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The increasing availability of high-quality optical and near-infrared spectroscopic data, as well as advances in modelling techniques, have greatly expanded the scientific potential of spectroscopic studies. However, the software tools…

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Astronomical data generally consists of 2 or more high-resolution axes, e.g., X,Y position on the sky or wavelength and position-along-one-axis (long-slit spectrometer). Analyzing these multi-dimension observations requires combining 3D…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-11 Daniel Dewey , Michael S. Noble

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a 5000 deg2 grizY survey reaching characteristic photometric depths of 24th magnitude (10 sigma) and enabling accurate photometry and morphology of objects ten times fainter than in SDSS. Preparations for DES…

Measurements of radial velocity variations from the spectroscopic monitoring of stars and their companions are essential for a broad swath of astrophysics, providing access to the fundamental physical properties that dictate all phases of…

We present $\texttt{moes}$, a ray tracing software package that computes the path of rays through echelle spectrographs. Our algorithm is based on sequential direct tracing with Seidel aberration corrections applied at the detector plane.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 Marcelo Tala Pinto , Adrian Kaminski , Andreas Quirrenbach , Mathias Zechmeister

Context. As increasingly more spectroscopic data are being delivered by medium- and high-resolving power multi-object spectrographs, more automatic stellar parameter determination softwares are being developed. The quality of the spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-04 Helene Posbic , David Katz , Elisabetta Caffau , Piercarlo Bonifacio , Ana Gomez , Luca Sbordone , Frederic Arenou

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a five-year optical imaging campaign with the goal of understanding the origin of cosmic acceleration. DES performs a 5000 square degree survey of the southern sky in five optical bands (g,r,i,z,Y) to a depth…

ArchNEMESIS is an open-source Python package developed for the analysis of remote sensing spectroscopic observations of planetary atmospheres. It is based on the widely used NEMESIS radiative transfer and retrieval tool, which has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Juan Alday , Joseph Penn , Patrick G. J. Irwin , Jonathon P. Mason , Jingxuan Yang

The eShel, an off-the-shelf, fiber-fed echelle spectrograph ($R \approx 10,000$), was installed on the 1m telescope at the Wise observatory in Israel. We report the installation of the multi-order spectrograph, and describe our pipeline to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Michael Engel , Sahar Shahaf , Tsevi Mazeh

The Herschel Space Observatory is the fourth cornerstone mission in the ESA science programme and performs photometry and spectroscopy in the 55 - 672 micron range. The development of the Herschel Data Processing System started in 2002 to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Stephan Ott , Herschel Science Centre , European Space Agency

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey is a spectroscopic survey of tens of millions of galaxies at $0 < z < 3.5$ covering 14,000 square degrees of the sky. In its first 1.1 years of survey operations, it has observed more…

Meteoroids entering the Earth's atmosphere can be observed as meteors, thereby providing useful information on their formation and hence on their parent bodies. We developed a data reduction software package for double station meteor data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 A. Margonis , A. Christou , J. Oberst

Current and future continuum surveys being undertaken by the new generation of radio telescopes are now poised to address many important science questions, ranging from the earliest galaxies, to the physics of nearby AGN, as well as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-25 Jeremy J. Harwood , Raffaella Morganti

We describe the software requirement and design specifications for all-sky panoramic astronomical pipelines. The described software aims to meet the specific needs of super-wide angle optics, and includes cosmic-ray hit rejection, image…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lior Shamir , Robert J. Nemiroff , David O. Torrey , Wellesley E. Pereira

We present the pulsar_spectra software repository, an open-source pulsar flux density catalogue and automated spectral fitting software that finds the best spectral model and produces publication-quality plots. The Python-based software…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 N. A. Swainston , C. P. Lee , S. J. McSweeney , N. D. R. Bhat

We present the SPEX software package for modeling and fitting X-ray spectra. Our group has developed spectral models, atomic data and code for X-ray applications since the 1970's. Since the 1990's these are further developed in the public…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 Jelle de Plaa , Jelle S. Kaastra , Liyi Gu , Junjie Mao , Ton Raassen

The proper scientific analysis of a large amount of stellar spectra requires certain capabilities of the analysing tool (e.g. precise semi-automatic fitting for normalisation of the continuum or line-list assisted measurement of spectral…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-14 Petr Škoda

The EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph (EXPRES) is a new Doppler spectrograph designed to reach a radial velocity measurement precision sufficient to detect Earth-like exoplanets orbiting nearby, bright stars. We report on extensive laboratory…

The study explored the usage of astronomical observations for the identification and tracking of artificial satellites. Spacecraft streaks on astronomical images are a growing issue for the astronomical community. The increasing number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Rositsa Miteva , Nikola Antonov , Adrian Sonka

The consortium of the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch installed at the Very Large Telescope (SPHERE/VLT) has been operating its guaranteed observation time (260 nights over five years) since February 2015. The main…