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We propose a method to build an astronomical interferometer using continuous variable quantum teleportation to overcome the transmission loss between distant telescopes. The scheme relies on two-mode squeezed states shared by distant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yunkai Wang , Yujie Zhang , Virginia O. Lorenz

Long-baseline interferometry at optical and near-infrared wavelengths is an emerging technology which is quickly becoming a useful tool to investigate stellar atmospheres and to compare observations with models. Stellar atmosphere models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Markus Wittkowski

Dynamic Novel View Synthesis (Dynamic NVS) enhances NVS technologies to model moving 3-D scenes. However, current methods are resource intensive and challenging to compress. To address this, we present WavePlanes, a fast and more compact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Adrian Azzarelli , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , David R Bull

The next generation of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is stepping into the era of microarcsecond ($\mu$as) astronomy, and pushing astronomy, especially astrometry, to new heights. VLBI with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-24 Yingjie Li , Ye Xu , Jingjing Li , Shuaibo Bian , Zehao Lin , Chaojie Hao , Dejian Liu

We describe the SPHEREx Sky Simulator, a software tool designed to model science data for NASA's SPHEREx mission that will carry out a series of all-sky spectrophotometric surveys at $\sim$6'' spatial resolution in 102 spectral channels…

Laser-plasma based experiments are always more demanding about the plasma features which need to be generated during the interaction. This is valid for laser-plasma acceleration as well as for inertial confinement fusion experiments. Most…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 F. Filippi , M. Cipriani , S. Mastrostefano , M. Scisciò , F. Consoli

Thermal infrared (IR) images represent the heat patterns emitted from hot object and they do not consider the energies reflected from an object. Objects living or non-living emit different amounts of IR energy according to their body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Ayan Seal , Suranjan Ganguly , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak kr. Basu

Current and upcoming radio-interferometers are expected to produce volumes of data of increasing size that need to be processed in order to generate the corresponding sky brightness distributions through imaging. This represents an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Claudio Gheller , Giuliano Taffoni , David Goz

Light-in-flight (LiF) measurements enable the visualization of light paths through arbitrary, volumetric scenes, making light-matter interactions at ultrafast timescales visible. Traditionally, LiF measurements require specialized…

Purpose: The goal of this article is to introduce a technique to measure the velocity distribution of water inside each voxel of an MR image. The method is based on the use of motion sensitizing gradients with changing first moment to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-02 Luis Hernandez-Garcia , Alberto L. Vazquez , Doug C. Noll

With the increasing sensitivity of modern radio interferometers, it has become important to image objects larger than the field of view while optimising sensitivity and image fidelity. We present a coherent visibility plane…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Keegan S. Trehaeven , Cyril Tasse , Oleg Smirnov , Tiziana Venturi

Galactic all-sky maps at very disparate frequencies, like in the radio and $\gamma$-ray regime, show similar morphological structures. This mutual information reflects the imprint of the various physical components of the interstellar…

This paper deals with the calibration of the analogue chains of a Square Kilometre Array (SKA) phased aperture array station, using embedded element patterns (one per antenna in the array, thus accounting for the full effects of mutual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 Josef Borg , Alessio Magro , Kristian Zarb Adami , Eloy de lera Acedo , Adrian Sutinjo , Daniel Ung

We introduce a fast, high-precision algorithm for calculating intersections between great circle arcs and lines of constant latitude on the unit sphere. We first propose a simplified intersection point formula with improved speed and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Hongyu Chen , Paul A. Ullrich , Julian Panetta

We examine implicit representations of parametric or point cloud models, based on interpolation matrices, which are not sensitive to base points. We show how interpolation matrices can be used for ray shooting of a parametric ray with a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Ioannis Z. Emiris , Christos Konaxis , Ilias S. Kotsireas , Clement Laroche

Stacking as a tool for studying objects that are not individually detected is becoming popular even for radio interferometric data, and will be widely used in the SKA era. Stacking is typically done using imaged data rather than directly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-26 K. K. Knudsen , L. Lindroos , W. Vlemmings , J. Conway , I. Marti-Vidal

We compare performances of ground-based single-mode and multimode (speckle) interferometers in the presence of partial Adaptive Optics correction of atmospheric turbulence. It is first shown that for compact sources (i.e. sources smaller…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Tatulli , P. Mege , A. Chelli

For an interferometric array, an image of the sky can be synthesized from interferometric visibilities, which are the cross-correlations of the received electric voltages of pairs of array elements. However, to search for transient targets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yingfeng Liu , Shijie Sun , Kaifeng Yu , Furen Deng , Shifan Zuo , Jixia Li , Yougang Wang , Fengquan Wu , Xuelei Chen

We compare various approaches to find the most efficient method for the practical computation of the lightcurves (integrated brightnesses) of irregularly shaped bodies such as asteroids at arbitrary viewing and illumination geometries. For…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-05 Mikko Kaasalainen , Xiaoping Lu , Anssi-Ville Vänttinen