The Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS) publishes peer-reviewed papers reporting on original research in the development, testing, and application of telescopes, instrumentation, techniques, and systems for ground- and space-based astronomy. 

Topics include: 

• Development of telescopes and instrumentation
  
  
  • Electromagnetic waves (gamma ray to radio), cosmic rays (astroparticles), and gravitational waves
  • Solar, planetary, galactic, and extragalactic astronomy
  • Imaging, spectroscopy, polarimetry, photometry, adaptive optics, interferometry, and high-contrast imaging
  • Alignment, integration, testing, and calibration
  • Integrated modeling, systems engineering
    
    
• Observatory design, communications, and operations
  
  
  • Design of space observatories including space environments, orbit design, deployments, and communications 
  • Design of suborbital observatories
  • Design of ground-based observatories including mounts and enclosures
  • Pointing and control systems
  • Observatory operations and science observation scheduling
    
    
• Technology development
  
  
  • Innovative technologies and materials
  • Novel manufacturing techniques 
  • Component, subsystem, and system development
  • Detector and sensor development
    
    
• Data analysis techniques, data mining, and statistics
  
  
  • Data science techniques, including machine learning algorithms
  • Analysis pipelines
  • Data handling and archiving

Research presented in JATIS must be relevant to the astronomical instrumentation community.