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We propose a new instrumental concept for long-baseline optical single-mode interferometry using integrated optics which were developed for telecommunication. Visible and infrared multi-aperture interferometry requires many optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Malbet , P. Kern , I. Schanen-Duport , J. -P. Berger , K. Rousselet-Perraut

Ground-based astronomical observations at thermal infrared wavelengths face the problem of extracting the weak astronomical signal from the large and rapidly variable background flux. The observing strategy most commonly used, the so-called…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Bertero , P. Boccacci , M. Robberto

Interferometric measurements with arrays of radio antennas are a powerful and widely used technique in astronomy. Recently, this technique has been revisited for the reconstruction of extensive air showers [1]. This radio-interferometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-16 Felix Schlüter , Tim Huege

One common task in image forensics is to detect spliced images, where multiple source images are composed to one output image. Most of the currently best performing splicing detectors leverage high-frequency artifacts. However, after an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Benjamin Hadwiger , Christian Riess

Observations performed by INTEGRAL are typically subdivided in kilo-seconds individual pointings. A mosaic software has been developed at the Danish Space Research Institute to combine sky images from different pointings with significantly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Chenevez , N. Lund , N. J. Westergaard , C. Budtz-Joergensen , P. Kretschmar , R. Walter

Interest in pupil-remapping interferometry, in which a single telescope pupil is fragmented and recombined using fiber optic technologies, has been growing among a number of groups. As a logical extrapolation from several highly successful…

We develop in detail a recently proposed optical-path modification of astronomical intensity interferometers. Extended-Path Intensity Correlation (EPIC) introduces a tunable path extension, enabling differential astrometry of multiple…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-17 Marios Galanis , Ken Van Tilburg , Masha Baryakhtar , Neal Weiner

Cosmography is the tool that makes possible to untie the interpretation of cosmological observations from the definition of any dynamical prior. We review the constraints on the cosmographic parameter obtained using the most thorough data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-01 Vincenzo Vitagliano , Jun-Qing Xia , Stefano Liberati , Matteo Viel

Astronomical imaging can be broadly classified into two types. The first type is amplitude interferometry, which includes conventional optical telescopes and Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). The second type is intensity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Manuel Bojer , Zixin Huang , Sebastian Karl , Stefan Richter , Pieter Kok , J. von Zanthier

Interferometric imaging is a well established method to image phase objects by mixing the image wavefront with a reference one on a CCD camera. It has also been applied to fast transient phenomena, mostly through the analysis of single…

Coherent diffraction imaging is a high-resolution imaging technique whose potential can be greatly enhanced by applying the extrapolation method presented here. We demonstrate enhancement in resolution of a non-periodical object…

Observational astrophysics uses sophisticated technology to collect and measure electromagnetic and other radiation from beyond the Earth. Modern observatories produce large, complex datasets and extracting the maximum possible information…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-03-14 P. Barmby

This tutorial gives a general introduction to optical and infrared interferometry, specifically addressing two questions: `Can I use VLTI to observe my favourite object?' and `What will it tell me?' The observables measured by an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy R. Bedding

Electronically Assisted Astronomy consists in capturing deep sky images with a digital camera coupled to a telescope to display views of celestial objects that would have been invisible through direct observation. This practice generates a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Olivier Parisot , Pierrick Bruneau , Patrik Hitzelberger

We present a scheme for achieving macroscopic quantum superpositions in optomechanical systems by using single photon postselection and detecting them with nested interferometers. This method relieves many of the challenges associated with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-08 Brian Pepper , Roohollah Ghobadi , Evan Jeffrey , Christoph Simon , Dirk Bouwmeester

Mixup is a powerful data augmentation method that interpolates between two or more examples in the input or feature space and between the corresponding target labels. Many recent mixup methods focus on cutting and pasting two or more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shashanka Venkataramanan , Ewa Kijak , Laurent Amsaleg , Yannis Avrithis

X-ray interferometry has the potential to provide imaging at ultra high angular resolutions of 100 micro arc seconds or better. However, designing a practical interferometer which fits within a reasonable envelope and that has sufficient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Willingale

Space interferometry is the inevitable endpoint of high angular resolution astrophysics, and a key technology that can be leveraged to analyse exoplanet formation and atmospheres with exceptional detail. However, the anticipated cost of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-04 Jonah T. Hansen , Michael J. Ireland

Even the best scientific equipment can only partially observe reality. Recorded data is often lower-dimensional, e.g., two-dimensional pictures of the three-dimensional world. Combining data from multiple experiments then results in a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-05-26 Michael Plainer , Felix Dietrich , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Future large arrays of telescopes, used as intensity interferometers, can be used to image the surfaces of stars with unprecedented angular resolution. Fast-rotating, hot stars are particularly attractive targets for intensity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Paul D. Nunez , Armando Domiciano de Souza