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Context: High contrast imaging is a powerful technique to detect and characterize planetary companions at large orbital separations from their parent stars. Aims: We aim at studying the limiting magnitude of the VLT/SPHERE Adaptive Optics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 M. I. Jones , J. Milli , I. Blanchard , Z. Wahhaj , R. de Rosa , C. Romero

We present the pulsar_spectra software repository, an open-source pulsar flux density catalogue and automated spectral fitting software that finds the best spectral model and produces publication-quality plots. The Python-based software…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 N. A. Swainston , C. P. Lee , S. J. McSweeney , N. D. R. Bhat

We describe the software requirement and design specifications for all-sky panoramic astronomical pipelines. The described software aims to meet the specific needs of super-wide angle optics, and includes cosmic-ray hit rejection, image…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lior Shamir , Robert J. Nemiroff , David O. Torrey , Wellesley E. Pereira

The advent of large aperture arrays, such as the ones currently under construction for the SKA project, allows for observing the Universe in the radio-spectrum at unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. To process the enormous amounts of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 S. Wang , S. Mignot , S. Prunet , L. Di Mascolo , M. Spinelli , A. Ferrari

Reliable depth estimation from spherical images is crucial for 360{\deg} vision in robotic navigation and immersive scene understanding. However, the onboard spherical camera can experience unintentional pose variations in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Soulayma Gazzeh , Giuseppe Mazzola , Liliana Lo Presti , Marco La Cascia

We present the source separation framework SCARLET for multi-band images, which is based on a generalization of the Non-negative Matrix Factorization to alternative and several simultaneous constraints. Our approach describes the observed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-14 Peter Melchior , Fred Moolekamp , Maximilian Jerdee , Robert Armstrong , Ai-Lei Sun , James Bosch , Robert Lupton

Due to the rapid development of panorama cameras, the task of estimating panorama depth has attracted significant attention from the computer vision community, especially in applications such as robot sensing and autonomous driving.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Qingsong Yan , Qiang Wang , Kaiyong Zhao , Jie Chen , Bo Li , Xiaowen Chu , Fei Deng

We present starkiller, an open-source Python package for forward-modeling flux retrieval from integral field unit spectrograph (IFU) datacubes. Starkiller simultaneously provides stellar spectral classification, relative velocity, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Ryan Ridden-Harper , Michele T. Bannister , Sophie E. Deam , Thomas Nordlander

We provide a suite of public open-source spectral data-reduction software to rapidly obtain scientific products from all forms of long-slit-like spectroscopic observations. Automated SpectroPhotometric REDuction (ASPIRED) is a Python-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Marco C. Lam , Robert J. Smith , Iair Arcavi , Iain A. Steele , Josh Veitch-Michaelis , Lukasz Wyrzykowski

Over 3 billion astronomical objects have been detected in the more than 22 million orthogonal transfer CCD images obtained as part of the Pan-STARRS1 $3\pi$ survey. Over 85 billion instances of those objects have been automatically detected…

Integral-field spectroscopy is the most effective method of exploiting the superb image quality of the ESO-VLT, allowing complex astrophysical processes to be probed on the angular scales currently accessible only for imaging data, but with…

The upcoming Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is expected to produce humongous amount of data for undertaking H{\sc i}~science. We have developed an MPI-based {\sc Python} pipeline to deal with the large data efficiently with the present…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Abinash Kumar Shaw , Manoj Jagannath , Aishrila Mazumder , Arnab Chakraborty , Narendra Nath Patra , Rajesh Mondal , Samir Choudhuri

We present end-to-end simulations of SCALES, the third generation thermal-infrared diffraction limited imager and low/med-resolution integral field spectrograph (IFS) being designed for Keck. The 2-5 micron sensitivity of SCALES enables…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-29 Zackery Briesemeister , Steph Sallum , Andrew Skemer , R. Deno Stelter , Philip Hinz , Timothy Brandt

This paper introduces SHIELD, a Spherical-Projection Hybrid-Frontier Integration for Efficient LiDAR-based Drone exploration method. Although laser LiDAR offers the advantage of a wide field of view, its application in UAV exploration still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Liangtao Feng , Zhenchang Liu , Feng Zhang , Xuefeng Ren

The Auroral Planetary Imaging and Spectroscopy (APIS) service, accessible online, provides an open and interactive access to processed auroral observations of the outer planets and their satellites. Such observations are of interest for a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Laurent Lamy , Renée Prangé , Florence Henry , Pierre Le Sidaner

The importance of geo-spatial data in critical applications such as emergency response, transportation, agriculture etc., has prompted the adoption of recent GeoSPARQL standard in many RDF processing engines. In addition to large…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Jyoti Leeka , Srikanta Bedathur , Debajyoti Bera , Sriram Lakshminarasimhan

SPICES (Spectro-Polarimetric Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanetary Systems) is a five-year M-class mission proposed to ESA Cosmic Vision. Its purpose is to image and characterize long-period extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks…

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) is a direct imaging campaign designed to search for young, self-luminous, giant exoplanets. To date, GPIES has observed nearly 500 targets, and generated over 30,000 individual exposures…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-20 Dmitry Savransky , Jacob Shapiro , Vanessa Bailey , Robert De Rosa , Jason Wang , Jean-Baptiste Ruffio , Eric Nielsen , Melisa Tallis , Marshall Perrin

Massive stars like company. However, low-mass companions have remained extremely difficult to detect at angular separations ($\rho$) smaller than 1" (~1000-3000 au considering typical distance to nearby massive stars) given the large…

HEALPix -- the Hierarchical Equal Area iso-Latitude Pixelization -- is a versatile data structure with an associated library of computational algorithms and visualization software that supports fast scientific applications executable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 K. M. Gorski , E. Hivon , A. J. Banday , B. D. Wandelt , F. K. Hansen , M. Reinecke , M. Bartelman