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The primary instrument of the proposed EXIST mission is a coded mask high energy telescope (the HET), that must have a wide field of view and extremely good sensitivity. It will be crucial to minimize systematic errors so that even for very…

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Source detection is a vital part of any astronomical survey analysis pipeline. In addition, a versatile source finder that can recover and handle sources of all morphological types is becoming more important as surveys get bigger and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 R. A. Shaw , S. Fotopoulou , M. Birkinshaw , N. Maddox , H. Stewart

(abridged) We review methods for measuring the sizes, line widths, and luminosities of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in molecular-line data cubes with low resolution and sensitivity. We find that moment methods are robust and sensitive --…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Erik Rosolowsky , Adam Leroy

Track reconstruction algorithms are critical for polarization measurements. In addition to traditional moment-based track reconstruction approaches, convolutional neural networks (CNN) are a promising alternative. However, hexagonal grid…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Ya-Nan Li , Jia-Huan Zhu , Huai-Zhong Gao , Hong Li , Ji-Rong Cang , Zhi Zeng , Hua Feng , Ming Zeng

We present a method for subtracting point sources from interferometric radio images via forward modeling of the instrument response and involving an algebraic nonlinear minimization. The method is applied to simulated maps of the Murchison…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Bernardi , D. A. Mitchell , S. M. Ord , L. J. Greenhill , B. Pindor , R. B. Wayth , J. S. B. Wyithe

High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) is crucial for observing material's structural and morphological evolution at Angstrom scales, but the electron beam can alter these processes. Devices such as CMOS-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Brian Lee , Meng Li , Judith C Yang , Dmitri N Zakharov , Xiaohui Qu

This paper presents a method for estimating the resolution of a digital holographic microscope using neural network analysis of reconstructed images. The spectral bandwidth of the source ($\Delta \lambda$) is used as a controlled image…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-12 A. G. Fedorov

We present DECORAS, a deep learning based approach to detect both point and extended sources from Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations. Our approach is based on an encoder-decoder neural network architecture that uses a low…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-25 S. Rezaei , J. P. McKean , M. Biehl , A. Javadpour

We present a novel machine-learning approach for detecting faint point sources in high-contrast adaptive optics imaging datasets. The most widely used algorithms for primary subtraction aim to decouple bright stellar speckle noise from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-07 Trevor N. Wolf , Brandon A. Jones , Brendan P. Bowler

We present the identifications of a flux-limited sample of highly variable X-ray sources on long time-scales from the second catalogue of the XMM$-$Newton SLew survey (XMMSL2). The carefully constructed sample, comprising 265 sources (2.5…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-12 Dongyue Li , R. L. C. Starling , R. D. Saxton , Hai-Wu Pan , Weimin Yuan

We present an automated, DAOFind-based pipeline developed to reprocess J-band Atlas All Sky Release Survey Images from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). By optimizing the detection parameters and implementing a screening procedure that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Zehao Liu , Xiyan Peng , Zhenghong Tang , Zhaoxiang Qi , Shilong Liao , Yong Yu

We present a new statistical method for constructing background subtracted measurements from event list data gathered by X-ray and gamma ray observatories. This method was initially developed specifically to construct images that account…

We study the problem of deconvolution for light-sheet microscopy, where the data is corrupted by spatially varying blur and a combination of Poisson and Gaussian noise. The spatial variation of the point spread function (PSF) of a…

We consider the high-resolution imaging problem of 3D point source image recovery from 2D data using a method based on point spread function (PSF) engineering. The method involves a new technique, recently proposed by S.~Prasad, based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-13 Chao Wang , Raymond Chan , Mila Nikolova , Robert Plemmons , Sudhakar Prasad

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), the main instrument of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, detects high energy gamma rays with energies from 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV. The two main scientific ob jectives, the study of the Milky Way…

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Near-field radio holography is a common method for measuring and aligning mirror surfaces for millimeter and sub-millimeter telescopes. In instruments with more than a single mirror, degeneracies arise in the holography measurement,…

In the classical source coding problem, the compressed source is reconstructed at the decoder with respect to some distortion metric. Motivated by settings in which we are interested in more than simply reconstructing the compressed source,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Oğuzhan Kubilay Ülger , Elza Erkip

High-contrast imaging of exoplanets hinges on powerful post-processing methods to denoise the data and separate the signal of a companion from its host star, which is typically orders of magnitude brighter. Existing post-processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Timothy D. Gebhard , Markus J. Bonse , Sascha P. Quanz , Bernhard Schölkopf

Aims. We present a stand-alone software (named EXSdetect) for the detection of extended sources in X-ray images. Our goal is to provide a flexible tool capable of detecting extended sources down to the lowest flux levels attainable within…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-18 Teng Liu , Paolo Tozzi , Elena Tundo , A. Moretti , Jun-Xian Wang , Piero Rosati , Fabrizia Guglielmetti

Scanning objects with a more tightly focused beam (for example of photons or electrons) can provide higher-resolution images. However the stronger localisation of energy deposition can damage tissues in organic samples or may rearrange the…