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General Defocusing Particle Tracking (GDPT) is a single-camera, three-dimensional particle tracking method that determines the particle depth positions from the defocusing patterns of the corresponding particle images. GDPT relies on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-05 Rune Barnkob , Massimiliano Rossi

3D Gaussian Splatting has gained widespread adoption across diverse applications due to its exceptional rendering performance and visual quality. While most existing methods rely on rasterization to render Gaussians, recent research has…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Junseo Lee , Sangyun Jeon , Jungi Lee , Junyong Park , Jaewoong Sim

We develop the 3-dimensional general relativistic radiative transfer code: CARTOON (Calculation code of Authentic Radiative Transfer based On phOton Number conservation in curved space-time) which is improved from the 2-dimensional code:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 Mikiya M. Takahashi , Ken Ohsuga , Rohta Takahashi , Takumi Ogawa , Masayuki Umemura , Yuta Asahina

In many areas of the observational and experimental sciences data is scarce. Data observation in high-energy astrophysics is disrupted by celestial occlusions and limited telescope time while data derived from laboratory experiments in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-28 Ryan-Rhys Griffiths

Interferometric radio telescopes often rely on computationally expensive O(N^2) correlation calculations; fortunately these computations map well to massively parallel accelerators such as low-cost GPUs. This paper describes the OpenCL…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-23 Peter Klages , Kevin Bandura , Nolan Denman , Andre Recnik , Jonathan Sievers , Keith Vanderlinde

The EHT collaboration released in 2019 the first horizon-scale images of a black hole accretion flow, opening a novel route for plasma physics comprehension and gravitational tests. Although the present unresolved images deeply depend on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-01 I. Urso , F. H. Vincent , M. Wielgus , T. Paumard , G. Perrin

We present a generally applicable formalism for modeling the emission, absorption, reflection, and reprocessing of radiation by moving plasma streams close to a Kerr Black hole. The formalism can be used to investigate the observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-13 Henric Krawczynski

Bayesian inference is the workhorse of gravitational-wave astronomy, for example, determining the mass and spins of merging black holes, revealing the neutron star equation of state, and unveiling the population properties of compact…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Colm Talbot , Rory Smith , Eric Thrane , Gregory B. Poole

We investigate the redshift and blueshift of light emitted by timelike geodesic particles in orbits around a Kerr-Newman-(anti) de Sitter (KN(a)dS) black hole. Specifically we compute the redshift and blueshift of photons that are emitted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-16 G. V. Kraniotis

The incoherent scatter radar (ISR) technique is a powerful remote sensing tool for ionosphere and thermosphere dynamics in the near-Earth space environment. Weak ISR scatter from naturally occurring Langmuir oscillations, or plasma lines,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-12-01 Natalie Hilliard , Juha Vierinen , Philip J. Erickson

Combining with the small-large black hole phase transition, the thermodynamic geometry has been well applied to study the microstructure for the charged AdS black hole. In this paper, we extend the geometric approach to the rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-06 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

Astrophysical radio transients are excellent probes of extreme physical processes originating from compact sources within our Galaxy and beyond. Radio frequency signals emitted from these objects provide a means to study the intervening…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-29 W. Armour , A. Karastergiou , M. Giles , C. Williams , A. Magro , K. Zagkouris , S. Roberts , S. Salvini , F. Dulwich , B. Mort

Real-time global illumination is key to enabling more dynamic and physically realistic worlds in performance-critical applications such as games or any other applications with real-time constraints.Hardware-accelerated ray tracing in modern…

Radiative transfer modelling is part of many astrophysical simulations and is used to make synthetic observations and to assist analysis of observations. We concentrate on the modelling of the radio lines emitted by the interstellar medium.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 M. Juvela

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as an efficient approach for achieving photorealistic rendering. Recent MLP-based variants further improve visual fidelity but introduce substantial decoding overhead during rendering. To alleviate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yuanyuan Gao , Yuning Gong , Yifei Liu , Li Jingfeng , Dingwen Zhang , Yanci Zhang , Dan Xu , Xiao Sun , Zhihang Zhong

Motivated by possible observations of the black hole candidate in the center of our galaxy and the galaxy M87, ray-tracing methods are applied to both standard General Relativity (GR) and a recently proposed extension, the pseudo-complex…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-10 T. Schönenbach , G. Caspar , P. O. Hess , T. Boller , A. Müller , M. Schäfer , W. Greiner

We present parallel algorithms for constructing and traversing sparse octrees on graphics processing units (GPUs). The algorithms are based on parallel-scan and sort methods. To test the performance and feasibility, we implemented them in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-11 Jeroen Bédorf , Evghenii Gaburov , Simon Portegies Zwart

We review a General Relativistic (GR) method to determine the black hole (BH) parameters: mass-to-distance ratio, position and recessional velocity of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) of Seyfert type, which have an accretion disk with water…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-03 Adriana González-Juárez , Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar

We present a convariant formulation for radiative transfer in curved space time and demonstrate some applications in the black-hole systems. We calculate the emission from semi-transparent accretion tori around black holes, for opacity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-14 Kinwah Wu , Warrick Ball , Steven V. Fuerst

Astrophysical black holes (BHs) are universally expected to be described by the Kerr metric, a stationary, vacuum solution of general relativity (GR). Indeed, by imaging M87$^\star$ and Sgr A$^\star$ and measuring the size of their shadows,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 Prashant Kocherlakota , Luciano Rezzolla , Rittick Roy , Maciek Wielgus