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We present the Swift Analysis Pipeline for Lightcurve Extraction (SAPLE), a semi-automated pipeline to extract the Swift-UVOT and Swift-XRT data products and spectral information (magnitudes, photon indices, and fluxes) for a set of…

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We present the first public version of SImMER, an open-source Python reduction pipeline for astronomical images of point sources. Current capabilities include dark-subtraction, flat-fielding, sky-subtraction, image registration, FWHM…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Arjun B. Savel , Lea A. Hirsch , Holden Gill , Courtney D. Dressing , David R. Ciardi

IRIS (InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph) is the diffraction-limited first light instrument for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) that consists of a near-infrared (0.84 to 2.4 $\mu$m) imager and integral field spectrograph (IFS). The IFS makes…

I present spherical (https://github.com/m-samland/spherical), a software package and database designed for the ESO VLT/SPHERE high-contrast imager. SPHERE has produced the world's largest archive of direct imaging observations of exoplanets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 Matthias Samland

The primary task of the 1.26-m telescope jointly operated by the National Astronomical Observatory and Guangzhou University is photometric observations of the g, r, and i bands. A data processing pipeline system was set up with mature…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Weirong Huang , Zhou Xie , Wenjie Zhong , Ying Mei , Hui Deng , Yingbo Liu , Feng Wang

Target search and tracking (SAT) is a fundamental problem for various robotic applications such as search and rescue and environmental exploration. This paper proposes an informative trajectory planning approach, namely ReSPIRe, for SAT in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Kangjie Zhou , Zhaoyang Li , Han Gao , Yao Su , Hangxin Liu , Junzhi Yu , Chang Liu

I present and summarize a software package ("LPipe") for completely automated, end-to-end reduction of both bright and faint sources with the Low-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS) at Keck Observatory. It supports all gratings, grisms,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Daniel A. Perley

The increasing availability of high-quality optical and near-infrared spectroscopic data, as well as advances in modelling techniques, have greatly expanded the scientific potential of spectroscopic studies. However, the software tools…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Daniele Gasparri , Lorenzo Morelli , Umberto Battino , Jairo Méndez Abreu , Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres

The freud Python package is a powerful library for analyzing simulation data. Written with modern simulation and data analysis workflows in mind, freud provides a Python interface to fast, parallelized C++ routines that run efficiently on…

We present flame, a pipeline for reducing spectroscopic observations obtained with multi-slit near-infrared and optical instruments. Because of its flexible design, flame can be easily applied to data obtained with a wide variety of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-29 Sirio Belli , Alessandra Contursi , Richard I. Davies

We present GRAPHIC, a new angular differential imaging (ADI) reduction pipeline where all geometric image operations are based on Fourier transforms. To achieve this goal the entire pipeline is parallelised making it possible to reduce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-23 J. Hagelberg , D. Ségransan , S. Udry , F. Wildi

Optimizing one's observing strategy while at the telescope relies on knowing the current observing conditions and the obtained data quality. In particular the latter is not straight forward with current wide-field imagers, such as the WIYN…

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We present the easy-to-use, publicly available, Python package petitRADTRANS, built for the spectral characterization of exoplanet atmospheres. The code is fast, accurate, and versatile; it can calculate both transmission and emission…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 P. Mollière , J. P. Wardenier , R. van Boekel , Th. Henning , K. Molaverdikhani , I. A. G. Snellen

In modern-day astronomy, near-infrared, optical, and ultraviolet spectroscopy are indispensable for studying a wide range of phenomena, from measuring black hole masses to analyzing chemical abundances in stellar atmospheres. However,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-21 Raniere de Menezes , Francesco Massaro , Michela Negro , Claudia M. Raiteri , Harold Peña-Herazo , Jose A. Acosta-Pulido

NIRPS (Near Infra-Red Planet Searcher) is an AO-assisted and fiber-fed spectrograph for high precision radial velocity measurements in the YJH-bands. NIRPS also has the specificity to be an SCAO assisted instrument, enabling the use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-29 N. Blind , U. Conod , A. de Meideros , F. Wildi , F. Bouchy , S. Bovay , D. Brousseau , A. Cabral , L. Genolet , J. Kolb , R. Schnell , A. Segovia , M. Sordet , S. Thibault , B. Wehbe , G. Zins

We developed the pycraf Python package, which provides functions and procedures for various tasks related to spectrum-management compatibility studies. This includes an implementation of ITU-R Rec. P.452, which allows to calculate the path…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 B. Winkel , A. Jessner

In recent years, a number of new instruments and data reduction pipelines have been developed to obtain high-precision radial velocities (RVs). In particular in the optical, considerable progress has been made and RV precision below 50 cm/s…

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

In recent years, significant advances have been made in exoplanet and brown dwarf observations. By using state-of-the-art models, astronomers can determine properties of their atmospheres, such as temperatures, the presence of clouds, or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Sam de Regt , Siddharth Gandhi , Louis Siebenaler , Darío González Picos

The training of modern speech processing systems often requires a large amount of simulated room impulse response (RIR) data in order to allow the systems to generalize well in real-world, reverberant environments. However, simulating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Yi Luo , Jianwei Yu