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GRDzhadzha is an open-source code for relativistic simulations of matter fields on curved spacetimes that admit an analytic description (e.g. stationary black holes). It is based on the publicly available 3+1D numerical relativity code…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-17 Josu C. Aurrekoetxea , Jamie Bamber , Sam E. Brady , Katy Clough , Thomas Helfer , James Marsden , Dina Traykova , Zipeng Wang

We present a ray-tracing technique for radiative transfer modeling of complex three-dimensional (3D) structures which include dense regions of high optical depth like in dense molecular clouds, circumstellar disks, envelopes of evolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Steinacker , A. Bacmann , Th. Henning

We have developed non-sequential ray-tracing software which is aimed to be widely used, along with air- shower simulations, in the design of optical systems for cosmic-ray experiments. The code is based on the ROOT geometry library to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Akira Okumura , Masaaki Hayashida , Hideaki Katagiri , Takayuki Saito , Vladimir Vassiliev

Advancement in astronomical observations and technical instrumentation requires coding light propagation at high level of precision; this could open a new detection window of many subtle relativistic effects suffered by light while it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Mariateresa Crosta

A possible generalization of plane fronted waves with parallel rays (gpp-wave) fall into a more general class of metrics admitting parallel null 1-planes. For gpp-wave metric, the zero-curvature condition is given, the Killing-Yano tensors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Baleanu , S. Baskal

A new numerical scheme to solve the Einstein field equations based upon the generalized harmonic decomposition of the Ricci tensor is introduced. The source functions driving the wave equations that define generalized harmonic coordinates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Frans Pretorius

Trajectory generation for quadrotors with limited field-of-view sensors has numerous applications such as aerial exploration, coverage, inspection, videography, and target tracking. Most previous works simplify the task of optimizing yaw…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yuwei Wu , Yuezhan Tao , Igor Spasojevic , Vijay Kumar

Full ray-tracing maps of gravitational lensing, constructed from N-Body simulations, represent a fundamental tool to interpret present and future weak lensing data. However the limitation of computational resources and storage capabilities…

3D object proposals, quickly detected regions in a 3D scene that likely contain an object of interest, are an effective approach to improve the computational efficiency and accuracy of the object detection framework. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Ramanpreet Singh Pahwa , Tian Tsong Ng , Minh N. Do

We put forth a few ideas on coordinate conditions and their implementation in numerical relativity. Coordinate conditions are important for the long time scale simulations of relativistic systems, e.g., for the determination of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Jayashree Balakrishna , Gregory Daues , Edward Seidel , Wai-Mo Suen , Malcolm Tobias , Edward Wang

The detection of gravitational waves has opened a new era for astronomy, allowing for the combined use of gravitational wave and electromagnetic emissions to directly probe the physics of compact objects, still poorly understood. So far,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-05 Alessandro Lupi

Generating motion for robots that interact with objects of various shapes is a complex challenge, further complicated when the robot's own geometry and multiple desired behaviors are considered. To address this issue, we introduce a new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xuemin Chi , Tobias Löw , Yiming Li , Zhitao Liu , Sylvain Calinon

Designing a fast and efficient optimization method with local optima avoidance capability on a variety of optimization problems is still an open problem for many researchers. In this work, the concept of a new global optimization method…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam , Reza Farrahi Moghaddam , Mohamed Cheriet

A new equivalence relation, named relation of 'similarity' is defined and applied in the restricted three-body problem. Using this relation, a new class of trajectories (named 'similar' trajectories) are obtained; they have the theoretical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-24 Rodica Roman

The Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) is a project dedicated to global studies of extremely extended cosmic-ray phenomena, the cosmic-ray ensembles (CRE), beyond the capabilities of existing detectors and observatories.…

We derive a formalism of numerical relativity for higher-dimensional spacetimes and develop numerical codes for simulating a wide variety of five-dimensional (5D) spacetimes for the first time. First, the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-18 Hirotaka Yoshino , Masaru Shibata

Accurate gravity field calculations are necessary for landing on planets, moons, asteroids, minimoons, or other irregularly shaped bodies, but current methods become increasingly inaccurate and slow near the surface. We present high…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Thomas MacLean , Alan H. Barr

General relativistic radiative transfer calculations are essential for comparing theoretical models of black hole accretion flows and jets with observational data. In this work, we introduce Coport, a novel public code specifically designed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-05 Jiewei Huang , Liheng Zheng , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

This paper presents a general three-dimensional track fit based on hit triplets. The general track fit considers spatial hit and multiple Coulomb scattering uncertainties, and can also be extended to include energy losses. Input to the fit…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-29 Andre Schöning

Despite recent significant progress, Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) faces limitations such as reliance on prior knowledge and predefined categories and struggles with unseen objects. To address these issues, Generic Multiple Object Tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Kim Hoang Tran , Anh Duy Le Dinh , Tien Phat Nguyen , Thinh Phan , Pha Nguyen , Khoa Luu , Donald Adjeroh , Gianfranco Doretto , Ngan Hoang Le