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We present FORECAST, a new flexible and adaptable software package that performs forward modeling of the output of any cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to create a wide range of realistic synthetic astronomical images. With…

Electronically Assisted Astronomy consists in capturing deep sky images with a digital camera coupled to a telescope to display views of celestial objects that would have been invisible through direct observation. This practice generates a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Olivier Parisot , Pierrick Bruneau , Patrik Hitzelberger

In this paper we describe the main features of the software package named FITSH, intended to provide a standalone environment for analysis of data acquired by imaging astronomical detectors. The package provides utilities both for the full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 András Pál

PySensors is a Python package for selecting and placing a sparse set of sensors for reconstruction and classification tasks. In this major update to PySensors, we introduce spatially constrained sensor placement capabilities, allowing users…

Detecting objects from LiDAR point clouds is an important component of self-driving car technology as LiDAR provides high resolution spatial information. Previous work on point-cloud 3D object detection has re-purposed convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jiquan Ngiam , Benjamin Caine , Wei Han , Brandon Yang , Yuning Chai , Pei Sun , Yin Zhou , Xi Yi , Ouais Alsharif , Patrick Nguyen , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathon Shlens , Vijay Vasudevan

The main idea of this ISO is to use StarGAN (A type of GAN model) to perform training and testing on an emotion dataset resulting in a emotion recognition which can be generated by the valence arousal score of the 7 basic expressions. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Aritra Banerjee , Dimitrios Kollias

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) via Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI) presents a privacy-preserving, contactless sensing approach suitable for smart homes, healthcare monitoring, and mobile IoT systems. However, existing methods often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Kexing Liu

With the growing amount of astronomical data, there is an increasing need for automated data processing pipelines, which can extract scientific information from observation data without human interventions. A critical aspect of these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Peng Jia , Yu Song , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning

We have begun a large-scale photometric survey of nearby open clusters and star-forming regions, the Monitor project, aiming to measure time-series photometry for >10,000 cluster members over >10 sq.deg of sky, to find low-mass eclipsing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan Irwin , Mike Irwin , Suzanne Aigrain , Simon Hodgkin , Leslie Hebb , Estelle Moraux

This paper introduces a novel sector-based methodology for star-galaxy classification, leveraging the latest Sloan Digital Sky Survey data (SDSS-DR18). By strategically segmenting the sky into sectors aligned with SDSS observational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Anumanchi Agastya Sai Ram Likhit , Divyansh Tripathi , Akshay Agarwal

This review outlines concepts of mathematical statistics, elements of probability theory, hypothesis tests and point estimation for use in the analysis of modern astronomical data. Least squares, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian approaches…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-10 Eric D. Feigelson , G. Jogesh Babu

We developed software for detection of variable stars using CCD photometry. It works with "varfind data" that could be exported after processing CCD frames using C-Munipack. Our goals were maximum automation and support of large fields of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 Vitalii Breus

Star sampling (SS) is a random sampling procedure on a graph wherein each sample consists of a randomly selected vertex (the star center) and its (one-hop) neighbors (the star points). We consider the use of SS to find any member of a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jonathan Stokes , Steven Weber

Starlink is a low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation operated by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) which aims to provide global satellite internet access. Thus far, most photometric observations of Starlink satellites…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-08 Grace Halferty , Vishnu Reddy , Tanner Campbell , Adam Battle , Roberto Furfaro

The plethora of spectra of OB-type stars in observatory archives and the much larger numbers to come from the WEAVE and 4MOST spectroscopic facilities require efficient, but also accurate and precise methods for (semi)automatic quantitative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 P. Aschenbrenner , N. Przybilla

We aim to determine the fundamental parameters of a sample of B stars with apparent visual magnitudes below 8 in the field-of-view of the CoRoT space mission, from high-resolution spectroscopy. We developed an automatic procedure for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. Lefever , J. Puls , T. Morel , C. Aerts , L. Decin , M. Briquet

The E and B experiment (EBEX) is a balloon-borne telescope designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background with 8' resolution employing a gondola scanning with speeds of order degree per second. In January 2013, EBEX…

The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) is a NASA-funded 6U-CubeSat mission designed to monitor ultraviolet (UV) radiation from low-mass stars. These stars' relatively high-frequency and high-energy UV flares significantly affect…

We study the statistics and properties of microlensing events that can be detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite(TESS) based on Monte Carlo simulations. We simulate potential microlensing events from a sample of the TESS…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Sedighe Sajadian , Atousa Kalantari , Hossein Fatheddin , Somayeh Khakpash

Optimal error estimation is key to achieve accurate photometry and astrometry. Stellar fluxes and positions in high angular resolution images are typically measured with PSF fitting routines, such as StarFinder. However, the formal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-12 E. Gallego-Cano , R. Schödel , A. T. Gallego-Calvente , A. M. Ghez