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Photometric pipelines struggle to estimate both the flux and flux uncertainty for stars in the presence of structured backgrounds such as filaments or clouds. However, it is exactly stars in these complex regions that are critical to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Andrew K. Saydjari , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

The fitting of spectral lines is a common step in the analysis of line observations and simulations. However, the observational noise, the presence of multiple velocity components, and potentially large data sets make it a non-trivial task.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-08 Mika Juvela , Devika Tharakkal

Context. Filaments are ubiquitous in the Galaxy, and they host star formation. Detecting them in a reliable way is therefore key towards our understanding of the star formation process. Aims. We explore whether supervised machine learning…

Context. Measuring how the physical properties of galaxies change across cosmic times is essential to understand galaxy formation and evolution. With the advent of numerous ground-based and space-borne instruments launched over the past few…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 M. Boquien , D. Burgarella , Y. Roehlly , V. Buat , L. Ciesla , D. Corre , A. K. Inoue , H. Salas

We describe a flexible data reduction package for high resolution cross-dispersed echelle data. This open-source package is developed in Python and includes optional GUIs for most of the steps. It does not require any pre-knowledge about…

We present the results from our deep optical imaging survey \mu_lim=26-27 V-mag/arcsec^2 of a morphologically selected sample of 72 edge-on disk galaxies. The question of the global structure of galactic stellar disks, especially the radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pohlen , R. -J. Dettmar , R. Luetticke , G. Aronica

Aims. We provide an easy-to-use full-spectrum fitting package and explore its applications to (i) the determination of the stellar atmospheric parameters and (ii) the study of the history of stellar populations. Methods. We developed ULySS,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mina Koleva , Philippe Prugniel , Antoine Bouchard , Yue Wu

We present the first public release (v0.1) of the open-source GADGET Dataframe Library: gadfly. The aim of this package is to leverage the capabilities of the broader python scientific computing ecosystem by providing tools for analyzing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Jacob Hummel

Evaluating automatically generated radiology reports remains a fundamental challenge due to the lack of clinically grounded, interpretable, and fine-grained metrics. Existing methods either produce coarse overall scores or rely on opaque…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Yingshu Li , Yunyi Liu , Lingqiao Liu , Lei Wang , Luping Zhou

We present the first public version of SImMER, an open-source Python reduction pipeline for astronomical images of point sources. Current capabilities include dark-subtraction, flat-fielding, sky-subtraction, image registration, FWHM…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Arjun B. Savel , Lea A. Hirsch , Holden Gill , Courtney D. Dressing , David R. Ciardi

I describe a new, open-source astronomical image-fitting program called Imfit, specialized for galaxies but potentially useful for other sources, which is fast, flexible, and highly extensible. A key characteristic of the program is an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Peter Erwin

Large-scale filaments ubiquitously exist in the Galactic interstellar medium, and their radial profiles offer insights into their formation mechanisms. We present a statistical analysis of molecular hydrogen column density ($\rm N(H_2)$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-27 Keyun Su , Ke Wang , Fengwei Xu , N. K. Bhadari

Recent advances in view synthesis and real-time rendering have achieved photorealistic quality at impressive rendering speeds. While Radiance Field-based methods achieve state-of-the-art quality in challenging scenarios such as in-the-wild…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Michael Niemeyer , Fabian Manhardt , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Michael Oechsle , Daniel Duckworth , Rama Gosula , Keisuke Tateno , John Bates , Dominik Kaeser , Federico Tombari

We use a suite of high resolution molecular cloud simulations carried out with the moving mesh code Arepo to explore the nature of star-forming filaments. The simulated filaments are identified and categorised from column density maps in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Rowan J. Smith , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf. S. Klessen

We present a new software pipeline -- PyMorph -- for automated estimation of structural parameters of galaxies. Both parametric fits through a two dimensional bulge disk decomposition as well as structural parameter measurements like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Vinu Vikram , Yogesh Wadadekar , Ajit K. Kembhavi , G. V. Vijayagovindan

We use numerical simulations of turbulent cluster-forming regions to study the nature of dense filamentary structures in star formation. Using four hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic simulations chosen to match observations, we identify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Helen Kirk , Ralph Pudritz , Mikhail Klassen , Samantha Pillsworth

As the environment harbouring the majority of galaxies, filaments are thought to play a key role in the co-evolution of galaxies and the cosmic web. In this first part of a series to understand the link between galaxies and filaments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 Yannick M. Bahe , Pascale Jablonka

This posting announces public availability of version 1.2 of the DiskFit software package developed by the authors, which may be used to fit simple non-axisymmetric models either to images or to velocity fields of disk galaxies. Here we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-25 J. A. Sellwood , Kristine Spekkens

Domain scientists increasingly develop Python scripts to analyze satellite imagery but they lack scalability to large-scale data. This paper demonstrates GRAIL, an agentic translation system that converts Python geospatial workflows into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhuocheng Shang , Ahmed Eldawy