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Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Joshua W. Buck , Saverio Perugini

Context: Numerical simulations of stellar convection and photospheres have been developed to the point where detailed shapes of observed spectral lines can be explained. Stellar atmospheres are very complex, and very different physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Boris V. Gudiksen , Mats Carlsson , Viggo H. Hansteen , Wolfgang Hayek , Jorrit Leenaarts , Juan Martínez-Sykora

We present a numerical code to simulate maps of Galactic emission in intensity and polarization at microwave frequencies, aiding in the design of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. This Python code builds on existing efforts to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Ben Thorne , Jo Dunkley , David Alonso , Sigurd Naess

This preprint presents a web app (essentially a web page-based program) with which two or more users (peers) can view and handle 3D molecular structures in a concurrent, interactive way through their web browsers. This means they can share…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Luciano A. Abriata

We present Web-STAR, an online platform for story understanding built on top of the STAR reasoning engine for STory comprehension through ARgumentation. The platform includes a web-based IDE, integration with the STAR system, and a web…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Christos Rodosthenous , Loizos Michael

Graph machine learning (GML) is effective in many business applications. However, making GML easy to use and applicable to industry applications with massive datasets remain challenging. We developed GraphStorm, which provides an end-to-end…

The computer programs most users interact with daily are driven by a graphical user interface (GUI). However, many scientific applications are used with a command line interface (CLI) for the ease of development and increased flexibility…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-06-03 N. C. Manoukis , E. C. Anderson

In this work we present `Astera', a cosmological visualization tool that renders a mock universe in real time using Unreal Engine 4. The large scale structure of the cosmic web is hard to visualize in two dimensions, and a 3D real time…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-20 Christopher Marsden , Francesco Shankar

Studying physics of very large scale like the solar system is difficult in real life, using telescope on clear skies over years. We are probably a world first to create four well designed gravity computer models to serve as powerful…

Physics Education · Physics 2013-03-04 Loo Kang Wee , Giam Hwee Goh , Charles Chew

We describe two means by which XSTAR, a code which computes physical conditions and emission spectra of photoionized gases, has been parallelized. The first is pvm_xstar, a wrapper which can be used in place of the serial xstar2xspec script…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-23 Michael S. Noble , Li Ji , Andrew Young , Julia Lee

In this work, we present Web-STAR, an online platform for story understanding built on top of the STAR (STory comprehension through ARgumentation) reasoning engine. This platform includes a web-based IDE, integration with the STAR system…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Christos Rodosthenous , Loizos Michael

We present iSLAT (the Interactive Spectral-Line Analysis Tool), a python-based graphical tool that allows users to interactively explore and manually fit line emission observed in molecular spectra. iSLAT adopts a simple slab model that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Evan Jellison , Matthew Johnson , Andrea Banzatti , Simon Bruderer

In this paper we present ProSLAM, a lightweight stereo visual SLAM system designed with simplicity in mind. Our work stems from the experience gathered by the authors while teaching SLAM to students and aims at providing a highly modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Dominik Schlegel , Mirco Colosi , Giorgio Grisetti

In this contribution, we present the StaggerGrid, a collaborative project for the construction of a comprehensive grid of time-dependent, three-dimensional (3D), hydrodynamic model atmospheres of solar- and late-type stars with different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Remo Collet , Zazralt Magic , Martin Asplund

iSpec is an integrated spectroscopic software framework suitable for the creation of spectral libraries such as the Benchmark Stars library and the determination of atmospheric parameters (i.e. effective temperature, surface gravity,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-18 S. Blanco-Cuaresma , C. Soubiran , P. Jofré , U. Heiter

We present Version 2023-02-04 (ISO) of the Chroma+ atmospheric, spectrum, and transit light-curve modelling suite, which incorporates the VALD atomic line list. This is a major improvement as the previous versions used the much smaller NIST…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 C. Ian Short

A web application prototype is described, aimed at the generation of synthetic seismograms for user-defined earthquake models. The web application graphical user interface hides the complexity of the underlying computational engine, which…

Geophysics · Physics 2014-07-10 Franco Vaccari

With the increasing usage of JavaScript in web applications, there is a great demand to write JavaScript code that is reliable and maintainable. To achieve these goals, classes can be emulated in the current JavaScript standard version. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Leonardo Humberto Silva , Daniel Hovadick , Marco Tulio Valente , Alexandre Bergel , Nicolas Anquetil , Anne Etien

Modern java programs consist of large number of classes as well as vast amount of objects instantiated during program execution. Software developers are always keen to know the number of objects created for each class. This information is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Tufail Muhammad , Zahid Halim , Majid Ali Khan

The best way to understand complex data structures or algorithm is to see them in action. The present work presents a new tool, especially useful for students and lecturers in computer science. It is written in Java and developed at…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-03-19 Kaninda Musumbu