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The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on board the Spitzer Space Telescope observed about 15,000 objects during the cryogenic mission lifetime. Observations provided low-resolution (R~60-127) spectra over ~5-38um and high-resolution (R~600)…
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HI intensity mapping is an emerging tool to probe dark energy. Observations of the redshifted HI signal will be contaminated by instrumental noise, atmospheric and Galactic foregrounds. The latter is expected to be four orders of magnitude…
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I discuss 3 widely applicable aspects concerning calibration of the near infrared adaptive optics integral field spectrometer SINFONI: (1) the accuracy with which one needs to quantify the PSF and how this might be achieved in practice; (2)…
Optical absorption imaging is a basic detection technique for obtaining information from matter waves, in which the absorption signal can be obtained by comparing the recorded detection light field with the light field in the presence of…
Fine-grained visual classification is a challenging task due to the high similarity between categories and distinct differences among data within one single category. To address the challenges, previous strategies have focused on localizing…
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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful explicit representation enabling fast, high-fidelity rendering, making it a promising foundation for closed-loop simulators and perception models in autonomous driving.…
I present and summarize a software package ("LPipe") for completely automated, end-to-end reduction of both bright and faint sources with the Low-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS) at Keck Observatory. It supports all gratings, grisms,…
ERIS is the new AO instrument for VLT-UT4 led by a Consortium of Max-Planck Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik, UK-ATC, ETH-Zurich, ESO and INAF. The ERIS AO system provides NGS mode to deliver high contrast correction and LGS mode to…
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have become the subject of many current research efforts, as the ongoing wireless spectrum crunch has made the need to open higher frequency bands a priority. IRS are one of the alternatives proposed to…
Interferometric interrogation technique realized for conventional fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors is historically known to offer the highest sensitivity measurements, however, it has not been yet explored for {\pi}-phase-shifted FBG…
Besides atmospheric turbulence and pointing errors which cause the signal intensity fluctuation, background radiation also impairs the free-space optical intensity-modulation / direct-detection link performance by introducing a noisy…
Space-based direct imaging provides prospects for detection and spectral characterization of exoplanets at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. Integral field spectrographs (IFS) have been historically baselined for these mission…
Ensuring adequate wireless coverage in upcoming communication technologies such as 6G is expected to be challenging. This is because user demands of higher datarate require an increase in carrier frequencies, which in turn reduce the…
We present a new technique for overcoming confusion noise in deep far-infrared \Herschel space telescope images making use of prior information from shorter $\lambda<2$\micron wavelengths. For the deepest images obtained by \Herschels, the…