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We implemented a novel technique to perform the collective spectral analysis of sets of multiple gamma-ray point sources using the data collected by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi satellite. The energy spectra of the sources are…

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Modern observatories are designed to deliver increasingly detailed views of astrophysical signals. To fully realize the potential of these observations, principled data-analysis methods are required to effectively separate and reconstruct…

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Most proposed dark matter candidates are stable and are produced thermally in the early Universe. However, there is also the possibility of unstable (but long-lived) dark matter, produced thermally or otherwise. We propose a strategy to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

We motivate the use of differentiable probabilistic programming techniques in order to account for the large model-space inherent to astrophysical $\gamma$-ray analyses. Targeting the longstanding Galactic Center $\gamma$-ray Excess (GCE)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-13 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Tracy R. Slatyer , Yitian Sun , Yuqing Wu

The field of gamma ray astronomy relies heavily on the statistical analysis of data. Because of the paucity of data, and the often large errors associated with detecting gamma rays, analysis and interpretation of the data require…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. F. Tompkins

We present a multi-scale, multi-wavelength source extraction algorithm called getsources. Although it has been designed primarily for use in the far-infrared surveys of Galactic star-forming regions with Herschel, the method can be applied…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Men'shchikov , Ph. André , P. Didelon , F. Motte , M. Hennemann , N. Schneider

Unbiased sky background modeling is crucial for the analysis of deep wide-field images, but it remains a major challenge in low surface brightness astronomy. Traditional image processing algorithms are often designed to produce artificially…

Image Fusion, a technique which combines complimentary information from different images of the same scene so that the fused image is more suitable for segmentation, feature extraction, object recognition and Human Visual System. In this…

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Dark matter annihilation in Galactic substructure produces diffuse gamma-ray emission of remarkably constant intensity across the sky, and in general this signal dominates over the smooth halo signal at angles greater than a few tens of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-02 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

Deconvolution algorithms have been used successfully for optimization/restoration/deblurring of astronomical images in a variety of wavelengths, especially in the optical band (e.g., for HST). We present here an iterative Richardson-Lucy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-15 G. Maurin , A. Djannati-Atai , P. Espigat

One of the unsolved questions in gamma-ray astronomy is whether the extragalactic gamma-ray background is of the discrete-source origin. To respond to this question, one first needs to reduce the data by differentiating charged particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-04 D. A. Prokhorov , A. Moraghan

Wavelet analysis is proposed as a new tool for studying the large-scale structure formation of the universe. To reveal its usefulness, the wavelet decomposition of one-dimensional cosmological density fluctuations is performed. In contrast…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Yoshi Fujiwara , Jiro Soda

We employ an efficient method for identifying gamma-ray sources across the entire sky, leveraging advanced algorithms from Fermi p y, and cleverly utilizing the Galactic diffuse background emission model to partition the entire sky into 72…

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Diffusion wavelets extract information from graph signals at different scales of resolution by utilizing graph diffusion operators raised to various powers, known as diffusion scales. Traditionally, these scales are chosen to be dyadic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 David R. Johnson , Smita Krishnaswamy , Michael Perlmutter

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite is observing the gamma-ray sky in the high energy region, above 20 MeV. We have developed a method to reconstruct the energy spectra of the gamma-rays detected by the Fermi LAT…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Loparco , M. N. Mazziotta

In this thesis, we examined the possibilities offered by multi-messenger astronomy in the context of indirect dark matter detection. We have applied a multi-wavelength strategy by studying different signals across the electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-02 Elena Pinetti

In order to produce high dynamic range images in radio interferometry, bright extended sources need to be removed with minimal error. However, this is not a trivial task because the Fourier plane is sampled only at a finite number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-17 Sarod Yatawatta

We developed a Python based framework for astronomical image processing and analysis. Astronomical image loading, normalizing, stacking, and filtering processes represent visible range images from grayscale. Besides, the blending process…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Tanmoy Bhowmik , MD Fardin Islam , Kazi Nusrat Tasneem , Rantideb Roy , Rownok Shahariar

The gamma-ray burst's lightcurves have been analyzed using a special wavelet transformation. The applied wavelet base is based on a typical Fast Rise-Exponential Decay (FRED) pulse. The shape of the wavelet coefficients' total distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Z. Bagoly , I. Horvath , A. Meszaros , L. G. Balazs

A new method for improving the resolution of astronomical images is presented. It is based on the principle that sampled data cannot be fully deconvolved without violating the sampling theorem. Thus, the sampled image should not be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Magain , F. Courbin , S. Sohy