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Understanding astrophysical and cosmological processes can be challenging due to their complexity and lack of intuitive analogies. To address this, we present \texttt{AstronomyCalc}, a Python package specifically designed to aid…

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This paper introduces ROmodel, an open source Python package extending the modeling capabilities of the algebraic modeling language Pyomo to robust optimization problems. ROmodel helps practitioners transition from deterministic to robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Johannes Wiebe , Ruth Misener

In this article, a software package code named OPSIAL (Optical Plasma Spectral Calculation And Parameters Retrieval) for rigorously calculating optical plasma spectra and for automatically retrieving plasma parameters is presented. OPSIAL…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Xiaofeng Tan

HELAC is a FORTRAN based package that is able to compute efficiently helicity amplitudes for arbitrary scattering processes within the standard electroweak theory. The algorithm exploits the virtues of the Dyson-Schwinger equations as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Aggeliki Kanaki , Costas G. Papadopoulos

Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) is a long-term program of numerical simulations of cosmic reionization. Its goal is to model fully self-consistently (albeit not necessarily from the first principles) all relevant physics, from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Nickolay Y. Gnedin

I developed a new pure-python pipeline to reduce photometric and polarimetric data: ASTROPOP. It has been designed and optimized to work fully automated with the IAGPOL polarimeter of Pico dos Dias observatory (OPD, Brazil) and can reduce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Julio Cesar Neves Campagnolo

RISC-V allows for building general-purpose computing platforms with programmable accelerators around a single open-source ISA. However, leveraging heterogeneous SoCs within high-level applications is a tedious task. In this preliminary…

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Resonant lines are powerful probes of the interstellar and circumgalactic medium of galaxies. Their transfer in gas being a complex process, the interpretation of their observational signatures, either in absorption or in emission, is often…

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Given two algorithms for the same problem, can we determine whether they are meaningfully different? In full generality, the question is uncomputable, and empirically it is muddied by competing notions of similarity. Yet, in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Shairoz Sohail , Taher Ali

Spectral PCA (sPCA), in contrast to classical PCA, offers the advantage of identifying organized spatio-temporal patterns within specific frequency bands and extracting dynamical modes. However, the unavoidable tradeoff between frequency…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Clément Guilloteau , Antonios Mamalakis , Lawrence Vulis , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

A High-performance Atmospheric Radiation Package (HARP) is developed for studying multiple-scattering planetary atmospheres. HARP is an open-source program written in C++ that utilizes high-level data structure and parallel-computing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-08 Cheng Li , Tianhao Le , Xi Zhang , Yuk L. Yung

All monochromatic opacity data from the Opacity Project (OP), together with all codes required for the calculation of mean opacities and radiative accelerations for any required chemical mixture, temperature and mass-density, are being put…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Seaton

Reservoir computing (RC) is a leading machine learning algorithm for information processing due to its rich expressiveness. A new RC paradigm has recently emerged, showcasing superior performance and delivering more interpretable results…

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This paper presents a detailed description of the CamSpec likelihood which has been used to analyse Planck temperature and polarization maps of the cosmic microwave background since the first Planck data release. We have created a number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-20 George Efstathiou , Steven Gratton

We describe a novel gaseous detector concept for heavy-ion tracking and imaging: the Optical Parallel-Plate Avalanche Counter (O-PPAC). The detector consists of two thin parallel-plate electrodes separated by a small (typically 3 mm) gap…

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Every day, we experience the effects of the global warming: extreme weather events, major forest fires, storms, global warming, etc.The scientific community acknowledges that this crisis is a consequence of human activities where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Guillaume Raffin , Denis Trystram

The THERMOS toolkit has been developed to calculate radiative properties of plasmas. This article contains a brief survey of some of its key features used by calculation of opacities and emissivities and by analysis of specific experiments.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 I. Yu. Vichev , A. D. Solomyannaya , A. S. Grushin , D. A. Kim

For existing and future projects dedicated to measuring precise radial velocities (RVs), we have created an open-source, flexible data reduction software to extract RVs from \'echelle spectra via the iodine (I$_2$) absorption cell method.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Paul Heeren , René Tronsgaard , Frank Grundahl , Sabine Reffert , Andreas Quirrenbach , Pere L. Pallé

Absorption and emission spectra of multicharged-ion plasmas contain a huge number of electron configurations and electric-dipolar lines, which can be handled by global methods. However, some transition arrays consist only of a small bunch…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Jean-Christophe Pain , Franck Gilleron , Quentin Porcherot , Thomas Blenski

This paper presents a computational scheme for the determination of equivalent 2D multi-group heterogeneous reflectors in a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR). The proposed strategy is to define a full-core calculation consistent with a…