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Time-delay interferometry (TDI) is a data processing technique for LISA designed to suppress the otherwise overwhelming laser noise by several orders of magnitude. It is widely believed that TDI can only be applied once all phase or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-30 Olaf Hartwig , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Martin Staab , Aurélien Hees , Marc Lilley , Peter Wolf

A new technique is presented for producing images from interferometric data. The method, ``smear fitting'', makes the constraints necessary for interferometric imaging double as a model, with uncertainties, of the sky brightness…

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We present a new method for time delay estimation using band limited frequency domain data representing the port responses of interconnect structures. The approach is based on the recently developed by the authors spectrally accurate method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Lyudmyla L. Barannyk , Hung H. Tran , Aicha Elshabini , Fred D. Barlow

While diffusion-based generative models have made significant strides in visual content creation, conventional approaches face computational challenges, especially for high-resolution images, as they denoise the entire image from noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Haohang Xu , Longyu Chen , Yichen Zhang , Shuangrui Ding , Zhipeng Zhang

We are pursuing a project to build a database of phase calibration sources suitable for Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). Here we present the first release of 45 low frequency calibration sources at 235 MHz and 610 MHz. These…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Dharam V. Lal , Shilpa S. Dubal , Sachin S. Sherkar

The redshifted 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen is a promising probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). However, its detection requires a thorough understanding and control of the systematic errors. We study two systematic biases observed in…

Interferometric phase (InPhase) imaging is an important part of many present-day coherent imaging technologies. Often in such imaging techniques, the acquired images, known as interferograms, suffer from two major degradations: 1) phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-25 Joshin P. Krishnan , Mário A. T. Figueiredo , José M. Bioucas-Dias

This paper investigates calibration of sensor arrays in the radio astronomy context. Current and future radio telescopes require computationally efficient algorithms to overcome the new technical challenges as large collecting area, wide…

Applications · Statistics 2018-07-31 Virginie Ollier , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , André Ferrari , Rémy Boyer , Pascal Larzabal

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique allows us to determine positions of thousands of radio sources using the absolute astrometry approach. I have investigated the impact of a selection of observing frequencies in a range from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Leonid Petrov

The ill-posed problem of phase retrieval in optics, using one or more intensity measurements, has a multitude of applications using electromagnetic or matter waves. Many phase retrieval algorithms are computed on pixel arrays using discrete…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 J. A. Pollock , K. S. Morgan , L. C. P. Croton , M. K. Croughan , G. Ruben , N. Yagi , H. Sekiguchi , M. J. Kitchen

A distortion calibration method for wide-angle lens is proposed based on fringe-pattern phase analysis. Firstly, according to the experimental result of the radial distortion of the image not related to the recording depth of field, but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Weishuai Zhou , Jiawen Weng , Junzheng Peng , Jingang Zhong

Precision antenna calibration is required for mitigating the impact of foreground contamination in 21 cm cosmological radio surveys. One widely studied source of error is the effect of missing point sources in the calibration sky model;…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Ntsikelelo Charles , Nicholas Kern , Gianni Bernardi , Landman Bester , Oleg Smirnov , Nicolas Fagnoni , Eloy de Lera Acedo

Methods currently in use for locating and characterising sources in radio interferometry maps are designed for processing images, and require interferometric maps to be preprocessed so as to resemble conventional images. We demonstrate a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Peter Hague , Haoyang Ye , Bojan Nikolic , Steve Gull

Reconstructing images of the radio sky from incomplete Fourier information is a key challenge in radio astronomy. In this work, we present a method for radio interferometric image reconstruction using a data-driven prior for the radio sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Michel Morales , Emma Tolley , Remi Poitevineau

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

Wavefront sensing involves estimating the phase and intensity of light, enabling a wide range of imaging applications, from adaptive optics and astronomy to biomedical imaging. Since conventional image sensors can only measure the spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Nebiyou Yismaw , Vishwanath Saragadam , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , M. Salman Asif

This paper introduces a novel technique to preserve spectral features in lossy compression based on a novel fast Fourier correction algorithm\added{ for regular-grid data}. Preserving both spatial and frequency representations of data is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Congrong Ren , Robert Underwood , Sheng Di , Emrecan Kutay , Zarija Lukic , Aylin Yener , Franck Cappello , Hanqi Guo

Automated source extraction and parameterization represents a crucial challenge for the next-generation radio interferometer surveys, such as those performed with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its precursors. In this paper we present…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-09 S. Riggi , A. Ingallinera , P. Leto , F. Cavallaro , F. Bufano , F. Schillirò , C. Trigilio , G. Umana , C. S. Buemi , R. P. Norris

High precison calibration is essential for a new generation of radio interferometers looking for Epoch of Reionization and Baryon Acoustic Oscillation signatures in neutral hydrogen. These arrays have so far been calibrated by redundant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-10 J. L. Sievers

Recently it has been shown that the intensity time-bandwidth product of optical signals can be engineered to match that of the data acquisition instrument. In particular, it is possible to slow down an ultrafast signal, resulting in…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jacky Chan , Ata Mahjoubfar , Mohammad H. Asghari , Bahram Jalali