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The complexity of modern cosmic ray observatories and the rich data sets they capture often require a sophisticated software framework to support the simulation of physical processes, detector response, as well as reconstruction and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-24 EUSO collaboration

The expansion of exoplanet observations has created a need for flexible, accessible, and user-friendly workflows. Transmission spectroscopy has become a key technique for probing atmospheric composition of transiting exoplanets. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Emilie Panek , Alexander Roman , Gaurav Shukla , Leonardo Pagliaro , Katia Matcheva , Konstantin Matchev

The European Space Agency's Ariel mission, scheduled for launch in 2029, aims to conduct the first large-scale survey of atmospheric spectra of transiting exoplanets. Ariel achieves the high photometric stability on transit timescales…

Starting in 2008, NASA has provided the exoplanet community an observational program aimed at obtaining the highest resolution imaging available as part of its mission to validate and characterize exoplanets, as well as their stellar…

We present scope (Simulated CCD Observations for Photometric Experimentation), a Python package to create a forward model of telescope detectors and simulate stellar targets with motion relative to the CCD. The primary application of this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Nicholas Saunders , Rodrigo Luger , Rory Barnes

We present the progress of work to streamline and simplify the process of exoplanet observation by citizen scientists. International collaborations such as ExoClock and Exoplanet Watch enable citizen scientists to use small telescopes to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Oisín Creaner , Anna Preis , Cormac Ryan , Nika Gorchakova

We present MauveSim, the instrument simulator software for Mauve, the latest mission from Blue Skies Space dedicated to time-domain stellar astronomy. MauveSim functions as an end-to-end simulator, employing the most up-to-date knowledge of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Arianna Saba , Fabio Favata , Giorgio Savini , Giovanna Tinetti , Lawrence Bradley , Ian Stotesbury , Marcell Tessenyi

The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) is the first space mission dedicated to measuring the chemical composition and thermal structures of thousands of transiting exoplanets. Ariel was adopted in 2020 as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-08 Paolo Chioetto

Technosignatures refer to observational manifestations of technology that could be detected through astronomical means. Most previous searches for technosignatures have focused on searches for radio signals, but many current and future…

We present and discuss the design details of an extensible, modular, open source software framework called EXOSIMS, which creates end-to-end simulations of space-based exoplanet imaging missions. We motivate the development and baseline…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-04 Dmitry Savransky , Daniel Garrett

Studying the rapid variability of many astronomical objects is key to understanding the underlying processes at play. However, a combination of limited telescope availability, viewing constraints, and the unpredictable nature of many…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-15 John A. Paice , Poshak Gandhi , Ranjeev Misra

We summarize the status of a computer simulator for microlens planet surveys. The simulator generates synthetic light curves of microlensing events observed with specified networks of telescopes over specified periods of time. Particular…

We present PlanetPack, a new software tool that we developed to facilitate and standardize the advanced analysis of radial velocity (RV) data for the goal of exoplanets detection, characterization, and basic dynamical $N$-body simulations.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-06 Roman V. Baluev

As next-generation imaging instruments and interferometers search for planets closer to their stars, they must contend with increasing orbital motion and longer integration times. These compounding effects make it difficult to detect faint…

Here, I present the community with exoTEDRF (EXOplanet Transit and Eclipse Data Reduction Framework; formerly known as supreme-SPOON), an end-to-end pipeline for data reduction and light curve analysis of time series observations (TSOs) of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Michael Radica

In the era of "big data" and with the advent of web 2.0 technologies, ESASky (http://sky.esa.int) aims at providing a modern and visual way to access astronomical science-ready data products and metadata. The main goal of the application is…

The study of extra-solar planets, or simply, exoplanets, planets outside our own Solar System, is fundamentally a grand quest to understand our place in the Universe. Discoveries in the last two decades have re-defined our understanding of…

Transiting exoplanet atmospheric characterization is currently in a golden age as dozens of exoplanet atmospheres are being studied by NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes. This trend is expected to continue with NASA's Pandora…

Gen TSO is a noise calculator specifically tailored to simulate James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) time-series observations of exoplanets. Gen TSO enables the estimation of signal-to-noise ratios (S/N) for transit or eclipse depths through…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Patricio E. Cubillos

AOSAT is a python package for the analysis of single-conjugate adaptive optics (SCAO) simulation results. Python is widely used in the astronomical community these days, and AOSAT may be used stand-alone, integrated into a simulation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-08 Markus Feldt , Stefan Hippler , Faustine Cantalloube , Thomas Bertram , Andreas Obereder , Horst Steuer , Olivier Absil , Miska Le Louarn