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Cloud detection is essential for atmospheric retrievals, climate studies, and weather forecasting. We analyze infrared radiances from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) onboard Meteorological Operational (MetOp)…

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Artificial satellites and space debris increasingly contaminate astronomical images, affecting scientific surveys and producing large volumes of streaked exposures. Manual inspection is no longer feasible at scale, and reliable detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Rafael Carrillo Navarro , René Duffard , Pablo García-Martín , Javier Romero , Nicolás Morales , Luis Gonçalves

Direct photometric measurements of the cosmic optical background (COB) provide an important point of comparison to both other measurement methodologies and models of cosmic structure formation, and permit a cosmic consistency test with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Teresa Symons , Michael Zemcov , Asantha Cooray , Carey Lisse , Andrew R. Poppe

We present the first results of our dedicated programme of automatised classification of galaxies, stars and quasars in the mid-infrared all-sky data from the WISE survey. We employ the Support Vector Machines (SVM) algorithm, which defines…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-14 Agnieszka Kurcz , Magdalena Krupa , Maciej Bilicki , Aleksandra Solarz , Agnieszka Pollo , Katarzyna Małek

We explored the AllWISE catalogue of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission and identified Young Stellar Object candidates. Reliable 2MASS and WISE photometric data combined with Planck dust opacity values were used to build our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Gábor Marton , L. Viktor Tóth , Roberta Paladini , Mária Kun , Sarolta Zahorecz , Peregrine McGehee , Csaba Kiss

The Starlink satellites are shaped like flat panels. The flat sides face zenith and nadir during normal operations. Their brightness is determined by the product of the solar illumination on the downward facing side of the panel multiplied…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Anthony Mallama

We have implemented control and data-taking software that makes it possible to scan the beams of individual ALMA antennas to perform quite complex patterns while recording the signals at high rates. We conducted test observations of the Sun…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 Neil Phillips , Richard Hills , Tim Bastian , Hugh Hudson , Ralph Marson , Sven Wedemeyer

One of the last remaining frontiers in optical/near-infrared observational astronomy is the low surface brightness regime (LSB, V-band surface brightness, $\mu_V>$ 27 AB mag/arcsec$^2$). These are the structures at very low stellar surface…

We present the first results of the site testing performed at Mt.~Shatdzhatmaz at Northern Caucasus, where the new Sternberg astronomical institute 2.5-m telescope will be installed. An automatic site monitor instrumentation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. Kornilov , N. Shatsky , O. Voziakova , B. Safonov , S. Potanin , M. Kornilov

A robust measurement of the clustering amplitude of the sub-mm population of starburst galaxies requires large-area surveys (>> 1 deg^2). The largest-format arrays subtend only 10 arcmin^2 on the sky and hence scan-mapping is a necessary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 E. L. Chapin , D. H. Hughes , B. D. Kelly , W. S. Holland

Large constellations of artificial satellites are beginning to interfere with astronomical observing. Visual magnitude measurements of these spacecraft are useful for monitoring and characterizing their brightness. This paper describes the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 Anthony Mallama

The determination of horizontal velocity fields at the solar surface is crucial to understanding the dynamics and magnetism of the convection zone of the sun. These measurements can be done by tracking granules. Tracking granules from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Tkaczuk , M. Rieutord , N. Meunier , T. Roudier

Meteoroids entering the Earth's atmosphere can be observed as meteors, thereby providing useful information on their formation and hence on their parent bodies. We developed a data reduction software package for double station meteor data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 A. Margonis , A. Christou , J. Oberst

In this paper, we present an automated system, which has the capability to catch and track solar limb prominences based on observations from EUV 304 passband. The characteristic parameters and their evolution, including height, position…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-23 Yuming Wang , Hao Cao , Junhong Chen , Tengfei Zhang , Sijie Yu , Huinan Zheng , Chenglong Shen , Jie Zhang , S. Wang

We present BROOM, a new python package for the application of blind, minimum-variance component-separation techniques to microwave observations. The package enables the reconstruction of signals with known spectral energy distributions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Alessandro Carones , Sijil Jose , Aliza Mustafa , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Carlo Baccigalupi

We summarize the status of a computer simulator for microlens planet surveys. The simulator generates synthetic light curves of microlensing events observed with specified networks of telescopes over specified periods of time. Particular…

Segmentation is an essential step for remote sensing image processing. This study aims to advance the application of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), an innovative image segmentation model by Meta AI, in the field of remote sensing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Lucas Prado Osco , Qiusheng Wu , Eduardo Lopes de Lemos , Wesley Nunes Gonçalves , Ana Paula Marques Ramos , Jonathan Li , José Marcato Junior

The surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) method is a statistical method applied on image pixels in different bands. This contribution aims to distinguish between the observational (statistical) method and the theoretical (probabilistic)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Cervino , V. Luridiana , L. Jamet

Forthcoming instruments designed for high-cadence large-area surveys, such as the Dark Energy Survey and Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, will generate several GB of data products every few minutes during survey operations. Since such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-01 K. Kuehn , R. Hupe

The Gamma-Ray Monitor (GRM) is a key payload of the Space-based multiband astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) mission, which is designed to detect gamma ray bursts (GRBs) within the energy range of 15 keV to 5 MeV. The GRM…

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