Spectra.jl Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Contributor: James R Lee
Spectra.jl already handles UV, optical, and IR spectra, but has no capability for loading spectra like X-ray and gamma-ray, as they are different...
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- Total projects
- 82
- Years participating
- 11
- Most recent
- 2026
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Modernizing radiospectra: A Coordinate-Aware and Interoperable Spectral Data Framework
Contributor: Kumar Amityush
Current radiospectra stores spectral data as plain NumPy arrays with each instrument client handling metadata, axis ordering and coordinate...
PyArrow Improvements for Astronomy
Contributor: Om Biradar
The PyArrow project currently faces performance bottlenecks when used in astronomy computational work on massive datasets, such as the HATS catalog...
Spectral Timing in Julia: Extending Stingray.jl for X-ray Astronomy
Contributor: Om S Habib
While Python Stingray is powerful for X-ray timing, its computational overhead creates a massive bottleneck for processing multi-megabyte event...
Hardening Astropy's Core Stability
Contributor: Reem_Hamraz
Astropy’s Python API is well-tested, but its underlying compiled layer (C, C++, Cython) lacks isolated testing. Because performance-critical...
Electronic spectra for RADIS
Contributor: Darshan Patil
This project will extend RADIS to calculate electronic spectra, enabling analysis of high-temperature phenomena in plasmas, flames, and exoplanet...
Time Series Analysis in Stingray.jl
Contributor: Kashish Shrivastav
This project enhanced Stingray.jl, the Julia-based implementation of the Stingray library for X-ray timing analysis in high-energy astrophysics....
Interactive Database for X-ray observations
Contributor: MOHAMMAD ADNAN
The project aims to create an interactive database for X-ray observations, enabling on-the-fly visualization of data products generated with the...
[RADIS] Optimizing Radis app
Contributor: Mohy Elden Khalid
The RADIS app is a web application designed for high-resolution infrared molecular spectra using RADIS. Instead of requiring users to write code,...
High-Performance Parsing and Selective Access for Large Dataset
Contributor: Pratham Hole
The HITEMP CO₂ spectroscopic database is extremely large and inefficient to work with. The distributed file is about 6 GB when compressed, but...
OpenCL Integration with GNUAstro
Contributor: Warren Jacinto
GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro) is an astronomical data processing package containing a dynamically linked library as well as command-line...
A Quicklook Dashboard for X-ray Astronomy with Stingray
Contributor: Kartik Mandar
This proposal outlines the development of an innovative dashboard utilizing the Stingray library for X-ray astronomy analysis. The Quicklook...
[SUNPY] Enhancing Metadata Support for SOAR in sunpy-soar
Contributor: Nucleon
The project aims to enhance the metadata support in sunpy-soar, enabling better searching and filtering of solar data in the Solar Orbiter Archive...
[SunPy] Serialization of NDCube classes to ASDF
Contributor: PiyushSharma
This proposal aims to enable the storage and retrieval of NDCube objects using the ASDF file format. Currently, ndcube lacks native support for...
Common API for large molecular databases
Contributor: kemvore
Adding support for calculating and analysing spectra from atomic databases to RADIS and building a user-friendly Common API with ExoJAX for...
Astronomical Data Enhancement with DL
Contributor: Lucas Martin Garcia
In an era where astronomical discovery is more vibrant than ever, the significant role of data cannot be overstated. However, the diversity and...
[SUNPY] Improved solar feature and event representation
Contributor: Ahmed Hossam Mohamed
Sunpy provides access to solar features and events held by the Heliophysics Event Knowledgebase (HEK). Features and events include type, physical...
[SunPy] Improve sunkit-image
Contributor: Jayraj Dulange
The sunkit-image package provides a comprehensive suite of tools for processing solar images, tailored to the specific requirements of solar...
Scraper Redesign
Contributor: Akshit Tyagi
The Scraper class in SunPy retrieves solar data from web sources using efficient file organization. The current implementation uses regex for the...
Quasi Periodic Oscillation detection using Gaussian Processes
Contributor: Gaurav17Joshi
Some of the most extreme and mysterious events in the universe like neutron star mergers, black hole accretions, and gamma-ray bursts are studied by...
Gnuastro Python Library and Cuda Integration
Contributor: Labib Asari
Gnuastro is mainly written in the C, so are Python and Numpy. Utilising this fact, pyGnuastro uses Python wrappers to access the base C library while...
Common API for large molecular databases
Contributor: menasrac
RADIS can handle different databases such as HITRAN, HITEMP, EXOMOL, GEISA, etc. Another open-source code, called EXOJAX, exchanged portions of code...
Out of Core Calculations to reduce memory uses[RADIS]
Contributor: Somesh Verma
RADIS is a fast line-by-line code for synthesizing and fitting infrared absorption and emission spectra, such as encountered in laboratory plasmas or...
Astronomy using Unevenly Sampled Data
Contributor: Sri Guru Datta Pisupati
Stingray is a python package that provides X-ray spectral timing analysis tools to the community of astronomers around the world. X-ray data may not...
[SunPy] HelioViewer Python API Wrapper
Contributor: Akash Verma
The Helioviewer Project is developing a suite of technologies that allow users around the world to visualize, browse and access these heterogeneous...
Bayesian Excess Variance (Bexvar) in Stingray
Contributor: Mihir Tripathi
Stingray is a python package that provides a common platform for time series analysis of X-ray data to the astronomy community. One important aspect...
Non-Air Diluent
Contributor: Supriya_Kumari
Radis is a line-by-line code for creating high-resolution infrared molecular spectra, as well as a post-processing library for analyzing spectral...
Spectral Timing in Julia
Contributor: Aman Pandey
Time series analysis of astronomical data provides various tools to test advanced physical theories. This project seeks to implement a basic set of...
Radis App Improvement
Contributor: Arunava Basu
RADIS app is a web app for high-resolution infrared molecular spectra using RADIS. The goal of this project is to provide an easy-to-use UI instead...
Performance Tweaks in RADIS
Contributor: Sagar Chotalia
RADIS is a fast, line-by-line code for the computation of molecular absorption and emission spectra. It is built around the HITRAN, HITEMP, and CDSD...
Gnuastro Library in Python
Contributor: Jash Shah
Gnuastro is primarily written in C because astronomical datasets are large and thus need to be efficient with few dependencies. Therefore, its most...
[RADIS] Spectrum Fitting Improvement
Contributor: Tran Huu Nhat Huy
RADIS is a fast line-by-line code featuring synthesis, processing and analysis of high-resolution infrared absorption and emission molecular spectra,...
Add a CDS-ASCII writer to astropy
Contributor: Suyog Garg
Astropy is a massive Python library providing methods and general purpose tools for processing and analysis of data generated in astronomy and...
Adding Support for Resampling Data with NDCube
Contributor: Adwait Bhope
ndcube is a package that lets users combine multi-dimensional astronomical data with their corresponding real-world physical coordinates. WCS...
Automatic Lineshape Engine
Contributor: Anand Kumar
Radis is a fast line-by-line code used to synthesize high-resolution infrared molecular spectra and a post-processing library to analyze spectral...
Integrating Multitaper Periodogram into Stingray
Contributor: Dhruv Vats
Time series analysis has become a fundamental ingredient in modern-day astronomical studies. A common approach for characterizing the properties of...
3D Plotting
Contributor: Jeffrey Paul
SunPy allows visualization of spatially-aware data by means of Map objects. These objects have extensive 2D visualization capabilities for plotting...
Modern Statistical Modeling in Stingray
Contributor: Rashmi Raj
The statistical inference of properties of astronomical objects can be done using parametric modelling of Fourier products and light curves including...
Reduce Memory Usage - Radis
Contributor: Gagan Aryan
RADIS is a fast line-by-line code for synthesizing and fitting infrared absorption and emission spectra such as encountered in laboratory plasmas or...
Astrometry - Gnuastro
Contributor: Natáli Anzanello
Astrometry is of fundamental importance in processing astronomical data. It involves the precise measurement of the coordinates of celestial bodies....
Metadata searches using Fido
Contributor: Abhijeet Manhas
Federated internet data obtainer (Fido) is a very powerful query and fetch interface when it comes to its flexibility and versatility with different...
Accelerate Synthetic Spectra Calculations using CUDA
Contributor: Pankaj Mishra
The presence and concentration of molecules in a gas can be measured by comparing absorption and emission experimental spectra to synthetic spectra....
EinsteinPy: Null geodesics for Schwarzschild and Kerr Geometries
Contributor: Jyotirmaya Shivottam
Null geodesics refer to the path, that massless particles, such as photons, follow in 4-dimensional spacetime. Accurate numerical computation of...
Enable ROOT input
Contributor: SahilYadav
Most of the data from IACTs currently in operation comes in ROOT format. Enabling ROOT input in CTLearn will open its doors to existing IACT...
A lightning-fast stingray: Parallelizing stingray operations to analyze larger-than-memory datasets
Contributor: Amogh Desai
stingray is a python framework that assists astronomers in spectral-timing(time-series) analysis of X-ray observations from Black Holes, Pulsars etc....
Spark Cluster Management Dashboard
Contributor: Biswarup Banerjee
Apache Spark which is used by people at Astronomy Commons enables large scale distributed computing via creating local and remote clusters. But the...
glue-solar
Contributor: Kris Stern
The objective of this project is to provide a foundation for interactively exploring and quickly analyzing large datasets (100Gb or larger) in solar...
Solar Weather Forecasting using Linear Algebra
Contributor: Raahul Singh
The goal of this project is to develop a model for forecasting the likelihood that an Active Region on the sun would produce a solar flare in the...
CCD Reduction Package
Contributor: Siddharth Lal
Over the years Julia has become a successful language for science and numerical computing. However, there are no current packages for performing CCD...
Designing a Specialized Orbit and Implementing Geometries for Surveillance and Reconnaissance Capabilities
Contributor: Meuge
The main objective of the proposal is to add the features to develop a Specialized Orbit and to incorporate a library of Surveillance and Recognition...
Sunkit-Image
Contributor: Vatsalya Chaubey
This project aims at developing various image processing algorithms and manipulation routines to sunkit-image, an affiliated python package of Sunpy....
Implement an automated model optimization framework in CTLearn
Contributor: Juan Redondo Pizarro
CTLearn is a Python package for using deep learning to perform analysis tasks on data from imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). These...
Remote Data for SunPy
Contributor: Vishnunarayan K I
Some functionality in SunPy or in affiliated packages is going to need access to data files on remote (HTTP) servers. Examples of this include data...
Developing “telescopy”: A Simple API for Retrieving Signal-to-Noise Estimates of an Arbitrary Astronomical Observation
Contributor: Tiffany Jansen
To make a convincing proposal in observational astronomy, you must demonstrate to a telescope’s proposal committee that your target can indeed be...
Add Time-dependent Instrument Response Function to IRISpy
Contributor: Kris Stern
This project is about adding a very practical functionality to the IRISpy package which is built on top of Sunpy’s ndcube package. IRISpy provides...
Improving poliastro Earth capabilities
Contributor: Jorge Martínez Garrido
Author and organisation Name: Jorge Martínez Garrido Organisation: poliastro - Open Astronomy Application Improving poliastro Earth capabilities...
CZML Extractor for poliastro
Contributor: Eleftheria
Poliastro aims to be an open source library for aiding Astrodynamics and Orbital Mechanics. However, a lack of interactive visualization tools is...
Supporting APE14 in NDCube
Contributor: yashrsharma44
This project proposes to add the support for APE14 in NDCube, which is a SunPy-affiliated project. In order to support both FITS-WCS and gWCS and...
Visualization of astronomical images in Julia: A fresh Approach
Contributor: Rohit-Kumar
JuliaAstro organization provides astronomers with the tools to work with the Julia language. One of the latest packages is AstroImages.jl, which aims...
Integrating Physical Units into HelioPy
Contributor: Yatharth Rai
HelioPy is a Python package which lets the user import space physics data from various sources and converts them into an easy-to-read and manipulates...
Incorporating FITS Region, CRTF I/O and improving Regions.
Contributor: Sushobhana Patra
Astropy's regions package is being developed to handle description and manipulation of astronomical regions on sky and pixel coordinates.The current...
Porting Essential ERFA Functions to Julia
Contributor: Prakhar Srivastava
The JuliaAstro organization equips astronomers with tools developed in Julia language that they can include in their daily workflow and do impactful...
Phase-resolved oscillations
Contributor: Swapnil Sharma
Quasi-periodic oscillations are the “heart-beat” of black holes and neutron stars: oscillations with changing phase and frequency, probably due to...
Transition to astropy time
Contributor: Vishnunarayan K I
SunPy uses python datetime module for handling almost all time related things. datetime is not the best choice for astronomy related projects due to...
Improving propagators and perturbations account in Poliastro
Contributor: Nikita Astrakhantsev
The project is aimed at improvement of currently implemented Poliastro propagators (cure long-time propagation problems, measure performance, use...
Implement a new Plasma metaclass in PlasmaPy
Contributor: Ritiek Malhotra
PlasmaPy is an open-source Python package and aims to provide a set of common functionality used in plasma physics. Currently it implements a Plasma...
Learn Astropy
Contributor: Manan Agarwal
Learn Astropy is a website for the Astropy Learn ecosystem which consolidates Astropy documentation and associated examples, Astropy tutorials, and...
Casacore Testing
Contributor: Shibasis Patel
This project aims to improve python-casacore infrastructure, making the codebase cleaner, modern, maintainable and adding more unit tests.
Drms module for JSOC Downloads
Contributor: nitinkgp23
The SunPy JSOC Client is a very rudimentary client to JSOC's export data CGI. The drms module provides a more complete implementation of the DRMS...
HiPS client for Python
Contributor: Adeel Ahmad
Design and create a Python client for Hierarchical Progressive Surveys (HiPS). The package will enable users to view astronomical figures in an...
SunPy Website Improvements
Contributor: Duygu Keşkek
SunPy website is a platform that introduces the SunPy open-source software package for solar physics based on Python. Its main elements are an about...
Sun, Right now!
Contributor: Punyaslok Pattnaik
The Sun releases large amounts of magnetic energy in the form of X-rays, EUV (Extreme ultraviolet), radio waves and high energy particles regularly....
Astropy : A mixin protocol for seamless interoperability
Contributor: Aarya Patil
Astropy has emerged as an integration of several independent packages (PyFits, asciitable), each responsible for an individual task in the storage,...
Porting the IDL Astronomy User's Library to Julia
Contributor: Kumar Prasun (KP)
Hello. As a part of Google Summer Code of 2017, the main task that I intend to take up is to increase the number of the functions present in the...
IRIS Data Class
Contributor: Ankit Baruah
The project will enable users to use IRIS class objects IRISRaster and IRISSji and its tools to calibrate, visualise and analyse different IRIS data....
Real Time Data Access and Visualisation tools.
Contributor: Sudarshan Konge
Developing viz tools for SunPy.
Astropy: Bridge sherpa and astropy fitting
Contributor: nocturnalastro
Both astropy and Sherpa (https://github.com/sherpa/sherpa/) provide modeling and fitting capabilities; however, Sherpa’s features are way more...
Improvements to the SunPy Database
Contributor: Punyaslok Pattnaik
The SunPy database module enables users to manage files on a disk, or a network hosted database. Users can find files by using physical parameters...
Implementing AIA response function in Sunpy
Contributor: TDWilkinson
Solar physics uses the CHIANTI atomic physics database to obtain properties about various elements and ionisation states. By using observed elemental...
Implement PSF photometry for fitting several overlapping objects at once
Contributor: Zé Vinícius
Aperture photometry assumes that the background varies in a linear fashion in the aperture’s vicinity. However, in a dense star cluster the...
Scheduling capabilities for Astroplan
Contributor: Kvyh
The project aims to build upon the Astropy-affiliated package Astroplan to provide scheduling functionality for individual observations and...
Image processing and source detection in Gammapy
Contributor: Olga Vorokh
Gammapy is a Python package for professional gamma-ray astronomers to analyse data from space-based gamma-ray telescopes (like Fermi-LAT) as well as...