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Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 15/02/2025

Posted in OJAp Papers, Open Access, The Universe and Stuff with tags , , , , , , , , , , on February 15, 2025 by telescoper

Time for another quick update of papers published at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published two new papers, which brings the number in Volume 8 (2025) up to 14 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 249.

Here are quick descriptions of the two papers concerned; you can click on the images of the overlays to make them larger should you wish to do so.

First one up is “AI-assisted super-resolution cosmological simulations IV: An emulator for deterministic realizations” by Xiaowen Zhang & Patrick Lachance (Carnegie Mellon), Ankita Dasgupta (Penn State), Rupert A. C. Croft & Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon), Yueying Ni (Harvard), Simeon Bird (UC Riverside) and Yin Li (Shenzhen University, China).  It presents a method of achieving super-resolution to rapidly enhance low-resolution runs with statistically correct fine details to generate accurate simulations and mock observations for large galaxy surveys and was published on Monday 10th February 2025 in the folder marked Cosmology and NonGalactic Astrophysics.

 

You can find the officially accepted version of this paper on arXiv here.

The second paper, published on Friday 14th February 2025 in the folder Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics is “The Blending ToolKit: A simulation framework for evaluation of galaxy detection and deblending” which describes a modular suite of Python software for exploring and analyzing systematic effects related to blended galaxy images in cosmological surveys. It was written by Ismael Mendoza (U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) and 19 others, on behalf of the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration. I don’t have time to list all the authors here but you can find them on the overlay here:

 

 

The accepted version of this paper can be found on the arXiv here.

That’s all for this week. I’ll do another update next week, when I expect to be able to report that we have passed the 250 publication mark.

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New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics

Posted in OJAp Papers, The Universe and Stuff with tags , , , , on May 16, 2023 by telescoper

It’s time to announce yet another new paper at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. In fact it’s a little overdue, because we published this one on Friday 12th May, but I just got round to posting it on here.

The latest paper is the 16th paper so far in Volume 6 (2023) and the 81st in all. The primary classification for this paper is Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics and its title is “Metadetection Weak Lensing for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory“. I added the link to Wikipedia myself for those who might be unfamiliar with the Rubin Observatory.

The authors are Erin Sheldon (Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, USA), Matthew Becker (Argonne National Laborary, IL, USA), Michael Jarvis (University of Pennsylvania, PA) and Robert Armstrong (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA) – all in the USA – and the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, who have published a significant number of publications with OJAp. In fact, we’ll have another one in a day or two.

Here is a screen grab of the overlay which includes the  abstract:

 

 

You can click on the image of the overlay to make it larger should you wish to do so. You can find the officially accepted version of the paper, along with all other astrophysics and cosmology research papers worth reading, on the arXiv here

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New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics

Posted in OJAp Papers, The Universe and Stuff with tags , , , , , , , on April 25, 2023 by telescoper

It’s time once more to announce a new paper at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. The latest paper is the 13th paper so far in Volume 6 (2023) and the 78th in all. This one is another for the folder marked Cosmology and NonGalactic Astrophysics and its title is “The catalog-to-cosmology framework for weak lensing and galaxy clustering for LSST”.

The lead author is Judit Prat of the University of Chicago (Illinois, USA) and there are 21 co-authors from elsewhere in the USA and in the UK. The paper is written on behalf of the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST DESC), which is the international science collaboration that will make high accuracy measurements of fundamental cosmological parameters using data from the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The OJAp has published a number of papers involving LSST DESC, and I’m very happy that such an important consortium has chosen to publish with us.

Here is a screen grab of the overlay which includes the  abstract:

You can click on the image of the overlay to make it larger should you wish to do so. You can find the officially accepted version of the paper on the arXiv here.

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New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics

Posted in OJAp Papers, Open Access, The Universe and Stuff with tags , , , , on February 20, 2023 by telescoper

It’s time to announce yet another new paper at the Open Journal of Astrophysics Open Journal of Astrophysics. This was published last week (on 15th February 2023) but there was a slight delay in getting the DOI activated and all the metadata registered so I waited until that was done before announcing the paper here.

The latest paper is the 8th paper in Volume 6 (2023) as well as the 73rd in all. This one is another one for the folder marked Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. The title is “The N5K Challenge: Non-Limber Integration for LSST Cosmology”. The paper is about ways of avoiding using the ubiquitous Limber Approximation which, I discovered this morning, is now 70 years old, Nelson Limber’s original paper on the subject having been published in January 1953.

The lead author of the paper is Danielle Leonard of Newcastle University and there are ten co-authors from around the world in countries including UK, USA, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and France on behalf of the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration.

Here is a screen grab of the overlay which includes the  abstract:

 

You can click on the image of the overlay to make it larger should you wish to do so. You can find the officially accepted version of the paper on the arXiv here.

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New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics

Posted in OJAp Papers, Open Access, The Universe and Stuff with tags , , , , on February 6, 2023 by telescoper

Well, it may be a Bank Holiday here in Ireland but there’s no break for the Open Journal of Astrophysics and it’s time to announce yet another paper hot off the press.

The latest paper is the 5th paper in Volume 6 (2023) as well as the 70th in all. This one is in the folder marked Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics. The title is “PSFs of coadded images”; for those of you not up with the lingo, “PSF” stands for point spread function.

The authors of this paper are Rachel Mandelbaum (1), Mike Jarvis (2), Robert H. Lupton (3), James Bosch (3), Arun Kannawadi (3), Michael D. Murphy (1) and Tianqing Zhang (1) and the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration. The affiliations of the individual authors are: (1) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA; (2) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA; (3) Princeton University, Princeton NJ; all in the USA of course.

Here is a screen grab of the overlay which includes the  abstract:

 

You can click on the image of the overlay to make it larger should you wish to do so. You can find the officially accepted version of the paper on the arXiv here.

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New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics

Posted in OJAp Papers, Open Access, The Universe and Stuff with tags , , , , on January 18, 2022 by telescoper

It’s a New Year and therefore a new Volume of the Open Journal of Astrophysics and it’s time to announce the first publication in it! This one is the 1st paper in Volume 5 (2022) and the 49th in all.

The latest publication is entitled Validating Synthetic Galaxy Catalogs for Dark Energy Science in the LSST Era and is written by Eve Kovacs of Argonne National Laboratory and 38 others on behalf of the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration.

Here is a screen grab of the overlay which includes the abstract:

You can click on the image to make it larger should you wish to do so. You can find the arXiv version of the paper here. This is another one for the Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics folder, which remains the most popular category so far on the Open Journal of Astrophysics site.

There is a little bit of a backlog in OJAp Towers owing to the Christmas break as some authors have been on leave and not doing their revisions, so I’d anticipate a few more papers in the next few weeks.

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New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics

Posted in OJAp Papers, Open Access, The Universe and Stuff with tags , , , , , on October 20, 2021 by telescoper

Time to announce another publication in the Open Journal of Astrophysics. This one is the 13th paper in Volume 4 (2021) and the 44th in all.

The latest publication is entitled  The LSST-DESC 3x2pt Tomography Optimization Challengeand is in the folder marked Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, and is especially relevant for cosmology. The paper is led by Joe Zuntz of the University of Edinburgh, and there are 27 authors altogether, scattered across the globe, representing the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration.

Here is a screen grab of the overlay which includes the abstract:

You can find the paper on the Open Journal of Astrophysics site here and can also read it directly on the arXiv here.

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New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics

Posted in OJAp Papers, Open Access, The Universe and Stuff with tags , , , , , on February 18, 2021 by telescoper

Time to announce another publication in the Open Journal of Astrophysics. This one was published yesterday, actually, but I didn’t get time to post about it until just now. It is the second paper in Volume 4 (2021).

The latest publication is entitled Characterizing the Sample Selection for Supernova Cosmology and is written by Alex G. Kim on behalf of the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration.  It’s nice to be getting papers from large collaborations like this!

Here is a screen grab of the overlay which includes the abstract:

You can click on the image to make it larger should you wish to do so. You can find the arXiv version of the paper here. This is one for the Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics folder.

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