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Fluid antenna systems (FAS) are emerging as a transformative enabler for sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications, providing unprecedented spatial diversity through dynamic reconfiguration of antenna ports. However, the inherent…

The implementation of the simultaneous combination of several telescopes (from four to eight) available at Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) will allow the new generation interferometric instrumentation to achieve interferometric…

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The use of the phase-delay improves substantially the accuracy obtained in VLBI astrometry with respect to the group-delay observable. Recently, Ros et al. (1999) have extended the related phase-connection technique to a triangle of radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ros , J. M. Marcaide , J. C. Guirado , M. A. Perez-Torres

Continuous wavefront sensing on future space telescopes allows relaxation of stability requirements while still allowing on-orbit diffraction-limited optical performance. We consider the suitability of phase retrieval to continuously…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 Hyukmo Kang , Kyle Van Gorkom , Jess Johnson , Ole Singlestad , Aaron Goldtooth , Daewook Kim , Ewan S. Douglas

The ever-growing scale of data parallelism in today's HPC and ML applications presents a big challenge for computing architectures' energy efficiency and performance. Vector processors address the scale-up challenge by decoupling Vector…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Navaneeth Kunhi Purayil , Matteo Perotti , Tim Fischer , Luca Benini

A PC based high speed silicon microstrip beam telescope consisting of several independent modules is presented. Every module contains an AC-coupled double sided silicon microstrip sensor and a complete set of analog and digital signal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Treis , P. Fischer , L. Klingbeil , H. Krueger , N. Wermes , T. Lari

In this contribution we present the FAST, which is a comprehensive software suite that aims to streamline and automatically manage the forecast of atmospheric and astroclimatic parameters (provided respectively by Meso-Nh and Astro-Meso-Nh…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 A. Turchi , E. Masciadri , L. Fini

We present RadioAstron Space VLBI imaging observations of the BL Lac object S5 0716+71 made on January 3-4 2015 at a frequency of 22 GHz (wavelength $\lambda=1.3$ cm). The observations were made in the framework of the AGN Polarization Key…

Current and upcoming radio-interferometers are expected to produce volumes of data of increasing size that need to be processed in order to generate the corresponding sky brightness distributions through imaging. This represents an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Claudio Gheller , Giuliano Taffoni , David Goz

Context. We present a celestial reference frame (CRF) based on the combination of independent, multifrequency radio source position catalogs using nearly 40 years of Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations at the standard geodetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Maria Karbon , Axel Nothnagel

Aims: We describe a 6-12 GHz analogue correlator that has been developed for use in radio interferometers. Methods: We use a lag-correlator technique to synthesis eight complex spectral channels. Two schemes were considered for sampling the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian M. Holler , Tak Kaneko , Michael E. Jones , Keith Grainge , Paul Scott

The alignment of tracking detectors is crucial for the physics programme at the LHC, especially for precision measurements like the W mass. The alignment of the ATLAS silicon tracking detectors with a total of 5832 modules poses an…

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We describe a data reduction pipeline for VLBI astrometric observations of pulsars, implemented using the ParselTongue AIPS interface. The pipeline performs calibration (including ionosphere modeling), phase referencing with proper…

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The BABAR Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT) is a five-layer double-sided silicon detector designed to provide precise measurements of the position and direction of primary tracks, and to fully reconstruct low-momentum tracks produced in e+e-…

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We present observational results for extragalactic radio sources with milliarcsecond components, obtained with the 600 meter ring radio telescope RATAN-600 from 1st to 22nd December, 1997. For each source, a six frequency broad band radio…

We experimentally demonstrate a novel interferometric architecture for next-generation gravity missions, featuring a laser ranging interferometer (LRI) that enables monoaxial transmission and reception of laser beams between two optical…

This article develops the applicability of non-linear processing techniques such as Compressed Sensing (CS), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Iterative Adaptive Approach (IAA) and Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) for the purpose of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Mohit Kumar , Keith Kelly

We present computer simulations of interferometric imaging with the VLT interferometer and the AMBER instrument. These simulations include both the astrophysical modelling of a stellar object by radiative transfer calculations and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Bloecker , K. -H. Hofmann , F. Przygodda , G. Weigelt

A "large-N" correlator that makes use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays and Graphics Processing Units has been deployed as the digital signal processing system for the Long Wavelength Array station at Owens Valley Radio Observatory…

The International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF, Ma et al. 1998) is currently the best realization of a quasi-inertial reference system. It is based on more than 10 years of cumulated geodetic and astrometric VLBI observations of compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. B. Lambert , S. Bouquillon , C. Le Poncin-Lafitte , C. Barache , J. Souchay