ASCL News
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It's mid-November and we have already met one important yearly goal: that of curating entries not edited since January 1 of the current year minus 3. Woo-hoo! Usually this task is not complete until well into December (*cough* possibly not until New Year's Eve *cough*), so I'm pretty chuffed that this work is done with weeks (weeks!) to spare.
One might think this is an impossible and/or onerous task, and indeed, someone once scoffed at the idea of its being possible, but done consistently throughout the year at the rate of 15-17 entries per week, it's very manageable. I usually queue up five entries at a time for curation.What's involved, you ask? Mostly checking all links to make sure they work and go where we expect them to, finding replacements for those that need to be replaced, adding missing links, updated ADS links to resolved links (peer-reviewed versions rather than pre-prints), downloading the most recent version of the software if necessary, and checking preferred citation information -- where available (and for all that is science, please make this info available for all your software!) -- to ensure it is up-to-date. Basically, we make sure an entry is healthy and remediate anything that needs remediation.
And now we're done for the year, woo-hoo!!
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Our science depends on public digital resources, including data archives, software repositories, computational infrastructures, and catalogs. Recent actions by non-scientists have led to the loss of important digital resources in other fields, and even astrophysics assets may face uncertain futures. This poster invites astronomers to reflect on how dependent our research is on shared resources and which of these may be vulnerable to loss. It also asks what actions we can take to safeguard these resources to ensure they remain secure for the future.Download (PDF)
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Twenty-six codes were added to the ASCL in October, 2025:
BoGEMMS-HPC: Large-scale simulations for X-ray and Gamma-ray observations
CMDFitter: Fit a probabilistic generative model to a color-magnitude diagram
CorrCal: Calibration code for semi-redundant arrays
DISCO-DJ: Differentiable Simulations for Cosmology, Done with JAXFitPDF: Bayesian distribution fitting for pulsar and FRB data
GraFIT: Frequency response function identification in Gravitational Wave detectors
GrayHawk: Gray-body factor calculations for black holes
Lux: Generative latent-variable modeling of astronomical dataMadVoro: Massively distributed construction of Voronoi diagrams
MARFA: Broad-spectrum high-resolution atmospheric absorption analyzer
NP_TMC: Nano-particle Transition Matrix Code
pPXF-SEW: Full-spectrum fitting with penalized pixel-fitting and equivalent width extractionpyEFPE: Waveform model for inspiralling precessing-eccentric compact binaries
pyproffit: Analyze X-ray brightness profiles from clusters of galaxies
RotCurveTool: Streamlined framework for simulating and fitting galactic rotation curves
RUN Pipeline: Strong lens classification and detection of small Einstein radius systemsSIROCCO: Simulating Ionization and Radiation in Outflows Created by Compact Objects
SNITCH: Bayesian inference of star formation histories
SourceDetect: CNN-based event search for TESS data
spike: All-in-one tool to generate and correctly drizzle HST, JWST, and Roman PSFsSpyDust: Improved implementation of SPDust for modeling spinning dust radiation
Streaktools: Simulation, measurement, and fitting of satellite-generated streaks
Synthpop: Modular Galactic population synthesis
TABASCAL: Modeling and subtraction of moving radio-frequency interference in interferometric dataTripleLens: Calculating light curves for triple microlensing systems
TRIPP: TRansient Image Processing Pipeline
