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Rapid spectroscopy of GRB afterglows is an important and hard task. Based on the archival XS-GRB spectral database, we here perform a pilot study on the afterglow's spectroscopy in the forthcoming \it SVOM \rm era in two aspects. At first,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 J. Wang , Y. L. Qiu , J. Y. Wei

A key tool in the package of software available for the analysis of data from the SPI spectrometer of Integral is the SPIROS system developed at the University of Birmingham. Although intended primarily for the analysis of point sources and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. K. Skinner , P. H. Connell

The measured cosmic gamma ray background (CGB) spectrum at MeV energies is in reasonable agreement with the predicted contribution from type Ia supernovae (SNIa). But the characteristic features in the SNIa gamma ray spectrum, weakened by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pengjie Zhang , John F. Beacom

The contribution to the cosmic diffuse gamma-ray background (CGB) from Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) is studied in the 40 keV - 2 MeV regime. We use High Energy Resolution (HER) data from the Burst And Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) aboard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 K. Watanabe , D. H. Hartmann

Measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature by Planck has resulted in extremely tight constraints on the $\Lambda$CDM model. However the data indicates a evidence of dipole modulated temperature fluctuations at large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-06 Suvodip Mukherjee

The Planck experiment has measured the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) angular spectrum with unprecedented accuracy, and these results are likely to remain the state-of-the art for a decade or more. Since these measurements are going to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Julia Stadler , Céline Bœhm

Despite the influx of unprecedented-quality data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope that have been collected over nine years of operation, the contribution of normal star-forming galaxies to the extragalactic gamma-ray background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 I. Komis , V. Pavlidou , A. Zezas

In this paper, we present the hard X-ray spectral analysis of a complete sample of AGN de- tected by INTEGRAL/IBIS. In conjunction with IBIS spectra, we make use of Swift/BAT data, with the aim of cross-calibrating the two instruments,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Manuela Molina , L. Bassani , A. Malizia , J. B. Stephen , A. J. Bird , A. Bazzano , P. Ubertini

Simulation-Based Inference (SBI) is an approach to statistical inference where simulations from an assumed model are used to construct estimators and confidence sets. SBI is often used when the likelihood is intractable and to construct…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-05 Lorenzo Tomaselli , Valérie Ventura , Larry Wasserman

Enlightening our understanding of the first galaxies responsible for driving reionisation requires detecting the 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen. Interpreting the wealth of information embedded in this signal requires Bayesian inference.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Bradley Greig , David Prelogović , Yuxiang Qin , Yuan-Sen Ting , Andrei Mesinger

We present Global MOdel for the radio Sky Spectrum (GMOSS) -- a novel, physically motivated model of the low-frequency radio sky from 22 MHz to 23 GHz. GMOSS invokes different physical components and associated radiative processes to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-19 Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Ravi Subrahmanyan , N Udaya Shankar , Jens Chluba

LISA data analysis represents one of the most challenging tasks ahead for the future of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy. Characterizing the instrument's noise properties while fitting for all the other detectable sources is a key…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Alessandro Santini , Martina Muratore , Jonathan Gair , Olaf Hartwig

Accurate beam modeling is important in many radio astronomy applications. In this paper, we focus on beam modeling for 21-cm intensity mapping experiments using radio interferometers, though the techniques also apply to single dish…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Michael J. Wilensky , Philip Bull , Nicolas Fagnoni

The INTEGRAL observatory has been performing a deep survey of the Galactic central radian since 2003, with the goal of both extracting a catalog of sources and gaining insight into the Galactic diffuse emission. This paper concentrates on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 L. Bouchet , J. P. Roques , P. Mandrou , A. Strong , R. Diehl , F. Lebrun , R. Terrier

This review covers the measurements related to the extragalactic background light (EBL) intensity from gamma-rays to radio in the electromagnetic spectrum over 20 decades in the wavelength. The cosmic microwave background (CMB) remains the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-11 Asantha Cooray

Detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background requires that we first understand and model any astrophysical foregrounds. In the millihertz frequency band, the predominate foreground signal will be from unresolved white dwarf binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-23 Matthew R. Adams , Neil J. Cornish

Modelling ultra-low-noise far-infrared grating spectrometers has become crucial for the next generation of far-infrared space observatories. Conventional techniques are awkward to apply because of the partially coherent form of the incident…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 B. N. R. Lap , S. Withington , W. Jellema , D. A. Naylor

Simulation-based Bayesian inference (SBI) can be used to estimate the parameters of complex mechanistic models given observed model outputs without requiring access to explicit likelihood evaluations. A prime example for the application of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Jonas Beck , Michael Deistler , Yves Bernaerts , Jakob Macke , Philipp Berens

We have developed observation control software for the Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) slit-viewing camera module, which maintains the position of an astronomical target on the spectroscopic slit. It is composed of several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Hye-In Lee , Soojong Pak , Gregory N. Mace , Kyle F. Kaplan , Huynh Anh N. Le , Heeyoung Oh , Chan Park , Sungho Lee

Photometric instruments operating at far infrared to millimetre wavelengths often have broad spectral passbands (central wavelength/bandwidth ~ 3 or less), especially those operating in space. A broad passband can result in significant…

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