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We propose a new strategy for obtaining enhanced resolution (FWHM = 0.12 arcsec) deep optical images over a wide field of view. As is well known, this type of image quality can be obtained in principle simply by fast guiding on a small (D =…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Kaiser , J. L. Tonry , G. A. Luppino

An important application of next-generation wide-field radio interferometers is making high dynamic range maps of radio emission. Traditional deconvolution methods like CLEAN can give poor recovery of diffuse structure, prompting the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Katrine A. Glasscock , Philip Bull , Jacob Burba , Hugh Garsden , Michael J. Wilensky

We present the method of multiplexed imaging designed for astronomical observations of large sky areas in the IR, visible and UV frequencies. Our method relies on the sparse nature of astronomical observations. The method consists of an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 Barak Zackay , Avishay Gal-Yam

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 propose a simple yet effective wireless network coding and decoding technique. It utilizes spatial diversity through cooperation between nodes which carry out distributed encoding operations dictated by generator matrices of linear block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tugcan Aktas , Ali Ozgur Yilmaz , Emre Aktas

Reconstruction of the sky brightness measured by radio interferometers is typically achieved through gridding techniques, or histograms in spatial Fourier space. For Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) 21 cm power spectrum measurements, extreme…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-22 Nichole Barry , Aman Chokshi

This work proposes a mixed learning-based and optimization-based approach to the weighted-sum-rates beamforming problem in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless network. The conventional methods, i.e., the fractional programming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jianhang Zhu , Tsung-Hui Chang , Liyao Xiang , Kaiming Shen

The Wide-field Imaging Interferometry Testbed (WIIT) was designed to validate, experiment with, and refine the technique of wide field mosaic imaging for optical/IR interferometers. Here we offer motivation for WIIT, present the testbed…

Two subspace fitting approaches are proposed for wideband near-field localization. Unlike in conventional far-field systems, where distance and angle can be estimated separately, spherical wave propagation in near-field systems couples…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Ruiyun Zhang , Zhaolin Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Yuanwei Liu , Zehui Xiong , Zhiyong Feng

Next-generation radio interferometers, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will revolutionise our understanding of the universe through their unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. However, to realise these goals significant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Mayeul d'Avezac , Rafael E. Carrillo , Alexandru Onose , Yves Wiaux

Single-shot coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) using intense XUV and soft X-ray pulses holds the promise to deliver information on the three dimensional shape as well as the optical properties of nano-scale objects in a single diffraction…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Paul Tuemmler , Julia Apportin , Thomas Fennel , Christian Peltz

Fine-grained radio map presents communication parameters of interest, e.g., received signal strength, at every point across a large geographical region. It can be leveraged to improve the efficiency of spectrum utilization for a large area,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Zhiyuan Liu , Shuhang Zhang , Qingyu Liu , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song

Radio interferometers must grapple with apparent fields of view that distort the true radio sky. These so-called 'A-term' distortions may be direction-, time- and baseline-dependent, and include effects like the primary beam and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Torrance Hodgson

Dedispersion is the computational process of correcting for the frequency-dependent time delay affecting a radio signal that propagates through the interstellar and intergalactic media. It is a crucial component of transient search…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Cristian Di Pietrantonio , Marcin Sokolowski , Christopher Harris , Danny C. Price , Randall Wayth

Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is an emerging wireless technology that deploys thousands of transmit antennas at the base-station to boost spectral efficiency. The classic weighted minimum mean-square-error (WMMSE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yi Feng , Kaiming Shen

We propose a new ray-tracing algorithm to measure the weak lensing shear and convergence fields directly from N-body simulations. We calculate the deflection of the light rays lensed by the 3-D mass density field or gravitational potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Baojiu Li , Lindsay J. King , Gong-Bo Zhao , HongSheng Zhao

Next-generation radio interferometers, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will revolutionise our understanding of the universe through their unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. However, standard methods in radio interferometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-23 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Mayeul d'Avezac , Rafael E. Carrillo , Alexandru Onose , Yves Wiaux

We present a new algorithm for stacking radio interferometric data in the uv-domain. The performance of uv-stacking is compared to the stacking of fully imaged data using simulated Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Lukas Lindroos , K. K. Knudsen , W. Vlemmings , J. Conway , I. Martí-Vidal

Intrinsic image decomposition is the classical task of mapping image to albedo. The WHDR dataset allows methods to be evaluated by comparing predictions to human judgements ("lighter", "same as", "darker"). The best modern intrinsic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 D. A. Forsyth , Jason J. Rock

Wavefront shaping is increasingly being used in modern microscopy to obtain distortion-free, high-resolution images deep inside inhomogeneous media. Wavefront shaping methods typically rely on the presence of a 'guidestar' in order to find…