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We present a novel pipeline that uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) to improve the detection capability of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) in the context of planetary defense. Our work aims to minimize the dependency on human…

The ability to discover new transients via image differencing without direct human intervention is an important task in observational astronomy. For these kind of image classification problems, machine Learning techniques such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-09 Venkitesh Ayyar , Robert Knop , Autumn Awbrey , Alexis Andersen , Peter Nugent

Vision Transformers are used via a customized TransUNet architecture, which is a hybrid model combining Transformers into a U-Net backbone, to achieve precise, automated, and fast segmentation of radio astronomy data affected by calibration…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Nicoletta Sanvitale , Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Annalisa Bonafede , Virginia Cuciti , Emanuele De Rubeis , Federica Govoni , Matteo Murgia , Valentina Vacca

In this paper, we study the problem of transient signal analysis. A signal-dependent algorithm is proposed which sequentially identifies the countable sets of decay rates and expansion coefficients present in a given signal. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Tarek A. Lahlou , Anuran Makur

Transient surveys are a vital tool in exploring the dynamic universe, with radio transients acting as beacons for explosive and highly energetic astrophysical phenomena. However, performing commensal transient surveys using radio imaging…

[abridged] In large-scale time-domain surveys, the processing of data, from procurement up to the detection of sources, is generally automated. One of the main challenges is contamination by artifacts, especially in regions of strong…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Monika D. Soraisam , Marat Gilfanov , Thomas Kupfer , Frank Masci , Allen W. Shafter , Thomas A. Prince , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni , Eran O. Ofek , Eric Bellm

We have developed a full model to simulate spherical detectors where all main sources of noise are considered. We have built a computer code for determining the source direction and the wave polarization (solution of the inverse problem) in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Cesar Augusto Costa , Odylio Denys de Aguiar

We introduce a method for detecting astrophysical transients evolving on timescales of milliseconds to minutes using cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey telescopes. While previous transient searches in CMB data operate in map space,…

Exploration of the transient Universe is an exciting and fast-emerging area within radio astronomy. Known transient phenomena range in time scales from sub-nanoseconds to years or longer, thus spanning a huge range in time domain and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-13 N. D. R. Bhat

With the advent of powerful telescopes such as the Square Kilometer Array and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, we are entering an era of multiwavelength transient astronomy that will lead to a dramatic increase in data volume. Machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-09 K. Sooknunan , M. Lochner , Bruce A. Bassett , H. V. Peiris , R. Fender , A. J. Stewart , M. Pietka , P. A. Woudt , J. D. McEwen , O. Lahav

Summary: Errors in gradient trajectories introduce significant artifacts and distortions in magnetic resonance images, particularly in non-Cartesian imaging sequences, where imperfect gradient waveforms can greatly reduce image quality.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Jonathan B. Martin , Hannah E. Alderson , John C. Gore , Mark D. Does , Kevin D. Harkins

Radar sensors are gradually becoming a wide-spread equipment for road vehicles, playing a crucial role in autonomous driving and road safety. The broad adoption of radar sensors increases the chance of interference among sensors from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea , Andrei Anghel , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Transient detection and flux measurement via image subtraction stand at the base of time domain astronomy. Due to the varying seeing conditions, the image subtraction process is non-trivial, and existing solutions suffer from a variety of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Barak Zackay , Eran O. Ofek , Avishay Gal-Yam

Dispersion scan is a self-referenced measurement technique for ultrashort pulses. Similar to frequency-resolved optical gating, the dispersion scan technique records the dependence of nonlinearly generated spectra as a function of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-14 Esmerando Escoto , Tamas Nagy , Ayhan Tajalli , Günter Steinmeyer

Predictive monitoring of business processes is a subfield of process mining that aims to predict, among other things, the characteristics of the next event or the sequence of next events. Although multiple approaches based on deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Efrén Rama-Maneiro , Juan C. Vidal , Manuel Lama

Single-particle tracking allows to infer the motion of single molecules in living cells. When we observe a long trajectory (more than 100 points), it is possible that the particle switches mode of motion over time. Then, fitting a single…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-16 Vincent Briane , Charles Kervrann , Myriam Vimond

Fast variability of optical objects is an interesting though poorly explored subject in modern astronomy. Real-time data processing and identification of transient celestial events in the images is very important for such study as it allows…

Astrophysical radio transients are excellent probes of extreme physical processes originating from compact sources within our Galaxy and beyond. Radio frequency signals emitted from these objects provide a means to study the intervening…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-29 W. Armour , A. Karastergiou , M. Giles , C. Williams , A. Magro , K. Zagkouris , S. Roberts , S. Salvini , F. Dulwich , B. Mort

Transition prediction is an important aspect of aerodynamic design because of its impact on skin friction and potential coupling with flow separation characteristics. Traditionally, the modeling of transition has relied on correlation-based…

A fully real-time coherent dedispersion system has been developed for the pulsar back-end at the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). The dedispersion pipeline uses the single phased array voltage beam produced by the existing GMRT…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 Kishalay De , Yashwant Gupta