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ESPResSo 4.0 is an extensible simulation package for research on soft matter. This versatile molecular dynamics program was originally developed for coarse-grained simulations of charged systems Limbach et al., Comput. Phys. Commun. 174,…

In the next decade, deep galaxy surveys from telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope and Roman Space Telescope will provide transformational data sets that will greatly enhance the understanding of galaxy formation during the…

The search for biosignatures in potentially habitable exoplanets is one of the major astrophysics' drivers for the coming decades, and the prime science goal of the HWO NASA mission, a large UV-Optical-IR space telescope to be launched in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Elodie Choquet , Lisa Altinier , Nicolás Godoy , Alexis Lau , Arthur Vigan , David Mary

We present the Parallel Application of Slitless Spectroscopy to Analyze Galaxy Evolution (PASSAGE) spectroscopic redshift catalog in the COSMOS field. PASSAGE is a JWST Cycle 1 Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS)…

ESPRESSO (Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations) is a VLT ultra-stable high resolution spectrograph installed at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile at the end of 2017 and that started regular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-01 Jonay I. González Hernández , Francesco Pepe , Paolo Molaro , Nuno Santos

We give an overview of the SImulation of X-ray TElescopes (SIXTE) software package, a generic, mission-independent Monte Carlo simulation toolkit for X-ray astronomical instrumentation. The package is based on a modular approach for the…

We present a grism extraction package (LINEAR) designed to reconstruct one-dimensional spectra from a collection of slitless spectroscopic images, ideally taken at a variety of orientations, dispersion directions, and/or dither positions.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 R. E. Ryan , S. Casertano , N. Pirzkal

Direct imaging of widely separated exoplanets from space will obtain their reflected light spectra and measure atmospheric properties. Previous calculations have shown that a change in the orbital phase would cause a spectral signal, but…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-27 Mario Damiano , Renyu Hu , Sergi R. Hildebrandt

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in 2026, will bring unprecedented precision to measurements of weak gravitational lensing. Because weak lensing is an inherently small signal, it is imperative to minimize systematic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Katherine Laliotis , Emily Macbeth , Christopher M. Hirata , Kaili Cao , Masaya Yamamoto , Michael Troxel

$\nu$SpaceSim is a highly-efficient (e.g., fast) module-based, end-to-end simulation package that models the physical processes of cosmic neutrino interactions that leads to detectable signals for sub-orbital and space-based instruments.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-22 Mary Hall Reno , John F. Krizmanic

SPIRE, the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver, is one of three instruments to fly on ESA's Herschel Space Observatory. It contains a three-band imaging photometer operating at 250, 360 and 520 microns, and an imaging Fourier…

We present a realistic 2000 deg$^{2}$ H$\alpha$ galaxy mock catalog with $1<z<2$ for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope galaxy redshift survey, the High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey (HLSS), created using Galacticus, a semi-analytical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Zhongxu Zhai , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Yun Wang , Andrew Benson , Gustavo Yepes

ESPRESSO is a new high-resolution ultra-stable spectrograph for the VLT, which had its first light on Telescope on November 27th, 2017. The instrument is installed in the Combined Coud\'{e} Laboratory and linked to the 4 Units of Telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-07 A. C. O. Leite , C. J. A. P. Martins , P. Molaro , S. Monai , C. S. Alves , T. A. Silva , the ESPRESSO Science Team

Weak gravitational lensing has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating the matter distribution in the Universe and how it has evolved over cosmic time. The Wide Field Instrument (WFI) on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Katherine Laliotis , Christopher M. Hirata , Emily Macbeth , Kaili Cao

The atmospheres and surfaces of planets show tremendous amount of spatial variation, which has a direct effect on the spectrum of the object, even if this may not be spatially resolved. Here, we apply hyper realistic radiative simulations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Vincent Kofman , Geronimo Villanueva , Thomas Fauchez , Avi Mandell , Ted Johnson , Allison Payne , Natasha Latouf , Soumil Kelkar

The data analysis software (DAS) for VLT ESPRESSO is aimed to set a new benchmark in the treatment of spectroscopic data towards the extremely-large-telescope era, providing carefully designed, fully interactive recipes to take care of…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will carry out a wide-field imaging and slitless spectroscopic survey of Type Ia Supernovae to improve our understanding of dark energy. Crucial to this endeavor is obtaining supernova spectra…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's (RST) Wide Field Imager (WFI) is equipped with a slitless prism that can be used for spectroscopic discovery and follow-up of explosive transients at high redshift as part of its High Latitude Time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-03 Greg Aldering , David Rubin , Benjamin Rose , Rebekah Hounsell , Saul Perlmutter , Susana Deustua

We present a Gaussian-process (GP) emulator for the monopole of the redshift-space halo power spectrum in $\Lambda$CDM cosmologies with massive neutrinos. The emulator is trained on 1000 COLA simulations distributed in a Latin-hypercube…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Jixin Gan , Yonghao Feng , Gong-Bo Zhao

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