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We present preliminary results on a single field observed by WHAT, a small-aperture short focal length automated telescope with an 8.2 deg x 8.2 deg field of view, located at the Wise Observatory. The system is similar to the members of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Avi Shporer , Tsevi Mazeh , Amit Moran , Gaspar Bakos , Geza Kovacs

This paper introduces a novel variability report generator developed for the Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST), a cost-effective multi-purpose telescope array conducting a wide survey of the variable sky in the visible-light spectrum.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Barkotel Zemenu

The Virtual Observatory (VO) is a global ecosystem of interoperating services that connect worldwide data archives. The VO is implemented in all major astronomy archives through common interfaces developed by the 22 members of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-12 G. Bruce Berriman

With recent developments in imaging and computer technology the amount of available astronomical data has increased dramatically. Although most of these data sets are not dedicated to the study of variable stars much of it can, with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-03 Daniel M. Van Noord , Lawrence A. Molnar , Steven D. Steenwyk

Simbad is the reference database for identification and bibliography of astronomical objects. It contains identifications, `basic data', bibliography, and selected observational measurements for several million astronomical objects. Simbad…

Monocular visual navigation methods have seen significant advances in the last decade, recently producing several real-time solutions for autonomously navigating small unmanned aircraft systems without relying on GPS. This is critical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Kyung Kim , Robert C. Leishman , Scott L. Nykl

Few-shot multispectral object detection (FSMOD) addresses the challenge of detecting objects across visible and thermal modalities with minimal annotated data. In this paper, we explore this complex task and introduce a framework named…

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Like every other field of intellectual endeavor, astronomy is being revolutionised by the advances in information technology. There is an ongoing exponential growth in the volume, quality, and complexity of astronomical data sets, mainly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. G. Djorgovski , A. Mahabal , R. Brunner , R. Williams , R. Granat , D. Curkendall , J. Jacob , P. Stolorz

In this paper we show how advanced visualization tools can help the researcher in investigating and extracting information from data. The focus is on VisIVO, a novel open source graphics application, which blends high performance…

The heterogeneity of papers dealing with the discovery and characterization of exoplanets makes every attempt to maintain a uniform exoplanet catalog almost impossible. Four sources currently available online (NASA Exoplanet Archive,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-06 Eleonora Alei , Riccardo Claudi , Andrea Bignamini , Marco Molinaro

Conventional few-shot object segmentation methods learn object segmentation from a few labelled support images with strongly labelled segmentation masks. Recent work has shown to perform on par with weaker levels of supervision in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Mennatullah Siam , Naren Doraiswamy , Boris N. Oreshkin , Hengshuai Yao , Martin Jagersand

The ultraviolet (UV) astronomy is a very demanded branch of space astronomy. Many dozens of short-term UV-experiments in space, as well as long-term observatories, have brought a very important knowledge on the physics and chemistry of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 B. Shustov , A. I. G'omez de Castro , M. Sachkov , J. C. Vallejo , P. Marcos-Arenal , E. Kanev , I. Savanov , A. Shugarov , S. Sichevskii

Stripe-like space target detection (SSTD) plays a key role in enhancing space situational awareness and assessing spacecraft behaviour. This domain faces three challenges: the lack of publicly available datasets, interference from stray…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Zijian Zhu , Ali Zia , Xuesong Li , Bingbing Dan , Yuebo Ma , Enhai Liu , Rujin Zhao

This work focuses on multi-shot semi-supervised video object segmentation (MVOS), which aims at segmenting the target object indicated by an initial mask throughout a video with multiple shots. The existing VOS methods mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hengrui Hu , Kaining Ying , Henghui Ding

We describe the VSNG Project, a collaboration between researchers of Bologna, Padova, Napoli and Merate Observatories, to study variable stars in a number of galaxies in the Local Group. We briefly review results obtained for the galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gisella Clementini

SPLAT-VO is a powerful graphical tool for displaying, comparing, modifying and analyzing astronomical spectra, as well as searching and retrieving spectra from services around the world using Virtual Observatory (VO) protocols and services.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-08 Petr Skoda , Peter W. Draper , Margarida Castro Neves , David Andresic , Tim Jenness

VarStar Detect is a Python package available on PyPI optimized for the detection of variability inside photometric measurements. Based off of the Least Squares method of regression, VarStar Detect calculates the amplitude of a Fourier…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-16 Jorge Perez Gonzalez , Nicolas Carrizosa Arias , Andres Cadenas Blanco

In the coming era of data-intensive science, it will be increasingly important to be able to seamlessly move between scientific results, the data analyzed in them, and the processes used to produce them. As observations, derived data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-31 Alberto Accomazzi , Rahul Dave

Context. Towards the multimessenger era, the scientific demand for simultaneous observations with different facilities is continuously increasing. The main challenges of coordinating observations is the determination of common visibility…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-29 J. -U. Ness , C. Sánchez Fernández , A. Ibarra , R. Saxton , J. Salgado , E. Kuulkers , P. Kretschmar , M. Ehle , E. Salazar , C. Gabriel , M. Perdikeas

Virtual Observatory (VO) is a data-intensively online astronomical research and education environment, which takes advantages of advanced information technologies to achieve seamless and global access to astronomical information. AstroCloud…