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Context. Inferring spectral parameters from X-ray data is one of the cornerstones of high-energy astrophysics, and is achieved using software stacks that have been developed over the last twenty years and more. However, as models get more…

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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…

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Galaxy profile fitting is a ubiquitous technique that provides the backbone for photometric and morphological measurements in modern extragalactic surveys. A recent innovation in profile fitting algorithms is to render, or create, the model…

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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 today's modern wide-field galaxy surveys, there is the necessity for parametric surface brightness decomposition codes characterised by accuracy, small degree of user intervention, and high degree of parallelisation. We try to address…

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Galaxy morphological classification is a fundamental aspect of galaxy formation and evolution studies. Various machine learning tools have been developed for automated pipeline analysis of large-scale surveys, enabling a fast search for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Yash Gondhalekar , Rafael S. de Souza , Ana L. Chies-Santos

Fitting parameterized models to images of galaxies has become the standard for measuring galaxy morphology. This forward modelling technique allows one to account for the PSF to effectively study semi-resolved galaxies. However, using a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Tim B. Miller , Pieter van Dokkum

Models of Stellar Population Synthesis (SPS) provide a predictive framework for the spectral energy distribution (SED) of a galaxy. SPS predictions can be computationally intensive, creating a bottleneck for attempts to infer the physical…

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We present $\texttt{PyBird-JAX}$, a differentiable, $\texttt{JAX}$-based implementation of $\texttt{PyBird}$, using internal neural network emulators to accelerate computationally costly operations for rapid large-scale structure (LSS)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Alexander Reeves , Pierre Zhang , Henry Zheng

Asteroseismology is well-established in astronomy as the gold standard for determining precise and accurate fundamental stellar properties like masses, radii, and ages. Several tools have been developed for asteroseismic analyses but many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Ashley Chontos , Daniel Huber , Maryum Sayeed , Pavadol Yamsiri

We introduce a new galaxy image decomposition tool, GALPHAT (GALaxy PHotometric ATtributes), to provide full posterior probability distributions and reliable confidence intervals for all model parameters. GALPHAT is designed to yield a high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ilsang Yoon , Martin Weinberg , Neal Katz

The S\'ersic model is known to fit well the surface brightness (or surface density) profiles of elliptical galaxies and galaxy bulges, and possibly for dwarf spheroidal galaxies and globular clusters. The deprojected density and mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-03 Eduardo Vitral , Gary A. Mamon

We present PySCo, a fast and user-friendly Python library designed to run cosmological $N$-body simulations across various cosmological models, such as $\Lambda$CDM and $w_0w_a$CDM, and alternative theories of gravity, including $f(R)$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Michel-Andrès Breton

Radiomics enables the extraction of quantitative biomarkers from medical images for precision modeling, but reproducibility and scalability remain limited due to heterogeneous software implementations and incomplete adherence to standards.…

We present spherical, non-rotating, isotropic models of early-type galaxies with stellar and dark-matter components both described by deprojected Sersic density profiles, and prove that they represent physically admissible stable systems.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Coppola , F. La Barbera , M. Capaccioli

We introduce TyXe, a Bayesian neural network library built on top of Pytorch and Pyro. Our leading design principle is to cleanly separate architecture, prior, inference and likelihood specification, allowing for a flexible workflow where…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-04 Hippolyt Ritter , Theofanis Karaletsos

The S\'ersic law (SL) offers a versatile functional form for the structural characterization of galaxies near and far. Whereas applying it to galaxies with a genuine SL luminosity distribution yields a robust determination of the S\'ersic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-18 Iris Breda , Polychronis Papaderos , Jean Michel Gomes , Stergios Amarantidis

The characterization of exoplanet requires reliable determination of the fundamental parameters of their host stars. Spectral fitting plays an important role in this process. For the majority of stellar parameters matching synthetic spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Ansgar Wehrhahn , Nikolai Piskunov , Tanja Ryabchikova

BlackJAX is a library implementing sampling and variational inference algorithms commonly used in Bayesian computation. It is designed for ease of use, speed, and modularity by taking a functional approach to the algorithms' implementation.…

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