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The LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) is used to make precise measurements of radio emission from extensive air showers, yielding information about the primary cosmic ray. Interpreting the measured data requires an absolute and…

Radio astronomy observations at frequencies below 10~MHz could provide valuable science, such as measuring the cosmic dark age signal in the redshifted 21~cm hydrogen absorption line, detecting exoplanetary auroral emissions which lead to…

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The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is an observatory designed to perform gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range 20 MeV to 300 GeV, with supporting measurements for gamma-ray bursts from 10 keV to 25 MeV. GLAST will be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 D. Paneque , A. Borgland , A. Bovier , E. Bloom , Y. Edmonds , S. Funk , G. Godfrey , R. Rando , L. Wai , P. Wang

Sky subtraction is the key technique in data reduction of multi-fiber spectra. Knowledge of the related instrument character is necessary to determine the method adopted in sky subtraction. In this study, we described the sky subtraction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Zhong-Rui Bai , Hao-Tong Zhang , Hai-Long Yuan , Guang-Wei Li , Jian-Jun Chen , Ya-Juan Lei , Hui-Qin Yang , Yi-Qiao Dong , Gang Wang , Yong-Heng Zhao

This paper proposes a new sparse array source enumeration algorithm for underdetermined scenarios with more sources than sensors. The proposed algorithm decomposes the wideband signals into multiple uncorrelated frequency bands, computes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Yang Liu , John R. Buck

The advent of large aperture arrays, such as the currently under construction Square Kilometer Array (SKA), allows for observing the universe in the radio-spectrum at unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. However, these telescopes…

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We present the prospects for a future joint gamma-ray and radio survey of southern hemisphere sources using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the upcoming Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope. ASKAP is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-19 Robert A. Cameron

The ngVLA is a new interferometric radio astronomy facility with transformative capabilities, being developed by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. It combines two orders of magnitude in frequency coverage, over 1.2 - 116 GHz, with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 T. K. Sridharan , S. Bhatnagar , P. Jagannathan , K. Golap

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT, hereafter LAT), the primary instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy \gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range from 20…

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The infrared-radio correlation (IRRC) offers a way to assess star formation from radio emission. Multiple studies found the IRRC to decrease with increasing redshift. This may in part be due to the lack of knowledge about the possible radio…

We present the data reduction pipeline for the Hi-GAL survey. Hi-GAL is a key project of the Herschel satellite which is mapping the inner part of the Galactic plane (|l| <= 70\cdot and |b| <= 1\cdot), using 2 PACS and 3 SPIRE frequency…

In this paper we present the results of a survey for radio transients using data obtained from the Very Large Array archive. We have reduced, using a pipeline procedure, 5037 observations of the most common pointings - i.e. the calibrator…

Imaging is a crucial sensing function that finds wide applications in environmental reconstruction, autonomous driving, etc. However, the signal processing methods for existing radio imaging techniques, such as millimeter wave (mmWave)…

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We present an improved Global Sky Model (GSM) of diffuse galactic radio emission from 10 MHz to 5 THz, whose uses include foreground modeling for CMB and 21 cm cosmology. Our model improves on past work both algorithmically and by adding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Haoxuan Zheng , Max Tegmark , Joshua S. Dillon , Doyeon A. Kim , Adrian Liu , Abraham Neben , Justin Jonas , Patricia Reich , Wolfgang Reich

The concept of a recently proposed small-scale interferometric optical imaging device, an instrument known as the Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-optical Reconnaissance (SPIDER), is of great interest for its possible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen

Modern interferometric imaging relies on advanced calibration that incorporates direction-dependent effects. Their increasing number of antennas (e.g. in LOFAR, VLA, MeerKAT/SKA) and sensitivity are often tempered with the accuracy of their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 K. Iheanetu , J. N. Girard , O. Smirnov , K. M. B. Asad , M. de Villiers , K. Thorat , S. Makhathini , R. A. Perley

We present an atlas of full-scan spectra from the Short-Wavelength Spectrometer (SWS) aboard the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) after reprocessing and improving an earlier version published 22 years ago. The SWS spectra cover the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 D. R. Mizuno , T. A. Kuchar , Kathleen E. Kraemer , G. C. Sloan , Samantha Greene , Elianna Cohen , Holly Branco

Radio-astronomical observations are increasingly contaminated by interference, and suppression techniques become essential. A powerful candidate for interference mitigation is adaptive spatial filtering. We study the effect of spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Amir Leshem , Alle-Jan van der Veen

Since the launch of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi spacecraft in June 2008, the number of observed gamma-ray pulsars has increased dramatically. A large number of these are also observed at radio frequencies. Constraints…

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