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Exoplanet science often involves using the system parameters of real exoplanets for tasks such as simulations, fitting routines, and target selection for proposals. Several exoplanet catalogues are already well established but often lack a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ryan Varley

We present Artificial Stellar Populations (ArtPop), an open-source Python package for synthesizing stellar populations and generating artificial images of fully populated stellar systems. The code is designed to be intuitive to use and as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Johnny P. Greco , Shany Danieli

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

High-quality, usable, and effective software is essential for supporting astronomers in the discovery-focused tasks of data analysis and visualisation. As the volume, and perhaps more crucially, the velocity of astronomical data grows, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-01 Christopher J. Fluke , Sarah E. Hegarty , Clare O. -M. MacMahon

This is a companion Focus Demonstration article to the PyMUSE python package, demonstrating its usage and utilities for VLT/MUSE data analysis, that include a wide range of options for spectra extractions, the creation of different types of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-20 Ismael Pessa , Nicolas Tejos , Cristobal Moya

This paper introduces Colossus, a public, open-source python package for calculations related to cosmology, the large-scale structure (LSS) of matter in the universe, and the properties of dark matter halos. The code is designed to be fast…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-20 Benedikt Diemer

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…

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Simbad is the reference database for identification and bibliography of astronomical objects. It contains identifications, `basic data', bibliography, and selected observational measurements for several million astronomical objects. Simbad…

Reliable parameter extraction from experimental data is central to quantitative analysis in spectroscopy, diffraction, photoluminescence, chromatography, microscopy, and time-resolved measurements. We present FitED, a Python-based desktop…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-05-04 Mustafa Mahmoud Aboulsaad

For decades, the growth and volume of digital data collection has made it challenging to digest large volumes of information and extract underlying structure. Coined 'Big Data', massive amounts of information has quite often been gathered…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Andrew Moran , Vijay Gadepally , Matthew Hubbell , Jeremy Kepner

Data from the Herschel Space Observatory is freely available to the public but no uniformly processed catalogue of the observations has been published so far. To date, the Herschel Science Archive does not contain the exact sky coverage…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 László Dobos , Erika Varga-Verebélyi , Eva Verdugo , David Teyssier , Katrina Exter , Ivan Valtchanov , Tamás Budavári , Csaba Kiss

We propose a new, efficient multi-scale method to decompose a map (or signal in general) into components maps that contain structures of different sizes. In the widely-used wave transform, artifacts containing negative values arise around…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-11 Guang-Xing Li

We present Visplot, a free, open-source, web-based tool for hardware-aware visibility analysis and heuristic scheduling of both sidereal and non-sidereal astronomical observations. Visplot computes visibility windows as finite unions of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Emanuel Gafton , Illa R. Losada

The field of astronomy is experiencing a data explosion driven by significant advances in observational instrumentation, and classical methods often fall short of addressing the complexity of modern astronomical datasets. Probabilistic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Abigail Sheerin , Giuseppe Vinci

Accurate visualization of double star astrometric data is essential for effective analysis and interpretation. This article presents a Python toolkit designed for astronomers who need to plot measurements from diverse sources -- historical,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Xinyue Wang

Large-scale structure surveys measure the shapes and positions of millions of galaxies in order to constrain the cosmological model with high precision. The resulting large data volume poses a challenge for the analysis of the data, from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Silvan Fischbacher , Beatrice Moser , Tomasz Kacprzak , Joerg Herbel , Luca Tortorelli , Uwe Schmitt , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara

In this paper we presented the algorithm designed to efficient coordinate cross-match of objects in the modern massive astronomical catalogues. Preliminary data sort in the existed catalogues provides the opportunity for coordinate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-28 Volodymyr Akhmetov , Artem Dmytrenko , Sergii Khlamov

In this work we propose a software platform for the collection, visualization, management and analysis of heterogeneous and multisource data for soil characteristics estimation. The platform is designed in such a way that it can easily…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Flavio Piccoli , Simone Locatelli , Paolo Napoletano , Raimondo Schettini

The Aladin interactive sky atlas, developed at CDS, is a service providing simultaneous access to digitized images of the sky, astronomical catalogues, and databases. The driving motivation is to facilitate direct, visual comparison of…