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Libpsht (or "library for Performant Spherical Harmonic Transforms") is a collection of algorithms for efficient conversion between spatial-domain and spectral-domain representations of data defined on the sphere. The package supports…

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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,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-21 Raniere de Menezes , Francesco Massaro , Michela Negro , Claudia M. Raiteri , Harold Peña-Herazo , Jose A. Acosta-Pulido

We present a convenient, all-in-one framework for the scientific analysis of fully reduced, (integral-field) spectroscopic data. The GIST pipeline (Galaxy IFU Spectroscopy Tool) is entirely written in Python3 and conducts all steps from the…

Within academia and industry, there has been a need for expansive simulation frameworks that include model-based simulation of sensors, mobile vehicles, and the environment around them. To this end, the modular, real-time, and open-source…

The use of Python is noticeably growing among the scientific community, and Astronomy is not an exception. The power of Python consists of being an extremely versatile high-level language, easy to program that combines both traditional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-16 Daniel M. Faes

To reduce and analyze astronomical images, astronomers can rely on a wide range of libraries providing low-level implementations of legacy algorithms. However, combining these routines into robust and functional pipelines requires a major…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Lionel J. Garcia , Mathilde Timmermans , Francisco J. Pozuelos , Elsa Ducrot , Michaël Gillon , Laetitia Delrez , Robert D. Wells , Emmanuël Jehin

In a continued quest to monitor subsecond surface dynamics on the atomic scale and to improve imaging resolution, a FAST module to accelerate existing scanning probe microscopy setups was previously presented. Hereby, the speedup is enabled…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-30 K. Briegel , F. Riccius , J. Filser , A. Bourgund , R. Spitzenpfeil , M. Panighel , C. Dri , B. A. J. Lechner , F. Esch

An open source software package for performing dynamic RMS simulation of small to medium-sized power systems is presented, written entirely in the Python programming language. The main objective is to facilitate fast prototyping of new wide…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-11 Hallvar Haugdal , Kjetil Uhlen

pySLAM is an open-source Python framework for Visual SLAM that supports monocular, stereo, and RGB-D camera inputs. It offers a flexible and modular interface, integrating a broad range of both classical and learning-based local features.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Luigi Freda

We present a data simulation package designed to create a series of simulated data samples for a detector with non-destructive sampling capability. The original intent of this software was to provide a method for generating simulated images…

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has imaging, four coronagraphs and both low and medium resolution spectroscopic modes . Being able to simulate MIRI observations will help commissioning of the…

We present a numerical code to simulate maps of Galactic emission in intensity and polarization at microwave frequencies, aiding in the design of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. This Python code builds on existing efforts to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Ben Thorne , Jo Dunkley , David Alonso , Sigurd Naess

We present a newly developed software package which implements a wide range of routines frequently used in Weak Gravitational Lensing (WL). With the continuously increasing size of the WL scientific community we feel that easy to use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-18 Andrea Petri

As observational datasets become larger and more complex, so too are the questions being asked of these data. Data simulations, i.e., synthetic data with properties (pixelization, noise, PSF, artifacts, etc.) akin to real data, are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-25 Molly S. Peeples , Bjorn Emonts , Mark Kyprianou , Matthew T. Penny , Gregory F. Snyder , Christopher C. Stark , Michael Troxel , Neil T. Zimmerman , John ZuHone

We present PyMoosh, a Python-based simulation library designed to provide a comprehensive set of numerical tools allowing to compute essentially all optical characteristics of multilayered structures, ranging from reflectance and…

PySPH is an open-source, Python-based, framework for particle methods in general and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in particular. PySPH allows a user to define a complete SPH simulation using pure Python. High-performance code is…

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

Molecular simulations are an important tool for research in physics, chemistry, and biology. The capabilities of simulations can be greatly expanded by providing access to advanced sampling methods and techniques that permit calculation of…

Synthesizer is a fast, flexible, modular, and extensible Python package that empowers astronomers to turn theoretical galaxy models into realistic synthetic observations - including spectra, photometry, images, and spectral cubes - with a…

This work introduces a new software package `Sesame' for the numerical computation of classical semiconductor equations. It supports 1 and 2-dimensional systems and provides tools to easily implement extended defects such as grain…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Benoit Gaury , Yubo Sun , Peter Bermel , Paul M. Haney