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Precision cosmology with gravitational wave (GW) sources requires a deeper understanding of the interplay between GW source population and cosmological parameters governing the dynamics of the Universe. With the swift increase in GW…

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We present cosmo_learn, an open-source python-based software package designed to simulate cosmological data and perform data-driven inference using a range of modern statistical and machine learning techniques. Motivated by the growing…

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The design of an Airwatch type space mission can greatly benefit from a flexible simulation code for establishing the values of the main parameters of the experiment. We present here a code written for this purpose. The cosmic ray primary…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Montaruli , R. Bellotti , F. Cafagna , M. Circella , C. N. De Marzo , P. Lipari

In the 1998-99 flight, BOOMERanG has produced maps of $\sim 4 %$ of the sky at high Galactic latitudes, at frequencies of 90, 150, 240 and 410 GHz, with resolution $\simgt 10'$. The faint structure of the Cosmic Microwave Background at…

The characterization of the dust polarization foreground to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a necessary step towards the detection of the B-mode signal associated with primordial gravitational waves. We present a method to simulate…

Cloud computing offers an opportunity to run compute-resource intensive climate models at scale by parallelising model runs such that datasets useful to the exoplanet community can be produced efficiently. To better understand the…

We introduce PyMGal, a Python package for generating optical mock observations of galaxies from hydrodynamical simulations. PyMGal reads the properties of stellar particles from these simulations and generates spectral energy distributions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Patrick Janulewicz , Weiguang Cui

We developed a Python based framework for astronomical image processing and analysis. Astronomical image loading, normalizing, stacking, and filtering processes represent visible range images from grayscale. Besides, the blending process…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Tanmoy Bhowmik , MD Fardin Islam , Kazi Nusrat Tasneem , Rantideb Roy , Rownok Shahariar

We present SynthPop, a new open source, modular population synthesis Galactic modeling software to simulate catalogs of Milky Way stars along any sightline outward from the Sun. Motivated by a lack flexibility in existing Galactic models,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Jonas Klüter , Macy J. Huston , Abigail Aronica , Samson A. Johnson , Matthew Penny , Marz Newman , Farzaneh Zohrabi , Alison L. Crisp , Allison Chevis

We describe an assembly of numerical tools to model the output data of the Planck satellite. These start with the generation of a CMB sky in a chosen cosmology, add in various foreground sources, convolve the sky signal with arbitrary, even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Reinecke , Klaus Dolag , Reinhard Hell , Matthias Bartelmann , Torsten Ensslin

Polarized Galactic synchrotron emission is an undesirable foreground for cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments observing at frequencies $< 150$ GHz. We perform a combined analysis of observational data at 1.4, 2.3, 23, 30 and 33 GHz…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Janet L. Weiland , Graeme E. Addison , Charles L. Bennett , Mark Halpern , Gary Hinshaw

The cosmic microwave background $B$-mode signal is potentially weaker than the diffuse Galactic foregrounds over most of the sky at any frequency. A common method of separating the CMB from these foregrounds is via pixel-based…

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

Particle-Mesh (PM) codes are still very useful tools for testing predictions of cosmological models in cases when extra high resolution is not very important. We release for public use a cosmological PM N-body code. We provide a complete…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Klypin , Jon Holtzman

The upcoming generation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments face a major challenge in detecting the weak cosmic B-mode signature predicted as a product of primordial gravitational waves. To achieve the required sensitivity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-22 D. T. O'Dea , C. N. Clark , C. R. Contaldi , C. J. MacTavish

Despite the fact that the physics of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies is most naturally expressed in Fourier space, pixelised maps are almost always used in the analysis and simulation of microwave data. A complementary approach…

X-ray astronomy is an important tool in the astrophysicist's toolkit to investigate high-energy astrophysical phenomena. Theoretical numerical simulations of astrophysical sources are fully three-dimensional representations of physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-18 John A. ZuHone , Veronica Biffi , Eric J. Hallman , Scott W. Randall , Adam R. Foster , Christian Schmid

We present an improved Global Sky Model (GSM) of diffuse galactic radio emission from 10 MHz to 5 THz, whose uses include foreground modeling for CMB and 21 cm cosmology. Our model improves on past work both algorithmically and by adding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Haoxuan Zheng , Max Tegmark , Joshua S. Dillon , Doyeon A. Kim , Adrian Liu , Abraham Neben , Justin Jonas , Patricia Reich , Wolfgang Reich

With the increasing number of experiments dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background, interest on the detailed properties of the foreground Galactic emission has risen. In particular the focus is shifting towards…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-05-20 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes

Galactic winds probe how feedback regulates the mass and metallicity of galaxies. Galactic winds have cold gas, which is mainly observable with absorption and emission lines. Theoretically studying how absorption lines are produced requires…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-25 Benedetta Casavecchia , Wladimir Banda-Barragán , Marcus Brüggen , Fabrizio Brighenti