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A key tool in the package of software available for the analysis of data from the SPI spectrometer of Integral is the SPIROS system developed at the University of Birmingham. Although intended primarily for the analysis of point sources and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. K. Skinner , P. H. Connell

In this paper we describe the main features of the software package named FITSH, intended to provide a standalone environment for analysis of data acquired by imaging astronomical detectors. The package provides utilities both for the full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 András Pál

We present LZIFU (LaZy-IFU), an IDL toolkit for fitting multiple emission lines simultaneously in integral field spectroscopy (IFS) data. LZIFU is useful for the investigation of the dynamical, physical and chemical properties of gas in…

In astronomy, image slicer integral field units (IFUs) are often used in integral field spectrographs to simultaneously record spatial and spectral information. The majority of astronomical instruments, including integral field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Ellen Lee

MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) is an integral-field spectrograph mounted on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and made available to the European community since October 2014. The Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Laure Piqueras , Simon Conseil , Martin Shepherd , Roland Bacon , Floriane Leclercq , Johan Richard

In this article we present the integral field spectroscopy (IFS) wiki site, http://ifs.wikidot.com; what the wiki is, our motivation for creating it, and a short introduction to IFS. The IFS wiki is designed to be a central repository of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-20 M. S. Westmoquette , K. M. Exter , L. Christensen , M. Maier , M. Lemoine-Busserolle , J. Turner , T. Marquart

I present a graphical-user interface for performing several image operations on segmentation maps. The package is written entirely in IDL, and is provided as source code (for those who may want to develop, link to existing packages, or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 R. E. Ryan

The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a wide-field, multi-object spectrograph accommodating 2394 fibers to observe the sky at the prime focus of the Subaru telescope. The software system to operate a spectroscopic survey is structured by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Atsushi Shimono , Naoyuki Tamura , Naruhisa Takato , Naoki Yasuda , Nao Suzuki , Craig P. Loomis , Robert H. Lupton , Yuki Moritani , Kiyoto Yabe

New tools are needed to handle the growth of data in astrophysics delivered by recent and upcoming surveys. We aim to build open-source, light, flexible, and interactive software designed to visualize extensive three-dimensional (3D)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 M. Argudo-Fernández , S. Duarte Puertas , J. E. Ruiz , J. Sabater , S. Verley , G. Bergond

ixpeobssim is a simulation and analysis framework, based on the Python programming language and the associated scientific ecosystem, specifically developed for the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). Given a source model and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-23 L. Baldini , N. Bucciantini , N. Di Lalla , S. R. Ehlert , A. Manfreda , M. Negro , N. Omodei , M. Pesce-Rollins , C. Sgrò , S. Silvestri

I present a new FITS viewer designed to explore 3D spectral line data (in particular HI) and assist with visual source extraction and analysis. Using the artistic software Blender, FRELLED can visualise even large (~600^3 voxels) data sets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Rhys Taylor

Spectroscopy is a central pillar of materials characterization, providing useful information on properties like structure, composition, or excited state dynamics of a system. However, many spectroscopic techniques present challenges in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-09 Amalya C. Johnson , Chris Fajardo , Leena Sansguiri , Weike Ye , Steven B. Torrisi

Filtergraph is a web application being developed and maintained by the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-intensive Astrophysics (VIDA) to flexibly and rapidly visualize a large variety of astronomy datasets of various formats and sizes. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-28 Dan Burger , Keivan G. Stassun , Joshua Pepper , Robert J. Siverd , Martin Paegert , Nathan M. De Lee , William H. Robinson

The Imaging Computational Microscope (ICM) is a suite of computational tools for automated analysis of functional imaging data that runs under the cross-platform MATLAB environment (The Mathworks, Inc.). ICM uses a semi-supervised…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-02-26 E. Paxon Frady , William B. Kristan

PIETOOLS 2022 manual is a document that describes all the features of the MATLAB toolbox for the analysis and control of Partial Integral Equations (PIEs). The manual is aimed to guide, with examples, the first time users to three…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Sachin Shivakumar , Declan Jagt , Danilo Braghini , Amritam Das , Matthew Peet

I present version 5.0 of FRELLED, the FITS Realtime Explorer of Low Latency in Every Dimension. This is a 3D data visualisation package for the popular Blender art software, designed to allow inspection of astronomical volumetric data sets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-07 Rhys Taylor

Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) provides a unique capability to spectroscopically study extended sources over a 2D field of view, but it also requires new techniques and tools. In this paper, we present an automatic code, Spectroscopic…

Effective visualisation of multidimensional data is crucial for generating insights. Glyph-based visualisations, which encode data dimensions onto multiple visual channels such as colour, shape, and size, provide an effective means of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Rishabh Vishwakarma , Caroline Brophy , Catherine Hurley

This article presents a high-throughput computer program, called EasyDD, for batch processing, analyzing and visualizing of spectral data; particularly those related to the new generation of synchrotron detectors and X-ray powder…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-07-16 Taha Sochi