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1. Natural sounds have been recorded for millions of hours over the previous decades using passive acoustic monitoring. Improvements in deep learning models have vastly accelerated the analysis of large portions of this data. While new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Vincent S. Kather , Sylvain Haupert , Burooj Ghani , Dan Stowell

Classification is valuable and necessary in spectral analysis, especially for data-driven mining. Along with the rapid development of spectral surveys, a variety of classification techniques have been successfully applied to astronomical…

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CRISTAL is a distributed scientific workflow system used in the manufacturing and production phases of HEP experiment construction at CERN. The CRISTAL project has studied the use of a description driven approach, using meta- modelling…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 J. -M. Le Goff , Z. Kovacs , N. Baker , P. Brooks , R. McClatchey

KMOS is a multi-object near-infrared integral field spectrometer with 24 deployable cryogenic pick-off arms. Inevitably, data processing is a complex task that requires careful calibration and quality control. In this paper we describe all…

A major challenge in modern radio astronomy is dealing with the massive data volumes generated by wide-bandwidth receivers. Such massive data rates are often too great for a single device to cope, and so processing must be split across…

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We describe the observing simulation software FISVI (FIS Virtual Instrument), which was developed for the Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) that will be on the Japanese infrared astronomy mission ASTRO-F. The FISVI has two purposes: one is to…

Advances in robotic automation, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI) encourage us to conceive of science factories: large, general-purpose computation- and AI-enabled self-driving laboratories (SDLs) with the…

Astronomical data reduction is usually done with processing pipelines that consist of a series of individual processing steps that can be executed stand-alone. These processing steps are then strung together into workflows and fed with data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Wolfram Freudling , Stefano Zampieri , Lodovico Coccato , Stanislaw Podgorski , Martino Romaniello , Andrea Modigliani , John Pritchard

Spectrum sensing and analysis is crucial for a variety of reasons, including regulatory compliance, interference detection and mitigation, and spectrum resource planning and optimization. Effective, real-time spectrum analysis remains a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Rahil Gandotra , Ruoyu Sun , Mark Poletti , Jiayu Mao , Hao Guo

We compare the absolute gain photometric calibration of the Planck/HFI and Herschel/SPIRE instruments on diffuse emission. The absolute calibration of HFI and SPIRE each relies on planet flux measurements and comparison with theoretical…

We present PyWiFeS, a new Python-based data reduction pipeline for the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS). PyWiFeS consists of a series of core data processing routines built on standard scientific Python packages commonly used in astronomical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-13 Michael J. Childress , Frédéric P. A. Vogt , Jon Nielsen , Robert G. Sharp

The amount of remote sensing data available to applications is constantly growing due to the rise of very-high-resolution sensors and short repeat cycle satellites. Consequently, tackling computational complexity in Earth Observation…

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Radio astronomy relies heavily on efficient and accurate processing pipelines to deliver science ready data. With the increasing data flow of modern radio telescopes, manual configuration of such data processing pipelines is infeasible.…

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KMOS is a multi-object near-infrared integral field spectrometer with 24 deployable pick-off arms. Data processing is inevitably complex. We discuss specific issues and requirements that must be addressed in the data reduction pipeline, the…

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Software is a critical aspect of large-scale science, providing essential capabilities for making scientific discoveries. Large-scale scientific projects are vast in scope, with lifespans measured in decades and costs exceeding hundreds of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-15 Neil A. Ernst , John Klein , Marco Bartolini , Jeremy Coles , Nick Rees

Scientific workflows consist of thousands of highly parallelized tasks executed in a distributed environment involving many components. Automatic tracing and investigation of the components' and tasks' performance metrics, traces, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jonathan Bader , Joel Witzke , Soeren Becker , Ansgar Lößer , Fabian Lehmann , Leon Doehler , Anh Duc Vu , Odej Kao

Pulsar data analysis pipelines have historically been comprised of bespoke software systems, supporting the off-line analysis of data. However modern data acquisition systems are making off-line analyses impractical. They often output…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 R. J. Lyon , B. W. Stappers , L. Levin , M. B. Mickaliger , A. Scaife

Modern manufacturing systems typically require high degrees of flexibility, in terms of ability to customize the production lines to the constantly changing market requests. For this purpose, manufacturing systems are required to be able to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Valeria Villani , Lorenzo Sabattini , Julia N. Czerniak , Alexander Mertens , Birgit Vogel-Heuser , Cesare Fantuzzi

SkyPy is an open-source Python package for simulating the astrophysical sky. It comprises a library of physical and empirical models across a range of observables and a command-line script to run end-to-end simulations. The library provides…