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High performance Stingray

Eleonora Veronica Lai, Matteo Bachetti, Maura Pilia +4

X-ray astrophysical objects show variability on a wide range of timescales, i.e. from fractions of second to years. The open-source Python library stingray is able to perform time…

astro-ph.IM2026

The MegaWave Radio Surveyor

T. Joseph W. Lazio, Evgenya Shkolnik, James Aguirre +40

Several Decadal-level questions in astrophysics, exoplanets, astrobiology, and cosmology can be addressed only at low radio frequencies inaccessible from Earth. The MegaWave Radio…

astro-ph.IM2026

Survey Footprint Explorer: A Browser-Based Interactive Tool for Visualizing and Cross-Matching Astronomical Survey Footprints

S. L. Ahad, R. Brilenkov, J. E. Taylor

We present the Survey Footprint Explorer (v2.5.0), a browser-based interactive tool for visualising and comparing the sky footprints of major astronomical imaging surveys. The tool…

astro-ph.IM2026

The First Look of Gaia: Daily data quality and instrument health assessment with automated early warnings

M. Altmann, Z. Balog, W. Löffler +15

The ESA Gaia mission is a 10+ year astrometric whole-sky scan, demanding consistent data quality over the whole timespan of operations Aims. The Gaia First Look (FL) is a system wh…

astro-ph.IM2026

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). AstroVink: A vision transformer approach to find strong gravitational lens systems

Euclid Collaboration, S. H. Vincken, K. Rojas +302

We present AstroVink, a vision transformer classifier designed for automated identification of strong lens candidates in Euclid imaging. We build upon the DINOv2 encoder, fine tune…

astro-ph.IM2026

Detection and classification of astronomical sources with Astro-RetinaNet in crowded stellar fields

Yibo Yan, Chao Liu, Jiadong Li +1

Upcoming next-generation sky surveys will detect large number of faint objects with magnitudes larger than 25. When objects are crowded within a limited a field of view, blending b…

astro-ph.IM2026

Euclid. Properties and performance of the NISP signal estimator

Euclid Collaboration, F. Cogato, B. Kubik +292

The Euclid spacecraft, located at the second Lagrangian point of the Sun-Earth system, hosts the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument. NISP is equipped with…

astro-ph.IM2025

Lossless compression of simulated radio interferometric visibilities

A. R. Offringa, R. J. van Weeren

Context. Processing radio interferometric data often requires storing forward-predicted model data. In direction-dependent calibration, these data may have a volume an order of mag…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

The impact of lunar topography on the 21-cm power spectrum for grid-based arrays : Insights for the Dark-ages EXplorer (DEX)

S. Ghosh, L. V. E. Koopmans, C. Brinkerink +17

The Dark Ages (DA) provides a crucial window into the physics of the infant Universe, with the 21-cm signal offering the only direct probe for mapping out the three-dimensional dis…

astro-ph.IM2025

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). From simulations to sky: Advancing machine-learning lens detection with real Euclid data

Euclid Collaboration, N. E. P. Lines, T. E. Collett +301

In the era of large-scale surveys like Euclid, machine learning has become an essential tool for identifying rare yet scientifically valuable objects, such as strong gravitational…

astro-ph.IM2025

AMKID -- a large KID-based camera at the APEX telescope

N. Reyes, A. Weiss, S. J. C. Yates +26

The thermal emission at sub-millimeter wavelengths carries unique information in many astronomical applications ranging from disks and planet formation around young stars, to galax…

astro-ph.IM2025

Euclid Structural-Thermal-Optical Performance

Euclid Collaboration, A. Anselmi, R. Laureijs +290

The Euclid system performance is defined in terms of image quality metrics tuned to the weak gravitational lensing (WL) cosmological probe. WL induces stringent requirements on the…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

The evolution of PUCHEROS from a basic to a competitive tool for stellar astrophysics

Luca Antonucci, Leonardo Vanzi, Abner Zapata +16

We present PUCHEROS +, a new spectrograph developed as an enhanced version of PUCHEROS (Pontificia Universidad Catolica High Echelle Resolution Optical Spectrograph), which was the…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

PLATOSpec: a precise spectrograph in support of space missions

P. Kabáth, M. Skarka, A. Hatzes +42

The upcoming space missions that will characterize exoplanets, such as PLATO and Ariel, will collect huge amounts of data that will need to be complemented with ground-based observ…

astro-ph.IM2025

BGRem: A background noise remover for astronomical images based on a diffusion model

Rodney Nicolaas, Sascha Caron, Fiorenzo Stoppa +4

Context: Astronomical imaging aims to maximize signal capture while minimizing noise. Enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio directly on detectors is difficult and expensive, leading…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Beyond the Clouds: Advanced Data Analysis of a Dutch Sky Quality Meter Network

Farhan R. Shah, Reynier F. Peletier, Jake Noel-Storr +11

Light pollution is an increasing environmental concern, impacting both ecological systems and human health. This report presents an analysis of light pollution data from the washet…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Euclid preparation. Overview of Euclid infrared detector performance from ground tests

Euclid Collaboration, B. Kubik, R. Barbier +341

The paper describes the objectives, design and findings of the pre-launch ground characterisation campaigns of the Euclid infrared detectors. The pixel properties, including baseli…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Euclid VI. NISP-P optical ghosts

Euclid Collaboration, K. Paterson, M. Schirmer +309

The Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) onboard Euclid includes several optical elements in its path, which introduce artefacts into the data from non-nominal light pa…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Observation of the Crab Nebula with the Single-Mirror Small-Size Telescope stereoscopic system at low altitude

C. Alispach, A. Araudo, M. Balbo +63

The Single-Mirror Small-Size Telescope (SST-1M) stereoscopic system is composed of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) designed for optimal performance for gamma-r…

astro-ph.IM2025

Euclid preparation: The NISP spectroscopy channel, on ground performance and calibration

Euclid Collaboration, W. Gillard, T. Maciaszek +356

ESA's Euclid cosmology mission relies on the very sensitive and accurately calibrated spectroscopy channel of the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP). With three opera…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 5 cited

The Mini-SiTian Array: Optical design

Zi-Jian Han, Zheng-Yang Li, Chao Chen +6

Time-domain astronomy is one of the most important areas. Large sky area, deep-field, and short timescale are the priority of time-domain observations. SiTian is an ambitious groun…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 4 cited

Robust direction-dependent gain-calibration of beam-modelling errors far from the target field

S. A. Brackenhoff, A. R. Offringa, M. Mevius +8

Many astronomical questions require deep, wide-field observations at low radio frequencies. Phased arrays like LOFAR and SKA-low are designed for this, but have inherently unstable…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 8 cited

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): From spectrograms to spectra: the SIR spectroscopic Processing Function

Euclid Collaboration, Y. Copin, M. Fumana +348

The Euclid space mission aims to investigate the nature of dark energy and dark matter by mapping the large-scale structure of the Universe. A key component of Euclid's observation…

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…