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AstroStat is an easy-to-use tool for performing statistical analysis on data. It has been designed to be compatible with Virtual Observatory (VO) standards thus enabling it to become an integral part of the currently available collection of…

We describe a new code for the deep analysis of stellar fields, designed for Adaptive Optics Nyquist-sampled images with high and low Strehl ratio. The Point Spread Function is extracted directly from the image frame, to take into account…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Diolaiti , O. Bendinelli , D. Bonaccini , L. Close , D. Currie , G. Parmeggiani

Stellar spectra contain a large amount of information about the conditions in stellar atmospheres. However, extracting this information is challenging and demands comprehensive numerical modelling. Here, we present stellar spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-07 N. Kostogryz , A. I Shapiro , V. Witzke , D. Grant , H. R. Wakeford , K. B. Stevenson , S. K. Solanki , L. Gizon

swdatatoolkit is a Python-based scientific software library designed to support the acquisition, preprocessing, and analysis of solar and space weather data. The toolkit consolidates functionality across multiple domains, including data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Dustin Kempton , Griffin Goodwin , Tarun Kumar Reddy Thippareddy , Reet Gupta , Viacheslav Sadykov , Rafal Angryk

The ever-increasing quality and complexity of astronomical data underscores the need for new and powerful data analysis applications. This need has led to the development of Sherpa, a modeling and fitting program in the CIAO software…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter E. Freeman , Stephen Doe , Aneta Siemiginowska

Understanding astrophysical and cosmological processes can be challenging due to their complexity and lack of intuitive analogies. To address this, we present \texttt{AstronomyCalc}, a Python package specifically designed to aid…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-26 Sambit K. Giri

Asteroseismology has the capability of delivering stellar properties which would otherwise be inaccessible, such as radii, masses and thus ages of stars. When coupling this information with classical determinations of stellar parameters,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Luca Casagrande

Using a very cheap Data Assimilation (DA) method, I show an alternative approach to classical DA for numerical climate models which produce a large amount of "big data". The problematic features of state-of-the-art high resolution Regional…

Applications · Statistics 2016-10-12 Bijan Fallah

Topological data analysis (TDA) has emerged as one of the most promising techniques to reconstruct the unknown shapes of high-dimensional spaces from observed data samples. TDA, thus, yields key shape descriptors in the form of persistent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Wei Guo , Krithika Manohar , Steven L. Brunton , Ashis G. Banerjee

Astronomical data take on a multitude of forms -- catalogs, data cubes, images, and simulations. The availability of software for rendering high-quality three-dimensional graphics lends itself to the paradigm of exploring the incredible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Brian R. Kent

We suggest a new web-based approach for browsing and visualizing data produced by a network of telescopes, such as those of the ongoing TAOS and the forthcoming TAOS II projects. We propose a modern client-side technology and we present two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-28 D. Ricci , P. -G. Sprimont , C. Ayala , F. G. Ramón-Fox , R. Michel , S. Navarro , S. -Y. Wang , Z. -W. Zhang , M. J. Lehner , L. Nicastro , M. Reyes-Ruiz

Analyzing flight trajectory data sets poses challenges due to the intricate interconnections among various factors and the high dimensionality of the data. Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a way of analyzing big data sets focusing on the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Manuel Cuerno , Luis Guijarro , Rosa María Arnaldo Valdés , Fernando Gómez Comendador

Time-domain astronomy (TDA) is facing a paradigm shift caused by the exponential growth of the sample size, data complexity and data generation rates of new astronomical sky surveys. For example, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-28 Pablo Huijse , Pablo A. Estevez , Pavlos Protopapas , Jose C. Principe , Pablo Zegers

Stellar variability is driven by a multitude of internal physical processes that depend on fundamental stellar properties. These properties are our bridge to reconciling stellar observations with stellar physics, and for understanding the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-21 Kirsten Blancato , Melissa Ness , Daniel Huber , Yuxi Lu , Ruth Angus

In this review, we discuss various open-source software for modelling the broad-band emission of extragalactic sources from radio up to the highest gamma ray energies. As we provide an overview of the different tools available, we discuss…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-28 Cosimo Nigro , Andrea Tramacere

We introduce a mathematical formulation of feature-informed data assimilation (FIDA). In FIDA, the information about feature events, such as shock waves, level curves, wavefronts and peak value, in dynamical systems are used for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Wei Kang , Daniel M. Tartakovsky , Apoorv Srivastava

Astronomy is undergoing through a methodological revolution triggered by an unprecedented wealth of complex and accurate data. The new panchromatic, synoptic sky surveys require advanced tools for discovering patterns and trends hidden…

We have undertaken a major enhancement of our IDL-based simulation tools developed earlier for modeling microwave and X-ray emission. The object-based architecture provides an interactive graphical user interface that allows the user to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Gelu M. Nita , Gregory D. Fleishman , Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Eduard P. Kontar , Dale E. Gary

We present a new technique based on multi-band near ultraviolet and optical photometry to measure both the stellar intrinsic properties, ie luminosity and effective temperature, and the interstellar dust extinction along the line of sight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Martino Romaniello , Nino Panagia , Salvatore Scuderi , Robert P. Kirshner

The space photometric project "Lyra" is developed now in Russia.The project purpose is determination of the photometric information and coordinates of the natural and artificial space objects, from the brightest ones to 16^m in visual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-26 Alexey V. Mironov , Andrey I. Zakharov , Mikhail E. Prokhorov , Feodor N. Nikolaev , Maxim N. Tuchin