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ICORE is a command-line driven co-addition, mosaicking and resolution enhancement (HiRes) tool for creating science quality products from image data in FITS format and with World Coordinate System information following the FITS-WCS…

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We have designed and implemented a novel way to process wide-field astronomical data within a distributed environment of hardware resources and humanpower. The system is characterized by integration of archiving, calibration, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-17 J. P. McFarland , G. Verdoes-Kleijn , G. Sikkema , E. M. Helmich , D. R. Boxhoorn , E. A. Valentijn

We present an approach for improving spatial frequency sampling in active incoherent millimeter-wave (AIM) imaging systems using frequency diversity. AIM imaging relies on active transmission of spatio-temporally incoherent signals to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Jorge R. Colon-Berrios , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

Context. Solar wavefront sensing has been a challenge for astrophysical instrumentalists, due to the low contrast between the Sun and the sky background compared to night-time observations, which limits the performance of adaptive optics…

This paper introduces the Wide-band Asp-Clean (\texttt{WAsp}) algorithm, a novel scale-sensitive image reconstruction method tailored for wide-band imaging applications. This algorithm is particularly beneficial for thermal noise-limited…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 M. Hsieh , S. Bhatnagar , U. Rau

The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE; Wright et al. 2010) satellite observed the full sky in four mid-infrared bands in the 2.8 to 28 micron range. The primary mission was completed in 2010. The WISE team have done a superb job of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-05 Dustin Lang

In some previous papers we proposed the use of free software for a processing of the Google satellite imagery. Here we discuss the use of a wavelet filter for the same purposes. This filter is a tool included in a freely downloadable…

Geophysics · Physics 2010-09-09 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

In an effort to transcend the limitations of differential imaging of exoplanets in the era of extremely large telescopes (ELTs), the first paper in this series established a rigorous, fully polarimetric framework for determining the science…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-18 Richard A. Frazin

Image subtraction in astronomy is a tool for transient object discovery and characterization, particularly useful in wide fields, and is well suited for moving or photometrically varying objects such as asteroids, extra-solar planets and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-09 Steven Hartung

We introduce the Wide-field Retrieval of Astrodata Program (WRAP), a tool created to aid astronomers in gathering photometric and astrometric data for point sources that may confuse simple cross-matching algorithms because of their…

The James Webb Space Telescope is orders of magnitude more sensitive than any other facility across the near to mid-infrared wavelengths. Many approved programs take advantage of its highly stable point spread function (PSF) to directly…

Current observations taken by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) allow us to observe the absorption features of icy mantles that cover interstellar dust grains, which are mainly composed of $\mathrm{H_2O}$, $\mathrm{CO}$, and…

The intersection of Astronomy and AI encounters significant challenges related to issues such as noisy backgrounds, lower resolution (LR), and the intricate process of filtering and archiving images from advanced telescopes like the James…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mohammed Talha Alam , Raza Imam , Mohsen Guizani , Fakhri Karray

Ultrasound (US) imaging is an indispensable tool for diagnostic imaging, particularly given its cost, safety, and portability profiles compared to other modalities. However, US is challenged in subjects with morphological heterogeneity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Scott Schoen , Brian Lause , Marko Jakovljevic , Rimon Tadross , Mike Washburn , Anthony E. Samir

We present a generic algorithm for performing astronomical image registration and pointing refinement. The method is based on matching the positions and fluxes of available point sources in image overlap regions. This information is used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Frank J. Masci , David Makovoz , Mehrdad Moshir

Direct RAW-based object detection offers great promise by utilizing RAW data (unprocessed sensor data), but faces inherent challenges due to its wide dynamic range and linear response, which tends to suppress crucial object details. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zhuohua Ye , Liming Zhang , Hongru Han

Astro-WISE is the Astronomical Wide-field Imaging System for Europe. It is a scientific information system which consists of hardware and software federated over about a dozen institutes throughout Europe. It has been developed to exploit…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-08 Hugo Buddelmeijer , O. Rees Williams , John P. McFarland , Andrey Belikov

In astronomy multiple images are frequently obtained at the same position of the sky for follow-up co-addition as it helps one go deeper and look for fainter objects. With large scale panchromatic synoptic surveys becoming more common,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Jogesh Babu , Ashish Mahabal , S. G. Djorgovski , R. Williams

This work proposes a fully distributed improved weighted average consensus (IWAC and WAC-AE) technique applied to cooperative spectrum sensing problem in cognitive radio systems. This method allows the secondary users cooperate based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-08 Aislan Gabriel Hernandes , Mario Proenca Lemes Junior , Taufik Abrao
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