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Computing polarised intensities from noisy data in Stokes U and Q suffers from a positive bias that should be suppressed. To develop a correction method that, when applied to maps, should provide a distribution of polarised intensity that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Peter Müller , Rainer Beck , Marita Krause

With the forthcoming release of high precision polarization measurements, such as from the Planck satellite, it becomes critical to evaluate the performance of estimators for the polarization fraction and angle. These two physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-11 L. Montier , S. Plaszczynski , F. Levrier , M. Tristram , D. Alina , I. Ristorcelli , J. -P. Bernard , V. Guillet

High precision polarization measurements open new opportunities for the study of the magnetic field structure as traced by polarimetric measurements of the interstellar dust emission. Polarization parameters suffer from bias in the presence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 D. Alina , L. Montier , I. Ristorcelli , J. -P. Bernard , F. Levrier , E. Abdikamalov

With the forthcoming release of high precision polarization measurements, such as from the Planck satellite, the metrology of polarization needs to improve. In particular, it is crucial to take into account full knowledge of the noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-11 L. Montier , S. Plaszczynski , F. Levrier , M. Tristram , D. Alina , I. Ristorcelli , J. -P. Bernard

We propose a novel estimator of the polarization amplitude from a single measurement of its normally distributed $(Q,U)$ Stokes components. Based on the properties of the Rice distribution and dubbed 'MAS' (Modified ASymptotic), it meets…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-30 S. Plaszczynski , L. Montier , F. Levrier , M. Tristram

A number of polarization estimators have been developed for a variety of astrophysical applications to compensate measurements of linear polarization for a bias contributed by the instrumental noise. Most derivations of the estimators…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 M. M. McKinnon

We develop two algorithms, based on maximum likelihood (ML) inference, for estimating the parameters of polarized radio sources which emit at a single rotation measure (RM), e.g., pulsars. These algorithms incorporate the flux density…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-25 D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler , K. J. Lee

We benchmark the reliability of the Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis algorithm using the 1005 Centaurus A field sources of Feain et al. (2009). The RM synthesis solutions are compared with estimates of the polarization parameters using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. -P. Macquart , R. D. Ekers , I. Feain , M. Johnston-Hollitt

Classical polarimetry is a well-established discipline with diverse applications across different branches of science. The burgeoning interest in leveraging quantum resources to achieve highly sensitive measurements has spurred researchers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Ali Pedram , Vira R. Besaga , Lea Gassab , Frank Setzpfandt , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We propose a new technique for weak gravitational lensing in the radio band making use of polarization information. Since the orientation of a galaxy's polarized emission is both unaffected by lensing and is related to the galaxy's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Michael L. Brown , Richard A. Battye

In quantum computation, amplitude estimation is a fundamental subroutine that is utilized in various quantum algorithms. A general important task of such estimation problems is to characterize the estimation lower bound, which is referred…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Kohei Oshio , Yohichi Suzuki , Kaito Wada , Keigo Hisanaga , Shumpei Uno , Naoki Yamamoto

Polarization data will soon provide the best avenue for measurements of the CMB lensing potential, although it is potentially sensitive to several instrumental effects including beam asymmetry, polarization angle uncertainties, sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-10 Toshiya Namikawa , Ryuichi Takahashi

A detailed and formal account of polarization measurements using Bayesian analysis is given based on the assumption of gaussian error for the Stokes parameters. This analysis is crucial for the measurement of the polarization degree and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jason L. Quinn

The estimation of signal parameters using quantized data is a recurrent problem in electrical engineering. As an example, this includes the estimation of a noisy constant value and of the parameters of a sinewave, that is, its amplitude,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-30 Antonio Moschitta , Johan Schoukens , Paolo Carbone

In spectroscopic analysis, the peak-based signal-to-noise ratio (pSNR) is commonly used but suffers from limitations such as sensitivity to noise spikes and reduced effectiveness for broader peaks. We introduce the area-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Alex Yu , Huaqing Zhao , Lin Z. Li

A significant problem for current quantum computers is noise. While there are many distinct noise channels, the depolarizing noise model often appropriately describes average noise for large circuits involving many qubits and gates. We…

Quantum advantage requires overcoming noise-induced degradation of quantum systems. Conventional methods for reducing noise such as error mitigation face scalability issues in deep circuits. Specifically, noise hampers the extraction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Yonglong Ding , Ruyu Yang

Many different methods exist for reducing data obtained when an astronomical source is studied with a two-channel polarimeter, such as a Wollaston prism system. This paper presents a rigorous method of reducing the data from raw aperture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Leyshon

Recent algebraic parametric estimation techniques led to point-wise derivative estimates by using only the iterated integral of a noisy observation signal. In this paper, we extend such differentiation methods by providing a larger choice…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-03-04 Da-Yan Liu , Olivier Gibaru , Wilfrid Perruquetti

In this letter, we propose the extension of a previously presented analytical model for the estimation of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the output of an adaptive equalizer in coherent optical transmission systems when transmission is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Giuseppe Rizzelli , Pablo Torres Ferrera , Roberto Gaudino
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