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(Abridged) The CASA software suite, can now reduce very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data with the recent addition of a fringe fitter. Here, we present the Radboud PIpeline for the Calibration of high Angular Resolution Data…

This paper describes the MegaPipe image processing pipeline at the Canadian Astronomical Data Centre (CADC). The pipeline takes multiple images from the MegaCam mosaic camera on CFHT and combines them into a single output image. MegaPipe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-20 Stephen D. J. Gwyn

We present the first public version of SImMER, an open-source Python reduction pipeline for astronomical images of point sources. Current capabilities include dark-subtraction, flat-fielding, sky-subtraction, image registration, FWHM…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Arjun B. Savel , Lea A. Hirsch , Holden Gill , Courtney D. Dressing , David R. Ciardi

The search for extrasolar planets has driven rapid advances in instrumentation, resulting in cameras such as SPHERE at the VLT, GPI at Gemini South and SCExAO at Subaru, capable of achieving very high contrast ($\sim10^{6}$) around bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 P. Scicluna , F. Kemper , R. Siebenmorgen , R. Wesson , J. A. D. L. Blommaert , S. Wolf

We describe the calibration and imaging heuristics developed and deployed in the ALMA interferometric data processing pipeline, as of ALMA Cycle 9. The pipeline software framework is written in Python, with each data reduction stage layered…

We present the end-to-end data reduction pipeline for SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy), the upcoming thermal-infrared, diffraction-limited imager, and low and medium-resolution integral field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Athira Unni , Steph Sallum , Peyton Benac , Michael P. Fitzgerald , Max Brodheim , Rosalie McGurk , Andy Skemer , William T. S. Deich

Written in Python and utilising ParselTongue to interface with the Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS), the e-MERLIN data reduction pipeline is intended to automate the procedures required in processing and calibrating radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-18 Megan Argo

Modern radio interferometric arrays offer high sensitivity, wide fields of view, and broad frequency coverage, but also pose significant data calibration challenges. Standard direction-independent calibration is insufficient to correct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-18 Hao Peng , Fangxia An , Yuheng Zhang , Srikrishna Sekhar , Russ Taylor , Xianzhong Zheng , Yongming Liang

An object detection pipeline comprises a camera that captures the scene and an object detector that processes these images. The quality of the images directly affects the performance of the object detector. Many works nowadays focus either…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Leon Amadeus Varga , Sebastian Koch , Andreas Zell

We report the design, operation, and performance of a next generation high-speed data acquisition system for multi-channel infrared and optical photometry based on the modern technologies of Field Programmable Gate Arrays, the Peripheral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Dae-Sik Moon , Bruce E. Pirger , Stephen S. Eikenberry

In this paper, we demonstrate a new method for fitting galaxy profiles which makes use of the full multi-wavelength data provided by modern large optical-near-infrared imaging surveys. We present a new version of GALAPAGOS, which utilises a…

The Compton camera is a gamma-ray imaging device developed in the 1970s. In the 1990s, the COMPTEL detector onboard the CGRO was the first to utilize a Compton camera for MeV all-sky survey observations. Recently, various Compton cameras…

Recent image restoration methods have produced significant advancements using deep learning. However, existing methods tend to treat the whole image as a single entity, failing to account for the distinct objects in the image that exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Jiaxi Jiang , Christian Holz

MeerKATHI is the current development name for a radio-interferometric data reduction pipeline, assembled by an international collaboration. We create a publicly available end-to-end continuum- and line imaging pipeline for MeerKAT and other…

We present flame, a pipeline for reducing spectroscopic observations obtained with multi-slit near-infrared and optical instruments. Because of its flexible design, flame can be easily applied to data obtained with a wide variety of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-29 Sirio Belli , Alessandra Contursi , Richard I. Davies

In this paper we describe an unmanned aerial system equipped with a thermal-infrared camera and software pipeline that we have developed to monitor animal populations for conservation purposes. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach to tackle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 S. N. Longmore , R. P. Collins , S. Pfeifer , S. E. Fox , M. Mulero-Pazmany , F. Bezombes , A. Goodwind , M. de Juan Ovelar , J. H. Knapen , S. A. Wich

The application of infrared hyperspectral imagery to geological problems is becoming more popular as data become more accessible and cost-effective. Clustering and classifying spectrally similar materials is often a first step in…

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The introduction of infrared arrays for lunar occultations (LO) work and the improvement of predictions based on new deep IR catalogues have resulted in a large increase in the number of observable occultations. We provide the means for an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 O. Fors , A. Richichi , X. Otazu , J. Nunez

Virtual representations of physical critical infrastructures, such as water or energy plants, are used for simulations and digital twins to ensure resilience and continuity of their services. These models usually require 3D point clouds…

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