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PySE is a Python software package for finding and measuring sources in radio telescope images. The software was designed to detect sources in the LOFAR telescope images, but can be used with images from other radio telescopes as well. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 D. Carbone , H. Garsden , H. Spreeuw , J. D. Swinbank , A. J. van der Horst , A. Rowlinson , J. W. Broderick , E. Rol , C. Law , G. Molenaar , R. A. M. J. Wijers

The Australian Astronomical Observatory has extensively prototyped a new robotic positioner to allow simultaneous positioning of optical fibers at the focal plane called 'Starbugs'. The Starbug devices each consist of two concentric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Rafal Piersiak , Michael Goodwin , James Gilbert , Rolf Muller

The Fan Observatory Bench Optical Spectrograph (FOBOS) is intended for single-object optical spectroscopy at moderate resolution (R~1500-3000) using a fiber-fed, bench-mounted design to maintain stability. Whenever possible, the instrument…

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is a wide-field telescope project focused on detecting optical counterparts to gravitational-wave sources. The GOTO Telescope Control System (G-TeCS) is a custom robotic control…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-15 Martin J. Dyer , Vik S. Dhillon , Stuart Littlefair , Danny Steeghs , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Paul Chote , Joseph Lyman , Duncan K. Galloway , Kendall Ackley , Yik Lun Mong

The virtual observatory (VO) is a collection of interoperable data archives, tools and applications that together form an environment in which original astronomical research can be carried out. The VO is opening up new ways of exploiting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Evanthia Hatziminaoglou

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

This paper presents El0ps, a Python toolbox providing several utilities to handle L0-regularized problems related to applications in machine learning, statistics, and signal processing, among other fields. In contrast to existing toolboxes,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Théo Guyard , Cédric Herzet , Clément Elvira

We present a new software pipeline -- PyMorph -- for automated estimation of structural parameters of galaxies. Both parametric fits through a two dimensional bulge disk decomposition as well as structural parameter measurements like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Vinu Vikram , Yogesh Wadadekar , Ajit K. Kembhavi , G. V. Vijayagovindan

PyKOALA is an innovative Python-based library designed to provide a robust and flexible framework for Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) data reduction. By addressing the complexities of transforming raw measurements into scientifically…

Frouros is an open-source Python library capable of detecting drift in machine learning systems. It provides a combination of classical and more recent algorithms for drift detection: both concept and data drift. We have designed it with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jaime Céspedes-Sisniega , Álvaro López-García

This document presents HiPS, a hierarchical scheme for the description, storage and access of sky survey data. The system is based on hierarchical tiling of sky regions at finer and finer spatial resolution which facilitates a progressive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Pierre Fernique , Mark Allen , Thomas Boch , Tom Donaldson , Daniel Durand , Ken Ebisawa , Laurent Michel , Jesus Salgado , Felix Stoehr

The emergence of time-domain multi-messenger (astro)physics requires for new, improved ways of interchanging scheduling information, in order to allow more efficient collaborations between the various teams. Currently space- and…

Outlier detection is an important task for various data mining applications. Current outlier detection techniques are often manually designed for specific domains, requiring large human efforts of database setup, algorithm selection, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Yuening Li , Daochen Zha , Praveen Kumar Venugopal , Na Zou , Xia Hu

polyDB is a database for discrete geometric objects. The database is accessible via web and an interface from the software package polymake. It contains various datasets from the area of lattice polytopes, combinatorial polytopes, matroids…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Andreas Paffenholz

PyPose is an open-source library for robot learning. It combines a learning-based approach with physics-based optimization, which enables seamless end-to-end robot learning. It has been used in many tasks due to its meticulously designed…

Physical Research Laboratory operates a 50cm robotic observatory at Mount Abu. This Automated Telescope for Variability Studies (ATVS) makes use of Remote Telescope System 2 (RTS2) for autonomous operations. The observatory uses a 3.5m dome…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-04 Akash Kumar , Anand S. Sengupta , Shashikiran Ganesh

We have developped a new method for the scheduling of astronomical automatic telescopes, in the framework of the autonomous TAROT instrument. The MAJORDOME software can handle a variety of observations, constrained, periodic, etc., and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 M. Bringer , M. Boer , C. Peignot , G. Fontan , C. Merce

The Variable Star One-shot Project (VSOP) aimed at providing to the world-wide stellar community the necessary one-shot spectrum of unstudied variable stars, too often classified as such by an analysis of photometric data only. The VSOP has…

In astronomy, multi-object spectrographs employ fibre positioning robots to couple the light from multiple astronomy sources (stars or galaxies) into multiple multi-mode fibres, which are distributed across the focal plane of the telescope.…

We have developed a lightweight low-cost attitude sensor, based on a Raspberry Pi, built with readily available commercial components. It can be used in experiments where weight and power are constrained, such as in high- altitude…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-22 A. G. Sreejith , Joice Mathew , Mayuresh Sarpotdar , Rekhesh Mohan , Akshata Nayak , Margarita Safonova , Jayant Murthy