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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

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

In the context of a classroom lesson, concepts must be visualized and organized in many ways depending on the needs of the teacher and students. Traditional presentation media such as the blackboard or electronic whiteboard allow for static…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Ken Perlin , Zhenyi He , Karl Rosenberg

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

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

We present Synthesizer, a fast, flexible, modular and extensible platform for modelling synthetic astrophysical observables. Synthesizer can be used for a number of applications, but is predominantly designed for generating mock observables…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Christopher C. Lovell , William J. Roper , Aswin P. Vijayan , Stephen M. Wilkins , Sophie Newman , Louise Seeyave

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 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 work, we present graph star net (GraphStar), a novel and unified graph neural net architecture which utilizes message-passing relay and attention mechanism for multiple prediction tasks - node classification, graph classification…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Lu Haonan , Seth H. Huang , Tian Ye , Guo Xiuyan

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

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

The light emitted from the stellar photosphere serves as a unique signature for the nature of stars. The behaviour of these stellar lines depend upon the surface temperature, mass, evolutionary status and chemical composition of the star.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-25 Priyanka Chaturvedi , Abhijit Chakraborty , B. G. Anandarao

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

We present a graphical simulation tool for visually and interactively exploring the processing of various events handled by an operating system when running a program. Our graphical simulator is available for use on the web and locally by…

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

Contemporary exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheric research relies heavily on retrieval frameworks to recover thermal and chemical properties and perform model comparison in an observational data-driven approach. However, the computational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Elspeth K. H. Lee

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

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

A computer code is described for the simulation of gravitational lensing data. The code incorporates adaptive mesh refinement in choosing which rays to shoot based on the requirements of the source size, location and surface brightness…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-29 R. Benton Metcalf , Margarita Petkova

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

Publications in astrophysics are nowadays mainly published and read in digitized formats. Astrophysical publications in both research and in popular outreach often use colorful representations of stars to indicate various stellar types,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-25 Jan-Vincent Harre , René Heller