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All commercial electron spin polarimeters work in single channel mode, which is the bottleneck of researches by spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. By adopting the time inversion antisymmetry of magnetic field, we developed a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-02-12 Tan Shi , Fuhao Ji , Mao Ye , Weishi Wan , Shan Qiao

This paper describes a linear solution method for near-light photometric stereo by exploiting symmetric light source arrangements. Unlike conventional non-convex optimization approaches, by arranging multiple sets of symmetric nearby light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Lilika Makabe , Heng Guo , Hiroaki Santo , Fumio Okura , Yasuyuki Matsushita

In this work we address the problem of simultaneous multi-frequency detection of extragalactic point sources in maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background. We apply a new linear filtering technique, the so called `matched matrix filters', that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Herranz , M. Lopez-Caniego , J. L. Sanz , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo

The joint analysis of the Dispersion and Faraday Rotation Measure from distant, polarised Fast Radio Bursts may be used to put constraints on the origin and distribution of extragalactic magnetic fields on cosmological scales. While the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , P. M. Hinz , D. Wittor , N. Locatelli , C. Gheller

We proposed a new method -- "Pacman" -- to calculate Faraday rotation measure (RM) maps from multi-frequency polarisation angle data (Dolag et al.) in order to avoid the so-called n-pi ambiguity. Here, we apply our "Pacman" algorithm to two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Vogt , K. Dolag , T. A. Ensslin

A new method for removing point radio sources and other non-Gaussian noise is proposed as a means of improving the accuracy of estimates of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The main idea of the method is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anisa T. Bajkova

A practical evaluation of the Multi-Scale CLEAN algorithm is presented. The data used in the comparisons are taken from The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey (THINGS). The implementation of Multi-Scale CLEAN in the CASA software package is used,…

Using the formalism of spin-weighted functions we present an all-sky analysis of polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Linear polarization is a second-rank symmetric and traceless tensor, which can be decomposed on a sphere…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Matias Zaldarriaga , Uros Seljak

Reed-Muller (RM) codes exhibit good performance under maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding due to their highly-symmetric structure. In this paper, we explore the question of whether the code symmetry of RM codes can also be exploited to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Elia Santi , Christian Häger , Henry D. Pfister

We introduce the construction of polarized intensity cubes $P$(RA, Dec, $\Phi$) and their visualization as movies, as a powerful technique for interpreting Faraday structure. $P$ is constructed from maps of peak polarized intensity P(RA,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Lawrence Rudnick , Craig Anderson , William D. Cotton , Alice Pasetto , Emma Alexander , Mehrnoosh Tahani

The new generation of low-frequency radio telescopes, such as the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR: a Square Kilometre Array-low pathfinder), provides advancements in our capability of probing Galactic magnetism through low-frequency polarimetry.…

We explore the stability of the variance and skewness of the cosmic gravitational convergence field, using two different approaches: first we simulate a whole MEGACAM survey (100 sq. degrees). The reconstructed mass map, obtained from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Thion , Y. Mellier , F. Bernardeau , E. Bertin , T. Erben , L. van Waerbeke

Determining whether two particle systems are similar is a common problem in particle simulations. When the comparison should be invariant under permutations, orthogonal transformations, and translations of the systems, special techniques…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-24 Johannes Bulin , Jan Hamaekers

We present a pipeline that allows recovering reliable information for all four Stokes parameters with high accuracy. Its novelty relies on the treatment of the instrumental effects already prior to the computation of the Stokes parameters…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 I. Myserlis , E. Angelakis , A. Kraus , C. A. Liontas , N. Marchili , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , V. Karamanavis , L. Fuhrmann , T. P. Krichbaum , J. A. Zensus

Regularized Maximum Likelihood (RML) techniques are a class of image synthesis methods that achieve better angular resolution and image fidelity than traditional methods like CLEAN for sub-mm interferometric observations. To identify best…

With the rapid increase of fast radio burst (FRB) detections within the past few years, there is now a catalogue being developed for all-sky extragalactic dispersion measure (DM) observations in addition to the existing collection of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 Ayush Pandhi , Sebastian Hutschenreuter , Jennifer West , Bryan Gaensler , Ashley Stock

We present a general method for the error analysis of spatial modulation (SM) systems over correlated and uncorrelated Rayleigh and Rician fading channels. The proposed method, making use of the properties of proper complex random variables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Mutlu Koca , Hikmet Sari

We investigate theoretically coherent detection implemented simultaneously on a set of mutually orthogonal spatial modes in the image plane as a method to characterize properties of a composite thermal source below the Rayleigh limit. A…

We present multi-frequency polarization observations of the diffuse radio synchrotron background modulated by Faraday rotation, in two directions of positive latitude. No extended total intensity I is observed, which implies that total…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 M. Haverkorn , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn

Faraday tomography offers crucial information on the magnetized astronomical objects, such as quasars, galaxies, or galaxy clusters, by observing its magnetoionic media. The observed linear polarization spectrum is inverse Fourier…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-24 Suchetha Cooray , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Takuya Akahori , Yoshimitsu Miyashita , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Keitaro Takahashi , Kiyotomo Ichiki