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@astronomy.blue
9 months ago
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Martin Bourne 🏳️‍🌈
@astromartin.bsky.social
2 days ago
Happy to have been a part of this work led by Eun-jin Shin (Postdoc @cambridgeastro.bsky.social), using high-resolution simulations to explore how black holes grow in dwarf galaxies! #astro #astrocoding

The MandelZoom project I: modelling black hole accretion through an $α$-disc in dwarf galaxies with a resolved interstellar medium. Eun-jin Shin et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18384

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Attila Kovacs
@attipaci.bsky.social
5 days ago
The SuperNOVAS v1.3.0 astrometry library is now available as Linux RPM packages also for Fedora 41 and 42, rawhide, and EPEL 10 repositories! For Debian based distros it is currently under 'experimental' (for now). #astrocode smithsonian.github.io/SuperNOVAS/
SuperNOVAS

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SuperNOVAS

SuperNOVAS is a light-weight, high-precision astrometry C/C++ library. It is a fork of NOVAS C 3.1.

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Kev | SkyCalPro
@skycalpro.com
6 days ago
Update coming soon on skycalpro.com This one was supposed to be a quick fix but turned into a bit of an epic… Spent way longer than i intended but is quite a nice update. Testing phase…More soon #Astronomy #AstroMethods
SkyCalPro - Calculate your own Sky Calendar

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SkyCalPro - Calculate your own Sky Calendar

Rocket Launches-Planets-Satellites-Meteor Showers-Sun and Moon...and more!

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Michael Zingale
@michaelzingale.bsky.social
7 days ago
final topic in my Computational Astrophysics for the semester: machine learning / neural networks: zingale.github.io/computationa... #astrocode

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Artificial Neural Network Basics — AST 390: Computational Astrophysics

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Atanas K. Stefanov
@astronasko.com
7 days ago
I was debugging my own #astrocode yesterday, and got very surprised when a trivial unit test failed on a `scipy.stats.sigmaclip` wrapper. There seems to be a very rare issue with the returned thresholds, which I'm circulating here in case.
BUG: stats.sigmaclip: returns strange thresholds · Issue #22871 · scipy/scipy

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BUG: stats.sigmaclip: returns strange thresholds · Issue #22871 · scipy/scipy

Describe your issue. I attach arr.txt which holds an array of 841 values in the range [0,1]. Sigmaclipping with a 1σ low and a 3σ up gives thresholds which, when manually masking arr, have one extr...

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Attila Kovacs
@attipaci.bsky.social
14 days ago
The SuperNOVAS C/C++ library has a ton of new features, making it easier to use. v1.3.0 brings versatile handling of string specifications for dates, times, and angles; rise, set, transit time calculations; and much more. #astrocode smithsonian.github.io/SuperNOVAS/
SuperNOVAS

smithsonian.github.io

SuperNOVAS

SuperNOVAS is a light-weight, high-precision astrometry C/C++ library. It is a fork of NOVAS C 3.1.

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Michael Zingale
@michaelzingale.bsky.social
14 days ago
today's Virtual Astronomy Software Talks seminar: * Devarshi Choudhury (UvA): X-PSI—neutron star X-ray Pulse Simulation and Inference. * Matthieu Schaller (Lorentz Institute): SWIFT—SPH with Interdepednent Fine-grained Tasking in ~2.5 hours (11am NY) vast-seminars.github.io #astro #astrocode

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Virtual Astronomy Software Talks

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Attila Kovacs
@attipaci.bsky.social
14 days ago
SuperNOVAS v1.3.0 is released! This C/C++ astrometry library is just as easy to use as astropy, and it calculates precise positions 3--5 orders of magnitude faster than astropy. RPM and Debian packages are coming in a few days also. #astrocode smithsonian.github.io/SuperNOVAS/
SuperNOVAS

smithsonian.github.io

SuperNOVAS

SuperNOVAS is a light-weight, high-precision astrometry C/C++ library. It is a fork of NOVAS C 3.1.

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Michael Zingale
@michaelzingale.bsky.social
15 days ago
today's topic in my Computational Astrophysics class: Burgers' equation zingale.github.io/computationa... MMMmmmm burgers.... #astro #astrocode
homer simpson from the simpsons eating a hamburger

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homer simpson from the simpsons eating a hamburger

Alt: homer simpson from the simpsons drooling over a hamburger

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James Berrow
@spacejames.bsky.social
15 days ago
20k.github.io/c++/2025/04/... Ever felt like building a #neutronstar, for a numerical relativistic simulation? Here's how! This is a programmer's guide (with code) on how to wrangle a specific set of initial conditions, so in the future we can smash some neutron stars together #astrocode

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Numerical Relativity 104: How to build a neutron star - from scratch · James' Space Blog

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Kev | SkyCalPro
@skycalpro.com
20 days ago
I have been a little slow on the development side of skycalpro. I'm optimising some backend code at the moment and it's proving to be a headache. Hoping to make a new release soon. I will see good improvements on my side, you will not notice much difference on yours. #AstroMethods skycalpro.com
SkyCalPro - Calculate your own Sky Calendar

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SkyCalPro - Calculate your own Sky Calendar

Rocket Launches-Planets-Satellites-Meteor Showers-Sun and Moon...and more!

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James Berrow
@spacejames.bsky.social
21 days ago
The next article on how to build a spinning neutron star is 95% done now, just a few edits here and there. I've spun the (WIP) TOV portion of this out into its own library, as its fairly self contained. Should be easy to plug numerical equations of state into it github.com/20k/libtov #astrocode

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GitHub - 20k/libtov

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Michael Zingale
@michaelzingale.bsky.social
24 days ago
starting PDEs in my computational astrophysics class. My favorite topic zingale.github.io/computationa... #astro #astrocode

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Partial Differential Equations — AST 390: Computational Astrophysics

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Michael Zingale
@michaelzingale.bsky.social
24 days ago
new in pynucastro: we added a method to allow you to merge different weak rate tabulation libraries pynucastro.github.io/pynucastro/t... (you need to use the github version until we tag a release) #astro #astrocode

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Tabulated Weak Rate Sources — pynucastro 2.5.0.post27+g7db7c6bc documentation

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Emily Hunt
@emily.space
27 days ago
Next paper I want to highlight: the paper for STRAUSS by @trayford.bsky.social et al. came out! ☄️ #astrocode STRAUSS is a tool for sonifying scientific data, meaning you can enhance the presentation & accessibility of your data. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01660 Here's a great example:
Hearing black hole winds

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Hearing black hole winds

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Michael Zingale
@michaelzingale.bsky.social
29 days ago
d'oh, the tag is #astrocode, not astrocodes...
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Emily Hunt
@emily.space
about 1 month ago
The 30+ Euclid Q1 papers came out today! #extragalactic #astrocode 🧪 There are so many interesting things in this early Euclid data release! One paper that caught my eye was Siudek et al., who train a foundation model on Euclid galaxies. It's a cool use of machine learning for astronomy! Thread:
Their Figure 5, showing a schematic of how their foundation model (AstroPT) works.
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Iva Momcheva
@ivastar.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
A new JOSS paper on FELINE: a library for detection emission line sources in data from MUSE and other 3D cubes. #astronomy #astrocode

Just published in JOSS: 'FELINE: A Tool to Detect Emission Line Galaxies in 3D Data' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07528

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