Bolide Light-curve Analysis and Discrimination Explorer (BLADE)

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Abstract

SAND2025-09601O Bolide Light-curve Analysis and Discrimination Explorer (BLADE) is a robust, high-fidelity framework designed to analyze the light curves of bolides—objects detected from space. It automates the identification of fragmentation events and energy release modes, using advanced techniques like Savitzky-Golay filtering, prominence-based peak detection, and gradient analysis. Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525.
Developers:
Silber, Elizabeth [1][2][3] Sawal, Vedant [1][2][3]
  1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
  2. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
  3. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
Release Date:
2025-06-24
Project Type:
Open Source, Publicly Available Repository
Software Type:
Scientific
Programming Languages:
Python
Version:
1
Licenses:
GNU General Public License v3.0
Sponsoring Org.:
Code ID:
162215
Site Accession Number:
SCR #3234.0
Research Org.:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Country of Origin:
United States

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Citation Formats

Silber, Elizabeth, and Sawal, Vedant. Bolide Light-curve Analysis and Discrimination Explorer (BLADE). Computer Software. https://github.com/sandialabs/BLADE. USDOE. 24 Jun. 2025. Web. doi:10.11578/dc.20250829.12.
Silber, Elizabeth, & Sawal, Vedant. (2025, June 24). Bolide Light-curve Analysis and Discrimination Explorer (BLADE). [Computer software]. https://github.com/sandialabs/BLADE. https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20250829.12.
Silber, Elizabeth, and Sawal, Vedant. "Bolide Light-curve Analysis and Discrimination Explorer (BLADE)." Computer software. June 24, 2025. https://github.com/sandialabs/BLADE. https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20250829.12.
@misc{ doecode_162215,
title = {Bolide Light-curve Analysis and Discrimination Explorer (BLADE)},
author = {Silber, Elizabeth and Sawal, Vedant},
abstractNote = {SAND2025-09601O Bolide Light-curve Analysis and Discrimination Explorer (BLADE) is a robust, high-fidelity framework designed to analyze the light curves of bolides—objects detected from space. It automates the identification of fragmentation events and energy release modes, using advanced techniques like Savitzky-Golay filtering, prominence-based peak detection, and gradient analysis. Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525.},
doi = {10.11578/dc.20250829.12},
url = {https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20250829.12},
howpublished = {[Computer Software] \url{https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20250829.12}},
year = {2025},
month = {jun}
}