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This paper establishes a nearly optimal algorithm for estimating the frequencies and amplitudes of a mixture of sinusoids from noisy equispaced samples. We derive our algorithm by viewing line spectral estimation as a sparse recovery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-02 Gongguo Tang , Badri Narayan Bhaskar , Benjamin Recht

The $s-$wave meson-baryon scattering is analyzed for the strangeness S=0 sector in a Bethe-Salpeter coupled channel formalism incorporating Chiral Symmetry. Four channels have been considered: $\pi N$, $\eta N$, $K \Lambda$, $K \Sigma$. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Juan Nieves , Enrique Ruiz Arriola

Power spectrum estimation is an important tool in many applications, such as the whitening of noise. The popular multitaper method enjoys significant success, but fails for short signals with few samples. We propose a statistical model…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Joakim Andén , Amit Singer

We demonstrate an ultra-compact waveguide taper in Silicon Nitride platform. The proposed taper provides a coupling-efficiency of 95% at a length of 19.5 um in comparison to the standard linear taper of length 50 um that connects a 10 um…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Purnima Sethi , Rakshitha Kallege , Anubhab Haldar , Shankar Kumar Selvaraja

Frequency estimation of multiple sinusoids is significant in both theory and application. In some application scenarios, only sub-Nyquist samples are available to estimate the frequencies. A conventional approach is to sample the signals at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Shan Huang , Haijian Zhang , Hong Sun , Lei Yu , Liwen Chen

Understanding the impact of spectral coverage on parameter recovery is critical for accurate interpretation of blazar spectra. In this study, we examine how the data coverage influences the reliability of parameter estimation within the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-26 N. Sahakyan , D. Bégué , P. Giommi , H. Dereli-Bégué , Asaf Pe'er

A small depression is created in a straight optical fiber taper to form a local probe suitable for studying closely spaced, planar microphotonic devices. The tension of the "dimpled" taper controls the probe-sample interaction length and…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Michael , M. Borselli , T. J. Johnson , C. Chrystal , O. Painter

The $s-$wave meson-baryon scattering is analyzed for the strangeness $S=-1$ and isospin I=0 sector in a Bethe-Salpeter coupled channel formalism incorporating Chiral Symmetry. Four channels have been considered: $\pi \Sigma$, $\bar K N$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Garcia-Recio , J. Nieves , E. Ruiz Arriola , M. J. Vicente Vacas

Nonuniformly sampled signals are prevalent in real-world applications. However, estimating their power spectra from finite samples poses a significant challenge. The optimal solution-Bronez Generalized Prolate Spheroidal Sequence (GPSS) by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Jie Cui , Benjamin H. Brinkmann , Gregory A. Worrell

An optical frequency comb generated with an electro-optic phase modulator and a chirped radiofrequency waveform is used to perform saturation and pump-probe spectroscopy on the $D_1$ and $D_2$ transitions of atomic potassium. With a comb…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 David A. Long , Adam J. Fleisher , David F. Plusquellic , Joseph T. Hodges

The inverse covariance matrix provides considerable insight for understanding statistical models in the multivariate setting. In particular, when the distribution over variables is assumed to be multivariate normal, the sparsity pattern in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-20 Addison Hu , Sahand Negahban

We discuss a technique for mapping the synchrotron turnover frequency distribution using nearly simultaneous, multi--frequency VLBI observations. The limitations of the technique arising from limited spatial sampling and frequency coverage…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. P. Lobanov

A constrained L1 minimization method is proposed for estimating a sparse inverse covariance matrix based on a sample of $n$ iid $p$-variate random variables. The resulting estimator is shown to enjoy a number of desirable properties. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-02-14 Tony Cai , Weidong Liu , Xi Luo

Estimating the frequencies of multiple sinusoids in the presence of AWGN and when the data record is short is commonly accomplished by subspace-based methods such as ESPRIT, MUSIC, Min-Norm, etc. These methods do not assume that the data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 P. Vishnu , C. S. Ramalingam

As an alternative to the traditional sampling theory, compressed sensing allows acquiring much smaller amount of data, still estimating the spectra of frequency-sparse signals accurately. However, compressed sensing usually requires random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Shan Huang , Hong Sun , Haijian Zhang , Lei Yu

High-precision timing of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) over years to decades is a promising technique for direct detection of gravitational waves at nanohertz frequencies. Time-variable, multi-path scattering in the interstellar medium is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Anne M. Archibald , Vladislav I. Kondratiev , Jason W. T. Hessels , Daniel R. Stinebring

We establish a sharp lower bound on the spectral gap of the biased adjacent-transposition Markov chain on the symmetric group. As a consequence, we resolve a longstanding conjecture of Fill, proving that among all regular probability…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Gary R. W. Greaves , Haoran Zhu

This work extends Favard-type spectral representations for banded matrices $T$ beyond the bounded setting. It assumes that, for every $N\in\mathbb N_0$, there exists a shift $s_N\ge 0$ such that the shifted truncation $A_N:= T^{[N]}+s_N…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Amílcar Branquinho , Ana Foulquié-Moreno , Manuel Mañas

With the aim of constructing a biologically plausible model of machine listening, we study the representation of a multicomponent stationary signal by a wavelet scattering network. First, we show that renormalizing second-order nodes by…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Vincent Lostanlen , Alice Cohen-Hadria , Juan Pablo Bello

Millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems must operate over sparse wireless links and will require large antenna arrays to provide high throughput. To achieve sufficient array gains, these systems must…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-17 Wei Zhang , Taejoon Kim , David J. Love