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In optical metrological protocols to measure physical quantities, it is, in principle, always beneficial to increase photon number to improve measurement precision. However, practical constraints prevent arbitrary increase of n due to the…

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Sky subtraction is the key technique in data reduction of multi-fiber spectra. Knowledge of the related instrument character is necessary to determine the method adopted in sky subtraction. In this study, we described the sky subtraction…

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I present a weak lensing sensitivity estimate for upcoming high redshift (epoch of reionization and beyond) 21cm surveys. Instruments such as PAST, LOFAR and SKA should be able to measure the weak lensing power spectrum to precisions far…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ue-Li Pen

Received signal strength based radio tomographic imaging is a popular device-free indoor localization method which reconstructs the spatial loss field of the environment using measurements from a dense wireless network. Existing methods…

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5th Generation Mobile Network Systems(5G systems) operating in milli-meter Wave (mmW) bands will employ base stations with integrated Active Antenna Systems (AASs) capable of beam-tracking using narrow beams obtained from array antennas…

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Recently, we demonstrated how an astrophotonic light reformatting device, based on a multicore fibre photonic lantern and a three-dimensional waveguide component, can be used to efficiently reformat the point spread function of a telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Fraser A. Pike , Aurélien Benoît , David G. MacLachlan , Robert J. Harris , Itandehui Gris Sánchez , David Lee , Tim A. Birks , Robert R. Thomson

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We present a method to mitigate the atmospheric effects (residual atmospheric lines) in single-dish radio spectroscopy caused by the elevation difference between the target and reference positions. The method is developed as a script using…

One of the exciting prospects for large N arrays is the potential for custom beam forming when operating in phased array mode. Pattern nulls may be generated by properly weighting the signals from all antennas with only minor degradation of…

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Inconclusive photon subtraction (IPS) is a conditional measurement scheme to force nonlinear evolution of a given state. In IPS the input state is mixed with the vacuum in a beam splitter and then the reflected beam is revealed by ON/OFF…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefano Olivares , Matteo G. A. Paris , Rodolfo Bonifacio

Vision Transformers have demonstrated exceptional performance across various computer vision tasks, yet their quadratic computational complexity concerning token length remains a significant challenge. To address this, token reduction…

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This contribution presents four algorithms developed by the authors for single-channel fullband and subband T60 estimation within the ACE challenge. The blind estimation of the fullband reverberation time (RT) by maximum-likelihood (ML)…

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Image slicing is a powerful technique in astronomy. It allows the instrument designer to reduce the slit width of the spectrograph, increasing spectral resolving power whilst retaining throughput. Conventionally this is done using bulk…

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The majority of spatial signal processing techniques focus on increasing the total system capacity and providing high data rates for intended user(s). Unlike the existing studies, this paper introduces a novel interference modulation method…

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The upcoming Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescopes aim at achieving a constraint on the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ at the level of $\sigma(r=0)\lesssim0.003$, observing the polarized CMB in the presence of partial sky…

In fiber-based spectroscopy within telescopes, a prevailing limitation has been the necessity to align the fiber diameter with the telescope's seeing conditions, often characterized by the Full Width at Half Maximum of the point spread…

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We develop a compact, reliable model order reduction approach for fast frequency sweeps in microwave circuits by means of the reduced-basis method. Contrary to what has been previously done, special emphasis is placed on certifying the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Valentin de la Rubia , Sridhar Chellappa , Lihong Feng , Peter Benner

We have simulated the interferometric observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization fluctuations. We have constructed data pipelines from the time-ordered raw visibility samples to the CMB power spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chan-Gyung Park , Kin-Wang Ng , Changbom Park , Guo-Chin Liu , Keiichi Umetsu

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short duration highly energetic dispersed radio pulses. We developed a generic formalism (Bera {\em et al.}, 2016) to estimate the FRB detection rate for any radio telescope with given parameters. By using this…

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