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MagAO-X is the coronagraphic extreme adaptive optics system for the 6.5 m Magellan Clay Telescope. We report the results of commissioning the first phase of MagAO-X. Components now available for routine observations include: the >2 kHz…

In this study, we present a low cost and commercially available data acquisition system (DAQ) for an ordinary low alpha proportional counter. By employing this DAQ system and aid of a simple physical model, we can easily rule out the common…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-26 Tung Yuan Hsiao , C. H. Chen , Huan Niu

Correcting for the sky signature usually requires supplementary calibration data which are very expensive in terms of telescope time. In addition, the scheduling flexibility is restricted as these data have to be taken usually directly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-31 W. Kausch , S. Noll , A. Smette , S. Kimeswenger , H. Horst , H. Sana , A. Jones , M. Barden , C. Szyszka , J. Vinther

The SKA Observatory, currently in the construction phase, will have two of the world's largest radio telescopes when completed in 2028. The scale of the project introduces unique challenges for the telescope software design and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-25 Viivi Pursiainen , Stewart J. Williams , Thaddeus Kenny , Elizabeth S. Bartlett , Andrew D. Biggs , Brendan McCollam , Danilo Acosta , Sean Ellis , Rupert Lung

An array of large observational programs using ground-based and space-borne telescopes is planned in the next decade. The forthcoming wide-field sky surveys are expected to deliver a sheer volume of data exceeding an exabyte. Processing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-26 Kana Moriwaki , Takahiro Nishimichi , Naoki Yoshida

We propose a paradigm shift in the data-driven modeling of the instrumental response field of telescopes. By adding a differentiable optical forward model into the modeling framework, we change the data-driven modeling space from the pixels…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-16 Tobias Liaudat , Jean-Luc Starck , Martin Kilbinger , Pierre-Antoine Frugier

The VST Telescope Control Software logs continuously detailed information about the telescope and instrument operations. Commands, telemetries, errors, weather conditions and anything may be relevant for the instrument maintenance and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Salvatore Savarese , Pietro Schipani , Giulio Capasso , Mirko Colapietro , Sergio D'Orsi , Laurent Marty , Francesco Perrotta

Real-time prediction plays a vital role in various control systems, such as traffic congestion control and wireless channel resource allocation. In these scenarios, the predictor usually needs to track the evolution of the latent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Zhenting Luan , Defeng Sun , Haoning Wang , Liping Zhang

Speculative decoding is a pivotal technique to accelerate the inference of large language models (LLMs) by employing a smaller draft model to predict the target model's outputs. However, its efficacy can be limited due to the low predictive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiaoxuan Liu , Lanxiang Hu , Peter Bailis , Alvin Cheung , Zhijie Deng , Ion Stoica , Hao Zhang

The data acquisition (DAQ) system of the SND detector successfully operated during four data-taking seasons (2010-2013) at the e+e- collider VEPP-2000. Currently the collider is shut down for planned reconstruction, which is expected to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-19 A. G. Bogdanchikov , V. P. Druzhinin , A. A. Korol , S. V. Koshuba , A. I. Tekutiev , Yu. V. Usov

Large LAr TPCs are among the most powerful detectors to address open problems in particle and astro-particle physics, such as CP violation in leptonic sector, neutrino properties and their astrophysical implications, proton decay search…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-08-06 C. Girerd , D. Autiero , B. Carlus , S. Gardien , J. Marteau , W. Tromeur

A major challenge in modern radio astronomy is dealing with the massive data volumes generated by wide-bandwidth receivers. Such massive data rates are often too great for a single device to cope, and so processing must be split across…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Danny C. Price

We propose a novel quadrature over-the-air computing (Q-OTAC) framework that enables the simultaneously computation of two independent functions and/or data stream within a single transmission. In contrast to conventional OTAC schemes,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Hyeon Seok Rou , Kengo Ando , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , David González G

The advancement of technology facilitates explosive growth of mobile usage in the last decade. Numerous applications have been developed to support its usage. However, gap in technology exists in obtaining correct and trusted values for…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-08-30 Supriya Chakrabarty , Nabendu Chaki

Automatic Defect Analysis and Qualification (ADAQ) is a collection of automatic workflows developed for high-throughput simulations of magneto-optical properties of point defect in semiconductors. These workflows handle the vast number of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-10 Joel Davidsson , Viktor Ivády , Rickard Armiento , Igor A. Abrikosov

Astronomical observations already produce vast amounts of data through a new generation of telescopes that cannot be analyzed manually. Next-generation telescopes such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the Square Kilometer Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Giuseppe Longo , Erzsébet Merényi , Peter Tino

The Multi-Sampling Ionization Chamber (MUSIC) detector is typically used to measure nuclear reaction cross sections relevant for nuclear astrophysics, fusion studies, and other applications. From the MUSIC data produced in one experiment…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-04-08 Krishnan Raghavan , Melina L. Avila , Prasanna Balaprakash , Heshani Jayatissa , Daniel Santiago-Gonzalez

Large digital sky surveys, over a broad range of wavelengths, both from the ground and from space observatories, are becoming a major source of astronomical data. Some examples include the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Digital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. George Djorgovski , Robert J. Brunner

The first step in a science project is the acquisition and understanding of the relevant data. This paper outlines the results of a project to design and test network tools specifically oriented at retrieving astronomical data. The tools…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 James Schombert

The Cherenkov light flashes produced by Extensive Air Showers are very short in time. A high bandwidth and fast digitizing readout, therefore, can minimize the influence of the background from the light of the night sky, and improve the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 MAGIC Collaboration