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Radio interferometric data are used to estimate the sky brightness distributions in radio frequencies. Here we focus on estimators of the large-scale structure and the power spectrum of the sky brightness distribution inferred from radio…

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This paper describes a method for parametric radial profile modelling of radio interferometric visibility data. Image-based parametric modelling is common in the field of circumstellar debris disks, and high resolution ALMA observations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Grant M. Kennedy

Aims. We provide an easy-to-use full-spectrum fitting package and explore its applications to (i) the determination of the stellar atmospheric parameters and (ii) the study of the history of stellar populations. Methods. We developed ULySS,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mina Koleva , Philippe Prugniel , Antoine Bouchard , Yue Wu

Having a need to perform differential photometry for tens of thousands stars in a several square degrees field, we developed Astrokit program. The software corrects the star brightness variations caused by variations of atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Artem Y. Burdanov , Vadim V. Krushinsky , Alexander A. Popov

This paper presents a deep-learning model for deformable registration of ultrasound images at online rates, which we call U-RAFT. As its name suggests, U-RAFT is based on RAFT, a convolutional neural network for estimating optical flow.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 FNU Abhimanyu , Andrew L. Orekhov , Ananya Bal , John Galeotti , Howie Choset

Using kilometric arrays of air Cherenkov telescopes, intensity interferometry may increase the spatial resolution in optical astronomy by an order of magnitude, enabling images of rapidly rotating stars with structures in their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Dainis Dravins , Stephan LeBohec , Hannes Jensen , Paul D. Nuñez

Previous studies determining which astronomical photometry software is best suited for a particular dataset are usually focused on speed, source classification, and/or meeting a sensitivity requirement. For faint objects in particular, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-27 Sarah Sonnett , Karen Meech , Robert Jedicke , Schelte Bus , John Tonry , Olivier Hainaut

The VDFS comprises the system to pipeline process and archive the data from infrared observations taken by both the WFCAM instrument on UKIRT and the forthcoming VISTA telescope. These include the largest near-IR surveys to date, such as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-02 Nicholas Cross , Nigel Hambly , Ross Collins , Mike Read , Eckhard Sutorius

Most estimators collapse all uncertainty modes into a single confidence score, preventing reliable reasoning about when to allocate more compute or adjust inference. We introduce Uncertainty-Guided Inference-Time Selection, a lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Divake Kumar , Patrick Poggi , Sina Tayebati , Devashri Naik , Nilesh Ahuja , Amit Ranjan Trivedi

We present a computationally efficient expectation-maximization framework for multi-frame image deconvolution and super-resolution. Our method is well adapted for processing large scale imaging data from modern astronomical surveys. Our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 Yashil Sukurdeep , Fausto Navarro , Tamas Budavari

In Earth remote sensing, spatial-frequency domain visibility samples are inversely transformed into spatial-domain brightness temperature (BT) images through the signal processing pipeline of synthetic aperture interferometric radiometers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Yuankai Luo , Han Zhou , Jinlong Hao , Dong Zhu , Fei Hu

Nonuniform Fourier data are routinely collected in applications such as magnetic resonance imaging, synthetic aperture radar, and synthetic imaging in radio astronomy. To acquire a fast reconstruction that does not require an online inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Anne Gelb , Guohui Song

Filtergraph is a web application being developed and maintained by the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-intensive Astrophysics (VIDA) to flexibly and rapidly visualize a large variety of astronomy datasets of various formats and sizes. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-28 Dan Burger , Keivan G. Stassun , Joshua Pepper , Robert J. Siverd , Martin Paegert , Nathan M. De Lee , William H. Robinson

We introduce a new technique for imaging the polarized radio sky using interferometric data. The new approach, which we call Faraday synthesis, combines aperture and rotation measure synthesis imaging and deconvolution into a single…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. R. Bell , T. A. Enßlin

This document defines the high level metadata necessary to describe the physical parameter space of observed or simulated astronomical data sets, such as 2D-images, data cubes, X-ray event lists, IFU data, etc.. The Characterisation data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Mireille Louys , Anita Richards , Francois Bonnarel , Alberto Micol , Igor Chilingarian , Jonathan McDowell , the IVOA Data Model Working Group

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

Infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) is increasingly applied in critical fields such as video surveillance and autonomous driving systems. Significant progress has been made in deep learning-based fusion methods. However, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yukai Shi , Cidan Shi , Zhipeng Weng , Yin Tian , Xiaoyu Xian , Liang Lin

We propose PyViT-FUSE, a foundation model for earth observation data explicitly designed to handle multi-modal imagery by learning to fuse an arbitrary number of mixed-resolution input bands into a single representation through an attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Manuel Weber , Carly Beneke

We apply pre-trained Vision Transformers (ViTs), originally developed for image recognition, to the analysis of astronomical spectral data. By converting traditional one-dimensional spectra into two-dimensional image representations, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Luis Felipe Strano Moraes , Ignacio Becker , Pavlos Protopapas , Guillermo Cabrera-Vives

A new method is presented for determining the Point Spread Function (PSF) of images that lack bright and isolated stars. It is based on the same principles as the MCS (Magain, Courbin, Sohy, 1998) image deconvolution algorithm. It uses the…

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