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NORVIS: a portable broadband imaging spectrograph for auroral observations featured image

NORVIS: a portable broadband imaging spectrograph for auroral observations

We present NORVIS (NORdlys Versatile Imaging Spectrograph), a portable broadband imaging spectrograph developed for ground-based auroral observations. Based on the Star'Ex optical …

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Self-Supervised Representation Learning: From Spectral Foundation Models to Auroral Emission Spectra featured image

Self-Supervised Representation Learning: From Spectral Foundation Models to Auroral Emission Spectra

Auroral spectrographs such as the Auroral Spectrograph In Skibotn (ASIS) record hundreds of thousands of emission spectra, but only a few hundred can be labelled by an expert. To …

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Matthieu Le Lain
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When foundation models meet astronomical data

This study evaluates the ability and limitations of existing visual foundation models, based on ViT, SwinV2, BEiT, and DINOv2, for astronomical applications, particularly galaxy …

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Matthieu Le Lain
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Orbital parameters of the bright binary alpha Draconis based on amateur spectra from the STAROS database featured image

Orbital parameters of the bright binary alpha Draconis based on amateur spectra from the STAROS database

Results of a STAROS monitoring campaign on the bright eclipsing binary star α Draconis. Over 200 high-resolution spectra were obtained by an international group of amateur …

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Matthieu Le Lain
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