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most citedThe Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

7.7k citations · 8.9k across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.IM2025

A data model to connect the ESO Data Processing System (EDPS) to ELT data archives

Hugo Buddelmeijer, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn

We extend the data-driven approach for astronomical pipelines to the METIS instrument and integrate the ESO Data Processing System (EDPS) by adapting it to support backward chainin…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 44 cited

The fifth data release of the Kilo Degree Survey: Multi-epoch optical/NIR imaging covering wide and legacy-calibration fields

Angus H. Wright, Konrad Kuijken, Hendrik Hildebrandt +51

We present the final data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-DR5), a public European Southern Observatory (ESO) wide-field imaging survey optimised for weak gravitational lens…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 550 cited

Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission

Euclid Collaboration, Y. Mellier, Abdurro'uf +1134

The current standard model of cosmology successfully describes a variety of measurements, but the nature of its main ingredients, dark matter and dark energy, remains unknown. Eucl…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 5 cited

ScopeSim: A flexible general purpose astronomical instrument data simulation framework in Python

Kieran Leschinski, Hugo Buddelmeijer, Oliver Czoske +3

ScopeSim is a flexible multipurpose instrument data simulation framework built in Python. It enables both raw and reduced observation data to be simulated for a wide range of teles…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 1 cited

Data model as agile basis for evolving calibration software

Hugo Buddelmeijer, Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn, Kieran Leschinski

We design the imaging data calibration and reduction software for MICADO, the First Light near-IR instrument on the Extremely Large Telescope. In this process we have hit the limit…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 120 cited

KiDS+VIKING-450: A new combined optical & near-IR dataset for cosmology and astrophysics

Angus H. Wright, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Konrad Kuijken +22

We present the curation and verification of a new combined optical and near infrared dataset for cosmology and astrophysics, derived from the combination of -band imaging fro…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 26 cited

Statistical analysis of probability density functions for photometric redshifts through the KiDS-ESO-DR3 galaxies

Valeria Amaro, Stefano Cavuoti, Massimo Brescia +8

Despite the high accuracy of photometric redshifts (zphot) derived using Machine Learning (ML) methods, the quantification of errors through reliable and accurate Probability Densi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 47 cited

KiDS-SQuaD: The KiDS Strongly lensed Quasar Detection project

C. Spiniello, A. Agnello, N. R. Napolitano +11

New methods have been recently developed to search for strong gravitational lenses, in particular lensed quasars, in wide-field imaging surveys. Here, we compare the performance of…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 7.7k cited

The Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

The Astropy Collaboration, A. M. Price-Whelan, B. M. Sipőcz +134

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…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 4 cited

The galaxy environment in GAMA G3C groups using the Kilo Degree Survey Data Release 3

M. V. Costa-Duarte, M. Viola, A. Molino +13

We aim to investigate the galaxy environment in GAMA Galaxy Groups Catalogue (G3C) using a volume-limited galaxy sample from the Kilo Degree Survey Data Release 3. The k-Nearest Ne…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 93 cited

First test of Verlinde's theory of Emergent Gravity using Weak Gravitational Lensing measurements

Margot M. Brouwer, Manus R. Visser, Andrej Dvornik +19

Verlinde (2016) proposed that the observed excess gravity in galaxies and clusters is the consequence of Emergent Gravity (EG). In this theory the standard gravitational laws are m…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 295 cited

The first and second data releases of the Kilo-Degree Survey

Jelte T. A. de Jong, Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn, Danny R. Boxhoorn +46

The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) is an optical wide-field imaging survey carried out with the VLT Survey Telescope and the OmegaCAM camera. KiDS will image 1500 square degrees in four…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 1 cited

Leveraging Data Lineage to Infer Logical Relationships between Astronomical Catalogs

Hugo Buddelmeijer, Edwin A. Valentijn

A novel method to infer logical relationships between sets is presented. These sets can be any collection of elements, for example astronomical catalogs of celestial objects. The m…

astro-ph.IM2011

Query Driven Visualization

Hugo Buddelmeijer, Edwin A. Valentijn

The request driven way of deriving data in Astro-WISE is extended to a query driven way of visualization. This allows scientists to focus on the science they want to perform, becau…

astro-ph.IM2011

Astro-WISE processing of wide-field images and other data

Hugo Buddelmeijer, O. Rees Williams, John P. McFarland +1

Astro-WISE is the Astronomical Wide-field Imaging System for Europe. It is a scientific information system which consists of hardware and software federated over about a dozen inst…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 1 cited

Automatic Optimized Discovery, Creation and Processing of Astronomical Catalogs

Hugo Buddelmeijer, Danny Boxhoorn, Edwin A. Valentijn

We present the design of a novel way of handling astronomical catalogs in Astro-WISE in order to achieve the scalability required for the data produced by large scale surveys. A hi…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 5 cited

Query Driven Visualization of Astronomical Catalogs

Hugo Buddelmeijer, Edwin A. Valentijn

Interactive visualization of astronomical catalogs requires novel techniques due to the huge volumes and complex structure of the data produced by existing and upcoming astronomica…