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We have begun a large-scale photometric survey of nearby open clusters and star-forming regions, the Monitor project, aiming to measure time-series photometry for >10,000 cluster members over >10 sq.deg of sky, to find low-mass eclipsing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan Irwin , Mike Irwin , Suzanne Aigrain , Simon Hodgkin , Leslie Hebb , Estelle Moraux

The domain of radio astronomy is currently facing significant computational challenges, foremost amongst which are those posed by the development of the world's largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Preliminary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 R. J. Lyon , J. M. Brooke , J. D. Knowles , B. W. Stappers

We have designed and implemented a novel way to process wide-field astronomical data within a distributed environment of hardware resources and humanpower. The system is characterized by integration of archiving, calibration, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-17 J. P. McFarland , G. Verdoes-Kleijn , G. Sikkema , E. M. Helmich , D. R. Boxhoorn , E. A. Valentijn

Photonic integrated circuits offer a compact and stable platform for generating, manipulating, and detecting light. They are instrumental for classical and quantum applications. Imperfections stemming from fabrication constraints,…

Spectro-microscopy is an experimental technique which can be used to observe spatial variations in chemical state and changes in chemical state over time or under experimental conditions. As a result it has broad applications across areas…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Maike Meier , Lorenzo Lazzarino , Boris Shustin , Hussam Al Daas , Paul Quinn

We present the final reduction and calibration of the FIRBACK ISOPHOT data. FIRBACK is a deep cosmological survey performed at 170 microns. This paper deals with the ISOPHOT C200 camera with the C160 filter. We review the whole data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Guilaine Lagache , Herve Dole

We present an end-to-end simulation and data-processing framework for digital beamforming experiments conducted with four stations of the 21 Centimeter Array (21CMA). Motivated by the need to characterize instrumental systematics, such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Feiyu Zhao , Quan Guo , Junhua Gu , Qian Zheng , Yan Huang , Yun Yu

In this paper we describe an unmanned aerial system equipped with a thermal-infrared camera and software pipeline that we have developed to monitor animal populations for conservation purposes. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach to tackle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 S. N. Longmore , R. P. Collins , S. Pfeifer , S. E. Fox , M. Mulero-Pazmany , F. Bezombes , A. Goodwind , M. de Juan Ovelar , J. H. Knapen , S. A. Wich

Detection of the faint 21 cm line emission from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionisation will require not only exquisite control over instrumental calibration and systematics to achieve the necessary dynamic range of observations but also…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Piyanat Kittiwisit , Steven G. Murray , Hugh Garsden , Philip Bull , Christopher Cain , Aaron R. Parsons , Jackson Sipple , Zara Abdurashidova , Tyrone Adams , James E. Aguirre , Paul Alexander , Zaki S. Ali , Rushelle Baartman , Yanga Balfour , Adam P. Beardsley , Lindsay M. Berkhout , Gianni Bernardi , Tashalee S. Billings , Judd D. Bowman , Richard F. Bradley , Jacob Burba , Steven Carey , Chris L. Carilli , Kai-Feng Chen , Carina Cheng , Samir Choudhuri , David R. DeBoer , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Matt Dexter , Joshua S. Dillon , Scott Dynes , Nico Eksteen , John Ely , Aaron Ewall-Wice , Nicolas Fagnoni , Randall Fritz , Steven R. Furlanetto , Kingsley Gale-Sides , Bharat Kumar Gehlot , Abhik Ghosh , Brian Glendenning , Adelie Gorce , Deepthi Gorthi , Bradley Greig , Jasper Grobbelaar , Ziyaad Halday , Bryna J. Hazelton , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , Jack Hickish , Tian Huang , Daniel C. Jacobs , Alec Josaitis , Austin Julius , MacCalvin Kariseb , Nicholas S. Kern , Joshua Kerrigan , Honggeun Kim , Saul A. Kohn , Matthew Kolopanis , Adam Lanman , Paul La Plante , Adrian Liu , Anita Loots , Yin-Zhe Ma , David H. E. MacMahon , Lourence Malan , Cresshim Malgas , Keith Malgas , Bradley Marero , Zachary E. Martinot , Andrei Mesinger , Mathakane Molewa , Miguel F. Morales , Tshegofalang Mosiane , Abraham R. Neben , Bojan Nikolic , Chuneeta Devi Nunhokee , Hans Nuwegeld , Robert Pascua , Nipanjana Patra , Samantha Pieterse , Yuxiang Qin , Eleanor Rath , Nima Razavi-Ghods , Daniel Riley , James Robnett , Kathryn Rosie , Mario G. Santos , Peter Sims , Saurabh Singh , Dara Storer , Hilton Swarts , Jianrong Tan , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Pieter van Wyngaarden , Peter K. G. Williams , Zhilei Xu , Haoxuan Zheng

Generation of science-ready data from processed data products is one of the major challenges in next-generation radio continuum surveys with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its precursors, due to the expected data volume and the need…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-26 S. Riggi , G. Umana , C. Trigilio , C. Bordiu , F. Bufano , A. Ingallinera , F. Cavallaro , Y. Gordon , R. P. Norris , G. Gürkan , P. Leto , C. Buemi , S. Loru , A. M. Hopkins , M. D. Filipović , T. Cecconello

We present a novel method to significantly speed up cosmological parameter sampling. The method relies on constructing an interpolation of the CMB-log-likelihood based on sparse grids, which is used as a shortcut for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mona Frommert , Dirk Pflueger , Thomas Riller , Martin Reinecke , Hans-Joachim Bungartz , Torsten Ensslin

The analysis of spatial observations on a sphere is important in areas such as geosciences, physics and embryo research, just to name a few. The purpose of the package rcosmo is to conduct efficient information processing, visualisation,…

Computation · Statistics 2019-07-15 Daniel Fryer , Ming Li , Andriy Olenko

Radio maps reflect the spatial distribution of signal strength and are essential for applications like smart cities, IoT, and wireless network planning. However, reconstructing accurate radio maps from sparse measurements remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Chuyun Deng , Na Liu , Wei Xie , Lianming Xu , Li Wang

Visual inspection of solar modules is an important monitoring facility in photovoltaic power plants. Since a single measurement of fast CMOS sensors is limited in spatial resolution and often not sufficient to reliably detect small defects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Mathis Hoffmann , Thomas Köhler , Bernd Doll , Frank Schebesch , Florian Talkenberg , Ian Marius Peters , Christoph J. Brabec , Andreas Maier , Vincent Christlein

The analysis of absorption features along the line of sight to distant sources is an invaluable tool for observational cosmology, giving a direct insight into the physical and chemical state of the inter/circumgalactic medium. Such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-18 Guido Cupani , Giorgio Calderone , Stefano Cristiani , Francesco Guarneri

The LAMOST-Kepler (LK-) project was initiated to use the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) to make spectroscopic follow-up observations for the targets in the field of the Kepler mission. The Kepler field is…

We propose a robust calibration pipeline that optimises the selection of calibration samples for the estimation of calibration parameters that fit the entire scene. We minimise user error by automating the data selection process according…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Darren Tsai , Stewart Worrall , Mao Shan , Anton Lohr , Eduardo Nebot

We have developed observation control software for the Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) slit-viewing camera module, which maintains the position of an astronomical target on the spectroscopic slit. It is composed of several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Hye-In Lee , Soojong Pak , Gregory N. Mace , Kyle F. Kaplan , Huynh Anh N. Le , Heeyoung Oh , Chan Park , Sungho Lee

Speckle Imaging based on triple correlation is a very efficient image reconstruction technique which is used to retrieve Fourier phase information of the object in presence of atmospheric turbulence. We have developed both Direct Bispectrum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-17 Arun Surya , Swapan K. Saha