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Scanning transmission electron microscopy is a common tool used to study the atomic structure of materials. It is an inherently multimodal tool allowing for the simultaneous acquisition of multiple information channels. Despite its…

As part of the EU-funded Center of Excellence SPACE (Scalable Parallel Astrophysical Codes for Exascale), seven commonly used astrophysics simulation codes are being optimized to exploit exascale computing platforms. Exascale cosmological…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-09 Bernd Doser , Kai L. Polsterer , Andreas Fehlner , Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez

We extend the data-driven approach for astronomical pipelines to the METIS instrument and integrate the ESO Data Processing System (EDPS) by adapting it to support backward chaining.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Hugo Buddelmeijer , Gijs Verdoes Kleijn

Machine learning (ML) offers powerful methods for detecting and modeling associations often in data with large feature spaces and complex associations. Many useful tools/packages (e.g. scikit-learn) have been developed to make the various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Ryan J. Urbanowicz , Robert Zhang , Yuhan Cui , Pranshu Suri

The introduction of infrared arrays for lunar occultations (LO) work and the improvement of predictions based on new deep IR catalogues have resulted in a large increase in the number of observable occultations. We provide the means for an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 O. Fors , A. Richichi , X. Otazu , J. Nunez

We design the imaging data calibration and reduction software for MICADO, the First Light near-IR instrument on the Extremely Large Telescope. In this process we have hit the limit of what can be achieved with a detailed software design…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-10 Hugo Buddelmeijer , Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn , Kieran Leschinski

We present the design and implementation of an automated data calibration and reduction pipeline for very-long-baseline interferometric (VLBI) observations taken at millimeter wavelengths. These short radio-wavelengths provide the best…

We present PERELMAN (PipEline foR sciEntific Literature Meta-ANalysis), an agentic framework designed to extract specific information from a large corpus of scientific articles to support large-scale literature reviews and meta-analyses.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Daniil Sherki , Daniil Merkulov , Alexandra Savina , Ekaterina Muravleva

We present the end-to-end data reduction pipeline for SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy), the upcoming thermal-infrared, diffraction-limited imager, and low and medium-resolution integral field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Athira Unni , Steph Sallum , Peyton Benac , Michael P. Fitzgerald , Max Brodheim , Rosalie McGurk , Andy Skemer , William T. S. Deich

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…

This paper presents Merlin, a new framework for managing resources in software-defined networks. With Merlin, administrators express high-level policies using programs in a declarative language. The language includes logical predicates to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-07 Robert Soulé , Shrutarshi Basu , Parisa Jalili Marandi , Fernando Pedone , Robert Kleinberg , Emin Gün Sirer , Nate Foster

Pulsar data analysis pipelines have historically been comprised of bespoke software systems, supporting the off-line analysis of data. However modern data acquisition systems are making off-line analyses impractical. They often output…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 R. J. Lyon , B. W. Stappers , L. Levin , M. B. Mickaliger , A. Scaife

The use of Python is noticeably growing among the scientific community, and Astronomy is not an exception. The power of Python consists of being an extremely versatile high-level language, easy to program that combines both traditional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-16 Daniel M. Faes

We present a fully modular and scalable software pipeline for processing electron microscope (EM) images of brain slices into 3D visualization of individual neurons and demonstrate an end-to-end segmentation of a large EM volume using a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Rafael Vescovi , Hanyu Li , Jeffery Kinnison , Murat Keceli , Misha Salim , Narayanan Kasthuri , Thomas D. Uram , Nicola Ferrier

The US National Park Service (NPS) assesses the night sky quality over parks by capturing a series of overlapping images to obtain a mosaic view of the entire night sky. The NPS Night Skies Program has integrated a sequence of scripts and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Li-Wei Hung , Davyd Betchkal , Sharolyn J. Anderson , Damon Joyce

We present astroplan - an open source, open development, Astropy affiliated package for ground-based observation planning and scheduling in Python. astroplan is designed to provide efficient access to common observational quantities such as…

KMOS is a multi-object near-infrared integral field spectrometer with 24 deployable cryogenic pick-off arms. Inevitably, data processing is a complex task that requires careful calibration and quality control. In this paper we describe all…

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

Kepler mission will provide a huge amount of asteroseismic data during the next few years, among which hundreds of solar-like stars will be targeted. The amount of stars and their observation length represent a step forward in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 S. Mathur , R. A. Garcia , C. Regulo , J. Ballot , D. Salabert , W. J. Chaplin

PyCPL provides full access to ESO's Common Pipeline Library ( CPL) for astronomical data reduction within a Python environment. Not only does it offer a Python interface to the robust CPL library, but it also lets users and developers fully…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-03 Mrunmayi S. Deshpande , Nuria P. F. Lorente , Anthony Horton , Brent Miszalski , Ralf Palsa , Lars Lundin , Anthony Heng , Aidan Farrell