English
Related papers

Related papers: Compressed sensing and Sequential Monte Carlo for …

200 papers

Space telescopes for solar hard X-ray imaging provide observations made of sampled Fourier components of the incoming photon flux. The aim of this study is to design an image reconstruction method relying on enhanced visibility…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Emma Perracchione , Paolo Massa , Anna Maria Massone , Michele Piana

In this paper we present new optimization strategies for the reconstruction of X-ray images of solar flares by means of the data collected by the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI). The imaging concept of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-26 S. Bonettini , M. Prato

The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) will look at solar flares across the hard X-ray window provided by the Solar Orbiter cluster. Similarly to the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), STIX is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Paolo Massa , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone , Federico Benvenuto

One way of imaging X-ray emission from solar flares is to measure Fourier components of the spatial X-ray source distribution. We present a new Compressed Sensing-based algorithm named VIS_CS, which reconstructs the spatial distribution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Simon Felix , Roman Bolzern , Marina Battaglia

We present a new analytical technique, combining Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) high-resolution imaging and spectroscopic observations, to visualize solar flare emission as a function of spectral component…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-15 Amir Caspi , Albert Y. Shih , James M. McTiernan , Säm Krucker

The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Spectroscopic Solar Imager (RHESSI) uses the rotational modulation principle to observe temporally, spatially, and spectrally resolved hard X ray and gamma ray images of solar flares. In order to track the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kaspar Arzner

This paper shows that compressed sensing realized by means of regularized deconvolution and the Finite Isotropic Wavelet Transform is effective and reliable in hard X-ray solar imaging. The method utilizes the Finite Isotropic Wavelet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 M. A. Duval-Poo , M. Piana , A. M. Massone

We present a concept for a machine-learning classification of hard X-ray (HXR) emissions from solar flares observed by the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), identifying flares that are either occulted by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Shin-nosuke Ishikawa , Hideaki Matsumura , Yasunobu Uchiyama , Lindsay Glesener

Hard X-rays and gamma-rays are the most direct signatures of energetic electrons and ions in the sun's atmosphere which is optically thin at these energies and their radiation involves no coherent processes. Being collisional they are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. C. Brown , E. P. Kontar , A. M. Veronig

Hard X-ray (HXR) spectroscopy is the most direct method of diagnosing energetic electrons in solar flares. Here we present a technique which allows us to use a single HXR spectrum to determine an effectively stereoscopic electron energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eduard P. Kontar , John C. Brown

Context. The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is one of 6 remote sensing instruments on-board Solar Orbiter. It provides hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy of solar flares by sampling the Fourier transform of the incoming flux.…

Polarization measurements of hard X-rays from solar flares can provide a direct handle on the extent to which the accelerated electrons are beamed, which, in turn, has important implications for particle acceleration models. Past efforts to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. L. McConnell , J. M. Ryan , D. M. Smith , R. P. Lin , A. G. Emslie

Multi-scale deconvolution is an ill-posed inverse problem in imaging, with applications ranging from microscopy, through medical imaging, to astronomical remote sensing. In the case of high-energy space telescopes, multi-scale deconvolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-30 Anna Volpara , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone

This paper is concerned with the image reconstruction problem when the measured data are solar hard X-ray modulation profiles obtained from the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI)} instrument. Our goal is to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Federico Benvenuto , Richard Schwartz , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone

We present a new method, fan-beam modulation, for observing weak extended x-ray sources with the Reuven Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI). This space-based solar x-ray and gamma-ray telescope has much greater…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Iain G. Hannah , Gordon J. Hurford , Hugh S. Hudson , Robert P. Lin

We demonstrate computerized tomography (CT) reconstructions from absorption, phase and dark-field signals obtained from scans acquired when the x-ray probe light is modulated with speckle. Two different interlaced schemes are proposed to…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-27 Sebastien Berujon , Eric Ziegler

A blind compressive sensing algorithm is proposed to reconstruct hyperspectral images from spectrally-compressed measurements.The wavelength-dependent data are coded and then superposed, mapping the three-dimensional hyperspectral datacube…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Xin Yuan , Tsung-Han Tsai , Ruoyu Zhu , Patrick Llull , David Brady , Lawrence Carin

Aima. To determine to what extent the problem of forward fitting visibilities measured by the Spectrometer/Telescope Imaging X-rays (STIX) on-board Solar Orbiter is more challenging with respect to the same problem in the case of previous…

Regularized imaging spectroscopy was introduced for the construction of electron flux images at different energies from count visibilities recorded by the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI). In this work we seek…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Anna Volpara , Paolo Massa , Sam Krucker , A Gordon Emslie , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone

A Monte Carlo program based on a three dimensional vector approach was developed to model multiple refractive scattering of X-ray photons in objects with a fine structure. A particular interest was paid to the investigation of lung tissue.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-02-02 Anastasiya Khromova
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›