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We introduce NightPulse, an interactive tool for Night-time light (NTL) data visualization and analytics, which enables researchers and stakeholders to explore and analyze NTL data with a user-friendly platform. Powered by efficient system…

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Understanding astrophysical and cosmological processes can be challenging due to their complexity and lack of intuitive analogies. To address this, we present \texttt{AstronomyCalc}, a Python package specifically designed to aid…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-26 Sambit K. Giri

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 describes the design and implementation of Stingray, a library in Python built to perform time series analysis and related tasks on astronomical light curves. Its core functionality comprises a range of Fourier analysis…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-12 D. Huppenkothen , M. Bachetti , A. L. Stevens , S. Migliari , P. Balm , O. Hammad , U. M. Khan , H. Mishra , H. Rashid , S. Sharma , R. V. Blanco , E. M. Ribeiro

Multiple-frequency periodograms -- based on time series models consisting of two or more independent sinusoids -- have long been discussed. What is new here is the presentation of a practical, simple-to-use computational framework…

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Aims. The wavelet transform has been used as a powerful tool for treating several problems in astrophysics. In this work, we show that the time-frequency analysis of stellar light curves using the wavelet transform is a practical tool for…

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Aims: We describe a fast, robust and automatic detection algorithm, TRUFAS, and apply it to data that are being expected from the CoRoT mission. Methods: The procedure proposed for the detection of planetary transits in light curves works…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-16 C. Regulo , M. Almenara , R. Alonso , H. J. Deeg , T. Roca Cortes

Characterizing the temporal variability of astrophysical sources is key to understanding the underlying physical processes driving their emissions. This work introduces a gammapy_SyLC, a Python package that offers tools to simulate and fit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-19 Claudio Galelli

In this article we report the release of a new program for calculating the emissivity of atomic transitions. The program, which can be obtained with its documentation from our website www.scienceware.net, passed various rigorous tests and…

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The light curves of variable stars are commonly described using simple trigonometric models, that make use of the assumption that the model parameters are constant in time. This assumption, however, is often violated, and consequently, time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Pelt , N. Olspert , M. J. Mantere , I. Tuominen

We present PlanetPack, a new software tool that we developed to facilitate and standardize the advanced analysis of radial velocity (RV) data for the goal of exoplanets detection, characterization, and basic dynamical $N$-body simulations.…

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Within the last years, the classification of variable stars with Machine Learning has become a mainstream area of research. Recently, visualization of time series is attracting more attention in data science as a tool to visually help…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 Christian Pieringer , Karim Pichara , Márcio Catelán , Pavlos Protopapas

One of the main features of interest in analysing the light curves of stars is the underlying periodic behaviour. The corresponding observations are a complex type of time series with unequally spaced time points and are sometimes…

Applications · Statistics 2022-11-21 Efthymia Derezea , Alfred Kume , Dirk Froebrich

We present a machine learning package for the classification of periodic variable stars. Our package is intended to be general: it can classify any single band optical light curve comprising at least a few tens of observations covering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Dae-Won Kim , Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones

Aperiodic variability is a characteristic feature of young stars, massive stars, and active galactic nuclei. With the recent proliferation of time domain surveys, it is increasingly essential to develop methods to quantify and analyze…

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Data processing pipelines represent an important slice of the astronomical software library that include chains of processes that transform raw data into valuable information via data reduction and analysis. In this work we present Corral,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 Juan B. Cabral , Bruno Sánchez , Martín Beroiz , Mariano Domínguez , Marcelo Lares , Sebastián Gurovich , Pablo Granitto

Automatic classification methods applied to sky surveys have revolutionized the astronomical target selection process. Most surveys generate a vast amount of time series, or \quotes{lightcurves}, that represent the brightness variability of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Nicolas Castro , Pavlos Protopapas , Karim Pichara

Detecting transient light curves (e.g., transiting planets) requires high precision data, and thus it is important to effectively filter systematic trends affecting ground based wide field surveys. We apply an implementation of the Trend…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Giri Gopalan , Peter Plavchan , Julian van Eyken , David Ciardi , Kaspar von Braun , Stephen R. Kane

Astronomical data are typically irregular in time, e.g. the space (HIPPARCOS/TYCHO, KEPLER, GAIA, WISE etc.) and ground-based CCD (NSVS, ASAS, CRTS, SuperWASP etc.) and photographic (Harvard, Sonneberg, Odessa etc.) photometrical surveys.…

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