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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…

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Aims: We provide an open-source code allowing an easy, intuitive, and robust normalisation of spectra. Methods: We developed RASSINE, a Python code for normalising merged 1D spectra through the concepts of convex hulls. The code uses six…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Michael Cretignier , Jérémie Francfort , Xavier Dumusque , Romain Allart , Francesco Pepe

Far-infrared imaging surveys of Galactic star-forming regions with Herschel have shown that a substantial part of the cold interstellar medium appears as a fascinating web of omnipresent filamentary structures. This highly anisotropic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Men'shchikov

Computer-aided design (CAD) has become a critical element in the creation of nanopatterned structures and devices. In particular, with the increased adoption of easy-to-learn programming languages like Python there has been a significant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-17 A. N. McCaughan , A. M. Tait , S. M. Buckley , D. M. Oh , J. T. Chiles , J. M. Shainline , S. W. Nam

We present a new software package designed to reduce the computational burden of hadron collider measurements in Parton Distribution Function (PDF) fits. The APFELgrid package converts interpolated weight tables provided by APPLgrid files…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 Valerio Bertone , Stefano Carrazza , Nathan P. Hartland

In this paper we describe the FIT\textit{spec} code, a data mining tool for the automatic fitting of synthetic stellar spectra. The program uses a database of 27\,000 {\sc cmfgen} models of stellar atmospheres arranged in a six-dimensional…

I present a fast Python tool, SpectRes, for carrying out the resampling of spectral flux densities and their associated uncertainties onto different wavelength grids. The function works with any grid of wavelength values, including…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-16 A. C. Carnall

We propose progressive radiance distillation, an inverse rendering method that combines physically-based rendering with Gaussian-based radiance field rendering using a distillation progress map. Taking multi-view images as input, our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Keyang Ye , Qiming Hou , Kun Zhou

Observations of molecular clouds reveal a complex structure, with gas and dust often arranged in filamentary rather than spherical geometries. The associations of pre- and proto- stellar cores with the filaments suggest a direct link with…

We present a new spectral fitting code, Firefly, for deriving the stellar population properties of stellar systems. Firefly is a chi-squared minimisation fitting code that fits combinations of single-burst stellar population models to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 David M. Wilkinson , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Goddard , Daniel Thomas , Taniya Parikh

Astronomical images often have regions with missing or unwanted information, such as bad pixels, bad columns, cosmic rays, masked objects, or residuals from imperfect model subtractions. In certain situations it can be essential, or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Pieter van Dokkum , Imad Pasha

We present DisPerSE, a novel approach to the coherent multi-scale identification of all types of astrophysical structures, and in particular the filaments, in the large scale distribution of matter in the Universe. This method and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Thierry Sousbie

Intelligent document processing pipelines extract structured entities (tables, images, and text) from documents for use in downstream systems such as knowledge bases, retrieval-augmented generation, and analytics. A persistent limitation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Pritesh Jha

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

We propose PartField, a feedforward approach for learning part-based 3D features, which captures the general concept of parts and their hierarchy without relying on predefined templates or text-based names, and can be applied to open-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Minghua Liu , Mikaela Angelina Uy , Donglai Xiang , Hao Su , Sanja Fidler , Nicholas Sharp , Jun Gao

We construct a catalogue for filaments using a novel approach called SCMS (subspace constrained mean shift; Ozertem & Erdogmus 2011; Chen et al. 2015). SCMS is a gradient-based method that detects filaments through density ridges (smooth…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho , Jon Brinkmann , Peter E. Freeman , Christopher R. Genovese , Donald P. Schneider , Larry Wasserman

Filaments are ubiquitous in the universe. Recent observations have revealed that stars and star clusters form preferentially along dense filaments. Understanding the formation and properties of filaments is therefore a crucial step in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-22 Christoph Federrath

Deep astronomical images are often constructed by digitially stacking many individual sub-exposures. Each sub-exposure is expected to show small differences in the positions of stars and other objects in the field, due to the movement of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Carter Lee Rhea , Pieter Van Dokkum , Steven R. Janssens , Imad Pasha , Roberto Abraham , William P Bowman , Deborah Lokhorst , Seery Chen

Gravitational wave parameter inference pipelines operate on data containing unknown sources on distributed hardware with unreliable performance. For one specific analysis pipeline (RIFT), we have developed a flexible tool (RUNMON-RIFT) to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-18 Rhiannon Udall , Joshua Brandt , Grihith Manchanda , Adhav Arulanandan , James Clark , Jacob Lange , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Laura Cadonati

In this work, we present a methodology and a corresponding code-base for constructing mock integral field spectrograph (IFS) observations of simulated galaxies in a consistent and reproducible way. Such methods are necessary to improve the…