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In an era marked by renewed interest in lunar exploration and the prospect of establishing a sustainable human presence on the Moon, innovative approaches supporting mission preparation and astronaut training are imperative. To this end,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Giacomo Franchini , Brenno Tuberga , Marcello Chiaberge

Cislunar space spans from geosynchronous altitudes to beyond the Moon and will underpin future exploration, science, and security operations. We describe and release an open dataset of one million numerically propagated cislunar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Travis Yeager , Denvir Higgins , Peter Mcgill , Kerianne Pruett , Alexx Perloff , Tara Grice , Michael Schneider

Despite the increase in observational data on exoplanets, the processes that lead to the formation of planets are still not well understood. But thanks to the high number of known exoplanets, it is now possible to look at them as a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 C. Mordasini , P. Mollière , K. -M. Dittkrist , S. Jin , Y. Alibert

Creating software dedicated to simulation is essential for teaching and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Physics lecturing can be more effective when digital twins are used to accompany theory classes.…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-26 Milagros Delgado , Wladimir E. Banda-Barragán

"exoplanet" is a toolkit for probabilistic modeling of astronomical time series data, with a focus on observations of exoplanets, using PyMC3 (Salvatier et al., 2016). PyMC3 is a flexible and high-performance model-building language and…

The Virtual Research Environment is an analysis platform developed at CERN serving the needs of scientific communities involved in European Projects. Its scope is to facilitate the development of end-to-end physics workflows, providing…

We present CONAN (COde for exoplaNet ANalysis), an open-source Python package for comprehensive analyses of exoplanetary systems. It provides a unified Bayesian framework to simultaneously analyze diverse exoplanet datasets to derive global…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Babatunde Akinsanmi , Monika Lendl , Andreas Krenn

Galaxy simulations have come a long way from the early days of simple N-body calculations, which considered only gravitational interactions, to the complex, multi-physics models used today. Beginning with initial conditions representative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-15 Robert Feldmann , Rebekka Bieri

The study of complex many-body systems via analysis of the trajectories of the units that dynamically move and interact within them is a non-trivial task. The workflow for extracting meaningful information from the raw trajectory data is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-31 Simone Martino , Matteo Becchi , Andrew Tarzia , Daniele Rapetti , Giovanni M. Pavan

This paper presents the design, development, and application of a novel space simulation environment for rapidly prototyping and testing flight software for distributed space systems. The environment combines the flexibility, determinism,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Toby Bell , Simone D'Amico

We present a Python package for ground-state preparation based on the probabilistic imaginary-time evolution algorithm, with particular focus on its state-vector-based implementation. A standard shot-based simulation is also supported, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Pascal Sievers , Satoshi Ejima

In non-linear systems, where explicit analytic solutions usually can't be found, visualisation is a powerful approach which can give insights into the dynamical behaviour of models; it is also crucial for teaching this area of mathematics.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Robert Merrison-Hort

We present celmech, an open-source Python package designed to facilitate a wide variety of celestial mechanics calculations. The package allows users to formulate and integrate equations of motion incorporating user-specified terms from the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Sam Hadden , Daniel Tamayo

Simflowny is an open platform which automatically generates parallel code of scientific dynamical models for different simulation frameworks. Here we present major upgrades on this software to support an extended set of families of models,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-07-04 A. Arbona , B. Miñano , A. Rigo , C. Bona , C. Palenzuela , A. Artigues , C. Bona-Casas , J. Massó

We present a Fortran 95 code for simulating the evolution of astrophysical systems using particles to represent the underlying fluid flow. The code is designed to be versatile, flexible and extensible, with modular options that can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 M. Wetzstein , Andrew F. Nelson , T. Naab , A. Burkert

The design and analysis of pallet setups are essential for ensuring safety of packages transportation. With rising demands in the logistics sector, the development of automated systems utilizing advanced technologies has become increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Samuel Seligardi , Pietro Musoni , Eleonora Iotti , Gianluca Contesso , Alessandro Dal Palù

This chapter provides an introduction to the analysis of relational event data (i.e., actions, interactions, or other events involving multiple actors that occur over time) within the R/statnet platform. We begin by reviewing the basics of…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-08-01 Carter T. Butts , Christopher Steven Marcum

Geospatial observations combined with computational models have become key to understanding the physical systems of our environment and enable the design of best practices to reduce societal harm. Cloud-based deployments help to scale up…

We present cogsworth, an open-source Python tool for producing self-consistent population synthesis and galactic dynamics simulations. With cogsworth one can (1) sample a population of binaries and star formation history, (2) perform rapid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-07 Tom Wagg , Katelyn Breivik , Mathieu Renzo , Adrian M. Price-Whelan

We have produced a new software package for the simulation of pulsar populations, \textsc{PsrPopPy}, based on the \textsc{Psrpop} package. The codebase has been re-written in Python (save for some external libraries, which remain in their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sam Bates , Duncan Lorimer , Akshaya Rane , Joe Swiggum