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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,…

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Neighbor embedding is widely employed to visualize high-dimensional data; however, it frequently overlooks the global structure, e.g., intercluster similarities, thereby impeding accurate visualization. To address this problem, this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Koshi Watanabe , Keisuke Maeda , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Astronomical data take on a multitude of forms -- catalogs, data cubes, images, and simulations. The availability of software for rendering high-quality three-dimensional graphics lends itself to the paradigm of exploring the incredible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Brian R. Kent

This demo paper introduces partitura, a Python package for handling symbolic musical information. The principal aim of this package is to handle richly structured musical information as conveyed by modern staff music notation. It provides a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Maarten Grachten , Carlos Cancino-Chacón , Thassilo Gadermaier

Spectropolarimetry, the observation of polarization and intensity as a function of wavelength, is a powerful tool in stellar astrophysics. It is particularly useful for characterizing stars and circumstellar material, and for tracing the…

Astronomical researchers often think of analysis and visualization as separate tasks. In the case of high-dimensional data sets, though, interactive exploratory data visualization can give far more insight than an approach where data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alyssa A. Goodman

Synthesizer is a fast, flexible, modular, and extensible Python package that empowers astronomers to turn theoretical galaxy models into realistic synthetic observations - including spectra, photometry, images, and spectral cubes - with a…

Three-dimensional (3D) visualization has opened up a Universe of possible scientific data representations. 3D printing has the potential to make seemingly abstract and esoteric data sets accessible, particularly through the lens of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-07 Kimberly Kowal Arcand , Sara Rose Price , Megan Watzke

Data immersion has advantages in astrophysical visualization. Complex multi-dimensional data and phase spaces can be explored in a seamless and interactive viewing environment. Putting the user in the data is a first step toward immersive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Brian R. Kent

We present a light and fast, public available, ray-tracer {\tt Splotch} software tool which supports the effective visualization of cosmological simulations data. We describe the algorithm it relies on, which is designed in order to deal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 K. Dolag , M. Reinecke , C. Gheller , S. Imboden

We present TA-DA, a new software aimed at greatly simplify and improve the analysis of stellar photometric data in comparison with theoretical models, and allow the derivation of stellar parameters from multi-band photometry. Its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Nicola Da Rio , Massimo Robberto

We introduce the public version of the BAyesian STellar Algorithm (BASTA), an open-source code written in {\tt Python} to determine stellar properties based on a set of astrophysical observables. BASTA has been specifically designed to…

The Python colorspace package provides a toolbox for mapping between different color spaces which can then be used to generate a wide range of perceptually-based color palettes for qualitative or quantitative (sequential or diverging)…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Reto Stauffer , Achim Zeileis

Most research data collections created or used by astronomers are intrinsically multi-dimensional. In contrast, all visual representations of data presented within research papers are exclusively 2-dimensional. We present a resolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David G. Barnes , Christopher J. Fluke

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

In this review, we present some advanced algorithms and programs used in our scientific school with short description of types of astrophysical systems, which we study. However, we discuss mainly mathematical methods, which may be applied…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Ivan L. Andronov , Vitalii V. Breus , Larysa S. Kudashkina

In this paper we show how advanced visualization tools can help the researcher in investigating and extracting information from data. The focus is on VisIVO, a novel open source graphics application, which blends high performance…

Within the last years, the classification of variable stars with Machine Learning has become a mainstream area of research. Recently, visualization of time series is attracting more attention in data science as a tool to visually help…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 Christian Pieringer , Karim Pichara , Márcio Catelán , Pavlos Protopapas

Visualization of high-dimensional data is crucial to retrieve all the knowledge that is contained within a dataset. Effective and informative presentation of three-dimensional data via a two-dimensional medium is challenging, especially if…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Lukas Steinwender , Anais Möller , Christopher J. Fluke

As astronomy becomes increasingly invested in large surveys, the ample representation of an individual target becomes a significant challenge. Tabulations of basic properties can convey the message in an absolute sense, but not within the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-23 Iraklis S. Konstantopoulos