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The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-meter survey telescope continuously observing towards the zenith in the SDSS g', r', and i' bands. This survey telescope is designed to detect various astrophysical transients (for…

The next-generation astronomy archives will cover most of the universe at fine resolution in many wavelengths. One of the first of these projects, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will create a 5-wavelength catalog over 10,000 square…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 Alexander S. Szalay , Peter Kunszt , Anirudha Thakar , Jim Gray , Don Slutz

Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard (DASCH) is a project to digitize the collection of approximately 525,000 astronomical plates held at the Harvard College Observatory. This paper presents an overview of the DASCH data processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-25 Edward Los , Jonathan Grindlay , Sumin Tang , Mathieu Servillat , Silas Laycock

Since its launch in 1999, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) has made over 4600 observations of some 2500 individual targets. The data are reduced by the Principal Investigator team at the Johns Hopkins University and…

The next-generation astronomy digital archives will cover most of the universe at fine resolution in many wave-lengths, from X-rays to ultraviolet, optical, and infrared. The archives will be stored at diverse geographical locations. One of…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Alexander S. Szalay , Peter Kunszt , Ani Thakar , Jim Gray

FALCON is an original concept for a next generation spectrograph at ESO VLT or at future ELTs. It is a spectrograph including multiple small integral field units (IFUs) which can be deployed within a large field of view such as that of…

I introduce $Profiler$, a new, user-friendly program written in $Python$ and designed to analyse the radial surface brightness profiles of galaxies. With an intuitive graphical user interface, $Profiler$ can accurately model a wide range of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Bogdan C. Ciambur

Despite a wealth of multi-wavelength, spatially resolved, time-domain solar activity data, an accurate and complete temporo-spatial solar flare census is unavailable, which impedes our understanding of the physics of flare production. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Jorge R Padial Doble , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

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

Estimates of interstellar extinction are essential in a broad range of astronomical research. In the last decades, several maps and models of the large scale interstellar extinction in the Galaxy have been published. However, these maps and…

GALSIM is a collaborative, open-source project aimed at providing an image simulation tool of enduring benefit to the astronomical community. It provides a software library for generating images of astronomical objects such as stars and…

The new World Wide Web site "GOLDMine" (Galaxy On Line Database Milano Network) (http://goldmine.mib.infn.it) contains a multiwavelength data-base of an optically selected sample of 3267 galaxies in the Virgo cluster and in the Coma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Gavazzi , A. Boselli , A. Donati , P. Franzetti , M. Scodeggio

The direct detection and characterization of planetary and substellar companions at small angular separations is a rapidly advancing field. Dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments deliver unprecedented sensitivity, enabling detailed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-25 Tomas Stolker , Markus J. Bonse , Sascha P. Quanz , Adam Amara , Gabriele Cugno , Alexander J. Bohn , Anna Boehle

We present a suite of IDL routines to interactively run GALFIT whereby the various surface brightness profiles (and their associated parameters) are represented by regions, which the User is expected to place. The regions may be saved…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-07 R. E. Ryan

The sensitivity limits of space telescopes are imposed by uncalibrated errors in the point spread function, photon-noise, background light, and detector sensitivity. These are typically calibrated with specialized wavefront sensor hardware…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Louis Desdoigts , Benjamin Pope , Jordan Dennis , Peter Tuthill

lightcurver is a photometric pipeline for time series astronomical imaging data, designed for the semi-automatic extraction of precise light curves from small, blended targets. Such targets include, but are not limited to, lensed quasars,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 Frédéric Dux

High-contrast imaging data analysis depends on removing residual starlight from the host star to reveal planets and disks. Most observers do this with principal components analysis (i.e. KLIP) using modes computed from the science images…

We present a new automatic tool for time-domain astronomy - the Cambridge Photometric Calibration Server 2.0 - developed under OPTICON H2020 programme. It has been designed to respond to the need of automated rapid photometric data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Pawel Zielinski , Lukasz Wyrzykowski , Przemyslaw Mikolajczyk , Krzysztof Rybicki , Zbigniew Kolaczkowski

The NASA/ASI Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, which will be launched in 2021, will be the first instrument to perform spatially resolved X-ray polarimetry on several astronomical sources in the 2-8 keV energy band. These measurements are…