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astro-ph.IM2026

BRICS Southern Observatory (BRICS-SO) Project: Invitation to African countries to invest in Chile

Massinissa Hadjara, Amokrane Berdja, Swagat R. Das +6

Recently, the BRICS countries created a promising astronomy consortium (https://www.bricsastronomy.org/), which was joined last year by some emerging countries, including two Afric…

astro-ph.IM2026

Diffuse and specular brightness models applied to LEO satellites. Case study: The ONEWEB constellation

María Romero-Colmenares, Katherine Vieira, Jeremy Tregloan-Reed +11

Context. To better understand the observed brightness of low Earth orbit satellites, we must characterize their reflectivity, which in turn depends importantly on their bus designs…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Interpreting anomaly detection of SDSS spectra

Edgar Ortiz Manrique, Médéric Boquien

The increasing use of ML in astronomy introduces important questions about interpretability. Due to their complexity and non-linear nature, it can be challenging to understand thei…

astro-ph.IM2023

The ESO's Extremely Large Telescope Working Groups

Paolo Padovani, Michele Cirasuolo, Remco van der Burg +82

Since 2005 ESO has been working with its community and industry to develop an extremely large optical/infrared telescope. ESO's Extremely Large Telescope, or ELT for short, is a re…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 28 cited

EMIR, the near-infrared camera and multi-object spectrograph for the GTC

F. Garzón, M. Balcells, J. Gallego +18

We present EMIR, a powerful near-infrared (NIR) camera and multi-object spectrograph (MOS) installed at the Nasmyth focus of the 10.4 m GTC. EMIR was commissioned in mid-2016 and i…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 5k cited

The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

The Astropy Collaboration, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Pey Lian Lim +133

The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly-developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomical communit…