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The Italian AGILE space mission, with its Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector (GRID) instrument sensitive in the 30 MeV-50 GeV gamma-ray energy band, has been operating since 2007. Agilepy is an open-source Python package to analyse AGILE/GRID data.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-09 A. Bulgarelli , L. Baroncelli , A. Addis , N. Parmiggiani , A. Aboudan , A. Di Piano , V. Fioretti , M. Tavani , C. Pittori , F. Lucarelli , F. Verrecchia

Space-filling experimental design techniques are commonly used in many computer modeling and simulation studies to explore the effects of inputs on outputs. This research presents raxpy, a Python package that leverages expressive annotation…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Neil Ranly , Torrey Wagner

Petabyte-scale data volumes are generated by observations and simulations in modern astronomy and astrophysics. Storage, access, and data analysis are significantly hampered by such data volumes and are leading to the development of a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Eva Sciacca , Nicola Tuccari , Fabio Vitello , Valentina Cesare

ScopeSim is a flexible multipurpose instrument data simulation framework built in Python. It enables both raw and reduced observation data to be simulated for a wide range of telescopes and instruments quickly and efficiently on a personal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Kieran Leschinski , Hugo Buddelmeijer , Oliver Czoske , Miguel Verdugo , Gijs Verdoes-Kleijn , Werner Zeilinger

We developed a Python based framework for astronomical image processing and analysis. Astronomical image loading, normalizing, stacking, and filtering processes represent visible range images from grayscale. Besides, the blending process…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Tanmoy Bhowmik , MD Fardin Islam , Kazi Nusrat Tasneem , Rantideb Roy , Rownok Shahariar

We present an algorithm implemented in the astroalign Python module for image registration in astronomy. Our module does not rely on WCS information and instead matches 3-point asterisms (triangles) on the images to find the most accurate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-25 Martin Beroiz , Juan B. Cabral , Bruno Sanchez

Time-domain astrophysics has leaped forward with the direct discovery of gravitational waves and the emergence of new generation instruments for multi-messenger studies. The capacity of the multi-messenger multi-wavelength community to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Monica Seglar-Arroyo , Halim Ashkar , Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne , Fabian Schüssler

Virtual Observatory (VO) is a data-intensively online astronomical research and education environment, which takes advantages of advanced information technologies to achieve seamless and global access to astronomical information. AstroCloud…

HEALPix -- the Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization -- has become a standard in high-energy and gravitational wave astronomy. Originally developed to improve the efficiency of all-sky Fourier analyses, it is now also utilized to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 I. Martinez-Castellanos , Leo P. Singer , E. Burns , D. Tak , Alyson Joens , Judith L. Racusin , Jeremy S. Perkins

We present the first public release (v0.1) of the open-source GADGET Dataframe Library: gadfly. The aim of this package is to leverage the capabilities of the broader python scientific computing ecosystem by providing tools for analyzing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Jacob Hummel

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

The Space Telescope Imaging Product Simulator (STIPS) is a Python-based package that can be used to simulate scenes from the upcoming \textit{Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope} (\nancy). STIPS is able to generate post-pipeline astronomical…

We present the Exoplanet Simple Orbit Fitting Toolbox (ExoSOFT), a new, open-source suite to fit the orbital elements of planetary or stellar mass companions to any combination of radial velocity and astrometric data. To explore the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-13 Kyle Mede , Timothy D. Brandt

We describe a software package called VPLanet that simulates fundamental aspects of planetary system evolution over Gyr timescales, with a focus on investigating habitable worlds. In this initial release, eleven physics modules are included…

The Virtual Observatory (VO) will revolutionise the way we do Astronomy by allowing easy access to all astronomical data and by making the handling and analysis of datasets at various locations across the globe much simpler and faster. I…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Padovani

With the advent of the Large Array Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi satellite, a new window on the Universe has been opened. Publicly available, the Fermi-LAT data come together with an analysis software named ScienceTools (ST,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 D. A. Sanchez , C. Deil

Fanpy is a free and open-source Python library for developing and testing multideterminant wavefunctions and related ab initio methods in electronic structure theory. The main use of Fanpy is to quickly prototype new methods by making it…

The Python package teareduce has been developed to support teaching activities related to the reduction of astronomical data. Specifically, it serves as instructional material for students participating in practical classes on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 Nicolás Cardiel , Sergio Pascual , María Chillarón-Víctor , Cristina Cabello , Jesús Gallego , Jaime Zamorano , María Teresa Ceballos

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