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Optimal error estimation is key to achieve accurate photometry and astrometry. Stellar fluxes and positions in high angular resolution images are typically measured with PSF fitting routines, such as StarFinder. However, the formal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-12 E. Gallego-Cano , R. Schödel , A. T. Gallego-Calvente , A. M. Ghez

Astronomy produces extremely large data sets from ground-based telescopes, space missions, and simulation. The volume and complexity of these rich data sets require new approaches and advanced tools to understand the information contained…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-25 Demitri Muna , Eric Huff

One of the new frontiers of astronomical research is the exploration of time variability on the sky at different wavelengths and flux levels. We have carried out a pilot project using DPOSS data to study strong variables and transients, and…

We have designed and implemented a novel way to process wide-field astronomical data within a distributed environment of hardware resources and humanpower. The system is characterized by integration of archiving, calibration, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-17 J. P. McFarland , G. Verdoes-Kleijn , G. Sikkema , E. M. Helmich , D. R. Boxhoorn , E. A. Valentijn

Atmospheric spectroscopy of extrasolar planets is an intricate business. Atmospheric signatures typically require a photometric precision of $1 \times 10^{-4}$ in flux over several hours. Such precision demands high instrument stability as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ingo P. Waldmann , Enzo Pascale

The ASTRI Mini-Array project, led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, aims to construct and operate nine Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes for high-energy gamma-ray source study and stellar intensity interferometry.…

The domain of radio astronomy is currently facing significant computational challenges, foremost amongst which are those posed by the development of the world's largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Preliminary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 R. J. Lyon , J. M. Brooke , J. D. Knowles , B. W. Stappers

To use strong gravitational lenses as an astrophysical or cosmological probe, models of their mass distributions are often needed. We present a new, time-efficient automation code for uniform modeling of strongly lensed quasars with GLEE, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 S. Ertl , S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , T. Schmidt , T. Treu , S. Birrer , A. J. Shajib , D. Sluse

We have developed a software pipeline, AutoWISP, for extracting high-precision photometry from citizen scientists' observations made with consumer-grade color digital cameras (digital single-lens reflex, or DSLR, cameras), based on our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Angel E. Romero , Kaloyan Penev , S. Javad Jafarzadeh , Zoltan Csubry , Joel D. Hartman , Gaspar A. Bakos

We present a comprehensive pipeline developed for the image processing of the KMTNet Synoptic Survey of the Southern Sky (KS4) Data Release 1. This pipeline encompasses several key processes, including data quality assurance, astrometry,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Mankeun Jeong , Myungshin Im , Joonho Kim , Seo-Won Chang , Sungho Jung , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Jin Kim , Bomi Park , Jaewon Lee , Jiseop Shin , Changwan Kim , Gregory S. H. Paek

We present a convenient, all-in-one framework for the scientific analysis of fully reduced, (integral-field) spectroscopic data. The GIST pipeline (Galaxy IFU Spectroscopy Tool) is entirely written in Python3 and conducts all steps from the…

EUSO-SPB2 (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon II) is a precursor mission for a future space observatory for multi-messenger astrophysics, planned to be launched in Spring 2023 with a flight duration target of 100…

Estimation of time delays from a noisy and gapped data is one of the simplest data analysis problems in astronomy by its formulation. But as history of real experiments show, the work with observed data sets can be quite complex and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-31 A. Hirv , N. Olspert , J. Pelt

The MAGIC and LST-1 telescopes, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, operate dedicated On-Site Analysis (OSA) pipelines that provide rapid, automated processing of observational data. These systems produce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-29 A. Dinesh , M. Láinez , R. A. Cerviño , D. Morcuende , A. Moralejo , J. L. Contreras , A. Baquero , J. Lozano

An algorithm and numerical code for the up-sampling of a system of particles, from a smaller to a larger number, is described. The method introduces a Poissonian `shot-noise' to the up-sampled distribution, typical of the noise statistics…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 P. Traczykowski , L. T. Campbell , B. W. J. McNeil

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) images of regularly arranged spatially periodic objects can be processed crystallographically. The resulting information may be used to remove from the SPM image distortions that are due to a less than…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-16 Peter Moeck

Since Particulate Matters (PMs) are closely related to people's living and health, it has become one of the most important indicator of air quality monitoring around the world. But the existing sensor-based methods for PM monitoring have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Yonghui Zhang , Ke Gu

Very High Resolution satellite and aerial imagery are used to monitor and conduct large scale surveys of ecological systems. Convolutional Neural Networks have successfully been employed to analyze such imagery to detect large animals and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Aymen Al-Saadi , Ioannis Paraskevakos , Bento Collares Gonçalves , Heather J. Lynch , Shantenu Jha , Matteo Turilli

Scanamorphos is one of the public softwares available to post-process scan observations performed with the Herschel photometer arrays. This post-processing mainly consists in subtracting the total low-frequency noise (both its thermal and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hélène Roussel

The ESPRESSO instrument, to be commissioned in the next months at the ESO VLT, is bound to became a landmark in the field of high-resolution optical spectroscopy, both for its ground-breaking science objectives (search for Earth-like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-14 Guido Cupani , Giorgio Calderone , Stefano Cristiani , Valentina D'Odorico , Giuliano Taffoni