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Caribou is a versatile data acquisition system used in multiple collaborative frameworks (CERN EP R&D, DRD3, AIDAinnova, Tangerine) for laboratory and test-beam qualification of novel silicon pixel detector prototypes. The system is built…

Visual-inertial systems have been widely studied and applied in the last two decades (from the early 2000s to the present), mainly due to their low cost and power consumption, small footprint, and high availability. Such a trend…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shuolong Chen , Xingxing Li , Shengyu Li , Yuxuan Zhou

With ever increasing data rates produced by modern radio telescopes like LOFAR and future telescopes like the SKA, many data processing steps are overwhelmed by the amount of data that needs to be handled using limited compute resources.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Sarod Yatawatta

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MRS) is the only mid-IR Integral Field Spectrometer on board James Webb Space Telescope. The complexity of the MRS requires a very specialized pipeline, with some specific…

We have constructed a new, fast, robust and reliable pipeline to detect variable stars from the ROTSE-IIId archival data. Turkish share of ROTSE-III archive contains approximately one million objects from a large field of view (1.85\dgr)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 B. B. Güçsav , C. Yeşilyaprak , S. K. Yerli , N. Aksaker , Ü. Kızıloğlu , D. Çoker , E. Dikicioğlu , M. E. Aydın

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) achieves the highest angular resolution in astronomy. VLBI measures corrupted Fourier components, known as visibilities. Reconstructing on-sky images from these visibilities is a challenging inverse…

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ADARI (Astronomical DAta Reporting Infrastructure) is a system designed for creating graphical reports of astronomical data so that the quality of these products can be assessed. It has been designed from the ground up to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 C. E. García-Dabó , P. Beirao , Z. Kostrzewa , A. Gabasch , B. Wolff , M. White , M. Deshpande , B. Miszalski , P. Corcho-Caballero , C. Onken , A. Heng , M. González

This paper introduces a pipeline to parametrically sample and render multi-task vision datasets from comprehensive 3D scans from the real world. Changing the sampling parameters allows one to "steer" the generated datasets to emphasize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Ainaz Eftekhar , Alexander Sax , Roman Bachmann , Jitendra Malik , Amir Zamir

Because of the denser active use of the spectrum, and because of radio telescopes higher sensitivity, radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation has become a sensitive topic for current and future radio telescope designs. Even if quite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-03 Dumez-Viou Cédric , Weber Rodolphe , Ravier Philippe

Context: Data from ground-based, high-resolution solar telescopes can only be used for science with calibrations and processing, which requires detailed knowledge about the instrumentation. [...] Aims: We aim to provide observers with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 M. G. Löfdahl , T. Hillberg , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , G. Vissers , O. Andriienko , G. B. Scharmer , S. V. H. Haugan , T. Fredvik

Switched capacitor arrays (SCA) ASICs are becoming more and more popular for the readout of detector signals, since the sampling frequency of typically several gigasamples per second allows excellent pile-up rejection and time measurements.…

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Context. Galactic binaries account for the loudest combined continuous gravitational wave signal in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) band, which spans a frequency range of 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. Aims. A superposition of low frequency…

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Large angular scale surveys in the absence of atmosphere are essential for measuring the primordial $B$-mode power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Since this proposed measurement is about three to four orders of magnitude…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Y. Takase , L. Vacher , H. Ishino , G. Patanchon , L. Montier , S. L. Stever , K. Ishizaka , Y. Nagano , W. Wang , J. Aumont , K. Aizawa , A. Anand , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , M. Bersanelli , M. Bortolami , T. Brinckmann , E. Calabrese , P. Campeti , E. Carinos , A. Carones , F. J. Casas , K. Cheung , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , P. de Bernardis , T. de Haan , E. de la Hoz , S. Della Torre , P. Diego-Palazuelos , G. D'Alessandro , H. K. Eriksen , J. Errard , F. Finelli , U. Fuskeland , G. Galloni , M. Galloway , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Gjerløw , R. González González , A. Gruppuso , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , L. T. Hergt , K. Ikuma , K. Kohri , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , M. Lembo , F. Levrier , A. I. Lonappan , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , B. Maffei , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , F. T. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , S. Micheli , M. Migliaccio , M. Monelli , G. Morgante , B. Mot , R. Nagata , T. Namikawa , A. Novelli , K. Odagiri , S. Oguri , R. Omae , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , F. Piacentini , M. Pinchera , G. Polenta , L. Porcelli , N. Raffuzzi , M. Remazeilles , A. Ritacco , M. Ruiz-Granda , Y. Sakurai , D. Scott , Y. Sekimoto , M. Shiraishi , G. Signorelli , R. M. Sullivan , H. Takakura , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , B. van Tent , P. Vielva , I. K. Wehus , B. Westbrook , G. Weymann-Despres , E. J. Wollack , M. Zannoni , Y. Zhou

Virtually imaged phased array (VIPA) spectrometers provide high resolution and fast acquisition in a compact design, but their performance as dispersive instruments is sensitive to fabrication tolerances, component dimensions, and…

Optical Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) offers the potential for unprecedented angular resolution in both astronomical imaging and precision measurements. Classical approaches, however, face significant limitations due to photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Zixin Huang , Oleg Titov , Mikolaj K. Schmidt , Benjamin Pope , Gavin K. Brennen , Daniel Oi , Pieter Kok

Randomized compiling (RC) is an efficient method for tailoring arbitrary Markovian errors into stochastic Pauli channels. However, the standard procedure for implementing the protocol in software comes with a large experimental overhead --…

Calibration is a key step in the signal processing pipeline of any radio astronomical instrument. The required sky, ionospheric and instrumental models for this step can suffer from various kinds of incompleteness. In this paper we analyze…

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A catalog containing milliarcsecond--accurate positions of 1332 extragalactic radio sources distributed over the northern sky is presented - the Very Long Baseline Array Calibrator Survey (VCS1). The positions have been derived from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 A. J. Beasley , D. Gordon , A. B. Peck , L. Petrov , D. S. MacMillan , E. B. Fomalont , C. Ma

Modern general-purpose accelerators integrate a large number of programmable area- and energy-efficient processing elements (PEs), to deliver high performance while meeting stringent power delivery and thermal dissipation constraints. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Luca Colagrande , Jayanth Jonnalagadda , Luca Benini

We present an overview of the 'ICE' hardware and software framework that implements large arrays of interconnected FPGA-based data acquisition, signal processing and networking nodes economically. The system was conceived for application to…