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We present a high order immersed finite element (IFE) method for solving the elliptic interface problem with interface-independent meshes. The IFE functions developed here satisfy the interface conditions exactly and they have optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Slimane Adjerid , Tao Lin , Haroun Meghaichi

Radio interferometric gain calibration can be biased by incomplete sky models and radio frequency interference, resulting in calibration artefacts that can restrict the dynamic range of the resulting images. It has been suggested that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-21 Ulrich Armel Mbou Sob , Hertzog Landman Bester , Oleg Smirnov , Jonathan Kenyon , Trienko Grobler

The rising concept of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has promising potential for Beyond 5G localization applications. We herein investigate different phase profile designs at a reflective RIS, which enable non-line-of-sight…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Moustafa Rahal , Benoît Denis , Kamran Keykhosravi , Furkan Keskin , Bernard Uguen , Henk Wymeersch

We present a filtering technique that can be applied to individual baselines of wide-bandwidth, wide-field interferometric data to geometrically select regions on the celestial sphere that contain primary calibration sources. The technique…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Aaron R. Parsons , Donald C. Backer

Multidimensional Index Modulations (IM) are a novel alternative to conventional modulations which can bring considerable benefits for future wireless networks. Within this scope, in this paper we present a new scheme, named as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-09 Vasco Velez , Joao Pedro Pavia , Nuno Souto , Pedro Sebastiao , Americo Correia

Space-based observations of solar-like oscillations present an opportunity to constrain stellar models using individual mode frequencies. However, current stellar models are inaccurate near the surface, which introduces a systematic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Warrick H. Ball , L. Gizon

New laboratory measurements using an Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) and an x-ray microcalorimeter are presented for the n=3 to n=2 Fe XVII emission lines in the 15 {\AA} to 17 {\AA} range, along with new theoretical predictions for a variety…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-15 J. D. Gillaspy , T. Lin , L. Tedesco , J. N. Tan , J. M. Pomeroy , J. M. Laming , N. Brickhouse , G. -X. Chen , E. Silver

As an extension of the method by Bahcall et al. (2004) to investigate the time dependence of the fine structure constant, we describe an approach based on new observations of forbidden line multiplets from different ionic species. We obtain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dirk Grupe , Anil K. Pradhan , Stephan Frank

Gaussian fields (GFs) are frequently used in spatial statistics for their versatility. The associated computational cost can be a bottleneck, especially in realistic applications. It has been shown that computational efficiency can be…

Computation · Statistics 2015-03-13 Xiaoyu Liu , Serge Guillas , Ming-Jun Lai

An analysis of the kinematics of NGC 6720 is performed on the commissioning data obtained with SITELLE, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope's new imaging Fourier transform spectrometer. In order to measure carefully the small broadening…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-14 Thomas B. Martin , Simon Prunet , Laurent Drissen

We present predicted full-sky maps of submillimeter and microwave emission from the diffuse interstellar dust in the Galaxy. These maps are extrapolated from the 100 micron emission and 100/240 micron flux ratio maps that Schlegel,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Marc Davis , David J. Schlegel

Context. In Gaia era, atmospheric turbulence, which causes stochastic wander of a star image, is a fundamental limitation to the astrometric accuracy of ground-based optical imaging. However, the positional bias caused by turbulence (called…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-12 Z. J. Zheng , Q. Y. Peng , F. R. Lin , D. Li , Y. Zheng

In this paper we describe the FIT\textit{spec} code, a data mining tool for the automatic fitting of synthetic stellar spectra. The program uses a database of 27\,000 {\sc cmfgen} models of stellar atmospheres arranged in a six-dimensional…

We present the results of X-ray spectral and timing analyses of the closest gamma-ray emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 ($\gamma$-NLS1) galaxy, 1H 0323+342. We use observations from a recent, simultaneous XMM-Newton/NuSTAR campaign. As in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Sergio A. Mundo , Erin Kara , Edward M. Cackett , A. C. Fabian , J. Jiang , R. F. Mushotzky , M. L. Parker , C. Pinto , C. S. Reynolds , A. Zoghbi

In radio interferometry imaging, the gridding procedure of convolving visibilities with a chosen gridding function is necessary to transform visibility values into uniformly sampled grid points. We propose here a parameterised family of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Haoyang Ye , Stephen F. Gull , Sze M. Tan , Bojan Nikolic

Flourescent iron line profiles currently provide the best diagnostic for active galactic nuclei (AGN) engine geometries. Here we construct a method for calculating the relativistic iron line profile from an arbitrarily warped accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Sean A. Hartnoll , Eric G. Blackman

We present a model for nebular emission in star forming galaxies, which takes into account the effects of dust reprocessing. The nebular emissions have been computed with CLOUDY and then included into GRASIL, our spectrophotometric code…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Panuzzo , A. Bressan , G. L. Granato , L. Silva , L. Danese

The spectral data on the diffuse Galactic gamma-rays, at medium and high latitudes (|b| > 10) and energies of 1-100 GeV, recently published by the Fermi Collaboration are used to produce a novel study on the gamma-ray emissivity in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-28 Maryam Tavakoli , Ilias Cholis , Carmelo Evoli , Piero Ullio

The analysis of astronomical interferometric data is often performed on the images obtained after deconvolution of the interferometer's point spread function (PSF). This strategy can be understood (especially for cases of sparse arrays) as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 I. Marti-Vidal , W. H. T. Vlemmings , S. Muller , S. Casey