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High power in narrow frequency bands, spectral lines, are a feature of an interferometric gravitational wave detector's output. Some lines are coherent between interferometers, in particular, the 2 km and 4 km LIGO Hanford instruments. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Antony C. Searle , Susan M. Scott , David E. McClelland

'lintsampler' provides a Python implementation of a technique we term 'linear interpolant sampling': an algorithm to efficiently draw pseudo-random samples from an arbitrary probability density function (PDF). First, the PDF is evaluated on…

Computation · Statistics 2024-10-10 Aneesh P. Naik , Michael S. Petersen

Radio interferometer arrays with non-homogeneous element patterns are more difficult to calibrate compared to the more common homogeneous array. In particular, the non-homogeneity of the patterns has significant implications on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Jake L. Jones , Randall B. Wayth

Far infrared cooling lines are ubiquitous features in the spectra of star forming galaxies. Surveys of redshifted fine-structure lines provide a promising new tool to study structure formation and galactic evolution at redshifts including…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-05 A. Kogut , E. Dwek , S. H. Moseley

We describe preliminary results from an ultra-sensitive, spectroscopic emission-line survey and illustrate the challenges inherent in identifying high-redshift LyA emitters. Our multi-slit windows technique complements other types of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Crystal L. Martin , Marcin Sawicki , Alan Dressler , Patrick J. McCarthy

iLocater is a near-infrared (NIR) radial velocity (RV) spectrograph that is being developed for the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona. Unlike seeing limited designs, iLocater uses adaptive optics to inject starlight directly into a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Eric B. Bechter , Andrew J. Bechter , Justin R. Crepp , Jonathan Crass , David King

I present the Automated Line Fitting Algorithm, ALFA, a new code which can fit emission line spectra of arbitrary wavelength coverage and resolution, fully automatically. In contrast to traditional emission line fitting methods which…

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Characterizing the variability of the extragalactic sources used for calibration in the Atacama Large Millimeter/Sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) is key to assess the flux scale uncertainty of science observations. To this end, we model the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-12 A. E. Guzmán , C. Verdugo , H. Nagai , Y. Contreras , G. Marinello , R. Kneissl , K. Nakanishi , J. Ueda

Spectral type recognition is an important and fundamental step of large sky survey projects in the data reduction for further scientific research, like parameter measurement and statistic work. It tends out to be a huge job to manually…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-25 Hailong Yuan , Haotong Zhang , Yanxia Zhang , Yajuan Lei , Yiqiao Dong , Yongheng Zhao

Hyperspectral imaging is useful for applications ranging from medical diagnostics to agricultural crop monitoring; however, traditional scanning hyperspectral imagers are prohibitively slow and expensive for widespread adoption. Snapshot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Kristina Monakhova , Kyrollos Yanny , Neerja Aggarwal , Laura Waller

Classification of spectra (1) and anomaly detection (2) are fundamental steps to guarantee the highest accuracy in redshift measurements (3) in modern all-sky spectroscopic surveys. We introduce a new Galaxy Spectra Neural Network…

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging technique to probe the large-scale structure of the Universe. By targeting the integrated intensity of specific spectral lines, it captures the emission from all sources and is sensitive to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-15 Gabriela Sato-Polito , Nickolas Kokron , José Luis Bernal

A link stream is a set of triplets $(t, u, v)$ indicating that $u$ and $v$ interacted at time $t$. Link streams model numerous datasets and their proper study is crucial in many applications. In practice, raw link streams are often…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Esteban Bautista , Matthieu Latapy

This paper introduces a new quantization scheme for real and complex Grassmannian sources. The proposed approach relies on a structured codebook based on a geometric construction of a collection of bent grids defined from an initial mesh on…

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Following the discovery of the brightest high-energy neutrino sources in the sky, the further detection of fainter sources is more challenging. A natural solution is to combine fainter source candidates, and instead of individual…

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Given the necessity of connecting the unconnected, covering blind spots has emerged as a critical task in the next-generation wireless communication network. A direct solution involves obtaining a coverage manifold that visually showcases…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ruibo Wang , Washim Uddin Mondal , Mustafa A. Kishk , Vaneet Aggarwal , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Lidar became an important component of the perception systems in autonomous driving. But challenges of training data acquisition and annotation made emphasized the role of the sensor to sensor domain adaptation. In this work, we address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Artem Savkin , Yida Wang , Sebastian Wirkert , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombar

Identifying systems with high-dimensional inputs and outputs, such as systems measured by video streams, is a challenging problem with numerous applications in robotics, autonomous vehicles and medical imaging. In this paper, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Gerben Izaak Beintema , Roland Toth , Maarten Schoukens

Combinations of spectroscopic analysis and microscopic techniques are used across many disciplines of scientific research, including material science, chemistry and biology. X-ray spectromicroscopy, in particular, is a powerful tool used…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Oliver Townsend , Silvia Gazzola , Sergey Dolgov , Paul Quinn