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TOU is an extremely high resolution optical spectrograph (R=$100,000$, 380-900~nm), which is designed to detect low mass exoplanets using the radial velocity technique.We describe an IDL-based radial velocity (RV) data reduction pipeline…

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Depth completion (DC) aims to predict a dense depth map from an RGB image and a sparse depth map. Existing DC methods generalize poorly to new datasets or unseen sparse depth patterns, limiting their real-world applications. We propose…

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The DIRC, a new type of Cherenkov imaging device, has been selected as the primary particle identification system for the BABAR detector at the asymmetric B-factory, PEP-II. It is based on total internal reflection and uses long,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 Jochen Schwiening

Reservoir Computing is a novel computing paradigm which uses a nonlinear recurrent dynamical system to carry out information processing. Recent electronic and optoelectronic Reservoir Computers based on an architecture with a single…

We present COIN-LIO, a LiDAR Inertial Odometry pipeline that tightly couples information from LiDAR intensity with geometry-based point cloud registration. The focus of our work is to improve the robustness of LiDAR-inertial odometry in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Patrick Pfreundschuh , Helen Oleynikova , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Olov Andersson

Radar has become an essential sensor for autonomous navigation, especially in challenging environments where camera and LiDAR sensors fail. 4D single-chip millimeter-wave radar systems, in particular, have drawn increasing attention thanks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jingqi Jiang , Shida Xu , Kaicheng Zhang , Jiyuan Wei , Jingyang Wang , Sen Wang

For all active instruments, the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) now ingests raw data from the Keck Telescopes within 1 minute of acquisition, quick-look reduced data within 5 minutes of creation, and science ready reduced data for four…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-08 T. Oluyide , M. S. Lynn , T. Coda , G. B. Berriman , M. Brown , L. Fuhrman , C. Gelino , J. Good , J. Hayashi , C. -H. Lee , J. Mader , M. A. Swain

Dimensionality reduction (DR) is one of the key tools for the visual exploration of high-dimensional data and uncovering its cluster structure in two- or three-dimensional spaces. The vast majority of DR methods in the literature do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Stavros Gerolymatos , Xenophon Evangelopoulos , Vladimir Gusev , John Y. Goulermas

This paper presents the DDF Pipeline, a radio astronomy data processing tool initially designed for the LOw-Frequency ARray (LO- FAR) radio-telescope and a candidate for processing data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). This work…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Mathis Certenais , François Bodin , Laurent Morin

Optimizing one's observing strategy while at the telescope relies on knowing the current observing conditions and the obtained data quality. In particular the latter is not straight forward with current wide-field imagers, such as the WIYN…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-21 Ralf Kotulla

This manuscript describes the design, usage, and data-reduction pipeline developed for the Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle (MIKE) spectrometer used with the Magellan telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory. We summarize the basic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Rebecca A. Bernstein , Scott M. Burles , J. Xavier Prochaska

The Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) on-board the INTEGRAL satellite has, as one of its scientific goals, the observation of a large number of variable sources previously selected. After almost 6 years of operations, OMC has monitored more…

One of the most important changes in observational astronomy of the 21st Century is a rapid shift from classical object-by-object observations to extensive automatic surveys. As CCD detectors are getting better and their prices are getting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrej Prsa , Tomaz Zwitter

Evaluating deformable image registration (DIR) is challenging due to the inherent trade-off between achieving high alignment accuracy and maintaining deformation regularity. However, most existing DIR works either address this trade-off…

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We have constructed a new, fast, robust and reliable pipeline to detect variable stars from the ROTSE-IIId archival data. Turkish share of ROTSE-III archive contains approximately one million objects from a large field of view (1.85\dgr)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 B. B. Güçsav , C. Yeşilyaprak , S. K. Yerli , N. Aksaker , Ü. Kızıloğlu , D. Çoker , E. Dikicioğlu , M. E. Aydın

Given the extreme precision attainable with the Kepler Space Telescope, the mitigation of instrumental artefacts is very important. In an earlier paper (Murphy 2012), the characteristics of Kepler data were discussed in light of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-11 S. J. Murphy

Digital-to-analog converters (DAC) are indispensable functional units in signal processing instrumentation and wide-band telecommunication links for both civil and military applications. Since photonic systems are capable of high data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-07 Jiawei Meng , Mario Miscuglio , Jonathan K. George , Aydin Babakhani , Volker J. Sorger

I present and summarize a software package ("LPipe") for completely automated, end-to-end reduction of both bright and faint sources with the Low-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS) at Keck Observatory. It supports all gratings, grisms,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Daniel A. Perley

With the arrival of a number of wide-field snapshot image-plane radio transient surveys, there will be a huge influx of images in the coming years making it impossible to manually analyse the datasets. Automated pipelines to process the…

We provide a suite of public open-source spectral data-reduction software to rapidly obtain scientific products from all forms of long-slit-like spectroscopic observations. Automated SpectroPhotometric REDuction (ASPIRED) is a Python-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Marco C. Lam , Robert J. Smith , Iair Arcavi , Iain A. Steele , Josh Veitch-Michaelis , Lukasz Wyrzykowski