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The emerging need for efficient, reliable and scalable astronomical catalog cross-matching is becoming more pressing in the current data-driven science era, where the size of data has rapidly increased up to the Petabyte scale. C3…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-28 Giuseppe Riccio , Massimo Brescia , Stefano Cavuoti , Amata Mercurio , Anna Maria Di Giorgio , Sergio Molinari

Multi-messenger astronomy is becoming the key to understanding the Universe from a comprehensive perspective. In most cases, the data and the technology are already in place, therefore it is important to provide an easily-accessible package…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-07 M. Pilia , A. Trois , A. P. Pellizzoni , M. Bachetti , G. Piano , A. Poddighe , E. Egron , M. N. Iacolina , A. Melis , R. Concu , A. Possenti , D. Perrodin

The increasing adoption of low-cost environmental sensors and AI-enabled applications has accelerated the demand for scalable and resilient data infrastructures, particularly in data-scarce and resource-constrained regions. This paper…

The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) has successfully measured cosmic rays for over a decade now. With its dense core of antenna fields in the Netherlands, it is an ideal tool for studying the radio emission from extensive air showers in the…

Fully automated astronomical data calibration and imaging pipelines are difficult to develop without a good prototyping method which permits to bridge the time between observatory commissioning and the moment when the special features and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-21 Dirk Petry

We investigate the number and type of pulsars that will be discovered with the low-frequency radio telescope LOFAR. We consider different search strategies for the Galaxy, for globular clusters and for galaxies other than our own. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Joeri van Leeuwen , Ben Stappers

The CHIME Pathfinder is a new interferometric radio telescope that uses a hybrid FPGA/GPU FX correlator. The GPU-based X-engine of this correlator processes over 819 Gb/s of 4+4-bit complex astronomical data from N=256 inputs across a 400…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Andre Recnik , Kevin Bandura , Nolan Denman , Adam D. Hincks , Gary Hinshaw , Peter Klages , Ue-Li Pen , Keith Vanderlinde

Observational astronomy has changed drastically in the last decade: manually driven target-by-target instruments have been replaced by fully automated robotic telescopes. Data acquisition methods have advanced to the point that terabytes of…

Fast, incremental evolution of physics instrumentation raises the question of efficient software abstraction and transferability of algorithms across similar technologies. This contribution aims to provide an answer by introducing Track…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-08 Petr Mánek , Petr Burian , Eric David-Bosne , Petr Smolyanskiy , Benedikt Bergmann

The Forschungszentrum Juelich has been hosting the German part of the LOFAR archive since 2013. It is Germany's most extensive radio astronomy archive, currently storing nearly 22 petabytes (PB) of data. Future radio telescopes are expected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 C. Manzano , A. Miskolczi , H. Stiele. , V. Vybornov , T. Fieseler , S. Pfalzner

The astronomical community is grappling with the increasing volume and complexity of data produced by modern telescopes, due to difficulties in reducing, accessing, analyzing, and combining archives of data. To address this challenge, we…

LOFAR, the "low-frequency array", will be one of the first in a new generation of radio telescopes and Square Kilometer Array (SKA) pathfinders that are highly flexible in capability because they are largely software driven. LOFAR will not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-10 J. W. T. Hessels , B. W. Stappers , J. van Leeuwen , LOFAR Transients Key Science Project

The production of science-ready data from major solar telescopes requires expertise beyond that of the typical observer. This is a consequence of the increasing complexity of instruments and observing sequences, which require calibrations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-17 J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , M. Löfdahl , P. Sütterlin , T. Hillberg , L. Rouppe van der Voort

The Data Handling Pipeline ("Pipeline") has been developed for the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (Fermi) Large Area Telescope (LAT) which launched in June 2008. Since then it has been in use to completely automate the production of data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-18 Stephan Zimmer , Luisa Arrabito , Tom Glanzman , Tony Johnson , Claudia Lavalley , Andrei Tsaregorodtsev

NenuFAR (New extension in Nan\c{c}ay upgrading LoFAR) is a new radio telescope developed and built on the site of the Nan\c{c}ay Radio Observatory. It is designed to observe the largely unexplored frequency window from 10 to 85\,MHz,…

The newly installed Silmaril beam combiner at the CHARA array is designed to observe previously inaccessible faint targets, including Active Galactic Nuclei and T-Tauri Young Stellar Objects. Silmaril leverages cutting-edge optical design,…

In the current data-driven science era, it is needed that data analysis techniques has to quickly evolve to face with data whose dimensions has increased up to the Petabyte scale. In particular, being modern astrophysics based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Giuseppe Riccio , Massimo Brescia , Stefano Cavuoti , Amata Mercurio , Anna Maria Di Giorgio , Sergio Molinari

Coming high-cadence wide-field optical telescopes will image hundreds of thousands of sources per minute. Besides inspecting the near real-time data streams for transient and variability events, the accumulated data archive is a wealthy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-20 Bart Scheers , Steven Bloemen , Hannes Mühleisen , Pim Schellart , Arjen van Elteren , Martin Kersten , Paul J. Groot

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

Although several existing and upcoming telescopes have imaging as their primary mode, they also have a sensitive phased-array mode with a multiple-beam forming capability enabling high time resolution studies of several types of objects,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-29 Jayanth Chennamangalam , Yogesh Maan , Avinash A. Deshpande