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We present FluxCT V2.0, an updated web tool for identifying contaminating flux in Kepler and TESS target pixel files. FluxCT V2.0 focuses on enhancing functionality, user experience, and data processing capabilities. We resolved existing…

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The eROSITA X-ray telescope on board the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) satellite has started to detect new X-ray sources over the full sky at an unprecedented rate. Understanding the performance and selection function of the source…

We make another assault on the longstanding problem of debugging. After exploring why debuggers are not used as widely as one might expect, especially in functional programming environments, we define the characteristics of a debugger which…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-17 John Whitington , Tom Ridge

We introduce SciWING, an open-source software toolkit which provides access to pre-trained models for scientific document processing tasks, inclusive of citation string parsing and logical structure recovery. SciWING enables researchers to…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap , Min-Yen Kan

Spectroscopy is one of the most important tools that an astronomer has for studying the universe. This chapter begins by discussing the basics, including the different types of optical spectrographs, with extension to the ultraviolet and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Philip Massey , Margaret M. Hanson

This is a companion Focus Demonstration article to the PyMUSE python package, demonstrating its usage and utilities for VLT/MUSE data analysis, that include a wide range of options for spectra extractions, the creation of different types of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-20 Ismael Pessa , Nicolas Tejos , Cristobal Moya

Image-based experiments can yield many thousands of individual measurements describing each object of interest, such as cells in microscopy screens. CellProfiler Analyst is a free, open-source software package designed for the exploration…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-03 David R. Stirling , Anne E. Carpenter , Beth A. Cimini

With the rise of simulation-based inference (SBI) methods, simulations need to be fast as well as realistic. $\texttt{UFig v1}$ is a public Python package that simulates astronomical images with exceptional speed, taking approximately the…

swdatatoolkit is a Python-based scientific software library designed to support the acquisition, preprocessing, and analysis of solar and space weather data. The toolkit consolidates functionality across multiple domains, including data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Dustin Kempton , Griffin Goodwin , Tarun Kumar Reddy Thippareddy , Reet Gupta , Viacheslav Sadykov , Rafal Angryk

The goal of our work is to use a set of reports and extract named entities, in our case the names of Industrial or Academic partners. Starting with an initial list of entities, we use a first set of documents to identify syntactic patterns…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Thierry Despeyroux , Eduardo Fraschini , Anne-Marie Vercoustre

Investigating the spatial correlation between different emissions in an extended astrophysical source can provide crucial insights into their physical connection, hence it can be the key to understand the nature of the system. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Alessandro Ignesti

The knowledge on attacks contained in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) reports is very important to effectively identify and quickly respond to cyber threats. However, this knowledge is often embedded in large amounts of text, and therefore…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Kiavash Satvat , Rigel Gjomemo , V. N. Venkatakrishnan

Procedures based on current methods to detect sources in X-ray images are applied to simulated XMM images. All significant instrumental effects are taken into account, and two kinds of sources are considered -- unresolved sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 I. Valtchanov , M. Pierre , R. Gastaud

The study on point sources in astronomical images is of special importance, since most energetic celestial objects in the Universe exhibit a point-like appearance. An approach to recognize the point sources (PS) in the X-ray astronomical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Zhixian Ma , Weitian Li , Lei Wang , Haiguang Xu , Jie Zhu

The XMM Cluster Survey (XCS) have developed a new Python module, X-ray: Generate and Analyse (XGA) to provide interactive and automated analyses of X-ray emitting sources observed by the XMM-Newton space telescope. XGA only requires that a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-05 D. J. Turner , P. A. Giles , A. K. Romer , V. Korbina

Dependency analysis is recognized as an important field of software engineering due to a variety of reasons. There exists a large pool of tools providing assistance to software developers and architects. Analysis of inter- and intra-project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-20 V. Repinskiy , V. Kovalenko

For large-scale simulation codes with huge and complex code bases, where bit-for-bit comparisons are too restrictive, finding the source of statistically significant discrepancies (e.g., from a previous version, alternative hardware or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Daniel J. Milroy , Allison H. Baker , Dorit M. Hammerling , Youngsung Kim , Elizabeth R. Jessup , Thomas Hauser

The first step in a science project is the acquisition and understanding of the relevant data. This paper outlines the results of a project to design and test network tools specifically oriented at retrieving astronomical data. The tools…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 James Schombert

We provide an overview of the xFitter open-source software package, review the general capabilities of the program, and highlight applications relevant to the Snowmass study. An updated version of the program (2.2.0) is available on CERN…

We present a search for spatial extension in high-latitude ($|b|>5^\circ$) sources in recent Fermi point source catalogs. The result is the Fermi High-Latitude Extended Sources Catalog, which provides source extensions (or upper limits…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-13 LAT Collaboration , Jonathan Biteau