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In recent years, radio frequency (RF) sensing has gained increasing popularity due to its pervasiveness, low cost, non-intrusiveness, and privacy preservation. However, realizing the promises of RF sensing is highly nontrivial, given…

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The ionosphere is the main driver of a series of systematic effects that limit our ability to explore the low frequency (<1 GHz) sky with radio interferometers. Its effects become increasingly important towards lower frequencies and are…

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The Earth's Moon presents a uniquely advantageous environment for detecting astrophysical gravitational waves (GWs) in the frequency range of millihertz to decihertz. Unlike Terrestrial GW detectors, the quiet seismic environment of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-27 Teviet Creighton , Philippe Lognonné , Mark P. Panning , James Trippe , Volker Quetschke , Karan Jani

Interstellar radar is a potential intermediate step between passive observation of exoplanets and interstellar exploratory missions. Compared to passive observation, it has the traditional advantages of radar astronomy. It can measure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Louis K. Scheffer

The Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is studying a space VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometer) program. The ultimate objective of the program is to image the immediate vicinity of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-01 Xiaoyu Hong , Zhiqiang Shen , Tao An , Qinghui Liu , the Chinese Space VLBI Array team

I present simple but robust estimates of the types of sources making up the faint, sub-microJy radio sky. These include, not surprisingly, star-forming galaxies and radio-quiet AGN but also two "new" populations, that is low radio power…

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Optical Earth observation satellites acquire images worldwide , covering up to several million square kilometers every day. The complexity of scheduling acquisitions for such systems increases exponentially when considering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Adrien Hadj-Salah , Rémi Verdier , Clément Caron , Mathieu Picard , Mikaël Capelle

The Earth's Moon presents a uniquely advantageous environment for detecting astrophysical gravitational waves (GWs), particularly in the scientifically interesting deciHz regime. The Laser Interferometer Lunar Antennae (LILA) project plans…

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Radio interferometry allows astronomers to probe small spatial scales that are often inaccessible with single-dish instruments. However, recovering the radio sky from an interferometer is an ill-posed deconvolution problem that astronomers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Liam Connor , Katherine L. Bouman , Vikram Ravi , Gregg Hallinan

We present a survey of the radio sky accessible from the first station of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA1). Images are presented at nine frequencies between 35 and 80 MHz with spatial resolutions ranging from $4.7^\circ$ to $2.0^\circ$,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-20 Jayce Dowell , Gregory B. Taylor , Frank K. Schinzel , Namir E. Kassim , Kevin Stovall

The first station of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA1) was completed in April 2011 and is currently performing observations resulting from its first call for proposals in addition to a continuing program of commissioning and characterization…

The lunar geological record has much to tell us about the earliest history of the Solar System, the origin and evolution of the Earth-Moon system, the geological evolution of rocky planets, and the near-Earth cosmic environment throughout…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 I. A. Crawford , M. Anand , C. S. Cockell , H. Falcke , D. A. Green , R. Jaumann , M. A. Wieczorek

Nulling interferometry is a technique providing high angular resolution which is the core of the space missions Darwin and the Terrestrail Planet Finder. The first objective is to reach a deep degree of starlight cancelation in the range 6…

The International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) is a pan-European radio interferometer with baselines up to 2,000 km. This provides sub-arcsecond resolution at frequencies of <200 MHz. Since starting science operations in 2012, the ILT has carried…

We present a design for a near-ultraviolet (NUV) imaging instrument which may be flown on a range of available platforms, including high-altitude balloons, nanosatellites, or space missions. Although all current UV space missions adopt a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Joice Mathew , Ajin Prakash , Mayuresh Sarpotdar , A. G. Sreejith , K. Nirmal , S. Ambily , Margarita Safonova , Jayant Murthy , Noah Brosch

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is expected to start science operations in 2030 and by that time there could be up to 10$^5$ artificial satellites in Earth's orbit, comprising an increase of an order of magnitude compared to 2024. Most of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Nicolas Cerardi , Emma Tolley , Federico di Vruno

The radio sky at lower frequencies, particularly below 20 MHz, is expected to be a combination of increasingly bright non-thermal emission and significant absorption from intervening thermal plasma. The sky maps at these frequencies cannot…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Akhil Jaini , Avinash A. Deshpande , Sainath Bitragunta

Radio astronomy began with one array (Jansky's) and one paraboloid of revolution (Reber's) as collecting areas and has now reached the point where a large number of facilities are arrays of paraboloids, each of which would have looked…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Virginia Trimble

In the cm-wavelength range, an extraterrestrial electromagnetic narrow band (sine wave) beacon is an excellent choice to get alien attention across interstellar distances because 1) it is not strongly affected by interstellar /…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-08 G. R. Harp , R. F. Ackermann , Samantha K. Blair , J. Arbunich , P. R. Backus , J. C. Tarter , the ATA Team

Radio interferometers can potentially detect the sky-averaged signal from the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) by studying the Moon as a thermal block to the foreground sky. The first step is to mitigate the Earth-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-19 Himanshu Tiwari , Benjamin McKinley , Cathryn M. Trott , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan