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We present a new spectroscopic pipeline designed to analyse large numbers of hot massive stars homogeneously. The pipeline has been developed to utilise large grids of FASTWIND non-LTE, line blanketed models in which spherical geometry is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-31 PA Crowther , JM Bestenlehner

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-meter survey telescope continuously observing towards the zenith in the SDSS g', r', and i' bands. This survey telescope is designed to detect various astrophysical transients (for…

Although several existing and upcoming telescopes have imaging as their primary mode, they also have a sensitive phased-array mode with a multiple-beam forming capability enabling high time resolution studies of several types of objects,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-29 Jayanth Chennamangalam , Yogesh Maan , Avinash A. Deshpande

In the multi-messenger era, astronomical projects share information about transients phenomena issuing science alerts to the Scientific Community through different communications networks. This coordination is mandatory to understand the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 N. Parmiggiani , A. Bulgarelli , D. Beneventano , V. Fioretti , L. Baroncelli , A. Addis , M. Tavani

The early and complete temporal characterization of optical, fast, transient sources requires continuous and multiband observations over different timescales (hours to months). For time-domain astronomy, using several telescopes to analyze…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-29 P. A. Duverne , S. Antier , S. Basa , D. Corre , M. W. Coughlin , A. V. Filippenko , A. Klotz , P. Hello , W. Zheng

The detection and analysis of transient astronomical sources is of great importance to understand their time evolution. Traditional pipelines identify transient sources from difference (D) images derived by subtracting prior-observed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Zhuoyang Chen , Wenjie Zhou , Guoyou Sun , Mi Zhang , Jiangao Ruan , Jingyuan Zhao

Photometry of moving sources typically suffers from reduced signal-to-noise (SNR) or flux measurements biased to incorrect low values through the use of circular apertures. To address this issue we present the software package, TRIPPy:…

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an ambitious astronomical survey with a similarly ambitious Data Management component. Data Management for LSST includes processing on both nightly and yearly cadences to generate transient…

Transient radio sources, such as fast radio bursts, intermittent pulsars, and rotating radio transients, can offer a wealth of information regarding extreme emission physics as well as the intervening interstellar and/or intergalactic…

Exploration of the time-domain radio sky has huge potential for advancing our knowledge of the dynamic universe. Past surveys have discovered large numbers of pulsars, rotating radio transients and other transient radio phenomena; however,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-02 Benjamin R. Barsdell , Matthew Bailes , David G. Barnes , Christopher J. Fluke

Rapid localisation of celestial transients like pulsars requires efficient short-timescale imaging. In radio astronomy, Fast Imaging Pipeline (FIP) addresses this need by reconstructing radio astronomical images and identifying candidates…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 X. Li , K. Adamek , M. Giles , W. Armour

AST3-3 is the third robotic facility of the Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3) for transient surveys to be deployed at Dome A, Antarctica. Due to the current pandemic, the telescope has been currently deployed at the Yaoan Observation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Tianrui Sun , Lei Hu , Songbo Zhang , Xiaoyan Li , Kelai Meng , Xuefeng Wu , Lifan Wang , A. J. Castro-Tirado

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-m aperture, zenith-pointing telescope with a field-of-view of 22', situated in the foothills of the Himalayas. The telescope operates in continuous survey mode, making it a useful…

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Detection of moving sources over complicated background is important for several reasons. First is measuring the astrophysical motion of the source. Second is that such motion resulting from atmospheric scintillation, color refraction, or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 O. Springer , E. O. Ofek , B. Zackay , R. Konno , A. Sharon , G. Nir , A. Rubin , A. Haddad , J. Friedman , L. Schein Lubomirsky , I. Aizenberg , A. Krassilchtchikov , A. Gal-Yam

A key science goal of large sky surveys such as those conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and precursors to the Square Kilometre Array is the identification of variable and transient objects. One approach is the statistical analysis…

The recent serendipitous discovery of a new population of short duration X-ray transients, thought to be associated with collisions of compact objects or stellar explosions in distant galaxies, has motivated efforts to build up statistical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-01 A. Ruiz , A. Georgakakis , I. Georgantopoulos , A. Akylas , M. Pierre , J. L. Starck

Realtime analyses are necessary to identify the source of high energy neutrinos. As an observatory with a 4$\pi$ steradian field of view and near-100% duty cycle, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a unique facility for investigating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Alex Pizzuto , Abhishek Desai , Raamis Hussain

The Transient Optical Sky Survey (TOSS) is an automated, ground-based telescope system dedicated to searching for optical transient events. Small telescope tubes are mounted on a tracking, semi-equatorial frame with a single polar axis.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-05 E. Hadjiyska , G. Hughes , P. Lubin , S. Taylor , R. Hartong-Redden , J. Zierten

Radio transient discovery using next generation radio telescopes will pose several digital signal processing and data transfer challenges, requiring specialized high-performance backends. Several accelerator technologies are being…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-23 Alessio Magro , Jack Hickish , Kristian Zarb Adami

Translation averaging aims to recover camera locations from pairwise relative translation directions and is a fundamental component of global Structure-from-Motion pipelines. The problem is challenging because direction measurements contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zhekai Fan , Wanze Li , Jinxin Wang , Yunpeng Shi