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We present RUBIX, a fully tested, well-documented, and modular Open Source tool developed in JAX, designed to forward model IFU cubes of galaxies from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. The code automatically parallelizes computations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-12 Ufuk Çakır , Anna Lena Schaible , Tobias Buck

We propose the use of automatic differentiation through the programming framework jax for accelerating a variety of analysis tasks throughout gravitational wave (GW) science. Firstly, we demonstrate that complete waveforms which cover the…

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The sensitivity limits of space telescopes are imposed by uncalibrated errors in the point spread function, photon-noise, background light, and detector sensitivity. These are typically calibrated with specialized wavefront sensor hardware…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Louis Desdoigts , Benjamin Pope , Jordan Dennis , Peter Tuthill

Many advances in astronomy and astrophysics originate from accurate images of the sky emission across multiple wavelengths. This often requires reconstructing spatially and spectrally correlated signals detected from multiple instruments.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Vincent Eberle , Matteo Guardiani , Margret Westerkamp , Philipp Frank , Julian Rüstig , Julia Stadler , Torsten A. Enßlin

We introduce microJAX, the first fully differentiable implementation of the image-centered ray-shooting (ICRS) algorithm for gravitational microlensing. Built on JAX and its XLA just-in-time compiler, microJAX exploits GPU parallelism while…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Shota Miyazaki , Hajime Kawahara

A discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) coupled with the immersed boundary (IB) method is developed to perform interface-resolved simulation of particle-laden flows. The present method (IB-DUGKS) preserves the respective advantages of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-17 Shi Tao , Haolong Zhang , Zhaoli Guo , Lian-Ping Wang

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

Hydrodynamic simulations are powerful tools for studying galaxy formation. However, it is crucial to test and improve the sub-grid physics underlying these simulations by comparing their predictions with observations. To this aim,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-30 A. Cornejo-Cárdenas , E. Sillero , P. B. Tissera , M. Boquien , J. Vilchez , G. Bruzual , P. Jofré

Gradient-based algorithms are crucial to modern computer-vision and graphics applications, enabling learning-based optimization and inverse problems. For example, photorealistic differentiable rendering pipelines for color images have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Benjamin Planche , Rajat Vikram Singh

We present a novel, JAX-powered implementation of a parametric component-separation method for CMB polarization data, explicitly designed to handle spatially varying foreground Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs). The approach models this…

The modeling and simulation of multiphase fluid flow receive significant attention in reservoir engineering. Many time discretization schemes for multiphase flow equations are either explicit or semi-implicit, relying on the decoupling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Shuai Lu

The integral-field unit (IFU) spectrometers on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) undersample the nearly diffraction-limited point spread function provided by the telescope optics. This undersampling produces large oscillating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 David R. Law , Melanie Clarke

Fossil record methods based on spectral synthesis techniques have matured over the past decade, and their application to integrated galaxy spectra fostered substantial advances on the understanding of galaxies and their evolution. Yet,…

We present capivara, a fast and scalable spectral-based segmentation package designed to study astrophysical properties within distinct structural components of galaxies. This spectro-segmentation code for integral field unit (IFU) data…

The most direct way to confront observed galaxies with those formed in numerical simulations is to forward-model simulated galaxies into synthetic observations. Provided that synthetic galaxy observations include similar constraints and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-16 Connor Bottrell , Maan H. Hani

We present microlux, which is a Jax-based code that can compute the binary microlensing light curve and its derivatives both efficiently and accurately. The key feature of microlux is the implementation of a modified version of the adaptive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Haibin Ren , Wei Zhu

Modal methods for simulating vibrations of strings, membranes, and plates are widely used in acoustics and physically informed audio synthesis. However, traditional implementations, particularly for non-linear models like the von K\'arm\'an…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Rodrigo Diaz , Mark Sandler

Writing high performance solvers for engineering applications is a delicate task. These codes are often developed on an application to application basis, highly optimized to solve a certain problem. Here, we present our work on developing a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Niclas Jansson , Rahul Bale , Keiji Onishi , Makoto Tsubokura

Scattered data interpolation schemes using kriging and radial basis functions (RBFs) have the advantage of being meshless and dimensional independent, however, for the data sets having insufficient observations, RBFs have the advantage over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Pankaj K Mishra , Sankar K Nath , Mrinal K Sen , Gregory E Fasshauer

This is the first of a series of papers in which the kinematics of disk galaxies over a range of scales is scrutinised employing spectroscopy. A fundamental aspect of these studies is presented here: the new publicly available software tool…

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