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The technique of non-redundant masking (NRM) transforms a conventional telescope into an interferometric array. In practice, this provides a much better constrained point spread function than a filled aperture and thus higher resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Steph Sallum , Josh Eisner

The NOvA project is a long-baseline neutrino experiment. It utilizes the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab and consists of two functionally-identical liquid scintillator filled detectors. The detectors are placed 14 milliradians off-axis from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 S. Lein

All materials are made from atoms arranged either in repeating (crystalline) or in random (amorphous) structures. Diffraction measurements probe average distances between atoms and/or planes of atoms. A transmission electron microscope in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Andreas Werbrouck , Nikhila C. Paranamana , Xiaoqing He , Matthias J. Young

Forensic analysis of digital photo provenance relies on intrinsic traces left in the photograph at the time of its acquisition. Such analysis becomes unreliable after heavy post-processing, such as down-sampling and re-compression applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Pawel Korus , Nasir Memon

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is a widely used computer vision method that determines an agent's movement through a camera and an IMU sensor. This paper presents an efficient and accurate VIO pipeline optimized for applications on micro-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Jonas Kühne , Christian Vogt , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) is the only mid-IR Integral Field Spectrometer on board James Webb Space Telescope. The complexity of the MRS requires a very specialized pipeline, with some specific…

We present an automated, DAOFind-based pipeline developed to reprocess J-band Atlas All Sky Release Survey Images from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). By optimizing the detection parameters and implementing a screening procedure that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Zehao Liu , Xiyan Peng , Zhenghong Tang , Zhaoxiang Qi , Shilong Liao , Yong Yu

This paper compares and evaluates a set of non-parametric mutual information estimators with the goal of providing a novel toolset to progress in the analysis of the capacity of the nonlinear optical channel, which is currently an open…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Tommaso Catuogno , Menelaos Ralli Camara , Marco Secondini

IQUAFLOW is a new image quality framework that provides a set of tools to assess image quality. The user can add custom metrics that can be easily integrated. Furthermore, iquaflow allows to measure quality by using the performance of AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 P. Gallés , K. Takats , M. Hernández-Cabronero , D. Berga , L. Pega , L. Riordan-Chen , C. Garcia , G. Becker , A. Garriga , A. Bukva , J. Serra-Sagristà , D. Vilaseca , J. Marín

FRIDA (inFRared Imager and Dissector for the Adaptative optics system of the GTC) will be a NIR (1-2.5microns) imager and Integral Field Unit spectrograph to operate with the Adaptative Optics system of the 10.4m GTC telescope. FRIDA will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-01 M. C. Eliche-Moral , N. Cardiel , S. Pascual , J. Gallego

A fully autonomous data reduction pipeline has been developed for FRODOSpec, an optical fibre-fed integral field spectrograph currently in use at the Liverpool Telescope. This paper details the process required for the reduction of data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. M. Barnsley , R. J. Smith , I. A. Steele

A new MKO-NIR infrared filter set is described, including techniques and considerations given to designing a new set of bandpasses that are useful at both mid- and high-altitude sites. These filters offer improved photometric linearity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. A. Simons , A. T. Tokunaga

We present THERMAP, a mid-infrared (8-16 {\mu}m) spectro-imager for space missions to small bodies in the inner solar system, developed in the framework of the MarcoPolo-R asteroid sample return mission. THERMAP is very well suited to…

Epoch of Reionization data analysis requires unprecedented levels of accuracy in radio interferometer pipelines. We have developed an imaging power spectrum analysis to meet these requirements and generate robust 21 cm EoR measurements. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 N. Barry , A. P. Beardsley , R. Byrne , B. Hazelton , M. F. Morales , J. C. Pober , I. Sullivan

The NO{\nu}A Experiment will construct a detector optimized for electron neutrino detection in the existing Neutrino at Main Injector (NuMI) beamline. This beamline is capable of operating at 400 kW of primary beam power and the upgrade…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-07-18 C. Ader , D. W. Wildman

Bismuth and Nickel transparent oxides thin films were grown on glass and flexible polythelene terephalate (PET) substrates by DC sputtering technique at room temperature 300 K. The structures of Bi2O3 and NiO films were analyzed by X-ray…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 M. Rasheed , R. Barille

The MMTO Adaptive optics exoPlanet characterization System (MAPS) is an ongoing upgrade to the 6.5-meter MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins in Arizona. MAPS includes an upgraded adaptive secondary mirror (ASM), upgrades to the ARIES…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-15 Jacob Taylor , Suresh Sivanandam , Narsireddy Anugu , Adam Butko , Shaojie Chen , Olivier Durney , Tim Hardy , Masen Lamb , Manny Montoya , Katie Morzinski , Robin Swanson

Flexible intelligent metasurfaces (FIMs) offer a new solution for wireless communications by introducing morphological degrees of freedom, dynamically morphing their three-dimensional shape to ensure multipath signals interfere…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jian Xiao , Ji Wang , Qimei Cui , Yucang Yang , Xingwang Li , Dusit Niyato , Chau Yuen

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) research has attracted significant attention recently, with 3D modelling, virtual/augmented reality, and visual effects driving its application. While current NeRF implementations can produce high quality visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Adrian Azzarelli , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , David R Bull

We present griz light curves of 251 Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first 3 years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program's (DES-SN) spectroscopically classified sample. The photometric pipeline described in this paper produces the…