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This paper describes the recently developed mixed mimetic spectral element method for the Stokes problem in the vorticity-velocity-pressure formulation. This compatible discretization method relies on the construction of a conforming…

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In this paper we present the electromagnetic modeling and beam pattern measurements of a 16-elements ultra wideband sparse random test array for the low frequency instrument of the Square Kilometer Array telescope. We discuss the importance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 E. de Lera Acedo , P. Bolli , F. Paonessa , G. Virone , E. Colin-Beltran , N. Razavi-Ghods , I. Aicardi , A. Lingua , P. Maschio , J. Monari , G. Naldi , M. Piras , G. Pupillo

Spectro-polarimetric imaging provides multidimensional optical information acquisition capabilities, offering significant potential for diverse applications. Current spectro-polarimetric imaging systems typically suffer from large physical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Jingyue Ma , Zhenming Yu , Zhengyang Li , Liang Lin , Liming Cheng , Jiayu Di , Tongshuo Zhang , Ning Zhan , Kun Xu

We present an assessment of the accuracy of common operations performed in $21$-cm spectral line stacking experiments. To this end, we generate mock interferometric data surveying the 21-cm emission at frequency $1310<\nu<1420$ MHz…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Francesco Sinigaglia , Ed Elson , Giulia Rodighiero , Mattia Vaccari

A spectral line image cube generated from 115 minutes of MWA data that covers a field of view of 400 sq. deg. around the Galactic Centre is used to perform the first Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) with the Murchison…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 S. J. Tingay , C. Tremblay , A. Walsh , R. Urquhart

Several experimental efforts are underway to measure the power spectrum of 21cm fluctuations from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) using low-frequency radio interferometers. Experiments like the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Adam E. Lanman , Jonathan C. Pober

We analyse a 154 MHz image made from a 12 h observation with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) to determine the noise contribution and behaviour of the source counts down to 30 mJy. The MWA image has a bandwidth of 30.72 MHz, a…

We propose a new technique for radio interferometry to obtain super-resolution full polarization images in all four Stokes parameters using sparse modeling. The proposed technique reconstructs the image in each Stokes parameter from the…

The beam squint effect, which manifests in different steering matrices in different sub-bands, has been widely considered a challenge in millimeter wave (mmWave) multiinput multi-output (MIMO) channel estimation. Existing methods either…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Le Xu , Lei Cheng , Ngai Wong , Yik-Chung Wu , H. Vincent Poor

Measurements of 21 cm Epoch of Reionization (EoR) structure are subject to systematics originating from both the analysis and the observation conditions. Using 2013 data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), we show the importance of…

The radio interferometric closure phases can be a valuable tool for studying cosmological {H\scriptsize{I}}~from the early Universe. Closure phases have the advantage of being immune to element-based gains and associated calibration errors.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 Himanshu Tiwari , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Cathryn M. Trott , Benjamin McKinley

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a next-generation radio telescope, generating visibility data products continuously at about 400 MB/s. Efficiently managing and archiving this data is a challenge. The MWA Archive consists of dataflows…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-29 Chen Wu , Andreas Wicenec , Dave Pallot , Alessio Checcucci

We apply two methods to estimate the 21~cm bispectrum from data taken within the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) project of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). Using data acquired with the Phase II compact array allows a direct bispectrum…

Accurate modelling of the primary beam is an important but difficult task in radio astronomy. For high dynamic range problems such as 21cm intensity mapping, small modelling errors in the sidelobes and spectral structure of the beams can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-25 Michael J. Wilensky , Jacob Burba , Philip Bull , Hugh Garsden , Katrine A. Glasscock , Nicolas Fagnoni , Eloy de Lera Acedo , David R. DeBoer , Nima Razavi-Ghods

We develop a novel algorithm for sparse Stokes parameters imaging in radio interferometry under the polarization constraint. The latter is a physical non-linear relation between the Stokes parameters, imposing that the polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Jasleen Birdi , Audrey Repetti , Yves Wiaux

Variational level set method has become a powerful tool in image segmentation due to its ability to handle complex topological changes and maintain continuity and smoothness in the process of evolution. However its evolution process can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Fanghui Song , Jiebao Sun , Shengzhu Shi , Zhichang Guo , Dazhi Zhang

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world's most sensitive radio telescope operating in the 50 MHz to 14 GHz frequency range. Construction of the SKA is divided into phases, with the first phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-31 Sascha Schediwy , David Gozzard

Uncertainty in the prediction of future weather is commonly assessed through the use of forecast ensembles that employ a numerical weather prediction model in distinct variants. Statistical postprocessing can correct for biases in the…

Applications · Statistics 2016-06-16 Annette Möller , Thordis L. Thorarinsdottir , Alex Lenkoski , Tilmann Gneiting

We report on the design, deployment, and first results from a scintillation detector deployed at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO). The detector is a prototype for a larger array -- the Square Kilometre Array Particle Array…

A general polarizable embedded (PE) quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics scheme for periodic systems is presented, describing mutual polarization of the two subsystems. The QM system, described with density functional theory (DFT), is…

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