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We present the second data release of the COSMOS Lyman-Alpha Mapping And Tomography Observations (CLAMATO) Survey conducted with the LRIS spectrograph on the Keck-I telescope. This project used Lyman-alpha forest absorption in the spectra…

We present a harmonic model for the data analysis of an all-sky cosmic microwave background survey, such as Planck, where the survey is obtained through ring-scans of the sky. In this model, resampling and pixelisation of the data are…

Computational wave imaging (CWI) extracts hidden structure and physical properties of a volume of material by analyzing wave signals that traverse that volume. Applications include seismic exploration of the Earth's subsurface, acoustic…

Low-photon phase imaging is essential in applications where the signal is limited by short exposure times, faint targets, or the need to protect delicate samples. We address this challenge with Poisson Wavefront Imaging (PWI), an…

The sensitivity of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) based on coplanar waveguides (CPWs) needs to be improved by at least an order of magnitude to satisfy the requirements for space-based terahertz astronomy. Our aim is to…

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Multi-wavelength imaging polarimetry at far-infrared wavelengths has proven to be an excellent tool for studying the physical properties of dust, molecular clouds, and magnetic fields in the interstellar medium. Although these wavelengths…

The Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) is the first deep-space solar spectropolarimeter, on-board the Solar Orbiter (SO) space mission. It faces: stringent requirements on science data accuracy, a dynamic environment, and severe…

The Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) is an instrument designed to make images of the cosmic microwave background radiation and to measure its statistical properties on angular scales from about 3 arc minutes to one degree (spherical harmonic…

To support the development of the data processing pipeline and the scientific performance assessment for the Cool Planet Imaging Coronagraph (CPI-C) on the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST), we have developed the end-to-end…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-14 Gang Zhao , Yiming Zhu , Jiangpei Dou , Yili Chen , Zhonghua Lv , Bingli Niu , Zhaojun Yan , Bo Ma , Ran Li

This paper provides an overview of the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) programme within the ESA Planck mission. The LFI instrument has been developed to produce high precision maps of the microwave sky at frequencies in the range 27-77 GHz,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 N. Mandolesi , M. Bersanelli , R. C. Butler , E. Artal , C. Baccigalupi , A. Balbi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , M. Bartelmann , K. Bennett , P. Bhandari , A. Bonaldi , J. Borrill , M. Bremer , C. Burigana , R. C. Bowman , P. Cabella , C. Cantalupo , B. Cappellini , T. Courvoisier , G. Crone , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , O. D'Arcangelo , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , L. De Angelis , G. de Gasperis , A. De Rosa , G. De Troia , G. de Zotti , J. Dick , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , S. Donzelli , U. Dörl , X. Dupac , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , M. C. Falvella , F. Finelli , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , T. Gaier , S. Galeotta , F. Gasparo , G. Giardino , F. Gomez , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , F. Hansen , R. Hell , D. Herranz , J. M. Herreros , S. Hildebrandt , W. Hovest , R. Hoyland , K. Huffenberger , M. Janssen , T. Jaffe , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. Lähteenmäki , C. R. Lawrence , S. M. Leach , J. P. Leahy , R. Leonardi , S. Levin , P. B. Lilje , M. López-Caniego , S. R. Lowe , P. M. Lubin , D. Maino , M. Malaspina , M. Maris , J. Marti-Canales , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , M. Massardi , S. Matarrese , F. Matthai , P. Meinhold , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , G. Morgante , G. Morigi , N. Morisset , A. Moss , A. Nash , P. Natoli , R. Nesti , C. Paine , B. Partridge , F. Pasian , T. Passvogel , D. Pearson , L. Pérez-Cuevas , F. Perrotta , G. Polenta , L. A. Popa , T. Poutanen , G. Prezeau , M. Prina , J. P. Rachen , R. Rebolo , M. Reinecke , S. Ricciardi , T. Riller , G. Rocha , N. Roddis , R. Rohlfs , J. A. Rubiño-Martin , E. Salerno , M. Sandri , D. Scott , M. Seiffert , J. Silk , A. Simonetto , G. F. Smoot , C. Sozzi , J. Sternberg , F. Stivoli , L. Stringhetti , J. Tauber , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , J. Tuovinen , M. Türler , L. Valenziano , J. Varis , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , L. Wade , M. White , S. White , A. Wilkinson , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

We present SIPGI, a spectroscopic pipeline to reduce optical/near-infrared data from slit-based spectrographs. SIPGI is a complete spectroscopic data reduction environment which retains the high level of flexibility and accuracy typical of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-13 A. Gargiulo , M. Fumana , S. Bisogni , P. Franzetti , L. P. Cassarà , B. Garilli , M. Scodeggio , G. Vietri

To address the the problem of calibration of instrument systematics in transit light curves, we present the Python package ExoTiC-ISM. Transit spectroscopy can reveal many different chemical components in exoplanet atmospheres, but such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-16 Iva Laginja , Hannah R. Wakeford

We developed a Python based framework for astronomical image processing and analysis. Astronomical image loading, normalizing, stacking, and filtering processes represent visible range images from grayscale. Besides, the blending process…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Tanmoy Bhowmik , MD Fardin Islam , Kazi Nusrat Tasneem , Rantideb Roy , Rownok Shahariar

The Python Sky Model (PySM) is a Python package used by Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments to simulate maps, in HEALPix pixelization, of the various diffuse astrophysical components of Galactic emission relevant at CMB…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Andrea Zonca , Ben Thorne , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Julian Borrill

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI), which uses iterative methods to estimate high-resolution subsurface models from seismograms, is a powerful imaging technique in exploration geophysics. In recent years, the computational cost of FWI…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-11-28 Shihang Feng , Youzuo Lin , Brendt Wohlberg

The angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies is a key tool to study the Universe. However, it is blind to the presence of non--Gaussianities and deviations from statistical isotropy, which instead can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Alessandro Carones , Javier Carrón Duque , Domenico Marinucci , Marina Migliaccio , Nicola Vittorio

The increasing availability of high-quality optical and near-infrared spectroscopic data, as well as advances in modelling techniques, have greatly expanded the scientific potential of spectroscopic studies. However, the software tools…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Daniele Gasparri , Lorenzo Morelli , Umberto Battino , Jairo Méndez Abreu , Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres

The venerable NOD2 data reduction software package for single-dish radio continuum observations, developed for use at the 100-m Effelsberg radio telescope, has been successfully applied over many decades. Modern computing facilities call…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Peter Müller , Marita Krause , Rainer Beck , Philip Schmidt

We describe the processing of the 531 billion raw data samples from the High Frequency Instrument (hereafter HFI), which we performed to produce six temperature maps from the first 473 days of Planck-HFI survey data. These maps provide an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 Planck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , C. Armitage-Caplan , M. Arnaud , M. Ashdown , F. Atrio-Barandela , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoît , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. Bobin , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , J. W. Bowyer , M. Bridges , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , A. Chamballu , R. -R. Chary , X. Chen , L. -Y Chiang , H. C. Chiang , P. R. Christensen , S. Church , D. L. Clements , S. Colombi , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , F. Couchot , A. Coulais , B. P. Crill , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , F. -X. Désert , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , M. Douspis , J. Dunkley , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , S. Galeotta , K. Ganga , M. Giard , G. Giardino , D. Girard , Y. Giraud-Héraud , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , F. K. Hansen , D. Hanson , D. Harrison , G. Helou , S. Henrot-Versillé , O. Herent , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , A. Hornstrup , Z. Hou , W. Hovest , K. M. Huffenberger , G. Hurier , T. R. Jaffe , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , T. S. Kisner , R. Kneissl , J. Knoche , L. Knox , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , R. J. Laureijs , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , R. Leonardi , C. Leroy , J. Lesgourgues , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Linden-Vørnle , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macías-Pérez , C. J. MacTavish , B. Maffei , N. Mandolesi , M. Maris , D. J. Marshall , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , F. Matthai , P. Mazzotta , P. McGehee , P. R. Meinhold , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , S. Mottet , D. Munshi , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , C. North , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , F. Orieux , S. Osborne , C. A. Oxborrow , F. Paci , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , R. Paladini , D. Paoletti , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , O. Perdereau , L. Perotto , F. Perrotta , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , N. Ponthieu , L. Popa , T. Poutanen , G. W. Pratt , G. Prézeau , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , B. Racine , W. T. Reach , R. Rebolo , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , S. Ricciardi , T. Riller , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , G. Roudier , M. Rowan-Robinson , B. Rusholme , L. Sanselme , D. Santos , A. Sauvé , G. Savini , E. P. S. Shellard , L. D. Spencer , J. -L. Starck , V. Stolyarov , R. Stompor , R. Sudiwala , F. Sureau , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , S. Techene , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , M. Tucci , G. Umana , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , L. Vibert , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , S. D. M. White , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

HSTCosmicrays is a python-based pipeline designed to find and characterize cosmic rays found in dark frames (exposures taken with the shutter closed). Dark exposures are obtained routinely by all the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) instruments…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-24 N. D. Miles , S. Deustua , G. Tancredi