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Context: The Deep Extragalactic VLBI-Optical Survey (DEVOS) aims at constructing a large sample of compact radio sources up to two orders of magnitude fainter than those studied in other Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) surveys.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-09 S. Frey , L. I. Gurvits , Z. Paragi , L. Mosoni , M. A. Garrett , S. T. Garrington

A new generation of observational science instruments is dramatically increasing collected data volumes in a range of fields. These instruments include the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), terrestrial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-24 David R. Thompson , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Adam T. Deller , Walid A. Majid , Divya Palaniswamy , Steven J. Tingay , Kiri L. Wagstaff , Randall B. Wayth

This paper extends the method introduced in Rivi et al. (2016b) to measure galaxy ellipticities in the visibility domain for radio weak lensing surveys. In that paper we focused on the development and testing of the method for the simple…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-16 Marzia Rivi , Lance Miller

The light curves of the OGLE microlensing candidates have been reconstructed using the image subtraction method. A large improvement of the photometric accuracy has been found in comparison with previous processing of the data with DoPHOT.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Alard

The analysis of whole-sky galaxy surveys commonly suffers from the problems of shot-noise and incomplete sky coverage (e.g. at the Zone of Avoidance). The orthogonal set of spherical harmonics is utilized here to expand the observed galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 O. Lahav , K. B. Fisher , Y. Hoffman , C. A. Scharf , S. Zaroubi

Since autumn 2008 a new L-band 7-Feed-Array receiver is used for an HI 21-cm line survey performed with the 100-m Effelsberg telescope. The survey will cover the whole northern hemisphere comprising both, the galactic and extragalactic sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-16 B. Winkel , J. Kerp , P. M. W. Kalberla

Subsampling is a widely used and effective approach for addressing the computational challenges posed by massive datasets. Substantial progress has been made in developing non-uniform, probability-based subsampling schemes that prioritize…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-07 Dingyi Wang , Haiying Wang , Qingpei Hu

We report preliminary results of a visual inspection of ~4300 deg$^2$ covered by 4414 images of the 3-GHz VLA Sky Survey (VLASS, epoch 1.1) in search of extended radio structures. Over 7600 positions were registered, and for a subset of 270…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-23 Agueda C. Villarreal Hernández , Heinz Andernach

Recently, foundation models based on Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become widely available. However, their fine-tuning process is highly resource-intensive, and it hinders their adoption in several edge or low-energy applications. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Alessio Devoto , Federico Alvetreti , Jary Pomponi , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Pasquale Minervini , Simone Scardapane

New developments in data processing and visualization are being made in preparation for upcoming radioastronomical surveys planned with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its precursors. A major goal is enabling extraction of science…

We report on a novel search for radio gravitational lenses. Using the Very Large Array, we imaged ten candidates with both dual redshifts in Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectra and 1.4 GHz radio flux >2 mJy in the FIRST survey. The VLA maps…

Digital co-addition of astronomical images is a common technique for increasing signal-to-noise and image depth. A modification of this simple technique has been applied to the detection of minor bodies in the Solar System: first stationary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alex H. Parker , JJ. Kavelaars

We present the design and implementation of an automated data calibration and reduction pipeline for very-long-baseline interferometric (VLBI) observations taken at millimeter wavelengths. These short radio-wavelengths provide the best…

Recent work in vision-and-language demonstrates that large-scale pretraining can learn generalizable models that are efficiently transferable to downstream tasks. While this may improve dataset-scale aggregate metrics, analyzing performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Eric Slyman , Minsuk Kahng , Stefan Lee

The Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey (CLASS) is an international collaborative program which has obtained high-resolution radio images of over 10000 flat-spectrum radio sources in order to create the largest and best studied statistical sample of…

The Faint Sky Variability Survey is aimed at finding photometric and/or astrometric variable objects in the brightness range between 16<V<24 on timescales between tens of minutes and years with photometric precisions ranging from 3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Paul J. Groot , Paul M. Vreeswijk , Mark E. Huber

One of the techniques for estimating the surface particle concentration with a diameter of fewer than 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5) is using aerosol optical depth (AOD) products. Different AOD products are retrieved from various satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Ali Mirzaei , Hossein Bagheri , Mehran Sattari

We have revised the SWIRE Photometric Redshift Catalogue to take account of new optical photometry in several of the SWIRE areas, and incorporating 2MASS and UKIDSS near infrared data. Aperture matching is an important issue for combining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-03 Michael Rowan-Robinson , Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares , Mattia Vaccari , Lucia Marchetti

We use the lensing potential map from Planck CMB lensing reconstruction analysis and the "Public Cosmic Void Catalog" to measure the stacked void lensing potential. In this profile, four parameters are needed to describe the shape of voids…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Teeraparb Chantavat , Utane Sawangwit , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We are presenting in this paper a detailed account of the methods used to compute the three-dimensional two-point galaxy correlation function in the VIMOS-VLT deep survey (VVDS). We investigate how instrumental selection effects and…

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