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ASTRA is a Python package that provides a modular, instrument-independent interface for working with high-resolution stellar spectra. Designed to support data from multiple spectrographs, including ESPRESSO (Pepe et al., 2021), HARPS (Mayor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 André M. Silva , J. P. Faria , N. C. Santos , S. G. Sousa , P. T. P. Viana , J. H. C. Martins

We describe the SPHEREx Sky Simulator, a software tool designed to model science data for NASA's SPHEREx mission that will carry out a series of all-sky spectrophotometric surveys at $\sim$6'' spatial resolution in 102 spectral channels…

We present an overview of Sherpa, an open source Python project, and discuss its development history, broad design concepts and capabilities. Sherpa contains powerful tools for combining parametric models into complex expressions that can…

The Gaia mission will have a profound impact on our understanding of the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way. Gaia is providing an exhaustive census of stellar parallaxes, proper motions, positions, colors and radial velocities, but…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Carlos Allende Prieto

The SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer on board the Herschel Space Observatory had two standard spectral resolution modes for science observations: high resolution (HR) and low resolution (LR), which could also be performed in sequence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 N. Marchili , R. Hopwood , T. Fulton , E. T. Polehampton , I. Valtchanov , J. Zaretski , D. A. Naylor , M. J. Griffin , P. Imhof , T. Lim , N. Lu , G. Makiwa , C. Pearson , L. Spencer

We describe the data reduction algorithms for the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) instrument. These algorithms were based on extensive preflight testing and modeling of the Si:As (24 micron) and Ge:Ga (70 and 160 micron)…

Iris is an extensible application that provides astronomers with a user-friendly interface capable of ingesting broad-band data from many different sources in order to build, explore, and model spectral energy distributions (SEDs). Iris…

High-resolution astronomical imaging at sub-GHz radio frequencies has been available for more than 15 years, with the VLA at 74 and 330 MHz, and the GMRT at 150, 240, 330 and 610 MHz. Recent developments include wide-bandwidth upgrades for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-21 H. T. Intema

Intelligence analysts have long struggled with an abundance of data that must be investigated on a daily basis. In the U.S. Army, this activity involves reconciling information from various sources, a process that has been automated to a…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Pranav Addepalli , Eric Wu , Douglas Bossart , Christina Lin , Allistar Smith

ImageJ is a graphical user interface (GUI) driven, public domain, Java-based, software package for general image processing traditionally used mainly in life sciences fields. The image processing capabilities of ImageJ are useful and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Karen A. Collins , John F. Kielkopf , Keivan G. Stassun , Frederic V. Hessman

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

Apache Spark is a Big Data framework for working on large distributed datasets. Although widely used in the industry, it remains rather limited in the academic community or often restricted to software engineers. The goal of this paper is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 S. Plaszczynski , J. Peloton , C. Arnault , J. E. Campagne

The ESA Herschel Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) Spectral Feature Finder (FF) project is an automated spectral feature fitting routine developed within the SPIRE instrument team to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-18 Chris S. Benson , L. D. Spencer , I. Valtchanov , J. Scott , N. Hładczuk

Research in ultrasound imaging is limited in reproducibility by two factors: First, many existing ultrasound pipelines are protected by intellectual property, rendering exchange of code difficult. Second, most pipelines are implemented in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Rüdiger Göbl , Nassir Navab , Christoph Hennersperger

Access to astronomical data through archives and VO is essential but does not solve all problems. Availability of appropriate software for analyzing the data is often equally important for the efficiency with which a researcher can publish…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-27 P. Grosbol , D. Tody

We present a new open-source data-reduction pipeline to reconstruct spectral data cubes from raw SPHERE integral-field spectrograph (IFS) data. The pipeline is written in Python and based on the pipeline that was developed for the CHARIS…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Matthias Samland , Timothy Brandt , Julien Milli , Philippe Delorme , Arthur Vigan

During more than 17 years of operation in space INTEGRAL telescope has accumulated large data set that contains records of hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray astronomical sources. These data can be re-used in the context of multi-wavelength or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 A. Neronov , V. Savchenko , A. Tramacere , M. Meharga , C. Ferrigno , S. Paltani

We provide a detailed description of the Herschel-SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) Spectral Feature Finder (FF). The FF is an automated process designed to extract significant spectral features from SPIRE FTS data products.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 R. Hopwood , I. Valtchanov , Locke D. Spencer , J. P. Scott , C. S. Benson , N. Marchili , N. Hladczuk , E. T. Polehampton , N. Lu , G. Makiwa , D. A. Naylor , B. G. Gom , G. Noble , M. J. Griffin

Gaia is ESA's ambitious space astrometry mission the main objective of which is to astrometrically and spectro-photometrically map 1000 Million celestial objects (mostly in our galaxy) with unprecedented accuracy. The announcement of…