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Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) is an observational method to obtain spatially resolved spectra over a specific field of view (FoV) in a single exposure. In recent years, near-infrared IFS has gained importance in observing objects with…

(Abridged) We describe a new method to extract spectra of stars from observations of crowded stellar fields with integral field spectroscopy (IFS). Our approach extends the well-established concept of crowded field photometry in images into…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sebastian Kamann , Lutz Wisotzki , Martin M. Roth

We present a new open-source data-reduction pipeline to reconstruct spectral data cubes from raw SPHERE integral-field spectrograph (IFS) data. The pipeline is written in Python and based on the pipeline that was developed for the CHARIS…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Matthias Samland , Timothy Brandt , Julien Milli , Philippe Delorme , Arthur Vigan

[Abbreviated] The amount of integral field spectrograph (IFS) data has grown considerable over the last few decades. The demand for tools to analyze such data is therefore bigger now than ever. We present TDOSE; a flexible Python tool for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 K. B. Schmidt , L. Wisotzki , T. Urrutia , J. Kerutt , D. Krajnovic , E. C. Herenz , R. Saust , T. Contini , B. Epinat , H. Inami , M. V. Maseda

In modern-day astronomy, near-infrared, optical, and ultraviolet spectroscopy are indispensable for studying a wide range of phenomena, from measuring black hole masses to analyzing chemical abundances in stellar atmospheres. However,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-21 Raniere de Menezes , Francesco Massaro , Michela Negro , Claudia M. Raiteri , Harold Peña-Herazo , Jose A. Acosta-Pulido

Aims: Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) is a powerful approach for the study of nearby galaxies since it enables a detailed analysis of their resolved physical properties. Here we present the sample of nearby galaxies selected to exploit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 E. Marmol-Queralto , S. F. Sanchez , R. A. Marino , D. Mast , K. Viironen , A. Gil de Paz , J. Iglesias-Paramo , F. F. Rosales-Ortega , J. M. Vilchez

Spectroscopy is a central pillar of materials characterization, providing useful information on properties like structure, composition, or excited state dynamics of a system. However, many spectroscopic techniques present challenges in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-09 Amalya C. Johnson , Chris Fajardo , Leena Sansguiri , Weike Ye , Steven B. Torrisi

Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) provides a unique capability to spectroscopically study extended sources over a 2D field of view, but it also requires new techniques and tools. In this paper, we present an automatic code, Spectroscopic…

This paper describes the general characteristics of raw data from fiber-fed spectrographs in general and fiber-fed IFUs in particular. The different steps of the data reduction are presented, and the techniques used to address the unusual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 S. F. Sanchez

We introduce AutoSpec, a neural network framework for discovering iterative spectral algorithms for large-scale numerical linear algebra and numerical optimization. Our self-supervised models adapt to input operators using coarse spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zihang Liu , Oleg Balabanov , Yaoqing Yang , Michael W. Mahoney

Panoramic IFU spectroscopy is a core tool of modern observational astronomy and is especially important for galaxy physics. Many massive IFU surveys, such as SDSS MaNGA (10k targets), SAMI (3k targets), Califa (600 objects), Atlas3D (260…

Real-time 3D object detection is crucial for autonomous cars. Achieving promising performance with high efficiency, voxel-based approaches have received considerable attention. However, previous methods model the input space with features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Jun Wang , Shiyi Lan , Mingfei Gao , Larry S. Davis

Aims. In astronomy, machine learning has been successful in various tasks such as source localisation, classification, anomaly detection, and segmentation. However, feature regression remains an area with room for improvement. We aim to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 F. Stoppa , R. Ruiz de Austri , P. Vreeswijk , S. Bhattacharyya , S. Caron , S. Bloemen , G. Zaharijas , G. Principe , V. Vodeb , P. J. Groot , E. Cator , G. Nelemans

We present an automated non-parametric light profile extraction pipeline called AutoProf. All steps for extracting surface brightness (SB) profiles are included in AutoProf, allowing streamlined analyses of galaxy images. AutoProf improves…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-11 Connor Stone , Nikhil Arora , Stéphane Courteau , Jean-Charles Cuillandre

The integral-field unit (IFU) spectrometers on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) undersample the nearly diffraction-limited point spread function provided by the telescope optics. This undersampling produces large oscillating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 David R. Law , Melanie Clarke

This paper describes AutoFocus, an efficient multi-scale inference algorithm for deep-learning based object detectors. Instead of processing an entire image pyramid, AutoFocus adopts a coarse to fine approach and only processes regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Mahyar Najibi , Bharat Singh , Larry S. Davis

We present a robust, efficient, and user-friendly algorithm for detecting faint emission-line sources in large integral-field spectroscopic datacubes together with the public release of the software package LSDCat (Line Source Detection and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Edmund Christian Herenz , Lutz Wisotzki

The increasing availability of high-quality optical and near-infrared spectroscopic data, as well as advances in modelling techniques, have greatly expanded the scientific potential of spectroscopic studies. However, the software tools…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Daniele Gasparri , Lorenzo Morelli , Umberto Battino , Jairo Méndez Abreu , Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres

We present an open source software package SpectroLab a Matlab-based tool developed in 2018 for the analysis of spectroscopic data. In this package, there are tools for derivative analysis, stacked energy contours, stacked plots for theory,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-15 Christopher Sims

Among spectroscopic techniques, Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful, but it is limited by small FoVs, complex designs, and high costs. We hereby present ROSSINI: the ROtational Slitless…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Jerry Jun-Yan Zhang , Francesco Sinigaglia
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