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We present 3 methods for the subtraction of non-cosmic and unresolved cosmic backgrounds observed by the Low-Energy Concentrator Spectrometer (LECS) on-board BeppoSAX. Removal of these backgrounds allows a more accurate modeling of the…

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In this review we present an overview of the current atom probe tomography spatial data reconstruction paradigm, and explore some of potential routes to improve the current methodology in order to yield a more accurate representation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-13 David J. Larson , Baptiste Gault , Brian P. Geiser , Frederic De Geuser , F. Vurpillot

Alpha matting aims to estimate the translucency of an object in a given image. The resulting alpha matte describes pixel-wise to what amount foreground and background colors contribute to the color of the composite image. While most methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Thomas Germer , Tobias Uelwer , Stefan Conrad , Stefan Harmeling

A maximum entropy method (MEM) is presented for separating the emission due to different foreground components from simulated satellite observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR). In particular, the method is applied…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 MP Hobson , AW Jones , AN Lasenby , FR Bouchet

We discuss an approach to the component separation of microwave, multi-frequency sky maps as those typically produced from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Anisotropy data sets. The algorithm is based on the two step, parametric,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 R. Stompor , S. Leach , F. Stivoli , C. Baccigalupi

It remains challenging to detect the low surface brightness structures of faint high-z galaxies, which is key to understanding the structural evolution of galaxies. The technique of image stacking allows us to measure the averaged light…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Yubin Li , XianZhong Zheng , Qiu-Sheng Gu , Yi-Peng Wang , ZhangZheng Wen , Kexin Guo , FangXia An

An improved method for subtracting contaminants from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) sky maps is presented, and used to estimate how well future experiments will be able to recover the primordial CMB fluctuations. We find that the naive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Max Tegmark , George Efstathiou

An image super-resolution method from multiple observation of low-resolution images is proposed. The method is based on sub-pixel accuracy block matching for estimating relative displacements of observed images, and sparse signal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Toshiyuki Kato , Hideitsu Hino , Noboru Murata

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a mechanical profiling technique that allows to image surfaces with atomic resolution. Recent progress in reducing the noise of this technique has led to a resolution level where previously undetectable…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 F. J. Giessibl , H. Bielefeldt , S. Hembacher , J. Mannhart

Ptychography is a promising phase retrieval technique for visible light, X-ray and electron beams. Conventional ptychography reconstructs the amplitude and phase of an object light from a set of the diffraction intensity patterns obtained…

Successful scientific applications of large-scale molecular dynamics often rely on automated methods for identifying the local crystalline structure of condensed phases. Many existing methods for structural identification, such as Common…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-24 Peter Mahler Larsen , Søren Schmidt , Jakob Schiøtz

We present a machine-learning approach toward predicting spectroscopic constants based on atomic properties. After collecting spectroscopic information on diatomics and generating an extensive database, we employ Gaussian process regression…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Mahmoud A. E. Ibrahim , X. LiU , J. Pérez-Ríos

We introduce an accurate, self-contained and automatic atom based numerical algorithm to characterize grain distributions in two dimensional Phase Field Crystal simulations. Four input parameters must be set by the user and their effect is…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-29 Gabriel Martine La Boissoniere , Rustum Choksi

We discuss a new method to extract neutrino signals in low energy experiments. In this scheme the symmetric nature of most backgrounds allows for direct cancellation from data. The application of this technique to the Palo Verde reactor…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 Y-F. Wang , L. Miller , G. Gratta

A unified method for three-dimensional reconstruction of objects from transmission images collected at multiple illumination directions is described. The method may be applicable to experimental conditions relevant to absorption-based,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Timur E. Gureyev , Hamish G. Brown , Harry M. Quiney , Leslie J. Allen

We introduce a new method, rooted in estimation theory, to detect individual atoms in site-resolved images of microtrap arrays, such as optical lattices or optical tweezers arrays. Using labelled test images, we demonstrate drastic…

Atomic scale characterization and manipulation with scanning probe microscopy rely upon the use of an atomically sharp probe. Here we present automated methods based on machine learning to automatically detect and recondition the quality of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-26 Mohammad Rashidi , Robert A. Wolkow

We model a 21 cm intensity mapping survey in the redshift range 0.01<z<1.5 designed to simulate the skies as seen by future radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), including instrumental noise and Galactic foregrounds. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-27 L. Wolz , F. B. Abdalla , C. Blake , J. R. Shaw , E. Chapman , S. Rawlings

Scanning transmission electron microscopy is a common tool used to study the atomic structure of materials. It is an inherently multimodal tool allowing for the simultaneous acquisition of multiple information channels. Despite its…

Atomic-scale defect detection is shown in scanning tunneling microscopy images of single crystal WSe2 using an ensemble of U-Net-like convolutional neural networks. Standard deep learning test metrics indicated good detection performance…