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We describe the current state of the Burke-Gaffney Observatory (BGO) at Saint Mary's University - a unique fully roboticized remote-access observatory that allows students to carry out imaging, photometry, and spectroscopy projects remotely…

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In this contribution we report the on-going progresses of the project FATE, an operational automatic forecast system conceived to deliver forecasts of a set of astroclimatic and atmospheric parameters having the aim to support the science…

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We present a device, created by us and named Stellector, composed by a laser pointer which is precisely guided by two step motors with the purpose to explore and teach astronomy concepts having the real night sky in the background. The…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-11-11 M N S Silva , F A Pedersen , J T Carvalho-Neto

Euclid is a space telescope currently developed in the framework of the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Program. It addresses fundamental cosmological questions related to dark matter and dark energy. The lens system of one of the two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Christof Bodendorf , Norbert Geis , Frank Grupp , Jennifer Kaminski , Reinhard Katterloher , Ralf Bender

In cosmology, the analysis of observational evidence is very important to test theoretical models of the Universe. Artificial neural networks are powerful and versatile computational tools for data modelling and are recently being…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-15 Juan de Dios Rojas Olvera , Isidro Gómez-Vargas , J. Alberto Vázquez

Physical Research Laboratory's (PRL) Optical Polarimeter has been used on various telescopes in India since its development in-house in the mid 1980s. To make the instrument more efficient and effective we have designed the acquisition and…

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We present MUSE, a software framework for combining existing computational tools for different astrophysical domains into a single multiphysics, multiscale application. MUSE facilitates the coupling of existing codes written in different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Portegies Zwart , Steve McMillan , Stefan Harfst , Derek Groen , Michiko Fujii

AOtools is a Python package which is open-source and aimed at providing tools for adaptive optics users and researchers. We present version 1.0 which contains tools for adaptive optics processing, including analysing data in the pupil…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 M. J. Townson , O. J. D. Farley , G. Orban de Xivry , J. Osborn , A. P. Reeves

ACCADIL is a project that led to the development of software tools for the identification of coin die links from coin photographs. It provides a computational algorithm based on computer vision and classification techniques, along with an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Patrice Labedan , Nicolas Drougard

The detection of side-scattered ultraviolet light from spaceborne lasers with fluorescence telescopes of cosmic ray observatories offers unique opportunities for systematic studies of the aerosol content of the local atmosphere. It also…

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We present a newly developed code that allows simulations of optical observations of galaxy fields with a variety of instruments. The code incorporates gravitational lensing effects and is targetted at simulating lensing by galaxy clusters.…

In the current data-driven science era, it is needed that data analysis techniques has to quickly evolve to face with data whose dimensions has increased up to the Petabyte scale. In particular, being modern astrophysics based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Giuseppe Riccio , Massimo Brescia , Stefano Cavuoti , Amata Mercurio , Anna Maria Di Giorgio , Sergio Molinari

AMANDA-II is an operating neutrino telescope located at the South Pole. Recent results of AMANDA are presented, including the examination of the diffuse neutrino flux, permanent and transient point source analyses, and indirect dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Groß , the AMANDA collaboration

Rosetta is a science platform for resource-intensive, interactive data analysis which runs user tasks as software containers. It is built on top of a novel architecture based on framing user tasks as microservices - independent and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Stefano Alberto Russo , Sara Bertocco , Claudio Gheller , Giuliano Taffoni

The Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat) is a Canadian-led 15 cm Earth-orbiting telescope originally designed to detect asteroids near the Sun. Its design is however also suitable for the observation of exoplanetary transits…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Chris Fox , Paul Wiegert

We present a cloud-based tool that uses drones and machine learning to help recover instrumentally observed meteorite falls. We showcase a collection of improvements made upon previous iterations of our system, as well as detail the…

We present a scalable, cloud-based science platform solution designed to enable next-to-the-data analyses of terabyte-scale astronomical tabular datasets. The presented platform is built on Amazon Web Services (over Kubernetes and S3…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Steven Stetzler , Mario Jurić , Kyle Boone , Andrew Connolly , Colin T. Slater , Petar Zečević

The American Astronomical Society's WorldWide Telescope (WWT) project enables terabytes of astronomical images, data, and stories to be viewed and shared among researchers, exhibited in science museums, projected into full-dome immersive…

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Automated and computerised control of scientific instrumentation is almost ubiquitous in the modern laboratory. Most instrumentation is controlled over decades old communication busses or is accessed via proprietary system libraries. This…

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