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Line-by-line calculations are becoming the standard procedure for carrying spectral simulations. However, it is important to insure the accuracy of such spectral simulations through the choice of adapted models for the simulation of key…

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We introduce Spectral Guidance, a framework for controlling diffusion models by leveraging the intrinsic geometry of the generative process. As data is progressively corrupted by noise, only a small number of features remain informative for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Gabriel Moreira , Manuel Marques , João Paulo Costeira , Chenyan Xiong

We investigate the uncertainties of fitted X-ray model parameters and fluxes for relatively faint Chandra ACIS-I source spectra. Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations are employed to construct a large set of 150,000 fake X-ray spectra in the low…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-29 J. F. Albacete-Colombo , E. Flaccomio , J. J. Drake , N. J. Wright , M. Guarcello , V. Kashyap

Radar perception models are trained with different inputs, from range-Doppler spectra to sparse point clouds. Dense spectra are assumed to outperform sparse point clouds, yet they can vary considerably across sensors and configurations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Hamza Alsharif , Jing Gu , Pavol Jancura , Satish Ravindran , Gijs Dubbelman

We present a quantitative comparison between software features of the defacto standard X-ray spectral analysis tool, XSPEC, and ISIS, the Interactive Spectral Interpretation System. Our emphasis is on customized analysis, with ISIS offered…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael S. Noble , Michael A. Nowak

We have developed a simulation-based method of spectral analysis for pile-up affected data of X-ray CCDs without any loss of photon statistics. As effects of the photon pile-up appear as complicated nonlinear detector responses, we employ a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Tsubasa Tamba , Hirokazu Odaka , Aya Bamba , Hiroshi Murakami , Koji Mori , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Yukikatsu Terada , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Masayoshi Nobukawa

Rendering high-fidelity images from sparse point clouds is still challenging. Existing learning-based approaches suffer from either hole artifacts, missing details, or expensive computations. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jiaxu Wang , Ziyi Zhang , Junhao He , Renjing Xu

Astronomical data generally consists of 2 or more high-resolution axes, e.g., X,Y position on the sky or wavelength and position-along-one-axis (long-slit spectrometer). Analyzing these multi-dimension observations requires combining 3D…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-11 Daniel Dewey , Michael S. Noble

Our understanding of physical processes in Photodissociation regions or Photon Dominated Regions (PDRs) largely depends on the ability of spectral synthesis codes to reproduce the observed infrared emission-line spectrum. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. P. Abel , P. A. M. van Hoof , G. Shaw , G. J. Ferland , T. Elwert

We present an interface between the (magneto-) hydrodynamics code PLUTO and the plasma simulation and spectral synthesis code CLOUDY. By combining these codes, we constructed a new photoionization hydrodynamics solver: The PLUTO-CLOUDY…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 M. Salz , R. Banerjee , A. Mignone , P. C. Schneider , S. Czesla , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

A primary goal of direct imaging techniques is to spectrally characterize the atmospheres of planets around other stars at extremely high contrast levels. To achieve this goal, coronagraphic instruments have favored integral field…

We introduce a new model for the spectral energy distribution of galaxies, GRASIL-3D, which includes a careful modelling of the dust component of the interstellar medium. GRASIL-3D is an entirely new model based on the formalism of an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 R. Domínguez-Tenreiro , A. Obreja , G. L. Granato , A. Schurer , P. Alpresa , L. Silva , C. B. Brook , A. Serna

Simulation has become the evaluation method of choice for many areas of distributing computing research. However, most existing simulation packages have several limitations on the size and complexity of the system being modeled. Fine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-07-01 Dobre Ciprian , Cristea Valentin , Iosif C. Legrand

We present a formalism for continuum and line emission from random clumpy media together with its application to problems of current interest, including CO spectral lines from ensembles of clouds and radio emission from HII regions,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 John E. Conway , Moshe Elitzur , Rodrigo Parra

A software package able to simulate imaging observations of galaxy clusters by the Chandra X-ray telescope is here presented. We start from high resolution N-body hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters and assign to each gas particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Gardini

The frequency distribution of different parameters of an EXAFS spectrum can be directly sampled by analysing a population of simulated spectra produced by adding computer-generated noise to a reference pattern. The procedure gives…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Ghigna , Melissa di Muri , Giorgio Spinolo

We present a brief description of the newly upgraded versions of the programs TLUSTY, version 208, and SYNSPEC, version 54. TLUSTY is used to generate model stellar atmospheres or accretion disks, and SYNSPEC produces detailed synthetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-08 Ivan Hubeny , Carlos Allende Prieto , Yeisson Osorio , Thierry Lanz

Cloud computing environment simulators enable cost-effective experimentation of novel infrastructure designs and management approaches by avoiding significant costs incurred from repetitive deployments in real Cloud platforms. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Tharindu B. Hewage , Shashikant Ilager , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

Octree-based point cloud representation and compression have been adopted by the MPEG G-PCC standard. However, it only uses handcrafted methods to predict the probability that a leaf node is non-empty, which is then used for entropy coding.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Yixiang Mao , Yueyu Hu , Yao Wang

I present a new FITS viewer designed to explore 3D spectral line data (in particular HI) and assist with visual source extraction and analysis. Using the artistic software Blender, FRELLED can visualise even large (~600^3 voxels) data sets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Rhys Taylor