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Radiation detectors deployed as part of a large urban network or for homeland security monitoring must maintain reliable energy calibration even when subjected to substantial variations in temperature and ambient background radiation.…

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The complexity and accuracy of current and future precision cosmology observational campaigns has made it essential to develop an efficient technique for directly combining simulation and observational datasets to determine cosmological and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Charles Nakhleh , Salman Habib

We describe Rabacus, a Python package for calculating the transfer of hydrogen ionizing radiation in simplified geometries relevant to astronomy and cosmology. We present example solutions for three specific cases: 1) a semi-infinite slab…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 Gabriel Altay , John Wise

Short Read Alignment Mapping Metrics (SRAMM): is an efficient and versatile command line tool providing additional short read mapping metrics, filtering, and graphs. Short read aligners report MAPing Quality (MAPQ), but these methods…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-08 Alvin Chon , Xiaoqiu Huang

With ever increasing data rates produced by modern radio telescopes like LOFAR and future telescopes like the SKA, many data processing steps are overwhelmed by the amount of data that needs to be handled using limited compute resources.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Sarod Yatawatta

We present the open-source image processing software package PySAP (Python Sparse data Analysis Package) developed for the COmpressed Sensing for Magnetic resonance Imaging and Cosmology (COSMIC) project. This package provides a set of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-03 S. Farrens , A. Grigis , L. El Gueddari , Z. Ramzi , Chaithya G. R. , S. Starck , B. Sarthou , H. Cherkaoui , P. Ciuciu , J. -L. Starck

SARAS is a correlation spectrometer connected to a frequency independent antenna that is purpose-designed for precision measurements of the radio background at long wavelengths. The design, calibration and observing strategies admit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nipanjana Patra , Ravi Subrahmanyan , Shiv Sethi , N. Udaya Shankar , A. Raghunathan

Accurate characterization of modern on-chip antennas remains challenging, as current probe-station techniques offer limited angular coverage, rely on bespoke hardware, and require frequent manual alignment. This research introduces RAPTAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Maaz Qureshi , Mohammad Omid Bagheri , Abdelrahman Elbadrawy , William Melek , George Shaker

Rasnik is a three-point optical displacement sensor originally developed for particle detector alignment in high-energy physics experiments, including the muon chambers of L3 at LEP and ATLAS at the LHC. The system has evolved from…

High-brightness X-ray pulses, as generated at synchrotrons and X-ray free electron lasers (XFEL), are used in a variety of scientific experiments. Many experimental testbeds require optical equipment, e.g Compound Refractive Lenses (CRLs),…

SpectraMatcher is a cross-platform desktop application for interactive comparison of experimental and computed vibronic spectra, designed to assist in the recognition and assignment of spectral patterns. It provides an intuitive graphical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Johanna Langner , Isabelle Weber , Henryk A. Witek , Yuan-Pern Lee

In the last decade, imaging polarimeters based on micropolarizer arrays have been developed for use in terrestrial remote sensing and metrology applications. Micropolarizer-based sensors are dramatically smaller and more mechanically robust…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-26 Dmitry Vorobiev , Zoran Ninkov , Neal Brock

The article provides a brief description of the software package DECH for processing and analysis of astronomical spectra. DECH supports all stages of processing and analysis of spectral data, including image preprocessing, spectra…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 G. A. Galazutdinov

ARC 3.0 is a modular, object-oriented Python library combining data and algorithms to enable the calculation of a range of properties of alkali and divalent atoms. Building on the initial version of the ARC library [N. \v{S}ibali\'c et al,…

Radio Interferometry is an essential method for astronomical observations. Self-calibration techniques have increased the quality of the radio astronomical observations (and hence the science) by orders of magnitude. Recently, there is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-03 Sarod Yatawatta , Saleem Zaroubi , Ger de Bruyn , Leon Koopmans , Jan Noordam

In this paper, we consider a class of convex programming problems with linear equality constraints, which finds broad applications in machine learning and signal processing. We propose a new adaptive balanced augmented Lagrangian (ABAL)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Jiageng Wu , Bo Jiang , Xinxin Li , Ya-Feng Liu , Jianhua Yuan

SpectraPy is an Astropy affiliated package for spectroscopic data reduction. It collects algorithms and methods for data reduction of astronomical spectra obtained by through-slits spectrographs. It has been created to fill the gap in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Marco Fumana

The Physics of the Accelerating Universe (PAU) camera is an optical narrow band and broad band imaging instrument mounted at the prime focus of the William Herschel Telescope. We describe the image calibration procedure of the PAU Survey…

The latest generation of high-resolution spectrograph instruments on 10m-class telescopes continue to pursue challenging science cases. Consequently, ever more precise calibration methods are necessary to enable trail-blazing science…

A new method for absolute polarimetric calibration of large telescopes is presented. The proposed method is highly accurate and is based on the calibration of a small sub-aperture, which is then extended to the full system by means of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Socas-Navarro