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Despite the promise of Neural Posterior Estimation (NPE) methods in astronomy, the adaptation of NPE into the routine inference workflow has been slow. We identify three critical issues: the need for custom featurizer networks tailored to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-25 Keming Zhang , Joshua S. Bloom , Stéfan van der Walt , Nina Hernitschek

We present the simulation tools developed to aid the design phase of the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES) for the Very Large Telescope (VLT), exploring aspects of the system design and evaluating the performance for…

Jump detection and ramp fitting are fundamental steps when elevating JWST data products from up-the-ramp measurements to integration level count rate images. Occurring at an early stage of the overall data reduction and calibration…

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JEM-EUSO is an international program for the development of space based Ultra High Cosmic Ray observatories. The program consists of a series of missions which are either under development or in the data analysis phase. The instruments…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-27 Francesco Fenu , Kenji Shinozaki , Hiroko Miyamoto , Alessandro Liberatore , Naoto Sakaki , Sergei Sharakin , Mikhail Zotov , Gabriel Chiritoi

JScanam is the default map-maker for Herschel/PACS photometer observations. Making use of the redundant information from multiple passages on the sky with different scanning directions, JScanam is able to remove the $1/f$ noise that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-11 Javier Graciá-Carpio , Michael Wetzstein , Hélène Roussel

Recent technological advances in astronomy, particularly the growing popularity of smart telescopes for the general public, make it possible to develop highly effective detection solutions that are accessible to a wide audience, rather than…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Olivier Parisot

Illumination uniformity is a critical parameter for excitation and data extraction quality in widefield biological imaging applications. However, typical imaging systems suffer from spatial and spectral non-uniformity due to non-ideal…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-14 Iris Celebi , Mete Aslan , M. Selim Unlu

The Near Infrared Camera for the James Webb Space Telescope is delivering the imagery that astronomers have hoped for ever since JWST was proposed back in the 1990s. In the Commissioning Period that extended from right after launch to early…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Marcia J. Rieke , Douglas M. Kelly , Karl Misselt , John Stansberry , Martha Boyer , Thomas Beatty , Eiichi Egami , Michael Florian , Thomas P. Greene , Kevin Hainline

JEM-EUSO is an international collaboration for the development of space--based Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) detectors. The instrument consists of a wide Field Of View (FOV) camera for the detection of the UV light emitted by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-07 Francesco Fenu

The digital revolution is transforming astronomy from a data-starved to a data-submerged science. Instruments such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), and the Square Kilometer Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Melvyn Wright

We present the basic performance and experimental results of an electron beam ion trap (JAXA-EBIT), newly introduced to the Japanese astronomical community. Accurate atomic data are indispensable for the reliable interpretation of…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will perform exoplanet transit spectroscopy in the coming decade promising transformative science results. All four instruments on board can be used for this technique which reconstructs the atmospheric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Subhajit Sarkar , Nikku Madhusudhan , Andreas Papageorgiou

Bayesian inference provides a systematic framework for integration of data with mathematical models to quantify the uncertainty in the solution of the inverse problem. However, the solution of Bayesian inverse problems governed by complex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Ki-Tae Kim , Umberto Villa , Matthew Parno , Youssef Marzouk , Omar Ghattas , Noemi Petra

J-PLUS is an ongoing 12-band photometric optical survey, observing thousands of square degrees of the Northern hemisphere from the dedicated JAST/T80 telescope at the Observatorio Astrof\'isico de Javalambre. T80Cam is a 2 sq.deg…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-13 A. J. Cenarro , M. Moles , D. Cristóbal-Hornillos , A. Marín-Franch , A. Ederoclite , J. Varela , C. López-Sanjuan , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , R. E. Angulo , H. Vázquez Ramió , K. Viironen , S. Bonoli , A. A. Orsi , G. Hurier , I. San Roman , N. Greisel , G. Vilella-Rojo , L. A. Díaz-García , R. Logroño-García , S. Gurung-López , D. Spinoso , D. Izquierdo-Villalba , J. A. L. Aguerri , C. Allende Prieto , C. Bonatto , J. M. Carvano , A. L. Chies-Santos , S. Daflon , R. A. Dupke , J. Falcón-Barroso , D. R. Gonçalves , Y. Jiménez-Teja , A. Molino , V. M. Placco , E. Solano , D. D. Whitten , J. Abril , J. L. Antón , R. Bello , S. Bielsa de Toledo , J. Castillo-Ramírez , S. Chueca , T. Civera , M. C. Díaz-Martín , M. Domínguez-Martínez , J. Garzarán-Calderaro , J. Hernández-Fuertes , R. Iglesias-Marzoa , C. Iñiguez , J. M. Jiménez Ruiz , K. Kruuse , J. L. Lamadrid , N. Lasso-Cabrera , G. López-Alegre , A. López-Sainz , N. Maícas , A. Moreno-Signes , D. J. Muniesa , S. Rodríguez-Llano , F. Rueda-Teruel , S. Rueda-Teruel , I. Soriano-Laguía , V. Tilve , L. Valdivielso , A. Yanes-Díaz , J. S. Alcaniz , C. Mendes de Oliveira , L. Sodré , P. Coelho , R. Lopes de Oliveira , A. Tamm , H. S. Xavier , L. R. Abramo , S. Akras , E. J. Alfaro , A. Alvarez-Candal , B. Ascaso , M. A. Beasley , T. C. Beers , M. Borges Fernandes , G. R. Bruzual , M. L. Buzzo , J. M. Carrasco , J. Cepa , A. Cortesi , M. V. Costa-Duarte , M. De Prá , G. Favole , A. Galarza , L. Galbany , K. Garcia , R. M. González Delgado , J. I. González-Serrano , L. A. Gutiérrez-Soto , J. A. Hernandez-Jimenez , A. Kanaan , H. Kuncarayakti , R. C. G. Landim , J. Laur , J. Licandro , G. B. Lima Neto , J. D. Lyman , J. Maíz Apellániz , J. Miralda-Escudé , D. Morate , J. P. Nogueira-Cavalcante , P. M. Novais , M. Oncins , I. Oteo , R. A. Overzier , C. B. Pereira , A. Rebassa-Mansergas , R. R. R. Reis , F. Roig , M. Sako , N. Salvador-Rusiñol , L. Sampedro , P. Sánchez-Blázquez , W. A. Santos , L. Schmidtobreick , B. B. Siffert , E. Telles

The James Webb Space Telescope produces some of the highest sensitivity imaging of the cosmos across all instruments. One of them, the NIRISS Fine Guidance Sensor, provides guide star imaging with a passband of 0.6 to 5 microns through two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-10 Derod Deal , Néstor Espinoza

We have developed a new version of the high-performance J\"ulich universal quantum computer simulator (JUQCS-50) that leverages key features of the GH200 superchips as used in the JUPITER supercomputer, enabling simulations of a 50-qubit…

New telescopes like the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will push into a new sensitivity regime and expose systematics, such as direction-dependent effects, that could previously be ignored. Current methods for handling such systematics rely…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-22 Michelle Lochner , Iniyan Natarajan , Jonathan T. L. Zwart , Oleg Smirnov , Bruce A. Bassett , Nadeem Oozeer , Martin Kunz

A major bottleneck of interdisciplinary computer vision (CV) research is the lack of a framework that eases the reuse and abstraction of state-of-the-art CV models by CV and non-CV researchers alike. We present here BU-CVKit, a computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Mahir Patel , Lucas Carstensen , Yiwen Gu , Michael E. Hasselmo , Margrit Betke

The development of sensitive large format imaging arrays for the infrared promises to provide revolutionary capabilities for space astronomy. For example, the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on SIRTF will use four 256 x 256 arrays to provide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. J. Fixsen , S. H. Moseley , R. G. Arendt

Bayesian parameter estimation is fast becoming the language of gravitational-wave astronomy. It is the method by which gravitational-wave data is used to infer the sources' astrophysical properties. We introduce a user-friendly Bayesian…