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Cosmic shear surveys serve as a powerful tool for mapping the underlying matter density field, including non-visible dark matter. A key challenge in cosmic shear surveys is the accurate reconstruction of lensing convergence ($\kappa$) maps…

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For the submillimeter band observations, we have been routinely adopting the calibration cycle time of 20-30 minutes, which is the same as any typical centimeter and millimeter band observations. This cycle time, largely corrects only the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-04 Dharam Vir Lal , Satoki Matsushita , Jeremy Lim

The method here presented intends to minimize the effect of the gaps in the power spectra by gap-filling preserving the original information, that is, in the case of asteroseismology, the stellar oscillation frequency content. We make use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 J. Pascual-Granado , R. Garrido , J. C Suárez

Reliable timing calibration is essential for the accurate comparison of XMM-Newton light curves with those from other observatories, to ultimately use them to derive precise physical quantities. The XMM-Newton timing calibration is based on…

The current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments fielding kilo-pixel arrays of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers require accurate and robust gain calibration methods. We simplify and refactor the standard TES model…

We propose the implementation of an imaging telescope in combination with an inter-frequency calibrator to measure the spectral shape of the microwave sky by exploiting the differences in the sky intensity between multiple pairs of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-25 Suvodip Mukherjee , Joseph Silk , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Time-resolved photometry is an important new probe of the physics of condensate clouds in extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs. Extreme adaptive optics systems can directly image planets, but precise brightness measurements are challenging.…

(Abridged) The CASA software suite, can now reduce very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data with the recent addition of a fringe fitter. Here, we present the Radboud PIpeline for the Calibration of high Angular Resolution Data…

We present the calibration of the \textit{Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array} (\nustar) X-ray satellite. We used the Crab as the primary effective area calibrator and constructed a piece-wise linear spline function to modify the…

MAROON-X is a state-of-the-art extreme precision radial velocity spectrograph deployed on the 8.1-meter Gemini-N telescope on Maunakea, Hawai'i. Using a stabilized Fabry-P\'erot etalon for wavelength and drift calibration, MAROON-X has…

We develop a new method of extracting simultaneous measurements of weak lensing shear and a local rotation of the plane of polarization using observations of resolved radio sources. We show that the direction of polarization is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-28 Lee Whittaker , Richard A. Battye , Michael L. Brown

Sensitive signal processing methods are needed to detect transiting planets from ground-based photometric surveys. Caceres et al. (2019) show that the AutoRegressive Planet Search (ARPS) method --- a combination of autoregressive integrated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Andrew M. Stuhr , Eric D. Feigelson , Gabriel A. Caceres , Joel D. Hartman

The stellar mass-luminosity relation is poorly constrained by observations for high mass stars. We describe our program to find eclipsing massive binaries in the Magellanic Clouds using photometry of regions rich in massive stars, and our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Philip Massey , Nidia I. Morrell , Kathryn F. Neugent , Laura R. Penny , Kathleen-DeGioia Eastwood , Douglas R. Gies

The Atacama Large millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) obtains spatial resolutions of 15 to 5 milli-arcsecond (mas) at 275-950GHz (0.87-0.32mm) with 16km baselines. Calibration at higher-frequencies is challenging as ALMA sensitivity and…

In an environmental framework, extreme values of certain spatio-temporal processes, for example wind speeds, are the main cause of severe damage in property, such as electrical networks, transport and agricultural infrastructures.…

Applications · Statistics 2020-09-30 M A Amaral Turkman , K F Turkman , P de Zea Bermudez , S Pereira , P Pereira , M Carvalho

This paper presents a novel spherical target-based LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration method designed for outdoor environments with multi-robot systems, considering both target and sensor corruption. The method extracts the 2D ellipse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Seokhwan Jeong , Hogyun Kim , Younggun Cho

Though there has been a significant amount of work investigating the early stages of low-mass star formation in recent years, the evolution of the mass assembly rate onto the central protostar remains largely unconstrained. Examining in…

Global 21-cm experiments require exquisitely precise calibration of the measurement systems in order to separate the weak 21-cm signal from Galactic and extragalactic foregrounds as well as instrumental systematics. Hitherto, experiments…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Jishnu N. Thekkeppattu , Benjamin McKinley , Cathryn M. Trott , Jake Jones , Daniel C. X. Ung

Depth cameras, typically in RGB-D configurations, are common devices in mobile robotic platforms given their appealing features: high frequency and resolution, low price and power requirements, among others. These sensors may come with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-04 David Zuñiga-Noël , Jose-Raul Ruiz-Sarmiento , Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez

This document describes the Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment IMaging Array (MAXIMA), a balloon-borne experiment measuring the temperature anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) on angular scales of 10 arcminutes to 5 degrees.…

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