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Accreting black holes show characteristic reflection features in their X-ray spectrum, including an iron K$\alpha$ line, resulting from hard X-ray continuum photons illuminating the accretion disk. The reverberation lag resulting from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Guglielmo Mastroserio , Adam Ingram , Michiel van der Klis

The present generation of weak lensing surveys will be superseded by surveys run from space with much better sky coverage and high level of signal to noise ratio, such as SNAP. However, removal of any systematics or noise will remain a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas

Constructing a propagation map from a set of scattered measurements finds important applications in many areas, such as localization, spectrum monitoring and management. Classical interpolation-type methods have poor performance in regions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Hao Sun , Junting Chen

For wideband spectrum sensing, compressive sensing has been proposed as a solution to speed up the high dimensional signals sensing and reduce the computational complexity. Compressive sensing consists of acquiring the essential information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-13 Fatima Salahdine , Naima Kaabouch , Hassan El Ghazi

Compared to single-source imaging systems, dual-source imaging systems equipped with two cross-distributed scanning beams significantly enhance temporal resolution and capture more comprehensive object scanning information. Nevertheless,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Jianing Sun , Jigang Duan , Guangyin Li , Xu Jiang , Xing Zhao

Presented is a novel way to combine snapshot compressive imaging and lateral shearing interferometry in order to capture the spatio-spectral phase of an ultrashort laser pulse in a single shot. A deep unrolling algorithm is utilised for the…

Longtime monitoring of gravitational lens systems is often done using telescopes and recording equipment with modest resolution. Still, it would be interesting to get as much information as possible from the measured lightcurves. From high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Hirv , T. Eenmäe , T. Liimets , L. J. Liivamägi , J. Pelt

Microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous in all ecosystems, affecting wildlife and, ultimately, human health. The complexity of natural samples plus the unspecificity of their treatments to isolate polymers renders the characterization of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-01 Adrian Lopez-Rosales , Jose Andrade , Borja Ferreiro , Soledad Muniategui

Multi-wavelength astronomical studies brings a wealth of science within reach. One way to achieve a cross-wavelength analysis is via `stacking', i.e. combining precise positional information from an image at one wavelength with data from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-14 Song Chen , Jonathan T. L. Zwart , Mario G. Santos

Intensity mapping -- the large-scale mapping of selected spectral lines without resolving individual sources -- is quickly emerging as an efficient way to conduct large cosmological surveys. Multiple surveys covering a variety of lines…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Hannah Fronenberg , Adrian Liu

Cumulant mapping has been recently suggested [Frasinski, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 24, 207767 (2022)] as an efficient approach to observing multi-particle fragmentation pathways, while bypassing the restrictions of the usual…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 S. Patchkovskii , J. Mikosch

Reverberation mapping is now a well-established technique for investigating spatially-unresolved structures in the nuclei of distant galaxies with actively-accreting supermassive black holes. Structural parameters for the broad…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Misty C. Bentz

We explore reprocessing models for a sample of 17 hypervariable quasars, taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project, which all show coordinated optical luminosity hypervariability with amplitudes of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Tatsuya Akiba , Jason Dexter , William Brandt , Luis C. Ho , Yasaman Homayouni , Donald P. Schneider , Yue Shen , Jonathan R. Trump

Snapshot spectral imaging is rapidly gaining interest for remote sensing applications. Acquiring spatial and spectral data within one image promotes fast measurement times, and reduces the need for stabilized scanning imaging systems. Many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 Rebecca French , Sylvain Gigan , Otto L. Muskens

In the coming decade, a new generation of massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys, such as PFS, WAVES, and MOONS, will probe galaxies in the distant universe in vastly greater numbers than was previously possible. In this work, we…

Spectral clustering is one of the most widely used techniques for extracting the underlying global structure of a data set. Compressed sensing and matrix completion have emerged as prevailing methods for efficiently recovering sparse and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-05 Blake Hunter , Thomas Strohmer

An appealing requirement from the well-known diffraction tomography (DT) exists for success reconstruction from few-view and limited-angle data. Inspired by the well-known compressive sensing (CS), the accurate super-resolution…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-04-20 Lianlin Li , Wenji Zhang , Fang Li

Intensity mapping experiments will soon have surveyed large swathes of the sky, providing information about the underlying matter distribution of the early universe. The resulting maps can be used to recover statistical information, such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Lisa McBride , Adrian Liu

Timing techniques offer powerful tools to study dynamical astrophysical phenomena. In the X-ray band, they offer the potential of probing accretion physics down to the event horizon. Recent work has used frequency and energy-dependent time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Abderahmen Zoghbi , Chris Reynolds , Ed Cackett

This is the third article in a series of three dealing with the exploitation of speckle for imaging purposes. In complex media, a fundamental limit is the multiple scattering phenomenon that completely blurs the imaging process in depth.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Elsa Giraudat , Flavien Bureau , William Lambert , Mathias Fink , Alexandre Aubry