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The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) is a flagship space-based observatory. Its main survey camera is designed to conduct high spatial resolution near-ultraviolet to near-infrared imaging and low-resolution spectroscopic…

We have developed a simulation-based method of spectral analysis for pile-up affected data of X-ray CCDs without any loss of photon statistics. As effects of the photon pile-up appear as complicated nonlinear detector responses, we employ a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Tsubasa Tamba , Hirokazu Odaka , Aya Bamba , Hiroshi Murakami , Koji Mori , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Yukikatsu Terada , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Masayoshi Nobukawa

This paper presents the simulation of the GLAST high energy gamma-ray telescope. The simulation package, written in C++, is based on the Geant4 toolkit, and it is integrated into a general framework used to process events. A detailed…

We present basic informations about package SPHOTOM for an automatic multicolour photometry. This package is in development for a creation of photometric pipe-line, which we plan to use in near future with our new instruments. It could…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Parimucha , M. Vanko , P. Miklos

The XMM Cluster Survey (XCS) have developed a new Python module, X-ray: Generate and Analyse (XGA) to provide interactive and automated analyses of X-ray emitting sources observed by the XMM-Newton space telescope. XGA only requires that a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-05 D. J. Turner , P. A. Giles , A. K. Romer , V. Korbina

The Space Telescope Imaging Product Simulator (STIPS) is a Python-based package that can be used to simulate scenes from the upcoming \textit{Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope} (\nancy). STIPS is able to generate post-pipeline astronomical…

This paper presents the simulation of the GLAST high energy gamma-ray telescope. The simulation package, written in C++, is based on the Geant4 toolkit, and it is integrated into a general framework used to process events. A detailed…

Many aspects of the design trade-off of a space-based instrument and its performance can best be tackled through simulations of the expected observations. The complex interplay of various noise sources in the course of the observations make…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 P. Marcos-Arenal , W. Zima , J. De Ridder , C. Aerts , R. Huygen , R. Samadi , J. Green , G. Piotto , S. Salmon , C. Catala , H. Rauer

Particle induced X-ray emission (PIXE) is an important physical effect that is not yet adequately modelled in Geant4. This paper provides a critical analysis of the problem domain associated with PIXE simulation and describes a set of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-12-10 M. G. Pia , G. Weidenspointner , M. Augelli , L. Quintieri , P. Saracco , M. Sudhakar , A. Zoglauer

The implementation of the GRAVITY+ Adaptive Optics (GPAO) system at VLTI enables unprecedented sensitivity and stability in optical interferometry. This allows high-precision characterization of directly imaged exoplanets at medium spectral…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 J. R. Sauter , A. von Stauffenberg , G. Bourdarot , W. Brandner , F. Eisenhauer , L. Kreidberg , L. Labadie , S. Scheithauer , D. Trevascus , R. van Boekel

In the era of large time-domain spectro-photometric surveys, surface variations such as starspots, chemical inhomogeneities, pulsations, rotational distortions, and binary interactions can now be directly detected and modelled. Accurately…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 M. Jabłońska , T. Różański , L. Casagrande , H. Shah , P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański , M. Rychlicki , Yuan-Sen Ting

The methods and techniques for the slitless spectroscopy software aXe, which was designed to reduce data from the various slitless spectroscopy modes of Hubble Space Telescope instruments, are described. aXe can treat slitless spectra from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Martin Kümmel , Jeremy Walsh , Norbert Pirzkal , Harald Kuntschner , Anna Pasquali

We describe a new software package for simulating channelised, high-time resolution data streams from radio telescopes. The software simulates data from the telescope and observing system taking into account the observation strategy,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-09 Rui Luo , George Hobbs , Suk Yee Yong , Andrew Zic , Lawrence Toomey , Shi Dai , Alex Dunning , Di Li , Tommy Marshman , Chen Wang , Pei Wang , Shuangqiang Wang , Songbo Zhang

We describe the software package $\texttt{ESpRESSO}$ - [E]xtragalactic [Sp]ectroscopic [R]oman [E]mulator and [S]imulator of [S]ynthetic [O]bjects, created to emulate the slitless spectroscopic observing modes of the Nancy Grace Roman Space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Austen Gabrielpillai , Isak G. B. Wold , Sangeeta Malhotra , James Rhoads , Guangjun Gao , Mainak Singha , Anton M. Koekemoer

There are many science applications that require scalable task-level parallelism and support for flexible execution and coupling of ensembles of simulations. Most high-performance system software and middleware, however, are designed to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Vivekanandan Balasubramanian , Antons Treikalis , Ole Weidner , Shantenu Jha

The JETSCAPE simulation framework is an overarching computational envelope for developing complete event generators for heavy-ion collisions. It allows for modular incorporation of a wide variety of existing and future software that…

We have developed a framework for the Monte-Carlo simulation of the X-Ray Telescopes (XRT) and the X-ray Imaging Spectrometers (XIS) onboard Suzaku, mainly for the scientific analysis of spatially and spectroscopically complex celestial…

Transition-edge sensors (TESs) are capable of highly accurate single particle energy measurement. TESs have been used for a wide range of photon detection applications, particularly in astronomy, but very little consideration has been given…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-11 K. M. Patel , S. Withington , C. N. Thomas , A. G. Shard , D. J. Goldie

We present Synthesizer, a fast, flexible, modular and extensible platform for modelling synthetic astrophysical observables. Synthesizer can be used for a number of applications, but is predominantly designed for generating mock observables…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Christopher C. Lovell , William J. Roper , Aswin P. Vijayan , Stephen M. Wilkins , Sophie Newman , Louise Seeyave

The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is a hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy device to be mounted in the Solar Orbiter cluster with the aim of providing images and spectra of solar flaring regions at different photon energies…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-23 Sara Giordano , Nicola Pinamonti , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone