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Strong gravitational lensing, which can make a background source galaxy appears multiple times due to its light rays being deflected by the mass of one or more foreground lens galaxies, provides astronomers with a powerful tool to study…

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,…

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Gravitational lensing - the deflection of light rays by gravitating matter - has become a major tool in the armoury of the modern cosmologist. Proposed nearly a hundred years ago as a key feature of Einstein's theory of General Relativity,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Tommaso Treu , Richard S. Ellis

ABCpy is a highly modular scientific library for Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) written in Python. The main contribution of this paper is to document a software engineering effort that enables domain scientists to easily apply ABC…

The rapid growth in scale and complexity of both computational and observational astrophysics over the past decade necessitates efficient and intuitive methods for examining and visualizing large datasets. Here we discuss some newly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 J. P. Naiman , Kalina Borkiewicz , A. J. Christensen

emcee is a Python library implementing a class of affine-invariant ensemble samplers for Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). This package has been widely applied to probabilistic modeling problems in astrophysics where it was originally…

We prove that the Einstein equations can be solved in a very general form for arbitrary spacetime dimensions and various types of vacuum and non-vacuum cases following a geometric method of anholonomic frame deformations for constructing…

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The demand to obtain answers to highly complex problems within strong-field gravity has been met with significant progress in the numerical solution of Einstein's equations - along with some spectacular results - in various setups. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-11 Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri , Carlos Herdeiro , Ulrich Sperhake

We are entering an era where the numerical construction of generic spacetimes is becoming a reality. The use of computer simulations, in principle, allows us to solve Einstein equations in their full generality and unravel important…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Luis Lehner

This article begins with a brief introduction to numerical relativity aimed at readers who have a background in applied mathematics but not necessarily in general relativity. I then introduce and summarise my work on the problem of treating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-29 Oliver Rinne

Was Einstein wrong? This paper provides a detailed technical review of Einstein's special and general relativity from an astrophysical perspective, including the historical development of the theories, experimental tests, modern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-11 Flora Lopis , Max Tegmark

Zernike polynomials serve as an orthogonal basis on the unit disc, and have proven to be effective in optics simulations, astrophysics, and more recently in plasma simulations. Unlike Bessel functions, Zernike polynomials are inherently…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yigit Gunsur Elmacioglu , Rory Conlin , Daniel W. Dudt , Dario Panici , Egemen Kolemen

In recent years, data has emerged as the new gold, serving as a powerful tool for creating intelligent systems. However, procuring high-quality data remains challenging, especially for code. To address this, we developed TinyPy Generator, a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Kamel Yamani , Marwa Naïr , Riyadh Baghdadi

We present lenscat, a public and community-contributed catalog of strong gravitational lenses found by electromagnetic surveys. The main objective of lenscat is to compile a simple, easy-to-access catalog that can be used in a variety of…

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Since its start in 2014, the lightweight open source Python library Gammapy has come a long way to become a popular data analysis package for high-energy astrophysics. Selected as the official CTAO Science Analysis tool, it is also an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-28 B. Khélifi , R. Terrier , A. Donath , A. Sinha , Q. Remy , F. Pintore

We present the Python Tree Tensor Network package (pyTTN) for the evaluation of dynamical properties of closed and open quantum systems that makes use of Tree Tensor Network (TTN), or equivalently the multi-layer multiconfiguration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Lachlan P Lindoy , Daniel Rodrigo-Albert , Yannic Rath , Ivan Rungger

Computer simulation has become one of the most important tools in scientific research in many disciplines. Benefiting from the dynamical trajectories regulated by versatile interatomic interactions, various material properties can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-28 Y. -C. Hu , J. Tian

NIFTY, "Numerical Information Field Theory", is a software package designed to enable the development of signal inference algorithms that operate regardless of the underlying spatial grid and its resolution. Its object-oriented framework is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-06 Marco Selig , Michael R. Bell , Henrik Junklewitz , Niels Oppermann , Martin Reinecke , Maksim Greiner , Carlos Pachajoa , Torsten A. Enßlin

PyCPL provides full access to ESO's Common Pipeline Library ( CPL) for astronomical data reduction within a Python environment. Not only does it offer a Python interface to the robust CPL library, but it also lets users and developers fully…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-03 Mrunmayi S. Deshpande , Nuria P. F. Lorente , Anthony Horton , Brent Miszalski , Ralf Palsa , Lars Lundin , Anthony Heng , Aidan Farrell

We present the first public release (v0.1) of the open-source GADGET Dataframe Library: gadfly. The aim of this package is to leverage the capabilities of the broader python scientific computing ecosystem by providing tools for analyzing…

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