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We present a new Python pipeline for processing data from astronomical long-slit spectroscopy observations recorded with CCD detectors. The pipeline is designed to aim for simplicity, manual execution, transparency and robustness. The goal…

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Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) usually suffer from a too moderate quantum efficiency and too large dark current which is often announced as crippling for low flux applications. Despite this reputation we demonstrate the ability…

The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) is an upgrade to the Keck II adaptive optics system and instrument suite with the goal of improving direct imaging and high-resolution spectroscopic characterization capabilities for giant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-24 Evan C. Morris , Jason J. Wang , Jean-Baptiste Ruffio , Jacques-Robert Delorme , Jacklyn Pezzato , Charlotte Z. Bond , Dimitri Mawet , Andrew J. Skemer

We present reduced images and catalogues of photometric and emission line data ($\sim$230,000 and $\sim$8,000 sources, respectively) for the WFC3 Infrared Spectroscopic Parallel (WISP) Survey. These data are made publicly available on the…

KMOS is a multi-object near-infrared integral field spectrometer with 24 deployable cryogenic pick-off arms. Inevitably, data processing is a complex task that requires careful calibration and quality control. In this paper we describe all…

In this paper we review THELI (Erben & Schrimer, 2005), an image processing pipeline developed to reduce multi-pointing optical images taken by mosaic CCD cameras. This pipeline works on raw images by removing several instrumental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-04 R. Joveini , S. Sotoudeh , A. Roozrokh , M. Taheri

The Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) is one of the two instruments onboard the ESA PLANCK satellite foreseen to be launched in 2007. The LFI will image the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies and the polarization in four different…

Cosmic microwave background experiments have experienced an exponential increase in complexity, data size and sensitivity. One of the goals of current and future experiments is to characterize the B-mode power spectrum, which would be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-07 P. Fluxá , M. K. Brewer , R. Dünner

We developed a software pipeline for quality control (QC) of histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) that segments various regions, such as blurs of different levels, tissue regions, tissue folds, and pen marks. Given the necessity and…

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We present zea (pronounced ze-yah), a Python package for cognitive ultrasound imaging that offers a flexible, modular, and differentiable pipeline for ultrasound data processing. Additionally, it includes a collection of pre-defined models…

Various aspects of cosmology require comprehensive all-sky mapping of the cosmic web to considerable depths. In order to probe the whole extragalactic sky beyond 100 Mpc, one must draw on multiwavelength datasets and state-of-the-art…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-17 Maciej Bilicki

In this study, we introduce CobWeb 1.0 which is a graphical user interface tailored explicitly for accurate image segmentation and representative elementary volume analysis of digital rock images derived from high resolution tomography. The…

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Optimizing one's observing strategy while at the telescope relies on knowing the current observing conditions and the obtained data quality. In particular the latter is not straight forward with current wide-field imagers, such as the WIYN…

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We report on the design, development and commissioning of an Integral Field Unit (IFU) that has been built for the Echellette Spectrograph and Imager (ESI) at the W.M. Keck Observatory. This image slicer--based IFU, which was commissioned…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. I. Sheinis

Observations of cosmic microwave background polarisation, essential for probing a potential phase of inflation in the early universe, suffer from contamination by polarised emission from the Galactic interstellar medium. This work combines…

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We describe an assembly of numerical tools to model the output data of the Planck satellite. These start with the generation of a CMB sky in a chosen cosmology, add in various foreground sources, convolve the sky signal with arbitrary, even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Reinecke , Klaus Dolag , Reinhard Hell , Matthias Bartelmann , Torsten Ensslin

We present simulations of observations with the 143 GHz channel of the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI). These simulations are performed over the entire sky, using the true angular resolution of this channel: 8 arcmin FWHM, 3.5 arcmin…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Giard , E. Hivon , C. Nguyen , R. Gispert , K. M. Górski , A. Lange , I. Ristorcelli

We present the NPIPE processing pipeline, which produces calibrated frequency maps in temperature and polarization from data from the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) and High Frequency Instrument (HFI) using high-performance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Planck Collaboration , Y. Akrami , K. J. Andersen , M. Ashdown , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , K. Benabed , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , E. Calabrese , B. Casaponsa , H. C. Chiang , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , B. P. Crill , F. Cuttaia , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , E. Di Valentino , J. M. Diego , O. Doré , M. Douspis , X. Dupac , H. K. Eriksen , R. Fernandez-Cobos , F. Finelli , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frolov , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , M. Gerbino , T. Ghosh , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , W. Handley , G. Helou , D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , Z. Huang , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , J. Kim , T. S. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , F. Levrier , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Lilley , V. Lindholm , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macías-Pérez , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Marcos-Caballero , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Matarrese , N. Mauri , J. D. McEwen , P. R. Meinhold , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , S. Mitra , D. Molinari , L. Montier , G. Morgante , A. Moss , P. Natoli , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , G. Patanchon , D. Pearson , T. J. Pearson , F. Perrotta , F. Piacentini , G. Polenta , J. P. Rachen , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , A. Renzi , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , G. Roudier , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Ruiz-Granados , L. Salvati , M. Savelainen , D. Scott , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. D. Spencer , A. -S. Suur-Uski , T. L. Svalheim , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , M. Tenti , L. Terenzi , H. Thommesen , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , T. Trombetti , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

MIRI, the Mid-InfraRed Instrument, is one of four instruments being built for the James Webb Space Telescope, and is developed jointly between an EuropeanConsortium and the US. In this paper we present a software data simulator for one of…

Studying the polarization and spectral distortion of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in tandem with intensity fluctuations of the Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB) allows us to verify our assumptions on cosmic inflation and investigate…