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The SOXS Spectrograph Instrument Control Software

Davide Ricci, Bernardo Salasnich, Andrea Baruffolo +51

SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a new spectrograph for the European Southern Observatory (ESO), recently installed at the New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the La Silla Observatory, Chi…

astro-ph.IM2026

PLATO input catalogs for technical calibration and fine guidance

René Heller, Chen Jiang, Paz Bluhm +18

A few weeks after launch, the PLATO spacecraft is expected to start its payload commissioning, which will be completed within the first three months of the mission. This phase incl…

astro-ph.IM2026★ 2 cited

iDaVIE v1.0: A virtual reality tool for interactive analysis of astronomical data cubes

Alexander Sivitilli, Lucia Marchetti, Angus Comrie +10

As modern astronomy confronts unprecedented data volumes, automated pipelines and machine-learning techniques have become essential for processing and analysis. As these workflows…

astro-ph.IM2026

Multivariate time-series forecasting of ASTRI-Horn monitoring data: A Normal Behavior Model

Federico Incardona, Alessandro Costa, Farida Farsian +8

This study presents a Normal Behavior Model (NBM) developed to forecast monitoring time-series data from the ASTRI-Horn Cherenkov telescope under normal operating conditions. The a…

astro-ph.IM2026

Spectral performance of single-channel plastic and GAGG scintillator bars of the CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP)

Nicolas De Angelis, Abhay Kumar, Sergio Fabiani +45

Our Sun is the closest X-ray astrophysical source to Earth. As such, it makes a formidable case study to better understand astrophysical processes. Solar flares are in particular v…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Interfacing adaptive optics simulations with the optical model: a powerful tool for MORFEO

Giorgio Pariani, Guido Agapito, Demetrio Magrin +5

In the framework of the MORFEO project, the Multi-Conjugated Adaptive Optics (MCAO) module for the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), we developed an integrated modeling too…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Solar flare forecasting with foundational transformer models across image, video, and time-series modalities

S. Riggi, P. Romano, A. Pilzer +1

We present a comparative study of transformer-based architectures for solar flare forecasting using heterogeneous data modalities, including images, video sequences, and time-serie…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Closing the Evidence Gap: reddemcee, a Fast Adaptive Parallel Tempering Sampler

Pablo A. Peña, James S. Jenkins

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) excels at sampling complex posteriors but traditionally lags behind nested sampling in accurate evidence estimation, which is crucial for model comp…

astro-ph.IM2025

On the computational feasibility of Bayesian end-to-end analysis of LiteBIRD simulations within Cosmoglobe

R. Aurvik, M. Galloway, E. Gjerløw +107

We assess the computational feasibility of end-to-end Bayesian analysis of the JAXA-led LiteBIRD experiment by analysing simulated time ordered data (TOD) for a subset of detectors…

astro-ph.IM2025

A Simulation Framework for the LiteBIRD Instruments

M. Tomasi, L. Pagano, A. Anand +111

LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of -mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission focused on primordial cosmo…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 9 cited

Square Kilometre Array Science Data Challenge 3a: foreground removal for an EoR experiment

A. Bonaldi, P. Hartley, R. Braun +179

We present and analyse the results of the Science data challenge 3a (SDC3a, https://sdc3.skao.int/challenges/foregrounds), an EoR foreground-removal community-wide exercise organis…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Final Alignment and Image Quality Test for the Acquisition and Guiding System of SOXS

J. A. Araiza-Duran, G. Pignata, A. Brucalassi +50

SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) will be the new medium-resolution (R 4500 for 1 slit), high-efficiency, wide-band spectrograph for the ESO NTT at La Silla Observatory, Chile. It will be de…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 8 cited

Self-supervised contrastive learning of radio data for source detection, classification and peculiar object discovery

S. Riggi, T. Cecconello, S. Palazzo +14

New advancements in radio data post-processing are underway within the SKA precursor community, aiming to facilitate the extraction of scientific results from survey images through…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 6 cited

The MPI + CUDA Gaia AVU-GSR Parallel Solver Toward Next-generation Exascale Infrastructures

Valentina Cesare, Ugo Becciani, Alberto Vecchiato +4

We ported to the GPU with CUDA the Astrometric Verification Unit-Global Sphere Reconstruction (AVU-GSR) Parallel Solver developed for the ESA Gaia mission, by optimizing a previous…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 7 cited

Hydra II: Characterisation of Aegean, Caesar, ProFound, PyBDSF, and Selavy source finders

M. M. Boyce, A. M. Hopkins, S. Riggi +24

We present a comparison between the performance of a selection of source finders using a new software tool called Hydra. The companion paper, Paper~I, introduced the Hydra tool and…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

Hydra I: An extensible multi-source-finder comparison and cataloguing tool

M. M. Boyce, A. M. Hopkins, S. Riggi +24

The latest generation of radio surveys are now producing sky survey images containing many millions of radio sources. In this context it is highly desirable to understand the perfo…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

The Simons Observatory: Beam characterization for the Small Aperture Telescopes

Nadia Dachlythra, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Jon E. Gudmundsson +27

We use time-domain simulations of Jupiter observations to test and develop a beam reconstruction pipeline for the Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescopes. The method relies on…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

The Gaia AVU-GSR parallel solver: preliminary studies of a LSQR-based application in perspective of exascale systems

Valentina Cesare, Ugo Becciani, Alberto Vecchiato +6

The Gaia Astrometric Verification Unit-Global Sphere Reconstruction (AVU-GSR) Parallel Solver aims to find the astrometric parameters for 10 stars in the Milky Way, the a…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 211 cited

The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation

Shoko Jin, Scott C. Trager, Gavin B. Dalton +212

WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, will see first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-degree…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 3 cited

The internal alignment and validation of a powered ADC for SOXS

F. Battaini, K. Radhakrishnan, R. Claudi +47

The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a two-channel spectrograph along with imaging capabilities, characterized by a wide spectral coverage (350nm to 2000nm), designed for the NTT telesco…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

From Assembly to the Complete Integration and Verification of the SOXS Common Path

Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, Federico Battaini, Riccardo Claudi +50

The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a single object spectrograph offering simultaneous spectral coverage in UV-VIS (350-850 nm) and NIR (800-2000 nm) wavelength regimes with an average…

astro-ph.IM2022

The Son-Of-X-shooter (SOXS) Data-Reduction Pipeline

David R. Young, Marco Landoni, Stephen J. Smartt +43

The Son-Of-XShooter (SOXS) is a single object spectrograph (UV-VIS & NIR) and acquisition camera scheduled to be mounted on the ESO 3.58-m New Technology Telescope at the La Silla…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

Progress on the SOXS transients chaser for the ESO-NTT

P. Schipani, S. Campana, R. Claudi +53

SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a single object spectrograph offering a simultaneous spectral coverage from U- to H-band, built by an international consortium for the 3.58-m ESO New Tec…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 30 cited

Gaia Data Release 3: The Gaia Andromeda Photometric Survey

D. W. Evans, L. Eyer, G. Busso +14

Context. As part of Gaia Data Release 3 (Gaia DR3), epoch photometry has been released for 1.2 million sources centred on M31. This is a taster for Gaia Data Release 4 where all th…