SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced the first issue of the new Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS). All articles will be freely available through the end of 2015 in the SPIE Digital Library. Mark Clampin, SPIE Fellow and James Webb Space Telescope Observatory Project Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will serve as the editor-in-chief of the journal.
SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014 hosted more than 2,200 presentations last June in Montréal. The biennial meeting has become the premier event for space observation technology. The publication's goal is to provide a refereed journal dedicated to reporting new developments in astronomical instrumentation and its associated technologies.
The first articles are organized topically by ground- and space-based telescopes; detector systems and sensor technologies; and wavefront sensing, active and adaptive optics, and control systems.
JATIS initially will be printed quarterly, increasing in frequency as the journal grows, with each article published online in the SPIE Digital Library upon approval.
The SPIE Digital Library contains more than 420,000 articles from SPIE journals and proceedings, as well as more than 200 eBooks. Abstracts are freely searchable, and an increasing number of full articles in the society's 10 peer-reviewed journals are published with open access. Approximately 18,000 new research papers, eBooks, and other publications are added each year.
