicante, Physics, System Engineering & Signal Theory, Spain
Alexei A. Pevtsov, National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak, and New Mexico State University, USA
Irakli Simonia, Ilia State University, Georgia
Maria Sofia Randich, Arcetri Observatory, Italy
Vytautas P. Straižys, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
David Valls-Gabaud, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the Paris Observatory, France
José Manuel Vaquero, Department of Physics, University of Extremadura, Spain
Joris Paul Wim Verbiest, Bielefeld University, Faculty of Physics, Germany
Ivan Valtchanov, European Space Astronomy Centre, European Space Agency, Madrid, Spain
Vladas Vansevičius, Astronomical Observatory, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Bojan Vršnak, University of Zagreb, Hvar Observatory, Faculty of Geodesy, Croatia
William Zealey, School of Physics, University of Wollongong, Australia

Editors
Luis Acedo, Institute for Multidisciplinary Mathematics, UPV, Valencia, Spain
İskender Akkurt, Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi, Fizik Bölümü, Isparta, Turkey
Roberto Oscar Aquilano, Institute of Physics Rosario, National University of Rosario, Argentina
Frédéric Arenou, Paris Observatory and French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Nasser Barghouty, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Drahomir Chochol, Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Matt Darnley, Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Alessandro Ederoclite, Centre of Studies of Physics of the Cosmos of Aragón (CEFCA), Spain
Hans Joachim Haubold, United Nations, Office for Outer Space Affairs, Austria
David Hui, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Orleans, USA
Yu Jiang, State Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics,Tsinghua University, China
Johanna Jurcsik, Konkoly Observatory, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Rajka Jurdana-Šepić, University of Rijeka, Physics Department, Croatia
Pralay Kumar Karmakar, Department of Physics, Tezpur University, India
Sylwester Kołomański, Astronomical Institute, University of Wrocław, Poland
Denvid Lau, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Luca Popović, Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Serbia
Mikhail Sachkov, The Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Alejandro Sáiz Rivera, Mahidol University, Department of Physics, Thailand
Satish Sonkamble, Atharva College of Engineering, Malad West, Mumbai, India
Othon Winter, Mathematics Department, São Paulo State University - UNESP, Brazil
Floor van Leeuwen, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, UK
Seong Shan Yap, Multimedia University, Malacca, Malaysia

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Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Access
First published: December 15, 2017
Publication Frequency: 1 Issue per Year