Sigmyne provides custom astronomical data reduction, observatory and telescope control solutions, mainly for ground-based and airborne far-infrared observatories since 2016. Past and present contracts include providing the imaging pipeline for NASA’s HAWC+ and HIRMES instruments aboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Far-Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the science and onboard data reduction pipelines for the upcoming POEMM mission, and providing the MIT Haystack 37-m telescope with a control system.

Sigmyne is founded and run by Attila Kovács (A.B. Harvard 1997; PhD Caltech 2006) with 30 years of experience with far-infrared astronomy, radio telescopes, instrumentation and detector development; 20+ years of experience with developing new data reduction and imaging techniques & pipelines (CRUSH, and 10+ years of experience with observatory control systems, including being the senior real-time software developer of the Submillimeter Array (SMA) at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian 2017-2026.

Beyond custom software, Sigmyne also publishes free and open-source software, such as the SuperNOVAS C/C++ high-precision astrometry library; the xchange C/C++ library for hierarchical data representation (including a JSON parser and emitter); the RedisX library and toolkit (a C/C++ Redis / Valkey client); the smax-clib C/C++ library that provides a rich hierarchical data storage in a Redis / Valkey database; and the smax-postgress tool for logging such a real-time database into a PostgreSQL time series to create a history. Naturally, all of these components can be used (are used) as parts of a telescope control system, but they can support other applications also.

To contact, please email Attila Kovács at attila [AT] sigmyne [dot] com.