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We present the results of our investigations into options for the computing platform for the imaging pipeline in the CHILES project, an ultra-deep HI pathfinder for the era of the Square Kilometre Array. CHILES pushes the current computing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-03 Richard Dodson , Kevin Vinsen , Chen Wu , Attila Popping , Martin Meyer , Andreas Wicenec , Peter Quinn , Jacqueline van Gorkom , Emmanuel Momjian

Multi-view stereo (MVS) reconstruction is essential for creating 3D models. The approach involves applying epipolar rectification followed by dense matching for disparity estimation. However, existing approaches face challenges in applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Mostafa Elhashash , Rongjun Qin

Coming high-cadence wide-field optical telescopes will image hundreds of thousands of sources per minute. Besides inspecting the near real-time data streams for transient and variability events, the accumulated data archive is a wealthy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-20 Bart Scheers , Steven Bloemen , Hannes Mühleisen , Pim Schellart , Arjen van Elteren , Martin Kersten , Paul J. Groot

Optimising the major next-generation cosmological surveys (such as {\em SNAP, KAOS etc...}) is a key problem given our ignorance of the physics underlying cosmic acceleration and the plethora of surveys planned. We propose a Bayesian design…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bruce A. Bassett

Artificial satellites and space debris increasingly contaminate astronomical images, affecting scientific surveys and producing large volumes of streaked exposures. Manual inspection is no longer feasible at scale, and reliable detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Rafael Carrillo Navarro , René Duffard , Pablo García-Martín , Javier Romero , Nicolás Morales , Luis Gonçalves

SCALES (Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy) is a 2-5 micron high-contrast lenslet integral-field spectrograph (IFS) driven by exoplanet characterization science requirements and will operate at W. M. Keck Observatory.…

Interferometric techniques such as aperture masking have the potential to enhance spatial resolution capabilities when imaging moderate-contrast sources with small angular size, such as close-in exoplanets and circumstellar disks around…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Mackenzie R. Lach , Steph Sallum , Andrew Skemer

SPHEREx is a NASA infrared astronomy mission that launched on March 12th, 2025 and is operating successfully in low-Earth orbit (LEO). The mission is currently observing the entire sky in 102 spectral channels in four independent all-sky…

SPIDERS (The SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources) is a program dedicated to the homogeneous and complete spectroscopic follow-up of X-ray AGN and galaxy clusters over a large area ($\sim$7500 deg$^2$) of the extragalactic sky.…

Upcoming large-scale spectroscopic surveys with e.g. WEAVE and 4MOST will provide thousands of spectra of massive stars, which need to be analysed in an efficient and homogeneous way. Usually, studies of massive stars are limited to samples…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 J. M. Bestenlehner , T. Enßlin , M. Bergemann , P. A. Crowther , M. Greiner , M. Selig

The ESPRESSO instrument, to be commissioned in the next months at the ESO VLT, is bound to became a landmark in the field of high-resolution optical spectroscopy, both for its ground-breaking science objectives (search for Earth-like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-14 Guido Cupani , Giorgio Calderone , Stefano Cristiani , Valentina D'Odorico , Giuliano Taffoni

The next-generation astronomy archives will cover most of the universe at fine resolution in many wavelengths. One of the first of these projects, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will create a 5-wavelength catalog over 10,000 square…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 Alexander S. Szalay , Peter Kunszt , Anirudha Thakar , Jim Gray , Don Slutz

The Euclid ERO showcase Euclid's capabilities in advance of its main mission, targeting 17 astronomical objects, from galaxy clusters, nearby galaxies, globular clusters, to star-forming regions. A total of 24 hours observing time was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 J. -C. Cuillandre , E. Bertin , M. Bolzonella , H. Bouy , S. Gwyn , S. Isani , M. Kluge , O. Lai , A. Lançon , D. A. Lang , R. Laureijs , T. Saifollahi , M. Schirmer , C. Stone , Abdurro'uf , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , F. Annibali , H. Atek , P. Awad , M. Baes , E. Bañados , D. Barrado , S. Belladitta , V. Belokurov , A. Boselli , F. Bournaud , J. Bovy , R. A. A. Bowler , G. Buenadicha , F. Buitrago , M. Cantiello , D. Carollo , S. Codis , M. L. M. Collins , G. Congedo , E. Dalessandro , V. de Lapparent , F. De Paolis , J. M. Diego , P. Dimauro , J. Dinis , H. Dole , P. -A. Duc , D. Erkal , M. Ezziati , A. M. N. Ferguson , A. Ferré-Mateu , A. Franco , R. Gavazzi , K. George , W. Gillard , J. B. Golden-Marx , B. Goldman , A. H. Gonzalez , R. Habas , W. G. Hartley , N. A. Hatch , R. Kohley , J. Hoar , J. M. Howell , L. K. Hunt , P. Jablonka , M. Jauzac , Y. Kang , J. H. Knapen , J. -P. Kneib , R. Kohley , P. B. Kuzma , S. S. Larsen , O. Marchal , J. Martín-Fleitas , P. Marcos-Arenal , F. R. Marleau , E. L. Martín , D. Massari , A. W. McConnachie , M. Meneghetti , M. Miluzio , J. Miro Carretero , H. Miyatake , M. Mondelin , M. Montes , A. Mora , O. Müller , C. Nally , K. Noeske , A. A. Nucita , P. A. Oesch , M. Oguri , R. F. Peletier , M. Poulain , L. Quilley , G. D. Racca , M. Rejkuba , J. Rhodes , P. -F. Rocci , J. Román , S. Sacquegna , E. Saremi , R. Scaramella , E. Schinnerer , S. Serjeant , E. Sola , J. G. Sorce , F. Tarsitano , I. Tereno , S. Toft , C. Tortora , M. Urbano , A. Venhola , K. Voggel , J. R. Weaver , X. Xu , M. Žerjal , R. Zöller , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , A. Basset , R. Bender , C. Bodendorf , E. Branchini , S. Brau-Nogue , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , J. -G. Cuby , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , A. M. Di Giorgio , M. Douspis , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , M. Fabricius , M. Farina , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , S. Fotopoulou , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , P. Gómez-Alvarez , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , J. Hoar , H. Hoekstra , W. Holmes , I. Hook , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , T. Kitching , B. Kubik , K. Kuijken , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , O. Lahav , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , S. Maurogordato , H. J. McCracken , E. Medinaceli , Y. Mellier , G. Meylan , J. J. Mohr , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , R. Nakajima , R. C. Nichol , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , J. A. Peacock , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Refregier , A. Renzi , G. Riccio , Hans-Walter Rix , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. Skottfelt , L. Stanco , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , H. I. Teplitz , R. Toledo-Moreo , A. Tsyganov , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , Y. Wang , J. Weller , O. R. Williams , G. Zamorani , E. Zucca , C. Baccigalupi , C. Burigana , P. Casenove , P. Liebing , V. Scottez , P. Simon , D. Scott

ALBUM is a general-purpose tool to visualize and screen large amounts of slitless spectra. It was developed for a search for emission-line stars in SMC and LMC clusters. The observations were obtained with ESO's Wide Field Imager (WFI) and…

The upcoming NASA SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) all-sky 0.7 to 5.0 um spectral survey, to be conducted from 2025 to 2027, provides a unique space-based opportunity to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-15 Carey Lisse , James Bauer , Yaeji Kim

CONTEXT. Little is known about the planetary systems around single white dwarfs although there is strong evidence that they do exist. AIMS. We performed a pilot study with the extreme-AO system on the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-08 S. Xu , S. Ertel , Z. Wahhaj , J. Milli , P. Scicluna , G. H. -M. Bertrang

Context: The current stellar atmosphere programs still cannot match some fundamental observations of the brightest stars, and with new techniques, such as optical interferometry, providing new data for these stars, additional development of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John B. Lester , Hilding R. Neilson

In this paper, we propose a robust end-to-end multi-modal pipeline for place recognition where the sensor systems can differ from the map building to the query. Our approach operates directly on images and LiDAR scans without requiring any…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Lukas Bernreiter , Lionel Ott , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

Due to the current lack of large-scale datasets at the million-scale level, tasks involving panoramic images predominantly rely on existing two-dimensional pre-trained image benchmark models as backbone networks. However, these networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jingguo Liu , Han Yu , Shigang Li , Jianfeng Li

Aims: Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) is a powerful approach for the study of nearby galaxies since it enables a detailed analysis of their resolved physical properties. Here we present the sample of nearby galaxies selected to exploit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 E. Marmol-Queralto , S. F. Sanchez , R. A. Marino , D. Mast , K. Viironen , A. Gil de Paz , J. Iglesias-Paramo , F. F. Rosales-Ortega , J. M. Vilchez