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We present $V$-band light curves of 61 variables from the core of the globular cluster M5 obtained using a newly developed image subtraction method (ISM). Four of these variables were previously unknown. Only 26 variables were found in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Olech , P. R. Wozniak , C. Alard , J. Kaluzny , I. B. Thompson

We have conducted a deep photometric survey of a 0.5 deg x 0.5 deg area of the Galactic Plane using the WFI instrument on the 2.2-m ESO telescope on La Silla, Chile. The dataset comprises a total of 267 R-band images, 204 from a 16 day…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. R. Miller , M. D. Albrow , C. Afonso , Th. Henning

Neuromorphic processors are well-suited for efficiently handling sparse events from event-based cameras. However, they face significant challenges in the growth of computing demand and hardware costs as the input resolution increases. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Cina Arjmand , Yingfu Xu , Kevin Shidqi , Alexandra F. Dobrita , Kanishkan Vadivel , Paul Detterer , Manolis Sifalakis , Amirreza Yousefzadeh , Guangzhi Tang

In this paper we describe the global on-sky calibration strategy of the LSPE-Strip instrument. Strip is a microwave telescope operating in the Q- and W-bands (central frequencies of 43 and 95 GHz respectively) from the Observatorio del…

The amount of sparse asteroid photometry being gathered by both space- and ground-based surveys is growing exponentially. This large volume of data poses a computational challenge owing to both the large amount of information to be…

Object tracking is a key challenge of computer vision with various applications that all require different architectures. Most tracking systems have limitations such as constraining all movement to a 2D plane and they often track only one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Lars Bredereke , Yale Hartmann , Tanja Schultz

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 production of photometric light curves from astronomical images is a very time-consuming task. Larger data sets improve the resolution of the light curve, however, the time requirement scales with data volume. The data analysis is often…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-15 M. Todd , H. U. Wallon Pizarro , P. Tanga , D. M. Coward , M. G. Zadnik

Data analysis pipelines are known to be impacted by computational conditions, presumably due to the creation and propagation of numerical errors. While this process could play a major role in the current reproducibility crisis, the precise…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-30 Ali Salari , Gregory Kiar , Lindsay Lewis , Alan C. Evans , Tristan Glatard

In this paper we discuss the latest developments of the STRIP instrument of the "Large Scale Polarization Explorer" (LSPE) experiment. LSPE is a novel project that combines ground-based (STRIP) and balloon-borne (SWIPE) polarization…

The transient optical sky has remained largely unexplored on very short timescales. While there have been some experiments searching for optical transients from minutes to years, none have had the capability to distinguish millisecond Fast…

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We have performed a near-infrared photometric monitoring of 39 galactic young star clusters and star-forming regions, known as {\em NIP of Stars}, between the years 2009--2011, using the Swope telescope at Las Campanas Observatory (Chile)…

Utilizing high-cadence and continuous g- and r-band data over three nights acquired from the 3.6-meter Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) aimed to find short-duration microlensing events, we conduct a systematic search for variables,…

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This paper presents a lidar-only state estimation and tracking framework, along with a roadside sensing unit for integration with existing urban infrastructure. Urban deployments demand scalable, real-time tracking solutions, yet…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Simon Schäfer , Bassam Alrifaee , Ehsan Hashemi

A fast-turnaround pipeline for realtime data reduction plays an essential role in discovering and permitting follow-up observations to young supernovae and fast-evolving transients in modern time-domain surveys. In this paper, we present…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Yi Cao , Peter E Nugent , Mansi M Kasliwal

We describe a stream-based analysis pipeline to detect gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and neutron-star-black-hole binaries within ~ 1 minute of the arrival of the merger signal at Earth.…

Optimization of the SPHERE-3 detector configuration, designed to study the mass composition of primary cosmic rays in the energy range 1--1000 PeV by registering Cherenkov light reflected from the snow surface, requires simulation of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 V. A. Ivanov , V. I. Galkin , E. A. Bonvech , O. V. Cherkesova , D. V. Chernov , T. A. Kolodkin , N. O. Ovcharenko , D. A. Podgrudkov , T. M. Roganova , M. D. Ziva

Although many near-Earth objects have been found by ground-based telescopes, some fast-moving ones, especially those near detection limits, have been missed by observatories. We developed a convolutional neural network for detecting faint…

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