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The new generation of radio interferometers is characterized by high sensitivity, wide fields of view and large fractional bandwidth. To synthesize the deepest images enabled by the high dynamic range of these instruments requires us to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 C. Tasse , B. Hugo , M. Mirmont , O. Smirnov , M. Atemkeng , L. Bester , M. J. Hardcastle , R. Lakhoo , S. Perkins , T. Shimwell

Information about microscopic objects with features smaller than the diffraction limit is almost entirely lost in a far-field diffraction image but could be partly recovered with data completition techniques. Any such approach critically…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-17 Maria Bancerek , Krzysztof M. Czajkowski , Rafal Kotynski

Many astronomical questions require deep, wide-field observations at low radio frequencies. Phased arrays like LOFAR and SKA-low are designed for this, but have inherently unstable element gains, leading to time, frequency and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 S. A. Brackenhoff , A. R. Offringa , M. Mevius , L. V. E. Koopmans , J. K. Chege , E. Ceccotti , C. Höfer , L. Gao , S. Ghosh , F. G. Mertens , S. Munshi

Spatial resolution of most imaging devices is fundamentally restricted by diffraction. This limitation is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information contained in evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-16 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

Time-frequency images (TFIs) provide a joint time-frequency representation of a signal and have become an effective tool for analyzing, characterizing, and processing non-stationary signals. Deep learning (DL) techniques have become…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Mehmet Parlak

Interferometry can measure the shape or the material density of a system that could not be measured otherwise by recording the difference between the phase change of a signal and a reference phase. This difference is always between $-\pi$…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Pierre-Alexandre Gourdain , Aidan Bachmann

Inevitable interferences exist for the SAR system, adversely affecting the imaging quality. However, current analysis and suppression methods mainly focus on the far-field situation. Due to different sources and characteristics of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei

The emergence of alternative multiplexing domains to the time-frequency domains, e.g., the delay-Doppler and chirp domains, offers a promising approach for addressing the challenges posed by complex propagation environments and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Abdelali Arous , Hamza Haif , Arman Farhang , Huseyin Arslan

The standing waves existed in radio telescope data are primarily due to reflections among the instruments, which significantly impact the spectrum quality of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Eliminating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Chen Xu , Jie Wang , Yingjie Jing , Fujia Li , Hengqian Gan , Ziming Liu , Tiantian Liang , Qingze Chen , Zerui Liu , Zhipeng Hou , Hao Hu , Huijie Hu , Shijie Huang , Peng Jiang , Chuan-Peng Zhang , Yan Zhu

The growing need for electromagnetic spectrum to support the next generation (xG) communication networks increasingly generate unwanted radio frequency interference (RFI) in protected bands for radio astronomy. RFI is commonly mitigated at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Shuvam Chakraborty , Gregory Hellbourg , Maqsood Careem , Dola Saha , Aveek Dutta

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an advanced technique for reconstructing high-resolution subsurface physical parameters by progressively minimizing the discrepancy between observed and predicted seismic data. However, conventional FWI…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Chao Song , Tariq Alkhalifah , Umair Bin Waheed , Silin Wang , Cai Liu

Interferometric calibration always yields non unique solutions. It is therefore essential to remove these ambiguities before the solutions could be used in any further modeling of the sky, the instrument or propagation effects such as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Sarod Yatawatta

Kernel phase interferometry (KPI) is a data processing technique that allows for the detection of asymmetries (such as companions or disks) in high-Strehl images, close to and within the classical diffraction limit. We show that KPI can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Alexander Chaushev , Steph Sallum , Julien Lozi , Frantz Martinache , Jeffrey Chilcote , Tyler Groff , Olivier Guyon , N. Jeremy Kasdin , Barnaby Norris , Andy Skemer

Increasing data volumes delivered by a new generation of radio interferometers require computationally efficient and robust calibration algorithms. In this paper, we propose distributed calibration as a way of improving both computational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Sarod Yatawatta

Time-delay interferometry (TDI) suppresses laser frequency noise by forming linear combinations of time-shifted interferometric measurements. The time-shift operation is implemented by interpolating discretely sampled data. To enable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Martin Staab , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Olaf Hartwig , Aurélien Hees , Marc Lilley , Graham Woan , Peter Wolf

For Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), the fringe spacing is extremely narrow compared to the field of view imposed by the primary beam of each element. This means that an extremely large number of resolution units can potentially be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-26 John S. Morgan , F. Mantovani , A. T. Deller , W. Brisken , W. Alef , E. Middelberg , M. Nanni , S. J. Tingay

The spectral resolution of broadband Fourier-transform coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy is limited by the maximum optical path length difference that can be scanned within a short time in an interferometer. However, alternatives to…

High sensitivity differential atom interferometers are promising for precision measurements in science frontiers in space, including gravity field mapping for Earth science studies and gravitational wave detection. We propose a new…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Sheng-wey Chiow , Jason Williams , Nan Yu

The feedforward selective fixed-filter method selects the most suitable pre-trained control filter based on the spectral features of the detected reference signal, effectively avoiding slow convergence in conventional adaptive algorithms.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Hong-Cheng Liang , Man-Wai Mak , Kong Aik Lee

Recent work has successfully achieved sub-arcsecond wide-field imaging with high-band observations from the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR). However, the scalability of this work remains limited due to the need for manual intervention, poor…