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Wavelength calibration is a routine and critical part of any spectral work-flow, but many astronomers still resort to matching detected peaks and emission lines by hand. We present RASCAL (RANSAC Assisted Spectral CALibration), a python…

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We present a broad analysis of X-ray polarimetric observational prospects for radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGN), focusing on the role of parsec-scale components. We provide a revision of self-consistent type-1 and type-2 generic AGN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-25 J. Podgorný , F. Marin , M. Dovčiak

Ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of high-quality global illumination at a heavy computational cost. Because of the high computation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Yutong Qin , Jianbiao Lin , Xiang Huang

As a star orbits the center of its host galaxy, the trajectory is encompassed within a 3D toroid. The orbit probes all points in this toroid, unless its orbital frequencies exhibit integer ratios (commensurate frequencies), in which case a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-22 Subhadeep Sarkar , Michael S. Petersen

Wide Range Reciprocal Space Mapping (WR-RSM) is a technique that allows visualisation of the geometric relationships among multiple hkl spots in a single reciprocal space map. However, current commercial software for reconstructing WR-RSM…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-13 Xiaodong Wang , Michael W. M. Jones , Adam Smith

Ray tracing is increasingly utilized in wireless system simulations to estimate channel paths. In large-scale simulations with complex environments, ray tracing at high resolution can be computationally demanding. To reduce the computation,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Ruibin Chen , Jayadev Joy , Yaqi Hu , Mingsheng Yin , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan

Numerical relativity is central to the investigation of astrophysical sources in the dynamical and strong-field gravity regime, such as binary black hole and neutron star coalescences. Current challenges set by gravitational-wave and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-04 Boris Daszuta , Francesco Zappa , William Cook , David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Viktoriya Morozova

Detailed modeling of the evolution of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium during the Epoch of Reionization, $5 \leq z \leq 20$, is critical in interpreting the cosmological signals from current and upcoming 21-cm experiments such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Patrick Hirling , Michele Bianco , Sambit K. Giri , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Jean-Paul Kneib

The extreme popularity over the years for railway transportation urges the necessity to maintain efficient railway management systems around the globe. Even though, at present, there exist a large collection of Computer Aided Designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Obadage Rochana Rumalshan , Pramuka Weerasinghe , Mohamed Shaheer , Prabhath Gunathilake , Erunika Dayaratna

The aim of this paper is to provide a fast and efficient procedure for (real-time) target identification in imaging based on matching on a dictionary of precomputed generalized polarization tensors (GPTs). The approach is based on some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-27 Habib Ammari , Thomas Boulier , Josselin Garnier , Wenjia Jing , Hyœnbæ Kang , Han Wang

In this paper, we present a series of techniques to describe General Relativity using Geometric Algebra (GA). We emphasize the physical interpretation of quantities and provide a step-by-step guide for performing calculations. In doing so,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 Pablo Banon Perez , Maarten DeKieviet

Dedicated tensor accelerators demonstrate the importance of linear algebra in modern applications. Such accelerators have the potential for impressive performance gains, but require programmers to rewrite code using vendor APIs - a barrier…

Many systems of interest in general relativistic astrophysics, including neutron stars, accreting compact objects in X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei, core collapse, and collapsars, are assumed to be approximately spherically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-16 Burkhard Zink , Erik Schnetter , Manuel Tiglio

Compositional representations of the world are a promising step towards enabling high-level scene understanding and efficient transfer to downstream tasks. Learning such representations for complex scenes and tasks remains an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Matthew Wallingford , Aditya Kusupati , Alex Fang , Vivek Ramanujan , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Ali Farhadi

We present a C++ software package called PhaseTracer for mapping out cosmological phases, and potential transitions between them, for Standard Model extensions with any number of scalar fields. PhaseTracer traces the minima of effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-30 Peter Athron , Csaba Balazs , Andrew Fowlie , Yang Zhang

In HEP experiments the description of the trajectory of a charged particle is obtained from a fit to measurements in tracking detectors. The parametrization of the trajectory has to account for bending in the magnetic field, energy loss and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-01-23 Claus Kleinwort

A ray-tracing (RT) enhanced back-projection algorithm (RT-BPA) for microwave imaging in multipath environments is presented. By tightly incorporating the concept of ray-tracing into a generalized version of traditional BPA, this method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Han Na , Quanfeng Wang , Matthias Saurer , Meisong Tong , Thomas F. Eibert

We have built and tested a compact, low-cost, but very-high-performance astronomical polarimeter based on a continuously rotating half-wave plate and a high-speed imaging detector. The polarimeter is suitable for small telescopes up to ~1 m…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jeremy Bailey , Daniel V. Cotton , Ain De Horta , Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer , Om Shastri

In the context of track fitting problems by a Kalman filter, the appropriate functional forms of the elements of the random process noise matrix are derived for tracking through thick layers of dense materials and magnetic field. This work…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-07-21 Kolahal Bhattacharya , Sudeshna Banerjee , Naba K Mondal

X-ray polarimetry is still largely uncharted territory. With the upcoming launch of IXPE, we will learn a lot more about X-ray polarization at energies above 2 keV, but so far no current or accepted mission provides observational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-01 Hans Moritz Günther , Herman L. Marshall , Alan Garner