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In this article we present our state of the art of fitting helioseismic p-mode spectra. We give a step by step recipe for fitting the spectra: statistics of the spectra both for spatially unresolved and resolved data, the use of Maximum…

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Non-ideal measurement computed tomography (NICT), which lowers radiation at the cost of image quality, is expanding the clinical use of CT. Although unified models have shown promise in NICT enhancement, most methods require paired data,…

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Context: Thanks to the importance that the star-planet relation has to our understanding of the planet formation process, the precise determination of stellar parameters for the ever increasing number of discovered extrasolar planets is of…

Inferring stellar parameters and chemical abundances by forward modeling stellar spectra usually requires a spectral synthesis code, or an emulator constructed from a curated training set. In these situations continuum normalization is…

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Using mock spectra based on Vazdekis/MILES library fitted within the wavelength region 3600-7350\AA, we analyze the bias and scatter on the resulting physical parameters induced by the choice of fitting algorithms and observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Junqiang Ge , Renbin Yan , Michele Cappellari , Shude Mao , Hongyu Li , Youjun Lu

Context. Medium-resolution IFS, such as MUSE at the VLT, are equipped to detect the emission lines of faint accreting companions when associated with dedicated stellar halo subtraction methods. We recently proposed a new approach based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 R. Julo , M. Bonnefoy , F. Chatelain , O. Flasseur , O. J. J. Michel , S. Jorquera , P. Delorme , G. Chauvin

We constrain the stellar population properties of a sample of 52 massive galaxies, with stellar mass log Ms>10.5, over the redshift range 0.5<z<2 by use of observer-frame optical and near-infrared slitless spectra from HST's ACS and WFC3…

The direct measurement of the Universe's expansion history and the search for terrestrial planets in habitable zones around solar-type stars require extremely high-precision radial velocity measures over a decade. This study proposes an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Taro Matsuo , Thomas P. Greene , Mahdi Qezlou , Simeon Bird , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Yuka Fujii , Tomoyasu Yamamuro

CONTEXT: The spectral analysis of hot, massive stars is a fundamental astrophysical method to obtain their intrinsic properties and their feedback. Quantitative spectroscopy for hot, massive stars requires detailed numerical modeling of the…

[Abridged] The WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS) is a project aiming at the study of the galaxy populations in clusters in the local universe (0.04<z<0.07) and the influence of environment on the physical properties of…

The characterization of exoplanet requires reliable determination of the fundamental parameters of their host stars. Spectral fitting plays an important role in this process. For the majority of stellar parameters matching synthetic spectra…

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We propose a unified mixture sampler (UMS) that provides a universal estimation framework for nonlinear state-space models with "exp-exp" likelihood kernels. Unlike existing methods that require deriving new mixture approximations for each…

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Much of the progress made in time-domain astronomy is accomplished by relating observational multi-wavelength time series data to models derived from our understanding of physical laws. This goal is typically accomplished by dividing the…

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Ultraviolet spectroscopy is a powerful method to study planetary surface composition through reflectance measurements and atmospheric composition through stellar/solar occultations, transits of other planetary bodies, and direct imaging of…

We present a method to analyze the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of young stellar objects (YSOs). Our approach is to fit data with pre-computed 2-D radiation transfer models spanning a large region of parameter space. This allows us…

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Reliable parameter extraction from experimental data is central to quantitative analysis in spectroscopy, diffraction, photoluminescence, chromatography, microscopy, and time-resolved measurements. We present FitED, a Python-based desktop…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-05-04 Mustafa Mahmoud Aboulsaad

We present OmniSpectra, the first native-resolution foundation model for astronomy spectra. Unlike traditional models, which are limited to fixed-length input sizes or configurations, OmniSpectra handles spectra of any length at their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Md Khairul Islam , Judy Fox

We present a simple, largely empirical but physically motivated model, which is designed to interpret consistently multi-wavelength observations from large samples of galaxies in terms of physical parameters, such as star formation rate,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Elisabete da Cunha , Stephane Charlot , David Elbaz