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Stellar rotation is an important parameter in the evolution of massive stars. Accurate and reliable measurements of projected rotational velocities in large samples of OB stars are crucial to confront the predictions of stellar evolutionary…

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Generative models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for solving physics systems and modeling complex spatiotemporal dynamics. However, achieving high physical accuracy without incurring high computational cost remains a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jiahe Huang , Sihan Xu , Sharvaree Vadgama , Rose Yu

We present a new non-parametric method to quantify morphologies of galaxies based on a particular family of learning machines called support vector machines. The method, that can be seen as a generalization of the classical CAS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Huertas-Company , D. Rouan , L. Tasca , G. Soucail , O. Le Fevre

Photometric redshifts (photo-z's) provide an alternative way to estimate the distances of large samples of galaxies and are therefore crucial to a large variety of cosmological problems. Among the various methods proposed over the years,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Valeria Amaro , Civita Vellucci , Giuseppe Longo , Crescenzo Tortora

Extensive photometric surveys are and will continue producing massive amounts of data on small bodies. Usually, these data will be sparsely obtained at arbitrary (and unknown)rotational phases. Therefore, new methods to process such data…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 A. Alvarez-Candal , P. G. Benavidez , A. Campo Bagatin , T. Santana-Ros

We present the rotation curves (RCs) of 967 spiral galaxies, obtained by folding and deprojecting the raw optical data by Mathewson et al. (1992). Out of these, we have identified 80 excellent RCs and 820 fair RCs. The 80 excellent RCs are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Massimo Persic , Paolo Salucci

Determining the redshift distribution $n(z)$ of galaxy samples is essential for several cosmological probes including weak lensing. For imaging surveys, this is usually done using photometric redshifts estimated on an object-by-object…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-31 Jörg Herbel , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier , Claudio Bruderer , Andrina Nicola

The knowledge of local spatial gradients (curl, divergence etc.) is crucial to examine the three-dimensional variation of flow fields including velocity and magnetic fields in space plasmas like the solar wind. Here we propose a simple…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Rohan Singh , Supratik Banerjee , Arijit Halder

Transiting exoplanet parameter estimation from time-series photometry and Doppler spectroscopy is fundamental to study planets' internal structures and compositions. Here we present the code pyaneti, a powerful and user-friendly software…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 O. Barragán , D. Gandolfi , G. Antoniciello

High-resolution optical integral field units (IFUs) are rapidly expanding our knowledge of extragalactic emission nebulae in galaxies and galaxy clusters. By studying the spectra of these objects -- which include classic HII regions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-31 Carter Lee Rhea , Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo , Laurie Rousseau-Nepton , Benjamin Vigneron , Louis-Simon Guité

Modelling complex line emission in the interstellar medium (ISM) is a degenerate, high-dimensional problem. Here, we present McFine, a tool for automated multi-component fitting of emission lines with complex hyperfine structure, in a fully…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-11 Thomas G. Williams , Elizabeth J. Watkins

We present AstroPhot, a fast, powerful, and user-friendly Python based astronomical image photometry solver. AstroPhot incorporates automatic differentiation and GPU (or parallel CPU) acceleration, powered by the machine learning library…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-08 Connor Stone , Stephane Courteau , Jean-Charles Cuillandre , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Nikhil Arora

A variety of fundamental astrophysical science topics require the determination of very accurate photometric redshifts (photo-z's). A wide plethora of methods have been developed, based either on template models fitting or on empirical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-13 Stefano Cavuoti , Valeria Amaro , Massimo Brescia , Civita Vellucci , Crescenzo Tortora , Giuseppe Longo

Obtaining reliable, matched photometry for galaxies imaged by different observatories represents a key challenge in the era of wide-field surveys spanning more than several hundred square degrees. Methods such as flux fitting, profile…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kevin Bundy , David W. Hogg , Tim D. Higgs , Robert C. Nichol , Naoki Yasuda , Karen L. Masters , Dustin Lang , David A. Wake

We present the first results of our application of photometric redshifts to the study of galaxy populations in high-redshift clusters. For this survey, we are examining a sample of galaxy clusters at z > 0.6 which have already been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. M. Lubin , R. J. Brunner

In the last 20 years, rotation curves derived from H I kinematics obtained on radio synthesis instruments were used to probe the dark matter distribution in spiral and dwarf irregular galaxies. It is shown, with the aid of the Sd galaxy NGC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sebastien Blais-Ouellette , Claude Carignan , Philippe Amram

We present a fast iterative FFT-based reconstruction algorithm that allows for non- parallel redshift-space distortions (RSD). We test our algorithm on both N-body dark matter simulations and mock distributions of galaxies designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-17 Angela Burden , Will J. Percival , Cullan Howlett

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gyula I. G. Jozsa , Franz Kenn , Uli Klein , Tom A. Oosterloo

The wealth of high-quality observational data from the epoch of reionization that will become available in the next decade motivates further development of modeling techniques for their interpretation. Among the key challenges in modeling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-20 Christopher Cain , Anson D'Aloisio

Online reconstruction based on RGB-D sequences has thus far been restrained to relatively slow camera motions (<1m/s). Under very fast camera motion (e.g., 3m/s), the reconstruction can easily crumble even for the state-of-the-art methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiazhao Zhang , Chenyang Zhu , Lintao Zheng , Kai Xu