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A description is given of the activities of an international working group created with the aim of obtaining both photometric and astrometric observations of visual double and multiple stars with angular separations in the range of one to…

Next generation astronomical surveys naturally pose challenges for human-centred visualisation and analysis workflows that currently rely on the use of standard desktop display environments. While a significant fraction of the data…

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We address key points for an efficient implementation of likelihood codes for modern weak lensing large-scale structure surveys. Specifically, we focus on the joint weak lensing convergence power spectrum-bispectrum probe and we tackle the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-02 Matteo Rizzato , Karim Benabed , Francis Bernardeau , Fabien Lacasa

We aim to provide a suite of publicly available spectral data reduction software to facilitate rapid scientific outcomes from time-domain observations. For time resolved observations, an automated pipeline frees astronomers from performance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-13 Marco C Lam , Robert J Smith , Iain A Steele

In the past few years, the detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences with the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors has become routine. Future observatories will detect even larger numbers of gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Anuradha Samajdar , Justin Janquart , Chris Van Den Broeck , Tim Dietrich

We present the results of our spectroscopic observations of eight detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs), selected from the $Kepler$ Eclipsing Binary Catalog. Radial velocities (RVs) were calculated from high resolution spectra obtained with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 K. G. Hełminiak , N. Ukita , E. Kambe , S. K. Kozłowski , P. Sybilski , H. Maehara , M. Konacki , R. K. Pawłaszek

Modern astronomical data processing requires complex software pipelines to process ever growing datasets. For radio astronomy, these pipelines have become so large that they need to be distributed across a computational cluster. This makes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-17 Alexandar P. Mechev , Aske Plaat , J. B. Raymond Oonk , Huib T. Intema , Huub J. A. Röttgering

The change in the argument of periastron of eclipsing binaries, i.e., the apsidal motion caused by classical and relativistic effects, can be measured from variations in the difference between the time of minimum light of the primary and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 D. Baroch , A. Giménez , I. Ribas , J. C. Morales , G. Anglada-Escudé , A. Claret

We present high-precision light curves of several M- and K-type, active detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs), recorded with 2-minute cadence by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Analysis of these curves, combined with new and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Krzysztof G. Hełminiak , Andrés Jordán , Nestor Espinoza , Rafael Brahm

Digital co-addition of astronomical images is a common technique for increasing signal-to-noise and image depth. A modification of this simple technique has been applied to the detection of minor bodies in the Solar System: first stationary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alex H. Parker , JJ. Kavelaars

Data from complex modern astronomical instruments often consist of a large number of different science and calibration files, and their reduction requires a variety of software tools. The execution chain of the tools represents a complex…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-22 W. Freudling , M. Romaniello , D. M. Bramich , P. Ballester , V. Forchi , C. E. Garcia-Dablo , S. Moehler , M. J. Neeser

Computer vision algorithms are powerful tools in astronomical image analyses, especially when automation of object detection and extraction is required. Modern object detection algorithms in astronomy are oriented towards detection of stars…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 Dino Bektešević , Dejan Vinković

The Kepler mission opened the door to a small but bonafide sample of circumbinary planets. Some initial trends have been identified and used to challenge our theories of planet and binary formation. However, the Kepler sample is not only…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 David V. Martin

We present an outline of a new reduction of the Hipparcos astrometric data, the justifications of which are described in the accompanying paper. The emphasis is on those aspects of the data analysis that are fundamentally different from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Floor van Leeuwen , Elena Fantino

We investigate the rate of false planetary transit detection due to blending with eclipsing binaries. Our approach is purely empirical and is based on the analysis of the artificially blended light curves of the eclipsing binary stars in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Géza Kovács , Gáspár Bakos

Organized Autotelescopes for Serendipitous Event Survey (OASES) is an optical observation project that aims to detect and investigate stellar occultation events by kilometer-sized trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). In this project, multiple…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Ko Arimatsu , Kohji Tsumura , Kohei Ichikawa , Fumihiko Usui , Takafumi Ootsubo , Takayuki Kotani , Yuki Sarugaku , Takehiko Wada , Koichi Nagase , Jun-ichi Watanabe

Detached eclipsing binary stars (DEBS) are currently the best source of accurate and precise fundamental stellar parameters. This makes DEBS crucial targets for constraining the impact of various physical processes on stellar structure and…

We report on the properties of eclipsing binaries from the Kepler mission with a newly developed photometric modeling code, which uses the light curve, spectral energy distribution of each binary, and stellar evolution models to infer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Diana Windemuth , Eric Agol , Aleezah Ali , Flavien Kiefer

We have constructed a new, fast, robust and reliable pipeline to detect variable stars from the ROTSE-IIId archival data. Turkish share of ROTSE-III archive contains approximately one million objects from a large field of view (1.85\dgr)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 B. B. Güçsav , C. Yeşilyaprak , S. K. Yerli , N. Aksaker , Ü. Kızıloğlu , D. Çoker , E. Dikicioğlu , M. E. Aydın

We describe the data reduction pipeline and control system for the RoboPol project. The RoboPol project is monitoring the optical $R$-band magnitude and linear polarization of a large sample of active galactic nuclei that is dominated by…