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ScopeSim is a flexible multipurpose instrument data simulation framework built in Python. It enables both raw and reduced observation data to be simulated for a wide range of telescopes and instruments quickly and efficiently on a personal…

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The rapid advancement of image analysis methods in time-domain astronomy, particularly those leveraging AI algorithms, has highlighted efficient image pre-processing as a critical bottleneck affecting algorithm performance. Image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Liang Cao , Peng Jia , Jiaxin Li , Yu Song , Chengkun Hou , Yushan Li

The amount of remote sensing data available to applications is constantly growing due to the rise of very-high-resolution sensors and short repeat cycle satellites. Consequently, tackling computational complexity in Earth Observation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Remi Cresson

We aim to provide a suite of publicly available spectral data reduction software to facilitate rapid scientific outcomes from time-domain observations. For time resolved observations, an automated pipeline frees astronomers from performance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-13 Marco C Lam , Robert J Smith , Iain A Steele

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

Data volumes and rates of research infrastructures will continue to increase in the upcoming years and impact how we interact with their final data products. Little of the processed data can be directly investigated and most of it will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Michael A. C. Johnson , Hans-Rainer Klöckner , Albina Muzafarova , Kristen Lackeos , David J. Champion , Marta Dembska , Sirko Schindler , Marcus Paradies

In recent years, significant advances have been made in exoplanet and brown dwarf observations. By using state-of-the-art models, astronomers can determine properties of their atmospheres, such as temperatures, the presence of clouds, or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Sam de Regt , Siddharth Gandhi , Louis Siebenaler , Darío González Picos

The quality of modern astronomical data, the power of modern computers and the agility of current image-processing software enable the creation of high-quality images in a purely digital form. The combination of these technological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. A. Rector , Z. G. Levay , L. M. Frattare , J. English , K. Pu'uohau-Pummill

PypeIt is a Python package for semi-automated reduction of astronomical, spectroscopic data. Its algorithms build on decades-long development of previous data reduction pipelines by the developers (Bernstein, Burles, & Prochaska, 2015;…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 J. Xavier Prochaska , Joseph F. Hennawi , Kyle B. Westfall , Ryan J. Cooke , Feige Wang , Tiffany Hsyu , Frederick B. Davies , Emanuele Paolo Farina

ASTRA is a Python package that provides a modular, instrument-independent interface for working with high-resolution stellar spectra. Designed to support data from multiple spectrographs, including ESPRESSO (Pepe et al., 2021), HARPS (Mayor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 André M. Silva , J. P. Faria , N. C. Santos , S. G. Sousa , P. T. P. Viana , J. H. C. Martins

With the growing amount of astronomical data, there is an increasing need for automated data processing pipelines, which can extract scientific information from observation data without human interventions. A critical aspect of these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Peng Jia , Yu Song , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning

In this paper we describe the main features of the software package named FITSH, intended to provide a standalone environment for analysis of data acquired by imaging astronomical detectors. The package provides utilities both for the full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 András Pál

Cosmic-ray observatories necessarily rely on Monte Carlo simulations for their design, calibration and analysis of their data. Detailed simulations are very demanding computationally. We present a python-based package called ShowerModel to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-02 Daniel Morcuende , Jaime Rosado

We present a Python-based framework for the complete operation of a robotic telescope observatory. It provides out-of-the-box support for many popular camera types while other hardware like telescopes, domes, and weather stations can easily…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-25 Tim-Oliver Husser , Frederic V. Hessman , Sven Martens , Tilman Masur , Karl Royen , Sebastian Schäfer

Access to astronomical data through archives and VO is essential but does not solve all problems. Availability of appropriate software for analyzing the data is often equally important for the efficiency with which a researcher can publish…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-27 P. Grosbol , D. Tody

Spectral line observations encode a wealth of information. A key challenge, therefore, lies in the interpretation of these observations in terms of models to derive the physical and chemical properties of the astronomical environments from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Frederik De Ceuster , Thomas Ceulemans , Leen Decin , Taïssa Danilovich , Jeremy Yates

Astronomical imaging remains noise-limited under practical observing conditions. Standard calibration pipelines remove structured artifacts but largely leave stochastic noise unresolved. Although learning-based denoising has shown strong…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Shuhong Liu , Xining Ge , Ziying Gu , Quanfeng Xu , Lin Gu , Ziteng Cui , Xuangeng Chu , Jun Liu , Dong Li , Tatsuya Harada

Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA; (Paxton2011, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019, Jermyn 2023) is a widely used open-source software for modelling stellar evolution. In many studies, the computational grids covers thousands of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-12 D. Tarczay-Nehéz

Research into the processes of photoionised nebulae plays a significant part in our understanding of stellar evolution. It is extremely difficult to visually represent or model ionised nebula, requiring astronomers to employ sophisticated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-26 K. Fitzgerald , E. J Harvey , N. Keaveney , M. Redman

This report introduces Juno, a modular Python package for optical design and simulation. Juno consists of a complete library that includes a graphical user interface to design and visualise arbitrary optical elements, set up wave…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-27 David Dierickx , Patrick Cleeve , Sergey Gorelick , James C. Whisstock , Alex De Marco