Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Authors and titles for July 2025

[1] arXiv:2507.00076 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Time Invariant Sensor Tasking for Catalog Maintenance of LEO Space objects using Stochastic Geometry Show Chinese title

Title: 用于使用随机几何的LEO空间物体目录维护的时不变传感器任务安排

Partha Chowdhury, Harsha M, Chinni Prabhunath Georg, Arun Balaji Buduru, Sanat K Biswas

Comments: This work has been accepted and presented at the 35th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, 2025, Kaua'i, Hawai

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Robotics (cs.RO) ; Systems and Control (eess.SY) ; Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[2] arXiv:2507.00106 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Challenge-Based Funding to Spark Origins Breakthroughs Show Chinese title

Title: 基于挑战的资助以激发起源突破

Cole Mathis, Harrison B. Smith

Comments: 5 pages

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[3] arXiv:2507.00107 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, other]

Title: Satellite Constellations Exceed the Limits of Acceptable Brightness Established by the IAU Show Chinese title

Title: 卫星星座超过国际天文学联合会设定的可接受亮度极限

Anthony Mallama, Richard E. Cole

Comments: This paper was reviewed by the IAU CPS

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[4] arXiv:2507.00164 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Testing Origin-of-Life Theories with the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) Show Chinese title

Title: 用宜居世界观测站（HWO）测试生命起源理论

Sukrit Ranjan, Martin Schlecker, Nicholas Wogan, Michael Wong

Comments: Science Case Development Document for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (https://tinyurl.com/4jrr46p8). Comments and endorsements welcomed via the link provided or at sukrit@arizona.edu. Comments/Endorsements received by August 15 will be incorporated into the published version (PASP conference proceedings)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[5] arXiv:2507.00165 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Prebiosignatures with the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) Show Chinese title

Title: 与宜居世界观测站（HWO）相关的前生物标志物

Sukrit Ranjan, Danica Adams, Michael Wong, Martin Schlecker, Nicholas Wogan, Jessica M. Weber

Comments: Science Case Development Document for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (https://tinyurl.com/4jrr46p8). Comments and endorsements welcomed via the link provided or at sukrit@arizona.edu. Comments/Endorsements received by August 15 will be incorporated into the published version (PASP conference proceedings)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[6] arXiv:2507.00226 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Characterization of the Cherenkov Photon Background for Low-Noise Silicon Detectors in Space Show Chinese title

Title: 切连科夫光子背景的表征用于空间中的低噪声硅探测器

Manuel E. Gaido, Javier Tiffenberg, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Guillermo Fernandez-Moroni, Bernard J. Rauscher, Fernando Chierchie, Dario Rodrigues, Lucas Giardino, Juan Estrada, Agustin J. Lapi

Comments: 14 pages, 10 figures, to be submitted to PASP. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2410.06261

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[7] arXiv:2507.00510 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: In-flight Characteristics and Modelling of the Instrumental Background of EP/FXT Show Chinese title

Title: 飞行中的特性及EP/FXT仪器背景的建模

Juan Zhang, Yong Chen, Shumei Jia, Haisheng Zhao, WeiWei Cui, Tianxiang Chen, Juan Wang, Hao Wang, Jin Wang, Chengkui Li, Xiaofan Zhao, Ju Guan, Dawei Han, Jingjing Xu, Liming Song, Hua Feng, Shuangnan Zhang, Weimin Yuan

Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[8] arXiv:2507.00594 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Neural translation for Stokes inversion and synthesis Show Chinese title

Title: 神经翻译用于斯托克斯反演和合成

A. Asensio Ramos, J. de la Cruz Rodriguez

Comments: 14 pages, 9 figures, submitted to A&A

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[9] arXiv:2507.00866 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Template-Fitting Meets Deep Learning: Redshift Estimation Using Physics-Guided Neural Networks Show Chinese title

Title: 模板拟合结合深度学习：使用物理引导的神经网络进行红移估计

Jonas Chris Ferrao, Dickson Dias, Pranav Naik, Glory D'Cruz, Anish Naik, Siya Khandeparkar, Manisha Gokuldas Fal Dessai

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[10] arXiv:2507.01525 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Ground calibration plan for the Athena/X-IFU microcalorimeter spectrometer Show Chinese title

Title: Athena/X-IFU 微型量热计光谱仪的地面校准计划

Alexeï Molin, François Pajot, Marc Audard, Marco Barbera, Sophie Beaumont, Edoardo Cucchetti, Matteo D'Andrea, Christophe Daniel, Roland den Hartog, Megan E. Eckart, Philippe Ferrando, Luciano Gottardi, Maurice Leutenegger, Simone Lotti, Lorenzo Natalucci, Philippe Peille, Jelle de Plaa, Etienne Pointecouteau, Scott Porter, Kosuke Sato, Joern Wilms, Vincent Albouys, Didier Barret, Massimo Cappi, Jan-Willem den Herder, Luigi Piro, Aurora Simionescu

Comments: Submitted to the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments and Systems (JATIS), 28 pages

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[11] arXiv:2507.01815 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Ge-based Quantum Sensors for Low-Energy Physics Show Chinese title

Title: 基于锗的量子传感器用于低能物理

D.-M. Mei, N. Budhathoki, S. A. Panamaldeniya, K.-M. Dong, S. Bhattarai, A. Warren, A. Prem, S. Chhetri

Comments: 41 pages and 12 figures

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Applied Physics (physics.app-ph) ; Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[12] arXiv:2507.01939 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: SpecCLIP: Aligning and Translating Spectroscopic Measurements for Stars Show Chinese title

Title: SpecCLIP：对齐和翻译恒星光谱测量值

Xiaosheng Zhao, Yang Huang, Guirong Xue, Xiao Kong, Jifeng Liu, Xiaoyu Tang, Timothy C. Beers, Yuan-Sen Ting, A-Li Luo

Comments: 27 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables. Updated with minor corrections to flux normalization, and to related tables and figures. Submitted to AAS Journals. Comments welcome

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ; Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) ; Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[13] arXiv:2507.02010 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Detecting and characterising the magnetic field of exoplanets Show Chinese title

Title: 探测和表征系外行星的磁场

A. Strugarek, S. V. Berdyugina, V. Bourrier, J. A. Caballero, J. J. Chebly, R. Fares, A. Fludra, L. Fossati, A. García Muñoz, L. Gkouvelis, C. Gourvès, J. L. Grenfell, R. D. Kavanagh, K. G. Kislyakova, L. Lamy, A. F. Lanza, C. Moutou, D. Nandy, C. Neiner, A. Oklopčić, A. Paul, V. Réville, D. Rodgers-Lee, E. L. Shkolnik, J. D. Turner, A. A. Vidotto, F. Yang, P. Zarka

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables, Towards the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Visionary Science and Transformational Technology SCDD, to be presented at HWO2025 and submitted to Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) ; Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[14] arXiv:2507.02019 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Natural experiments from Earth Hour reveal urban night sky being drastically lit up by few decorative buildings Show Chinese title

Title: 从地球一小时的自然实验中发现，城市夜空被少数装饰性建筑大幅照亮

Chu Wing So, Chun Shing Jason Pun, Shengjie Liu, Sze Leung Cheung, Ho Keung Kenneith Hui, Kelly Blumenthal, Constance Elaine Walker

Journal-ref: Sci Rep 15, 21414 (2025)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)

[15] arXiv:2507.02153 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Image Marker Show Chinese title

Title: 图像标记

Ryan Walker, Andi Kisare, Lindsey Bleem

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, and references. GitHub repository can be found at https://github.com/andikisare/imgmarker

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[16] arXiv:2507.02178 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Evolution of the Ionizing Photon Luminosity Function Show Chinese title

Title: 电离光子光度函数的演化

Stephan R. McCandliss, Swara Ravindranath, Sangeeta Malhotra, Chris Packham, Sophia Flury, Alexandra Le Reste, Allison Strom, Marc Postman, John OMeara

Comments: Science Case Development Document for the Habitable Worlds Observatory - 9 pages 6 figures - submitted to ASP conference proceedings 15 September 2025

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[17] arXiv:2507.02210 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: exoatlas: friendly Python code for exoplanet populations Show Chinese title

Title: exoatlas：用于系外行星种群的友好Python代码

Zach K. Berta-Thompson, Patcharapol Wachiraphan, Autumn Stephens, Mirielle Caradonna, Catriona Murray, Valerie Arriero, Jackson Avery, Girish M. Duvvuri, Sebastian Pineda

Comments: Submitted to the Journal of Open Source Software. Please try it at https://zkbt.github.io/exoatlas/ and submit GitHub Issues with bugs or suggestions for improvement!

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) ; Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[18] arXiv:2507.02458 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: A Kalman-smoother based data imputation strategy to data gaps in spaceborne gravitational wave detectors Show Chinese title

Title: 基于卡尔曼平滑器的数据填补策略用于星载引力波探测器中的数据缺失

Tingyang Shen, He Wang, Jibo He

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[19] arXiv:2507.02812 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Fluid dynamics of a liquid mirror space telescope Show Chinese title

Title: 液体镜面空间望远镜的流体动力学

Israel Gabay, Omer Luria, Edward Balaban, Amir D. Gat, Moran Bercovici

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[20] arXiv:2507.03029 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: White dwarfs as probes of extrasolar planet compositions and fundamental astrophysics Show Chinese title

Title: 白矮星作为系外行星成分和基本天体物理学的探针

Siyi Xu, Martin Barstow, Andy Buchan, Érika Le Bourdais, Patrick Dufour

Comments: 11 pages; 7 figures; will be published in ASP conference proceedings of the HWO2025 conference

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) ; Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[21] arXiv:2507.03060 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: High-resolution Ultraviolet-to-nearinfrared Characterization of Exoplanet Atmospheres Show Chinese title

Title: 高分辨率紫外至近红外系外行星大气层表征

Patricio E. Cubillos, Matteo Brogi, Antonio García Muñoz, Luca Fossati, Sudeshna Boro Saikia, Vincent Bourrier, Jose A. Caballero, Juan Cabrera, Andrea Chiavassa, Andrzej Fludra, Leonardos Gkouvelis, John Lee Grenfell, Manuel Guedel, Alvaro Labiano, Monika Lendl, Donna Rodgers-Lee, Arnaud Salvador, Ilane Schroetter, Antoine Strugarek, Benjamin Taysum, Aline Vidotto, Thomas G. Wilson

Comments: Science Case Development Document for the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Comments and endorsements (by Aug 15, 2025) welcomed at patricio.cubillos@oeaw.ac.at

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[22] arXiv:2507.03071 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Detecting Surface Liquid Water on Exoplanets Show Chinese title

Title: 检测系外行星表面液态水

Nicolas B. Cowan, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Renyu Hu, Laura C. Mayorga, Tyler D. Robinson (on behalf of the Characterizing Exoplanets sub working group)

Comments: Towards the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Visionary Science and Transformational Technology SCDD, to be presented at HWO2025 and submitted to Astronomical Society of the Pacific following community comments

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[23] arXiv:2507.03093 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: From stellar light to astrophysical insight: automating variable star research with machine learning Show Chinese title

Title: 从恒星光到天体物理洞察：使用机器学习自动化变星研究

Jeroen Audenaert

Comments: Author accepted version of Invited Review for 2024 Astronomy Prize Awardees Collection of Astrophysics and Space Science journal

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[24] arXiv:2507.03102 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Building SPARCS, an Ultraviolet Science CubeSat for Exoplanet Habitability Studies, Technology Advancements, and Mission Training Show Chinese title

Title: 构建SPARCS，一个用于系外行星可居住性研究、技术进步和任务培训的紫外科学立方星

Evgenya L. Shkolnik, David R. Ardila, Logan Jensen, April D. Jewell, Tahina Ramiaramanantsoa, Judd Bowman, Daniel Jacobs, Paul Scowen, Christophe Basset, Johnathan Gamaunt, Dawn Gregory, Maria C. Ladwig, Matthew Kolopanis, Shouleh Nikzad, Nathaniel Struebel, Joe Llama, Mary Knapp, Sarah Peacock, Titu Samson, Mark Swain

Comments: Accepted for publication in Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[25] arXiv:2507.03180 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [cn-pdf, pdf, html, other]

Title: Habitable Worlds Observatory: The Nature of the Astrophysical r-process Show Chinese title

Title: 宜居世界天文台：天体物理r过程的性质

Ian U. Roederer, Rana Ezzeddine

Comments: 5 pages (Science Case Development Document submitted to the ASP proceedings for the HWO2025 conference)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ; Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) ; Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)