Dear all,

I wanted to bring your attention to a new journal – Royal Astronomical Society Techniques and Instruments. The journal scope:

“RAS Techniques and Instruments is a broad-scope journal covering data science, software, and instrumentation, for both astrophysics and geophysics.

This new journal provides a high-quality, Open Access forum for advancements in data methods, instrumentation and new theoretical and modelling developments, to further their contribution to the rich research environment in the fields of Astronomy and Geophysics. Topics covered will include:

• Artificial intelligence and machine-learning;
• advanced statistical methods;
• the applications of high-performance computing and the development of new technologies; and
• Instrumentation, mission concepts and electronic capabilities.”

You can find more information in an interview with senior editors in recent A&G article: https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/63/1/1.41/6507487

I am excited to be on the editorial board, and warmly welcome your queries, or indeed your submissions!

Submission can be made at the following link, but please do contact me if you have any questions in advance of manuscript preparation: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rasti

Hopefully we can all finally find a home for that paper that just doesn’t seem to fit anywhere else! Please do share this information with your collaborators, we very much hope that this journal can be used to celebrate our significant work in instrumentation, mission design, software development, and numerical methods throughout the UKSP community!

Clare Watt, Northumbria University