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Exoplanet science often involves using the system parameters of real exoplanets for tasks such as simulations, fitting routines, and target selection for proposals. Several exoplanet catalogues are already well established but often lack a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ryan Varley

We present the Variable Star PhasE Curve (VSPEC) Collection, a set of Python packages for simulating combined-light spectroscopic observations of 3-dimensional exoplanet atmospheres in the presence of stellar variability and inhomogeneity.…

We present WOFRY (Wave Optics FRamework in pYthon), a specialized toolbox designed for wave optics modeling, with particular emphasis on partial coherence. This package is tailored to assist synchrotron scientists and engineers in the…

The open-source Python package Gammapy, developed for the high-level analysis of gamma-ray data, requires gamma-like event lists combined with the corresponding instrument response functions. For a morphological analysis, these data have to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-23 Simone Mender , Lena Linhoff , Tarek Hassan , Cosimo Nigro , Dominik Elsässer

Accurate visualization of double star astrometric data is essential for effective analysis and interpretation. This article presents a Python toolkit designed for astronomers who need to plot measurements from diverse sources -- historical,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Xinyue Wang

Scientific data sets continue to increase in both size and complexity. In the past, dedicated graphics systems at supercomputing centers were required to visualize large data sets, but as the price of commodity graphics hardware has dropped…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. R. Gazis , C. Levit , M. J. Way

In this paper we present an open source framework developed in Python and consisting of three distinct classes designed to manipulate in a simple and intuitive way both symbolic representations of neutrosophic sets over universes of various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Giorgio Nordo , Saeid Jafari , Arif Mehmood , Bhimraj Basumatary

The virtual observatory (VO) is a collection of interoperable data archives, tools and applications that together form an environment in which original astronomical research can be carried out. The VO is opening up new ways of exploiting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Evanthia Hatziminaoglou

FCMpy is an open source package in Python for building and analyzing Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. More specifically, the package allows 1) deriving fuzzy causal weights from qualitative data, 2) simulating the system behavior, 3) applying machine…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Samvel Mkhitaryan , Philippe J. Giabbanelli , Maciej K. Wozniak , Gonzalo Napoles , Nanne K. de Vries , Rik Crutzen

This paper describes the design and implementation of Stingray, a library in Python built to perform time series analysis and related tasks on astronomical light curves. Its core functionality comprises a range of Fourier analysis…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-12 D. Huppenkothen , M. Bachetti , A. L. Stevens , S. Migliari , P. Balm , O. Hammad , U. M. Khan , H. Mishra , H. Rashid , S. Sharma , R. V. Blanco , E. M. Ribeiro

VST--Tube is a new software package designed to process optical astronomical images. It is an automated pipeline to go from the raw exposures to fully calibrated co-added images, and to extract catalogs with aperture and PSF photometry. A…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-23 A. Grado , M. Capaccioli , L. Limatola , F. Getman

Astronomy is entering a new era as multiple, large area, digital sky surveys are in production. The resulting datasets are truly remarkable in their own right; however, a revolutionary step arises in the aggregation of complimentary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Szalay , R. J. Brunner

Having a need to perform differential photometry for tens of thousands stars in a several square degrees field, we developed Astrokit program. The software corrects the star brightness variations caused by variations of atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Artem Y. Burdanov , Vadim V. Krushinsky , Alexander A. Popov

Libpsht (or "library for Performant Spherical Harmonic Transforms") is a collection of algorithms for efficient conversion between spatial-domain and spectral-domain representations of data defined on the sphere. The package supports…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-11 Martin Reinecke

Large-scale structure surveys measure the shapes and positions of millions of galaxies in order to constrain the cosmological model with high precision. The resulting large data volume poses a challenge for the analysis of the data, from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Silvan Fischbacher , Beatrice Moser , Tomasz Kacprzak , Joerg Herbel , Luca Tortorelli , Uwe Schmitt , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara

The exponential growth of data in Astrophysics and Cosmology demands scalable computational tools and intuitive interfaces for analysis and visualization. In this work, we present an innovative integration of the VisIVO scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 Eva Sciacca , Nicola Tuccari , Umer Arshad , Fabio Pitari , Giuseppa Muscianisi , Emiliano Tramontana

Multiscale modeling, which integrates material properties from ab initio calculations into continuum-scale simulations, is a promising strategy for optimizing semiconductor devices. However, a key challenge remains: while ab initio methods…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-12 Taeyoung Jeong , Kun Hee Ye , Seungjae Yoon , Dohyun Kim , Yunjae Kim , Jung-Hae Choi

The Virtual Observatory (VO) is realizing global electronic integration of astronomy data. One of the long-term goals of the U.S. VO project, the Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO), is development of services and protocols that respond…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Bruce Berriman , Robert J. Hanisch , T. Joseph W. Lazio

Synthesizer is a fast, flexible, modular, and extensible Python package that empowers astronomers to turn theoretical galaxy models into realistic synthetic observations - including spectra, photometry, images, and spectral cubes - with a…

There are numerous approaches to building analysis applications across the high-energy physics community. Among them are Python-based, or at least Python-driven, analysis workflows. We aim to ease the adoption of a Python-based analysis…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 David Lange