dfcosmic: A Python package for cosmic ray removal
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| author | Rhea, Carter Lee van Dokkum, Pieter Janssens, Steven R. Pasha, Imad Abraham, Roberto Bowman, William P. Lokhorst, Deborah Chen, Seery |
| author_facet | Rhea, Carter Lee van Dokkum, Pieter Janssens, Steven R. Pasha, Imad Abraham, Roberto Bowman, William P. Lokhorst, Deborah Chen, Seery |
| contents | Astronomical images often show sharp features that are caused by cosmic ray (CR) hits, hot pixels, or non-Gaussian noise. L.A.Cosmic (van Dokkum 2001) is a widely used edge detection algorithm that identifies and replaces such features. Here we describe dfcosmic, a direct python port of L.A.Cosmic utilizing PyTorch and C++ to enable efficient performance on both CPUs and GPUs. The code was developed for the MOTHRA array, which is projected to produce more than 1000 large format CMOS images every 15 minutes. Compared to previous python implementations, dfcosmic achieves a speed gain of at least 20%. |
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| spellingShingle | dfcosmic: A Python package for cosmic ray removal Rhea, Carter Lee van Dokkum, Pieter Janssens, Steven R. Pasha, Imad Abraham, Roberto Bowman, William P. Lokhorst, Deborah Chen, Seery Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Astronomical images often show sharp features that are caused by cosmic ray (CR) hits, hot pixels, or non-Gaussian noise. L.A.Cosmic (van Dokkum 2001) is a widely used edge detection algorithm that identifies and replaces such features. Here we describe dfcosmic, a direct python port of L.A.Cosmic utilizing PyTorch and C++ to enable efficient performance on both CPUs and GPUs. The code was developed for the MOTHRA array, which is projected to produce more than 1000 large format CMOS images every 15 minutes. Compared to previous python implementations, dfcosmic achieves a speed gain of at least 20%. |
| title | dfcosmic: A Python package for cosmic ray removal |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17938 |