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This paper describes the Duchamp source finder, a piece of software designed to find and describe sources in 3-dimensional, spectral-line data cubes. Duchamp has been developed with HI (neutral hydrogen) observations in mind, but is widely…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-12 Matthew T. Whiting

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will operate one of the world's largest continuous scientific data systems, sustaining petascale imaging under strict power envelopes. Current radio-interferometric pipelines typically achieve only 4-14% of…

Generative image models have emerged as a promising technology to produce realistic images. Despite potential benefits, concerns grow about its misuse, particularly in generating deceptive images that could raise significant ethical, legal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Jinbin Huang , Chen Chen , Aditi Mishra , Bum Chul Kwon , Zhicheng Liu , Chris Bryan

We have conducted a widefield, wideband, snapshot survey using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) referred to as the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). RACS covers $\approx$ 90% of the sky, with multiple observing epochs in three…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-10 S. W. Duchesne , K. Ross , A. J. M. Thomson , E. Lenc , Tara Murphy , T. J. Galvin , A. W. Hotan , V. A. Moss , Matthew T. Whiting

Phase retrieval deals with the estimation of complex-valued signals solely from the magnitudes of linear measurements. While there has been a recent explosion in the development of phase retrieval algorithms, the lack of a common interface…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Rohan Chandra , Ziyuan Zhong , Justin Hontz , Val McCulloch , Christoph Studer , Tom Goldstein

Scalable distributed dataflow systems have recently experienced widespread adoption, with commodity dataflow engines such as Hadoop and Spark, and even commodity SQL engines routinely supporting increasingly sophisticated analytics tasks…

The computation of the skyline provides a mechanism for utilizing multiple location-based criteria to identify optimal data points. However, the efficiency of these computations diminishes and becomes more challenging as the input data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Chen Li , Ye Zhu , Yang Cao , Jinli Zhang , Annisa Annisa , Debo Cheng , Yasuhiko Morimoto

Apertif (APERture Tile In Focus) is one of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) pathfinder facilities. The Apertif project is an upgrade to the 50-year-old Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) using phased-array feed technology. The new…

We follow up on a report by Vacca et al. (2018) of 28 candidate large-scale diffuse synchrotron sources in an 8{\deg}$\times$8{\deg} area of the sky (centred at RA 5h0m0s Dec 5{\deg}48'0''). These sources were originally observed at 1.4 GHz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-27 Torrance Hodgson , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Benajmin McKinley , Tessa Vernstrom , Valentina Vacca

We present the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) observations of the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA)-23h field. The survey was carried out at 887.5 MHz and covers a 83 square degree field. We imaged the calibrated…

Advancing research in fields such as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and autonomous navigation critically depends on the availability of reliable and reproducible multimodal datasets. While several influential datasets have…

In our work, we examine, for the first time, the possibility of fast and efficient source localization directly from the uvobservations, omitting the recovering of the dirty or clean images. We propose a deep neural network-based framework…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 O. Taran , O. Bait , M. Dessauges-Zavadsky , T. Holotyak , D. Schaerer , S. Voloshynovskiy

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 employ an efficient method for identifying gamma-ray sources across the entire sky, leveraging advanced algorithms from Fermi p y, and cleverly utilizing the Galactic diffuse background emission model to partition the entire sky into 72…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-30 Y. C. Xiang , P. Feng , X. F. Lan

With growing data volumes from synoptic surveys, astronomers must become more abstracted from the discovery and introspection processes. Given the scarcity of follow-up resources, there is a particularly sharp onus on the frameworks that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Joseph W. Richards , Dan L. Starr , Adam A. Miller , Joshua S. Bloom , Nathaniel R. Butler , Henrik Brink , Arien Crellin-Quick

In the coming decade, astronomical surveys of the sky will generate tens of terabytes of images and detect hundreds of millions of sources every night. The study of these sources will involve computation challenges such as anomaly detection…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Keith Wiley , Andrew Connolly , Jeff Gardner , Simon Krughof , Magdalena Balazinska , Bill Howe , YongChul Kwon , YingYi Bu

We present results from a radio survey for variable and transient sources on 15-min timescales, using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) pilot surveys. The pilot surveys consist of 505 h of observations conducted at around 1 GHz…

We present X-sifter, a software package designed for near-optimal detection of sources in X-ray images and other forms of photon images in the Poisson-noise regime. The code is based on the Poisson-noise-matched filter (Ofek & Zackay),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-12 Maayane T. Soumagnac , Eran O. Ofek , Shachar S. Israeli , Guy Nir , Imri A. Dickstein

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the next generation radio telescope distinguished by a superb sensitivity due to its large aperture (about one square kilometre) and advanced instrumentation. It will cover a broad range of observing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-25 J. G. Bij de Vaate , L. I. Gurvits , S. V. Pogrebenko , C. G. M. van t Klooster