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Techniques like speckle holography and shearography are rarely applied due to the complexity of instrument setup and lack of automated result analysis, despite their potential. By simulating speckle interferometric outcomes, we seek to…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Jessica Plassmann , Michael Schuth , Georg von Freymann

We introduce wavelet-based methodology for estimation of realized variance allowing its measurement in the time-frequency domain. Using smooth wavelets and Maximum Overlap Discrete Wavelet Transform, we allow for the decomposition of the…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-03-20 Jozef Barunik , Lukas Vacha

We consider quantum enhancement of direct-detection interferometric measurements to increase telescope resolution. We propose a protocol of measuring interferometric visibility function using imperfectly entangled states shared between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 Siddhartha Santra , Brian T. Kirby , Vladimir S. Malinovsky , Michael Brodsky

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will form the largest radio telescope ever built and such a huge instrument in the desert poses enormous engineering and logistic challenges. Algorithmic and architectural breakthroughs are needed. Data is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-17 Orhan Ocal , Paul Hurley , Giovanni Cherubini , Sanaz Kazemi

In this work we propose an efficient and accurate multi-scale optical simulation algorithm by applying a numerical version of slowly varying envelope approximation in FEM. Specifically, we employ the fast iterative method to quickly compute…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-03 Fan Xiao , Jingwei Wang , Zhongfei Xiong , Yuntian Chen

The advent of large aperture arrays, such as the ones currently under construction for the SKA project, allows for observing the Universe in the radio-spectrum at unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. To process the enormous amounts of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 S. Wang , S. Mignot , S. Prunet , L. Di Mascolo , M. Spinelli , A. Ferrari

Ground-based observation at frequencies below 30 MHz is hindered by the ionosphere of the Earth and radio frequency interference. To map the sky at these low frequencies, we have proposed the Discovering the Sky at the Longest wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Yuan Shi , Yidong Xu , Li Deng , Fengquan Wu , Lin Wu , Qizhi Huang , Shifan Zuo , Jingye Yan , Xuelei Chen

The analysis of astronomical interferometric data is often performed on the images obtained after deconvolution of the interferometer's point spread function (PSF). This strategy can be understood (especially for cases of sparse arrays) as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 I. Marti-Vidal , W. H. T. Vlemmings , S. Muller , S. Casey

Wide-field imaging has become a major challenge for modern radio astronomy, which uses high sensitivity acquisition systems that deal with huge amounts of data. In this paper we investigate a fast wide-field imaging solution based on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-19 Luis F. R. Lucas , Chris J. Skipper , Anna M. M. Scaife

The increased use of low-cost gyroscopes within inertial sensors for navigation purposes, among others, has brought to the development of a considerable amount of research in improving their measurement precision. Aside from developing…

Applications · Statistics 2021-07-01 Yuming Zhang , Davide A. Cucci , Roberto Molinari , Stéphane Guerrier

In this paper we describe the spherical harmonic transit telescope, a novel formalism for the analysis of transit radio telescopes. This all-sky approach bypasses the curved sky complications of traditional interferometry and so is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 J. Richard Shaw , Kris Sigurdson , Ue-Li Pen , Albert Stebbins , Michael Sitwell

Traditional phase-shifting interferometry technique cannot be used to measure time-varying phase distributions. But single shot techniques could resolve the problem. Many efforts have been made on the phase retrieval methods from a single…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-31 Lifa Hu , Wen Shena , Wenchao Ma , Dongting Hu , Xinyu Liu

Star formation is a multi-scale problem, and only global simulations that account for the connection from the molecular cloud scale gas flow to the accreting protostar can reflect the observed complexity of protostellar systems.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-28 Rami Al-Belmpeisi , Vito Tuhtan , Mikkel Bregning Christensen , Rajika L Kuruwita , Troels Haugbølle

Functional data analysis is ubiquitous in most areas of sciences and engineering. Several paradigms are proposed to deal with the dimensionality problem which is inherent to this type of data. Sparseness, penalization, thresholding, among…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-05 Rodney V. Fonseca , Aluísio Pinheiro

The standard wide-field imaging technique, the $w$-projection, allows correction for wide-fields of view for non-coplanar radio interferometric arrays. However, calculating exact corrections for each measurement has not been possible due to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Jason D. McEwen

For given computational resources, the accuracy of plasma simulations using particles is mainly held back by the noise due to limited statistical sampling in the reconstruction of the particle distribution function. A method based on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-09-03 Romain Nguyen van yen , Diego del-Castillo-Negrete , Kai Schneider , Marie Farge , Guangye Chen

The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) would be the world's largest radio telescope with eventually over a square kilometer of collecting area. However, there are enormous challenges in its data processing. The using of modern distributed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Shoulin Wei , Kaida Luo , Feng Wang , Hui Deng , Ying Mei

We introduce a new technique for imaging the polarized radio sky using interferometric data. The new approach, which we call Faraday synthesis, combines aperture and rotation measure synthesis imaging and deconvolution into a single…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. R. Bell , T. A. Enßlin

Object detection in astronomical images, generically referred to as source finding, is often performed before the object characterisation stage in astrophysical processing work flows. In radio astronomy, source finding has historically been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Luis Lucas , Tim Staley , Anna Scaife

Low-frequency radio observatories are reaching unprecedented levels of sensitivity in an effort to detect the 21 cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn. High precision is needed because the expected signal is overwhelmed by foreground…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Adam E. Lanman , Steven G. Murray , Daniel C. Jacobs