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X-ray astronomy is an important tool in the astrophysicist's toolkit to investigate high-energy astrophysical phenomena. Theoretical numerical simulations of astrophysical sources are fully three-dimensional representations of physical…

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The scarcity of data acquired under actual space operational conditions poses a significant challenge for developing learning-based visual navigation algorithms crucial for autonomous spacecraft navigation. This data shortage is primarily…

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A new generation of exoplanet research beckons and with it the need for simulation tools that accurately predict signal and noise in transit spectroscopy observations. We developed ExoSim: an end-to-end simulator that models noise and…

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The Space Telescope Imaging Product Simulator (STIPS) is a Python-based package that can be used to simulate scenes from the upcoming \textit{Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope} (\nancy). STIPS is able to generate post-pipeline astronomical…

Most of the solar physicists use very expensive software for data reduction and visualization. We present hereafter a reliable freeware solution based on the Python language. This is made possible by the association of the latter with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-11 F. Paletou , R. Rezaei , L. Leger

The study of complex many-body systems via analysis of the trajectories of the units that dynamically move and interact within them is a non-trivial task. The workflow for extracting meaningful information from the raw trajectory data is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-31 Simone Martino , Matteo Becchi , Andrew Tarzia , Daniele Rapetti , Giovanni M. Pavan

We present PyAtoms, an interactive open-source software that rapidly simulates atomic-scale scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and other scanning probe microscopy (SPM) images of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials, moir\'{e} systems,…

Space-based telescopes offer unparalleled opportunities for characterising exoplanets, Solar System bodies and stellar objects. However, observatories in low Earth orbits (e.g. Hubble, CHEOPS, Twinkle and an ever increasing number of…

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The Spinsim python package simulates spin-half and spin-one quantum mechanical systems following a time dependent Shroedinger equation. It makes use of numba.cuda, which is an LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) compiler for Nvidia Cuda…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Alex Tritt , Joshua Morris , Joel Hochstetter , R. P. Anderson , James Saunderson , L. D. Turner

This paper presents a simulation workflow for generating synthetic LiDAR datasets to support autonomous vehicle perception, robotics research, and sensor security analysis. Leveraging the CoppeliaSim simulation environment and its Python…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Abhishek Phadke , Shakib Mahmud Dipto , Pratip Rana

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

In this paper, based on the spatio-temporal correlation of sensor nodes in the Internet of Things (IoT), a Spatio-temporal Scope information model (SSIM) is proposed to quantify the scope valuable information of sensor data, which decays…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Yang Liu , Chen Dong , Xiaoqi Qin , Xiaodong Xu

In this paper we present an open source framework developed in Python and consisting of three distinct classes designed to manipulate in a simple and intuitive way both symbolic representations of neutrosophic sets over universes of various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Giorgio Nordo , Saeid Jafari , Arif Mehmood , Bhimraj Basumatary

Spectro Capture is a Python-based software system developed to automate small- observatory fibre-fed spectroscopy. The system integrates target selection, telescope slewing, guide star acquisition, fibre position restoration, calibration…

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We propose a framework to develop cyber solutions to support the remote steering of science instruments and measurements collection over instrument-computing ecosystems. It is based on provisioning separate data and control connections at…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Anees Al-Najjar , Nageswara S. V. Rao , Ramanan Sankaran , Helia Zandi , Debangshu Mukherjee , Maxim Ziatdinov , Craig Bridges

This paper presents SunPy (version 0.5), a community-developed Python package for solar physics. Python, a free, cross-platform, general-purpose, high-level programming language, has seen widespread adoption among the scientific community,…

We present the first public release of ShapePipe, an open-source and modular weak-lensing measurement, analysis, and validation pipeline written in Python. We describe the design of the software and justify the choices made. We provide a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 S. Farrens , A. Guinot , M. Kilbinger , T. Liaudat , L. Baumont , X. Jimenez , A. Peel , A. Pujol , M. Schmitz , J. -L. Starck , A. Z. Vitorelli

The characterization of exoplanet requires reliable determination of the fundamental parameters of their host stars. Spectral fitting plays an important role in this process. For the majority of stellar parameters matching synthetic spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Ansgar Wehrhahn , Nikolai Piskunov , Tanja Ryabchikova