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Pulsar timing is a technique that uses the highly stable spin periods of neutron stars to investigate a wide range of topics in physics and astrophysics. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) use sets of extremely well-timed pulsars as a Galaxy-scale…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 J. P. W. Verbiest , S. Oslowski , S. Burke-Spolaor

Gravitational waves are a radically new way to peer into the darkest depths of the cosmos. Pulsars can be used to make direct detections of gravitational waves through precision timing. When a gravitational wave passes between a pulsar and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-28 Stephen R. Taylor

We present an open source software package SpectroLab a Matlab-based tool developed in 2018 for the analysis of spectroscopic data. In this package, there are tools for derivative analysis, stacked energy contours, stacked plots for theory,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-15 Christopher Sims

A time series is a sample of observations of well-defined data points obtained through repeated measurements over a certain time range. The analysis of such data samples has become increasingly important not only in natural science but also…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-18 E. Paunzen , T. Vanmunster

The increasing availability of high-quality optical and near-infrared spectroscopic data, as well as advances in modelling techniques, have greatly expanded the scientific potential of spectroscopic studies. However, the software tools…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Daniele Gasparri , Lorenzo Morelli , Umberto Battino , Jairo Méndez Abreu , Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres

The HORACE suite of programs has been developed to work with large multiple-measurement data sets collected from time-of-flight neutron spectrometers equipped with arrays of position-sensitive detectors. The software allows exploratory…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-08-10 R. A. Ewings , A. Buts , M. D. Le , J. van Duijn , I. Bustinduy , T. G. Perring

Specutils is an Astropy affiliated package which provides a consistent interface to astronomical spectra (primarily 1D). As Specutils can be adapted to parse spectra in many different formats, Specutils plays a key role at Data Central,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-26 James Tocknell

We describe for the first time in the scientific literature the Planetary Ephemeris Program (PEP), an open-source general-purpose astrometric data analysis program. We discuss, in particular, the implementation of pulsar timing analysis,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 John F. Chandler , James B. R. Battat , Thomas W. Murphy, , Daniel Reardon , Robert D. Reasenberg , Irwin I. Shapiro

Pulsar timing is a valuable source of high-precision astrophysical measurements which can be used to probe gravitational physics, including by detecting gravitational waves. An important factor limiting the precision of these measurements…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Ross J. Jennings , James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee , Maura A. McLaughlin

Common analysis techniques in multi-messenger astronomy involve hypothesis tests with unbinned log-likelihood (LLH) functions using data recorded in celestial coordinates to identify sources of high-energy cosmic particles in the Universe.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 Martin Wolf

Astro-WISE is the Astronomical Wide-field Imaging System for Europe. It is a scientific information system which consists of hardware and software federated over about a dozen institutes throughout Europe. It has been developed to exploit…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-08 Hugo Buddelmeijer , O. Rees Williams , John P. McFarland , Andrey Belikov

Polarization information of the light can provide rich cues for computer vision and scene understanding tasks, such as the type of material, pose, and shape of the objects. With the advent of new and cheap polarimetric sensors, this imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Joaquin Rodriguez , Lew-Fock-Chong Lew-Yan-Voon , Renato Martins , Olivier Morel

The astronomy, astroparticle and particle physics communities are brought together through the ESCAPE (European Science Cluster of Astronomy and Particle Physics ESFRI research infrastructures) project to create a cluster focused on common…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-02 Thomas Vuillaume , Enrique Garcia , Christian Tacke , Tamas Gal

Clustering is an effective tool for astronomical spectral analysis, to mine clustering patterns among data. With the implementation of large sky surveys, many clustering methods have been applied to tackle spectroscopic and photometric data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-19 Haifeng Yang , Chenhui Shi , Jianghui Cai , Lichan Zhou , Yuqing Yang , Xujun Zhao , Yanting He , Jing Hao

A new method of matrix template matching is presented in the context of pulsar timing analysis. Pulse arrival times are typically measured using only the observed total intensity light curve. The new technique exploits the additional timing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 W. van Straten

PyPWA is a toolkit designed to optimize parametric models describing data and generate simulated distributions according to a model. Its software has been written within the python ecosystem with the goal of performing Amplitude or Partial…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-06-06 Mark Jones , Peter Hurck , William Phelps , Carlos W. Salgado

We present the open-source image processing software package PySAP (Python Sparse data Analysis Package) developed for the COmpressed Sensing for Magnetic resonance Imaging and Cosmology (COSMIC) project. This package provides a set of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-03 S. Farrens , A. Grigis , L. El Gueddari , Z. Ramzi , Chaithya G. R. , S. Starck , B. Sarthou , H. Cherkaoui , P. Ciuciu , J. -L. Starck

High-precision pulsar timing is central to a wide range of astrophysics and fundamental physics applications. When timing an ensemble of millisecond pulsars in different sky positions, known as a pulsar timing array (PTA), one can search…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-09 R. N. Caballero

The Parkes pulsar data archive currently provides access to 144044 data files obtained from observations carried out at the Parkes observatory since the year 1991. Around 10^5 files are from surveys of the sky, the remainder are…

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…