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Context. The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is a wide-field visual-band survey designed to explore the variable and transient sky with high cadence. Its raw data stream is automatically processed in near real time at the observatory…

Future orbiting observatories will survey large areas of sky in order to constrain the physics of dark matter and dark energy using weak gravitational lensing and other methods. Lossy compression of the resultant data will improve the cost…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 R. Ali Vanderveld , Gary M. Bernstein , Chris Stoughton , Jason Rhodes , Richard Massey , David Johnston , Benjamin M. Dobke

The sky is a major component of the appearance of a photograph, and its color and tone can strongly influence the mood of a picture. In nighttime photography, the sky can also suffer from noise and color artifacts. For this reason, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Orly Liba , Longqi Cai , Yun-Ta Tsai , Elad Eban , Yair Movshovitz-Attias , Yael Pritch , Huizhong Chen , Jonathan T. Barron

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS) is an ESO Large Programme that has obtained multi-epoch optical spectroscopy of over 800 massive stars in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Here we introduce our scientific…

Telescope slew and settle time markedly reduces the efficiency of wide-field multi-epoch surveys for sensitive interferometers with small fields of view. The overheads can be mitigated through the use of On-the-Fly Mosaicing (OTFM), where…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 K. P. Mooley , S. T. Myers , D. A. Frail , G. Hallinan , B. Butler , A. Kimball , K. Golap

We describe photometric recalibration of data obtained by the asteroid survey LINEAR. Although LINEAR was designed for astrometric discovery of moving objects, the dataset described here contains over 5 billion photometric measurements for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Branimir Sesar , J. Scott Stuart , Željko Ivezić , Dylan P. Morgan , Andrew C. Becker , Przemysław Woźniak

We study the problem of inferring a sparse vector from random linear combinations of its components. We propose the Accelerated Orthogonal Least-Squares (AOLS) algorithm that improves performance of the well-known Orthogonal Least-Squares…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-17 Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

We present WISE All-Sky mid-infrared (IR) survey detections of 55% (17/31) of the known QSOs at z>6 from a range of surveys: the SDSS, the CFHT-LS, FIRST, Spitzer and UKIDSS. The WISE catalog thus provides a substantial increase in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrew Blain , Robert Assef , Daniel Stern , Chao-Wei Tsai , Peter Eisenhardt , Carrie Bridge , Dominic Benford , Tom Jarrett , Roc Cutri , Sara Petty , Jingwen Wu , Ned Wright

Purpose: subject motion and static field (B$_0$) drift are known to reduce the quality of single voxel MR spectroscopy data due to incoherent averaging. Retrospective correction has previously been shown to improve data quality by adjusting…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-09-17 Martin Wilson

Depth maps captured by modern depth cameras such as Kinect and Time-of-Flight (ToF) are usually contaminated by missing data, noises and suffer from being of low resolution. In this paper, we present a robust method for high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Wei Liu , Yun Gu , Chunhua Shen , Xiaogang Chen , Qiang Wu , Jie Yang

Strong gravitational lensing offers a wealth of astrophysical information on the background source it affects, provided the lensed source can be reconstructed as if it was seen in the absence of lensing. In the present work, we illustrate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 R. Joseph , F. Courbin , J. -L. Starck , S. Birrer

The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey and its extension, have been monitoring about 560 square degrees of sky centred on the Galactic bulge and inner disc for nearly a decade. The photometric catalogue contains of order 10$^9$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Andrea Husseiniova , Peter McGill , Leigh C. Smith , N. Wyn Evans

Vision-language models (VLMs) extend the conventional large language models by integrating visual data, enabling richer multimodal reasoning and significantly broadens the practical applications of AI. However, including visual inputs also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Daulet Toibazar , Kesen Wang , Sherif Mohamed , Abdulaziz Al-Badawi , Abdulrahman Alfulayt , Pedro J. Moreno

The VISIONS public survey provides large-scale, multiepoch imaging of five nearby star-forming regions at subarcsecond resolution in the near-infrared. All data collected within the program and provided by the European Southern Observatory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Stefan Meingast , Hervé Bouy , Verena Fürnkranz , David Hernandez , Alena Rottensteiner , Erik Brändli

The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is a wide-field telescope designed to explore the variable and transient sky with a high cadence and to be a test-bed for cost-effective telescope design. A LAST node is composed of 48 (32 already…

Recent advances in volumetric super-resolution (SR) have demonstrated strong performance in medical and scientific imaging, with transformer- and CNN-based approaches achieving impressive results even at extreme scaling factors. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 August Leander Høeg , Sophia Wiinberg Bardenfleth , Hans Martin Kjer , Tim Bjørn Dyrby , Vedrana Andersen Dahl , Anders Bjorholm Dahl

Producing ultra-deep high-angular-resolution images with current and next-generation radio interferometers introduces significant computational challenges. In particular, the imaging is so demanding that processing large datasets,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 J. M. G. H. J. de Jong , R. J. van Weeren , T. J. Dijkema , J. B. R. Oonk , H. J. A. Röttgering , F. Sweijen

We describe the source subtraction strategy and observations for the extended Very Small Array, a CMB interferometer operating at 33 GHz. A total of 453 sources were monitored at 33 GHz using a dedicated source subtraction baseline. 131…

The low surface brightness (LSB) regime ($\mu_{g} \gtrsim 26$ mag arcsec$^{-2}$) comprises a vast, mostly unexplored discovery space, from dwarf galaxies to the diffuse interstellar medium. Accessing this regime requires precisely removing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-24 A. E. Watkins , S. Kaviraj , C. C. Collins , J. H. Knapen , L. S. Kelvin , P. -A. Duc , J. Román , J. C. Mihos

The aim of the VIRMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) is to study of the evolution of galaxies, large scale structures and AGNs from a sample of more than 150,000 galaxies with measured redshifts in the range 0<z<5+. The VVDS will rely on the VIMOS…