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Stellar activity interferes with precise radial velocity measurements and limits our ability to detect and characterize planets, particularly Earth-like planets. We introduce \aestra (Auto-Encoding STellar Radial-velocity and Activity), a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-01 Yan Liang , Joshua N. Winn , Peter Melchior

The study of stellar oscillations - asteroseismology - has revolutionized our understanding of the physical properties of the Sun, and similar potential for other stars has been demonstrated in recent years. In particular, asteroseismic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Stello , H. Kjeldsen , T. R. Bedding

We describe the application of data mining algorithms to research problems in astronomy. We posit that data mining has always been fundamental to astronomical research, since data mining is the basis of evidence-based discovery, including…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-04 Kirk Borne

Asteroseismology, as a tool to use the indirect information contained in stellar oscillations to probe the stellar interiors, is an active field of research presently. Stellar age, as a fundamental property of star apart from its mass, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. K. Tang , S. L. Bi , N. Gai

We develop a novel method based on machine learning principles to achieve optimal initiation of CPU-intensive computations for forward asteroseismic modeling in a multi-D parameter space. A deep neural network is trained on a precomputed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Luc Hendriks , Conny Aerts

Stata users have access to two easy-to-use implementations of Bayesian inference: Stata's native {\tt bayesmh} function and StataStan, which calls the general Bayesian engine Stan. We compare these on two models that are important for…

Computation · Statistics 2016-12-15 Robert L. Grant , Daniel C. Furr , Bob Carpenter , Andrew Gelman

We present BAX, Base de Donn\'ees amas de galaxies X (http://webast.ast.obs-mip.fr/bax), a project aiming at building a comprehensive database dedicated to X-rays clusters of galaxies allowing detailed information retrieval. BAX provides…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Sadat , A. Blanchard , C. Mendiboure

We present the Bayesian Extinction And Stellar Tool (BEAST), a probabilistic approach to modeling the dust extinguished photometric spectral energy distribution of an individual star while accounting for observational uncertainties common…

Asteroseismic parameters allow us to measure the basic stellar properties of field giants observed far across the Galaxy. Most of such determinations are, up to now, based on simple scaling relations involving the large frequency…

PBjam is an open-source software package for measuring mode frequencies of solar-like oscillators. These frequencies help constrain stellar evolution models to precisely estimate masses, radii, and ages of stars. The overall aim of PBjam is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-26 M. B. Nielsen , J. M. J. Ong , E. J. Hatt , G. R. Davies , W. J. Chaplin , G. T. Hookway , A. Stokholm , O. J. Scutt , M. N. Lund , R. A. Garcıa

The measured properties of stellar oscillations can provide powerful constraints on the internal structure and composition of stars. To begin this process, oscillation frequencies must be extracted from the observational data, typically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Brendon J. Brewer , Dennis Stello

Star clusters are studied widely both as benchmarks for stellar evolution models and in their own right. Cluster age and mass distributions within galaxies are probes of star formation histories, and of cluster formation and disruption…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Morgan Fouesneau , Ariane Lançon

PRAIA - Package for the Reduction of Astronomical Images Automatically - is a suite of astrometric and photometric tasks designed to cope with huge amounts of heterogeneous observations with fast processing, no human intervention, minimum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 M. Assafin

We have implemented an extension for the observational seismology obspy software package to provide a streamlined tool tailored to the processing of seismic signals from non-earthquake sources, in particular those from deforming systems…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-08-20 Ross J. Turner , Rebecca B. Latto , Anya M. Reading

AstroStat is an easy-to-use tool for performing statistical analysis on data. It has been designed to be compatible with Virtual Observatory (VO) standards thus enabling it to become an integral part of the currently available collection of…

The All-Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) appeared to be extremely useful in establishing the census of bright variable stars in the sky. A short review of the characteristics of the ASAS data and discoveries based on these data and related to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrzej Pigulski

I describe a method to transform a set of stellar evolution tracks onto a uniform basis and then interpolate within that basis to construct stellar isochrones. The method accommodates a broad range of stellar types, from substellar objects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-21 Aaron Dotter

We present a Bayesian algorithm to combine optical imaging of unresolved objects from distinct epochs and observation platforms for orbit determination and tracking. By propagating the non-Gaussian uncertainties we are able to optimally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-26 Michael D. Schneider , William A. Dawson

The Evolution STEllaire en Rotation (ESTER) code is the first 2D stellar structure code to be made open-source and freely available to the astronomy and astrophysics community. An important and novel advancement of this code is that it can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-29 Russel White , Jane Pratt , Michel Rieutord

Low amplitude is the defining characteristic of solar-like oscillations. The space projects $Kepler$ and $CoRoT$ give us a great opportunity to successfully detect such oscillations in numerous targets. Achievements of asteroseismology…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Yıldız , Z. Çelik Orhan , Ç. Aksoy , S. Ok