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We present a new Python pipeline for processing data from astronomical long-slit spectroscopy observations recorded with CCD detectors. The pipeline is designed to aim for simplicity, manual execution, transparency and robustness. The goal…

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The use of Python is noticeably growing among the scientific community, and Astronomy is not an exception. The power of Python consists of being an extremely versatile high-level language, easy to program that combines both traditional…

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We have developed a new software to perform the measurement of galaxy cluster pressure profiles from high angular resolution thermal SZ observations. The code allows the user to take into account various features of millimeter observations,…

We present MXtalTools, a flexible Python package for the data-driven modelling of molecular crystals, facilitating machine learning studies of the molecular solid state. MXtalTools comprises several classes of utilities: (1) synthesis,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Michael Kilgour , Mark E. Tuckerman , Jutta Rogal

In recent years, the development of spectropolarimetric techniques deeply modified our knowledge of stellar magnetism. In the case of solar-type stars, the challenge is to measure a geometrically complex field and determine its evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Petit

We demonstrate that artificial bipolar structure can be detected using spectro-astrometry when the point spread function (PSF) of a point source suffers distortion in a relatively wide slit. Spectro-astrometry is a technique which allows us…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Brannigan , M. Takami , A. Chrysostomou , J. Bailey

Spectral line observations encode a wealth of information. A key challenge, therefore, lies in the interpretation of these observations in terms of models to derive the physical and chemical properties of the astronomical environments from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Frederik De Ceuster , Thomas Ceulemans , Leen Decin , Taïssa Danilovich , Jeremy Yates

In the era of large time-domain spectro-photometric surveys, surface variations such as starspots, chemical inhomogeneities, pulsations, rotational distortions, and binary interactions can now be directly detected and modelled. Accurately…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 M. Jabłońska , T. Różański , L. Casagrande , H. Shah , P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański , M. Rychlicki , Yuan-Sen Ting

PyKOALA is an innovative Python-based library designed to provide a robust and flexible framework for Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) data reduction. By addressing the complexities of transforming raw measurements into scientifically…

Pollux is a high-resolution spectrograph and spectropolarimeter working from 100 nm to 1.8 microns proposed for HWO by a European consortium. Pollux will allow us to study stellar and (exo)planetary systems, as well as cosmic ecosystems.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Coralie Neiner , Jean-Claude Bouret , Luca Fossati , David le Mignant , Eduard Muslimov , Ana Ines Gomez de Castro , Frédéric Marin

SkyPy is an open-source Python package for simulating the astrophysical sky. It comprises a library of physical and empirical models across a range of observables and a command-line script to run end-to-end simulations. The library provides…

We present here the first release of the open-source python package ExoTETHyS, which aims to provide a stand-alone set of tools for modeling spectro-photometric observations of the transiting exoplanets. In particular, we describe: (1) a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Giuseppe Morello , Antonio Claret , Marine Martin-Lagarde , Christophe Cossou , Angelos Tsiaras , Pierre-Olivier Lagage

Diagnostic techniques for stellar magnetic fields based upon spectropolarimetry. We propose and explore a new technique based upon the linear polarization emitted in Hanle-sensitive lines in disk-integrated stars where a dipolar magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. López Ariste , A. Asensio Ramos , C. González Fernández

SpectraPlot is a web-based application for simulating spectra of atomic and molecular gases. At the time this manuscript was written, SpectraPlot consisted of four primary tools for calculating: 1) atomic and molecular absorption spectra,…

Understanding astrophysical and cosmological processes can be challenging due to their complexity and lack of intuitive analogies. To address this, we present \texttt{AstronomyCalc}, a Python package specifically designed to aid…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-26 Sambit K. Giri

We introduce PyMGal, a Python package for generating optical mock observations of galaxies from hydrodynamical simulations. PyMGal reads the properties of stellar particles from these simulations and generates spectral energy distributions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Patrick Janulewicz , Weiguang Cui

We present basic informations about package SPHOTOM for an automatic multicolour photometry. This package is in development for a creation of photometric pipe-line, which we plan to use in near future with our new instruments. It could…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Parimucha , M. Vanko , P. Miklos

Spectroastrometry is a technique which has the potential to resolve flux distributions on scales of milliarcseconds. In this study, we examine the application of spectroastrometry to binary point sources which are spatially unresolved due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 John M. Porter , Rene D. Oudmaijer , Debbie Baines

Linear spectropolarimetry is a powerful tool to probe circumstellar structures on spatial scales that cannot yet be achieved through direct imaging. In this review I discuss the role that emission-line polarimetry can play in constraining…

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