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We exploit the great potential offered by Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) to directly decipher the internal composition of neutron stars (NSs) based on their macroscopic properties. By analyzing a set of simulated observations, namely NS…

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We present a Bayesian re-analysis of the sky-averaged 21-cm experimental data from SARAS2 using nested sampling implemented with polychord, spectrally smooth foreground modelling implemented with maxsmooth, detailed systematic modelling and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-23 H. T. J. Bevins , E. de Lera Acedo , A. Fialkov , W. J. Handley , S. Singh , R. Subrahmanyan , R. Barkana

Advancements in gravitational-wave interferometers, particularly the next generation, are poised to profoundly impact gravitational wave astronomy and multimessenger astrophysics. A hybrid quantum algorithm is proposed to carry out quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Gabriel Escrig , Roberto Campos , Hong Qi , M. A. Martin-Delgado

Bayesian methods have been very successful in quantifying uncertainty in physics-based problems in parameter estimation and prediction. In these cases, physical measurements y are modeled as the best fit of a physics-based model…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-02-06 Dave Higdon , Jordan D. McDonnell , Nicolas Schunck , Jason Sarich , Stefan M. Wild

Bayesian learning provides a unified skeleton to solve the electrophysiological source imaging task. From this perspective, existing source imaging algorithms utilize the Gaussian assumption for the observation noise to build the likelihood…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yuanhao Li , Badong Chen , Zhongxu Hu , Keita Suzuki , Wenjun Bai , Yasuharu Koike , Okito Yamashita

We propose a geometric framework to assess sensitivity of Bayesian procedures to modeling assumptions based on the nonparametric Fisher-Rao metric. While the framework is general in spirit, the focus of this article is restricted to…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-04-28 Sebastian Kurtek , Karthik Bharath

Information extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is heavily impaired by speckle noise, hence despeckling is a crucial preliminary step in scene analysis algorithms. The recent success of deep learning envisions a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Andrea Bordone Molini , Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging cosmological technique that traces large-scale structure through the integrated spectral-line emission of unresolved sources. Reconstructing unbiased sky maps requires careful joint treatment of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Zheng Zhang , Philip Bull , Mario G. Santos , Ainulnabilah Nasirudin

Understanding the properties of transient gravitational waves and their sources is of broad interest in physics and astronomy. Bayesian inference is the standard framework for astro-physical measurement in transient gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-07 Rory Smith , Gregory Ashton , Avi Vajpeyi , Colm Talbot

Spectral deconvolution is essential for extracting peak structures that encode material properties and chemical structures, but conventional automated methods often fail when spectra contain high-intensity noise or unknown background…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-05-19 Hayato Okubo , Yoshifumi Amamoto , Toshimitsu Aritake , Hiroyuki Kumazoe , Shiryu Nakano , Evan Jamison , Satoshi Tanaka , Yoh-ichi Mototake

We present RESOLVE, a new algorithm for radio aperture synthesis imaging of extended and diffuse emission in total intensity. The algorithm is derived using Bayesian statistical inference techniques, estimating the surface brightness in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 H. Junklewitz , M. R. Bell , M. Selig , T. A. Enßlin

The development of new phased array systems in radio astronomy, as the low frequency array (LOFAR) and the square kilometre array (SKA), formed of a large number of small and flexible elementary antennas, has led to significant challenges.…

We consider the problem of estimating a signal from noisy circularly-translated versions of itself, called multireference alignment (MRA). One natural approach to MRA could be to estimate the shifts of the observations first, and infer the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Tamir Bendory , Nicolas Boumal , Chao Ma , Zhizhen Zhao , Amit Singer

The precise form of the foregrounds for sky-averaged measurements of the 21-cm line during and before the epoch of reionization is unknown. We suggest that the level of complexity in the foreground models used to fit global 21-cm data…

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The Bluebild algorithm is a new technique for image synthesis in radio astronomy which decomposes the sky into distinct energy levels using functional principal component analysis. These levels can be linearly combined to construct a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Emma Tolley , Simon Frasch , Etienne Orliac , Shreyam Krishna , Michele Bianco , Sepand Kashani , Paul Hurley , Matthieu Simeoni , Jean-Paul Kneib

Prior information often takes the form of parameter constraints. Bayesian methods include such information through prior distributions having constrained support. By using posterior sampling algorithms, one can quantify uncertainty without…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-25 Leo L Duan , Alexander L Young , Akihiko Nishimura , David B Dunson

We report on a particular example of noise and data representation interacting to introduce systematic error. Many instruments collect integer digitized values and appy nonlinear coding, in particular square-root coding, to compress the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 C. E. DeForest , C. Lowder , D. B. Seaton , M. J. West

In a number of data-driven applications such as detection of arrhythmia, interferometry or audio compression, observations are acquired indistinctly in the time or frequency domains: temporal observations allow us to study the spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Felipe Tobar , Lerko Araya-Hernández , Pablo Huijse , Petar M. Djurić

This paper presents a case study from a single, six-hour observing period to illustrate the application of techniques developed for interferometric radio telescopes to the spectral analysis of observations of ionospheric fluctuations with…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Joseph Helmboldt , Huib Intema

The detection of extensive air showers (EAS) through their radio signal is becoming one of the most promising techniques for the study of Neutrinos and Cosmic rays at the highest energies. For the design, optimization and characterization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Matias Tueros , Anne Zilles