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Phase is a fundamental resource for optical imaging but cannot be directly observed with intensity measurements. The existing methods to quantify a phase distribution rely on complex devices and structures. Here we experimentally…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-25 Tengfeng Zhu , Junyi Huang , Zhichao Ruan

Intensity interferometry is a well known method in astronomy. Recently, a related method called incoherent diffractive imaging (IDI) was proposed to apply intensity correlations of x-ray fluorescence radiation to determine the 3D…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-27 Fabian Trost , Kartik Ayyer , Henry Chapman

The spectrometer SPI, one of the two main instruments of the INTEGRAL spacecraft, has strong capabilities in the Field of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) detections. In its 16 degree Field of view (FoV) SPI is able to trigger and to localize GRBs.…

Interactive graph-based segmentation methods partition an image into foreground and background regions with the aid of user inputs. However, existing approaches often suffer from high computational costs, sensitivity to user interactions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kaustubh Shivshankar Shejole , Gaurav Mishra

In the next few years the classification of radio sources observed by the large surveys will be a challenging problem, and spectral index is a powerful tool for addressing it. Here we present an algorithm to estimate the spectral index of…

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a promising tool to efficiently probe the three-dimensional large-scale structure by mapping the aggregate emission of a spectral line from all sources that trace the matter density field. Spectral lines from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-09 Yun-Ting Cheng , Tzu-Ching Chang , James J. Bock

The spectrometer SPI, one of the two main instruments of the INTEGRAL spacecraft, offers significant gamma-ray burst detection capabilities. In its 35 deg (full width) field of view SPI is able to localise gamma-ray bursts at a mean rate of…

Since its launch on October 2002, the INTEGRAL satellite has revolutionized our knowledge of the hard X-ray sky thanks to its unprecedented imaging capabilities and source detection positional accuracy above 20 keV. Nevertheless, many of…

The spectrometer SPI on board INTEGRAL is capable of high-resolution spectroscopic studies in the energy range 20keV to 8MeV for GRBs which occur within the fully coded field of view (16 degrees corner to corner). Six GRBs occurred within…

Blind methods often separate or identify signals or signal subspaces up to an unknown scaling factor. Sometimes it is necessary to cope with the scaling ambiguity, which can be done through reconstructing signals as they are received by…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Zbyněk Koldovský , Francesco Nesta

Kernel phase interferometry (KPI) is a data processing technique that allows for the detection of asymmetries (such as companions or disks) in high-Strehl images, close to and within the classical diffraction limit. We show that KPI can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Alexander Chaushev , Steph Sallum , Julien Lozi , Frantz Martinache , Jeffrey Chilcote , Tyler Groff , Olivier Guyon , N. Jeremy Kasdin , Barnaby Norris , Andy Skemer

Intensity interferometry (II) exploits the second-order correlation to acquire the spatial frequency information of an object, which has been used to observe distant stars since 1950s. However, due to unreliability of employed imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-08 Wentao Wang , Qi Han , Hui Chen , Yuan Yuan , Zhuo Xu

The aim of two-dimensional line spectral estimation is to super-resolve the spectral point sources of the signal from time samples. In many associated applications such as radar and sonar, due to cut-off and saturation regions in electronic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Iman Valiulahi , Farzan Haddadi , Arash Amini

The ideal spectral averaging method depends on one's science goals and the available information about one's data. Including low-quality data in the average can decrease the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which may necessitate an optimization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-18 L. D. Anderson , B. Liu , Dana S. Balser , T. M. Bania , L. M. Haffner , Dylan J. Linville , Matteo Luisi , Trey V. Wenger

X-ray spectral fitting of astronomical sources requires convolving the intrinsic spectrum or model with the instrumental response. Standard forward modeling techniques have proven success in recovering the underlying physical parameters in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-21 Carter Lee Rhea , Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo , Ralph Kraft , Akos Bogdan , Rudy Geelen

In micro-seismic event measurements, pinpointing the passive source's exact spatial and temporal location is paramount. This research advocates for the combined use of both P- and S-wave data, captured by geophone monitoring systems, to…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 Hanchen Wang , Qiang Guo , Tariq Alkhalifah

This paper indicates that the sensitivity and accuracy of an infrared radiometer for emissivity measurements depends not only on its design and the measurement method, but also on the spurious radiation. This spurious radiation must be…

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an efficient and widely used remote sensing tool. However, data extracted from SAR images are contaminated with speckle, which precludes the application of techniques based on the assumption of additive and…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-15 A. D. C. Nascimento , J. M. Vasconcelos , R. J. Cintra , A. C. Frery

X-ray spectral fitting in high-energy astrophysics can be reliably accelerated using Machine Learning. In particular, Simulation-based Inference (SBI) produces accurate posterior distributions in the Gaussian and Poisson regime for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Simon Dupourqué , Didier Barret

Environmental conditions and external effects, such as shocks, have a significant impact on the calibration parameters of visual-inertial sensor systems. Thus long-term operation of these systems cannot fully rely on factory calibration.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Thomas Schneider , Mingyang Li , Michael Burri , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , Igor Gilitschenski