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Ultrashort laser pulses enable attosecond-scale measurements and drive breakthroughs across science and technology, but their routine use hinges on reliable pulse characterization. Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG) is a leading…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-29 Abhimanyu Borthakur , Jack Eden Hirschman , Sergio Carbajo

Cross-matching catalogues from radio surveys to catalogues of sources at other wavelengths is extremely hard, because radio sources are often extended, often consist of several spatially separated components, and often no radio component is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-13 Dongwei Fan , Tamás Budavári , Ray P. Norris , Amitabh Basu

We present a new broadband radio frequency catalogue across 0.12 GHz $\le \nu \le$ 20 GHz created by combining data from the Murchison Widefield Array Commissioning Survey, the Australia Telescope 20 Gigahertz survey, and the literature.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-27 V. M. Harvey , T. Franzen , J. Morgan , N. Seymour

Diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters, such as radio halos, relics, and mini halos, is a key tracer of non-thermal processes, turbulence, and magnetic fields within the intra-cluster medium. However, their low surface brightness, as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Verlon Etsebeth , Michelle Lochner , Konstantinos Kolokythas , Kenda Knowles , Emma Tolley

The neutral hydrogen 21cm line is potentially a very powerful probe of the observable universe, and a number of on-going experiments are trying to detect it at cosmological distances. However, the presence of strong foreground radiations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-14 Qizhi Huang , Fengquan Wu , Xuelei Chen

Vision Transformers are used via a customized TransUNet architecture, which is a hybrid model combining Transformers into a U-Net backbone, to achieve precise, automated, and fast segmentation of radio astronomy data affected by calibration…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Nicoletta Sanvitale , Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Annalisa Bonafede , Virginia Cuciti , Emanuele De Rubeis , Federica Govoni , Matteo Murgia , Valentina Vacca

The radio spectral index is a powerful probe for classifying cosmic radio sources and understanding the origin of the radio emission. Combining data at 147 MHz and 1.4 GHz from the TIFR GMRT Sky Survey (TGSS) and the NRAO VLA Sky Survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 F. de Gasperin , H. T. Intema , D. A. Frail

The Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) has mapped out the low-redshift Universe down to $K_S\sim14$ mag. As its near-infrared photometry primarily probes the featureless Rayleigh-Jeans tail of galaxy spectral energy distributions,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Mubdi Rahman , Brice Ménard , Ryan Scranton

Single-dish far-infrared (far-IR) and sub-millimetre (sub-mm) point source catalogues and their connections with catalogues at other wavelengths are of paramount importance. However, due to the large mismatch in spatial resolution,…

Source localization by matched-field processing (MFP) generally involves solving a number of computationally intensive partial differential equations. This paper introduces a technique that mitigates this computational workload by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-30 William Mantzel , Justin Romberg , Karim Sabra

We have observed an area of approximatley 27 deg^2 to an rms noise level of less than 0.2 mJy at 15.7 GHz, using the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array. These observations constitute the most sensitive radio-source survey of any…

The prospect of relativistic jets exhibiting complex morphologies as a consequence of geodetic precession has long been hypothesised. We have carried out a 3D hydrodynamics simulation study varying the precession cone angle, jet injection…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 Maya Horton , Martin Krause , Martin Hardcastle

We present an algorithm capable of detecting diffuse, dim sources of any size in an astronomical image. These sources often defeat traditional methods for source finding, which expand regions around points of high intensity. Extended…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-05 T. Butler-Yeoman , M. Frean , C. P. Hollitt , D. W. Hogg , M. Johnston-Hollitt

Analytical models describing the dynamics of lobed radio sources are essential for interpretation of the tens of millions of radio sources that will be observed by the Square Kilometre Array and pathfinder instruments. We propose that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 Ross J. Turner , Stanislav S. Shabala

The eROSITA X-ray telescope on board the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) satellite has started to detect new X-ray sources over the full sky at an unprecedented rate. Understanding the performance and selection function of the source…

Early on, extragalactic radio sources have pointed to a cosmologically evolving Universe. They were also an important piece of evidence for the existence of supermassive black holes, now thought to be a key component of galaxies. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-06 Martin Krause

Point Source (PS) detection is an important issue for future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments since they are one of the main contaminants to the recovery of CMB signal at small scales. Improving its multifrequency detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 J. M. Casas , J. González-Nuevo , L. Bonavera , D. Herranz , S. L. Suárez Gómez , M. M. Cueli , D. Crespo , J. D. Santos , M. L. Sánchez , F. Sánchez-Lasheras , F. J. de Cos

The detection of point sources in Cosmic Microwave Background maps is usually based on a single-frequency approach, whereby maps at each frequency are filtered separately and the spectral information on the sources is derived combining the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-16 L. F. Lanz , D. Herranz , M. López-Caniego , J. González-Nuevo , G. de Zotti , M. Massardi , J. L. Sanz

Extended radio emission detected around a sample of GHz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) radio sources is discussed. Evidence for extended emission which is related to the GPS source is found in 6 objects out of 33. Three objects are associated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Stanghellini , C. P. O'Dea , D. Dallacasa , P. Cassaro , S. A. Baum , R. Fanti , C. Fanti

The goal of this work is to determine the nature of the relation between morphology and accretion mode in radio galaxies, including environmental parameters. The CoNFIG extended catalogue (improved by new Ks-band identifications and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Melanie A. Gendre , P. N. Best , J. V. Wall , L. M. Ker