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The Pan-STARRS Data Processing System is responsible for the steps needed to downloaded, archive, and process all images obtained by the Pan-STARRS telescopes, including real-time detection of transient sources such as supernovae and moving…

This paper describes a new Heterodyne Array Receiver Programme (HARP) and Auto-Correlation Spectral Imaging System (ACSIS) that have recently been installed and commissioned on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). The 16-element…

The production of photometric light curves from astronomical images is a very time-consuming task. Larger data sets improve the resolution of the light curve, however, the time requirement scales with data volume. The data analysis is often…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-15 M. Todd , H. U. Wallon Pizarro , P. Tanga , D. M. Coward , M. G. Zadnik

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a next-generation radio telescope currently under construction in the remote Western Australia Outback. Raw data will be generated continuously at 5GiB/s, grouped into 8s cadences. This high throughput…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. G. Edgar , M. A. Clark , K. Dale , D. A. Mitchell , S. M. Ord , R. B. Wayth , H. Pfister , L. J. Greenhill

We present the first full release of a survey of the 150 MHz radio sky, observed with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope between April 2010 and March 2012 as part of the TGSS project. Aimed at producing a reliable compact source survey,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 H. T. Intema , P. Jagannathan , K. P. Mooley , D. A. Frail

ArgusSpec is a prototype autonomous spectroscopic follow-up instrument designed to characterize flares detected by the Argus Pathfinder telescope array by taking short exposure (30 s) broadband spectra (370 - 750 nm) at low resolutions…

The next-generation astronomy archives will cover most of the universe at fine resolution in many wavelengths. One of the first of these projects, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will create a 5-wavelength catalog over 10,000 square…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 Alexander S. Szalay , Peter Kunszt , Anirudha Thakar , Jim Gray , Don Slutz

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a promising approach in novel view synthesis, combining photorealistic rendering with real-time efficiency. However, its success heavily relies on dense camera coverage; under sparse-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jiashu Li , Xumeng Han , Zhaoyang Wei , Zipeng Wang , Kuiran Wang , Guorong Li , Zhenjun Han , Jianbin Jiao

The increasing volumes of astronomical data require practical methods for data exploration, access and visualisation. The Hierarchical Progressive Survey (HiPS) is a HEALPix based scheme that enables a multi-resolution approach to astronomy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-07 M. G. Allen , P. Fernique , T. Boch , D. Durand , A. Oberto , B. Merin , F. Stoehr , F. Genova , F-X. Pineau , J. Salgado

The goal of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is ``to map in detail one-quarter of the entire sky, determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects''. The survey will be performed by taking…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Robert Lupton , Miller Maley , Neal Young

Astronomical data reduction is usually done with processing pipelines that consist of a series of individual processing steps that can be executed stand-alone. These processing steps are then strung together into workflows and fed with data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Wolfram Freudling , Stefano Zampieri , Lodovico Coccato , Stanislaw Podgorski , Martino Romaniello , Andrea Modigliani , John Pritchard

The next-generation astronomy digital archives will cover most of the universe at fine resolution in many wave-lengths, from X-rays to ultraviolet, optical, and infrared. The archives will be stored at diverse geographical locations. One of…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Alexander S. Szalay , Peter Kunszt , Ani Thakar , Jim Gray

X-ray ptychography imaging at synchrotron facilities like the Advanced Photon Source (APS) involves controlling instrument hardwares to collect a set of diffraction patterns from overlapping coherent illumination spots on extended samples,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-10 Ke Yue , Junjing Deng , Yi Jiang , Youssef Nashed , David Vine , Stefan Vogt

Event-based vision sensors produce asynchronous event streams with high temporal resolution based on changes in the visual scene. The properties of these sensors allow for accurate and fast calculation of optical flow as events are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Daniel C. Stumpp , Himanshu Akolkar , Alan D. George , Ryad B. Benosman

The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is designed to survey the variable and transient sky at high temporal cadence. The array is comprised of 48 F/2.2 telescopes of 27.9cm aperture, coupled to full-frame backside-illuminated cooled CMOS…

It is currently feasible to start a continuous digital record of the entire sky sensitive to any visual magnitude brighter than 15 each night. Such a record could be created with a modest array of small telescopes, which collectively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert J. Nemiroff , J. Bruce Rafert

The All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) is monitoring all sky to about 14 mag with a cadence of about 1 day; it has discovered about 10^5 variable stars, most of them new. The instrument used for the survey had aperture of 7 cm. A search for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Bohdan Paczynski

Dimensionality reduction can be applied to hyperspectral images so that the most useful data can be extracted and processed more quickly. This is critical in any situation in which data volume exceeds the capacity of the computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Daniela Lupu , Joseph L. Garrett , Tor Arne Johansen , Milica Orlandic , Ion Necoara

High frame rate 3-D ultrasound imaging technology combined with super-resolution processing method can visualize 3-D microvascular structures by overcoming the diffraction limited resolution in every spatial direction. However, 3-D…

The Evryscope is a telescope array designed to open a new parameter space in optical astronomy, detecting short timescale events across extremely large sky areas simultaneously. The system consists of a 780 MPix 22-camera array with an 8150…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Jeffrey K. Ratzloff , Nicholas M. Law , Octavi Fors , Henry T. Corbett , Ward S. Howard , Daniel del Ser , Joshua Haislip