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The latest generation of radio astronomy interferometers will conduct all sky surveys with data products consisting of petabytes of spectral line data. Traditional approaches to identifying and parameterising the astrophysical sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-21 Stefan Westerlund , Christopher Harris

Next-generation radio surveys will yield an unprecedented amount of data, warranting analysis by use of machine learning techniques. Convolutional neural networks are the deep learning technique that has proven to be the most successful in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 V. Lukic , M. Brüggen , B. Mingo , J. H. Croston , G. Kasieczka , P. N. Best

A sample of 2712 radio-luminous galaxies is defined from the second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) by cross-comparing the main spectroscopic galaxy sample with two radio surveys: the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. N. Best , G. Kauffmann , T. M. Heckman , Z. Ivezic

We present a convolutional neural network that is capable of searching for continuous gravitational waves, quasi-monochromatic, persistent signals arising from asymmetrically rotating neutron stars, in $\sim 1$ year of simulated data that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Andrew L. Miller , Magdalena Sieniawska , Takahiro Tanaka

Detecting sound source objects within visual observation is important for autonomous robots to comprehend surrounding environments. Since sounding objects have a large variety with different appearances in our living environments, labeling…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Yoshiki Masuyama , Yoshiaki Bando , Kohei Yatabe , Yoko Sasaki , Masaki Onishi , Yasuhiro Oikawa

The Combined NVSS-FIRST Galaxy (CoNFIG) survey was defined by selecting all sources with S_1.4GHz > 1.3Jy from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) in the north field of the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm (FIRST) survey. We carried…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-14 Melanie A. Gendre , Jasper V. Wall

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors will be able to observe signals from sources that are otherwise nearly impossible from current ground-based detection. Consequently, the well established signal detection method, matched…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-17 Tianyu Zhao , Ruoxi Lyu , He Wang , Zhoujian Cao , Zhixiang Ren

Coincident observations with gravitational wave (GW) detectors and other astronomical instruments are in the focus of the experiments with the network of LIGO, Virgo and GEO detectors. They will become a necessary part of the future GW…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-25 S. Klimenko , G. Vedovato , M. Drago , G. Mazzolo , G. Mitselmakher , C. Pankow , G. Prodi , V. Re , F. Salemi , I. Yakushin

Source classifications, stellar masses and star formation rates are presented for 80,000 radio sources from the first data release of the Low Frequency Array Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) Deep Fields, which represents the widest deep radio…

This paper explores the application of machine learning methods for classifying astronomical sources using photometric data, including normal and emission line galaxies (ELGs; starforming, starburst, AGN, broad line), quasars, and stars. We…

In this paper, a novel method based on the entropy estimation of the observation space eigenvalues is proposed to estimate the number of the sources in Gaussian and Non-Gaussian noise. In this method, the eigenvalues of correlation matrix…

Applications · Statistics 2024-09-02 Hamid Asadi , Babak Seyfe

Point source detection techniques are used to identify and localise point sources in radio astronomical surveys. With the development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope, survey images will see a massive increase in size from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Duncan Tilley , Christopher W. Cleghorn , Kshitij Thorat , Roger Deane

Radio continuum surveys can detect galaxies over a very wide range in redshift, making them powerful tools for studying the distant universe. Until recently, though, identifying the optical counterparts of faint radio sources and measuring…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elaine M. Sadler , Carole A. Jackson , Russell D. Cannon

Large surveys using modern telescopes are producing images that are increasing exponentially in size and quality. Identifying objects in the generated images by visual recognition is time-consuming and labor-intensive, while classifying the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-28 Baoqiang Lao , Tao An , Ailing Wang , Zhijun Xu , Shaoguang Guo , Weijia Lv , Xiaocong Wu , Yingkang Zhang

We study efficient deep learning training algorithms that process received wireless signals, if a test Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) estimate is available. We focus on two tasks that facilitate source identification: 1- Identifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Xingchen Wang , Shengtai Ju , Xiwen Zhang , Sharan Ramjee , Aly El Gamal

We present a multi-scale, multi-wavelength source extraction algorithm called getsources. Although it has been designed primarily for use in the far-infrared surveys of Galactic star-forming regions with Herschel, the method can be applied…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Men'shchikov , Ph. André , P. Didelon , F. Motte , M. Hennemann , N. Schneider

Quality improvement of interferometric data collected by gravitational-wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO and Virgo is mission critical for the success of gravitational-wave astrophysics. Gravitational-wave detectors are sensitive to a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-12-14 Marco Cavaglia , Kai Staats , Teerth Gill

Gravitational-wave searches for cosmic strings are currently hindered by the presence of detector glitches, some classes of which strongly resemble cosmic string signals. This confusion greatly reduces the efficiency of searches. A…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Quirijn Meijer , Melissa Lopez , Daichi Tsuna , Sarah Caudill

This work presents a method for determining the accuracy of a source finder algorithm for spectral line radio astronomy data and the Source Finder Accuracy Evaluator (SFAE), a program that implements this method. The accuracy of a source…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Stefan Westerlund , Christopher Harris , Tobias Westmeier

Novel techniques are indispensable to process the flood of data from the new generation of radio telescopes. In particular, the classification of astronomical sources in images is challenging. Morphological classification of radio galaxies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-10 Janis Kummer , Lennart Rustige , Florian Griese , Kerstin Borras , Marcus Brüggen , Patrick L. S. Connor , Frank Gaede , Gregor Kasieczka , Peter Schleper