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The detection and characterisation of extra-solar planets is a major theme driving modern astronomy, with the vast majority of such measurements being achieved by Doppler radial-velocity and transit observations. Another technique -- direct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Barnaby Norris , Nick Cvetojevic , Simon Gross , Nemanja Jovanovic , Paul N. Stewart , Ned Charles , Jon S. Lawrence , Michael J. Withford , Peter Tuthill

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has revealed the existence of sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. However, identification of the sources is challenging because astrophysical neutrinos are difficult to separate from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-09 D. Rysewyk , D. Lennarz , T. DeYoung , J. Auffenberg , M. Schaufel , T. Bretz , C. Wiebusch , M. U. Nisa

Radio astronomical imaging using aperture synthesis telescopes requires deconvolution of the point spread function as well as calibration of the instrumental characteristics (primary beam) and foreground (ionospheric/atmospheric) effects.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-24 Juan M. Uson , William D. Cotton

Hyperspectral imaging has become a significant source of valuable data for astronomers over the past decades. Current instrumental and observing time constraints allow direct acquisition of multispectral images, with high spatial but low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Claire Guilloteau , Thomas Oberlin , Olivier Berné , Nicolas Dobigeon

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) of TAIGA astrophysical complex allow to observe high energy gamma radiation helping to study many astrophysical objects and processes. TAIGA-IACT enables us to select gamma quanta from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-17 E. O. Gres , A. P. Kryukov

We consider quantum enhancement of direct-detection interferometric measurements to increase telescope resolution. We propose a protocol of measuring interferometric visibility function using imperfectly entangled states shared between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 Siddhartha Santra , Brian T. Kirby , Vladimir S. Malinovsky , Michael Brodsky

The current generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes are allowing the sky to be probed with greater sensitivity than ever before in the energy range around and above 100 GeV. To minimise the systematic errors on derived fluxes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sam Nolan , Gerd Puehlhofer , Cameron Rulten

New deep learning techniques present promising new analysis methods for Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) such as the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). In particular, the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Samuel Spencer , Thomas Armstrong , Jason Watson , Salvatore Mangano , Yves Renier , Garret Cotter

A peculiar aspect of Cherenkov telescopes is that they are designed to detect atmospheric light flashes on the time scale of nanoseconds, being almost blind to stellar sources. As a consequence, the pointing calibration of these instruments…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-05 Simone Iovenitti , Giorgia Sironi , Enrico Giro , Alberto Segreto , Osvaldo Catalano , Milvia Capalbi

This article presents a novel type of very long baseline astronomical interferometer that uses the fluctuations, as a function of time, of the intensity measured by a quadratic detector, which is a common type of astronomical detector. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-24 Ermanno F. Borra

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based observatory for $\gamma$-ray astronomy at energies above 30 GeV. Thanks to its unique capabilities, CTA observations will address a plethora of open questions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-19 H. Martínez-Huerta , J. Biteau , J. Lefaucheur , M. Meyer , S. Pita , I. Vovk

We present a technique to synthesise telluric absorption and emission features both for in-situ wavelength calibration and for their removal from astronomical spectra. While the presented technique is applicable for a wide variety of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Seifahrt , H. U. Käufl , G. Zängl , J. L. Bean , M. J. Richter , R. Siebenmorgen

The HEGRA system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detects Cherenkov light produced by air showers. The concept of stereoscopic observation with the five HEGRA telescopes allows the reconstruction of various shower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Doering , K. Bernloehr , G. Hermann , W. Hofmann , H. Lampeitl

The closure phase, the sum of the three Fourier phases in a telescope triangle, is an important tool in astronomical interferometry, helping to reconstruct the geometries of the observed objects. While already established in amplitude…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Andreas Zmija , Gisela Anton , Christopher Ingenhuett , Alison Mitchell , Prasenjit Saha , Pedro Silva Batista , Naomi Vogel , Adrian Zink , Robin Kaiser , Stefan Funk

Thin film interferometry is a powerful technique for non-invasively measuring liquid film thickness with applications in ophthalmology, but its clinical translation is hindered by the challenges in reconstructing thickness profiles from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Gautam A. Viruthagiri , Arnuv Tandon , Gerald G. Fuller , Vinny Chandran Suja

Reconstruction of energies of very-high-energy gamma-rays observed by imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes is affected by changes in the atmospheric conditions and the performance of telescope components. Reliable calibration schemes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-24 Stanislav Stefanik , Dalibor Nosek

The advent of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and recent advances in reconstruction of gamma-ray photons with Cherenkov telescopes are bound to push the limit of angular resolution to an unprecedented precision of less than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-23 Georg Schwefer , Jim Hinton

With the development of the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT), Gamma-ray astronomy has become one of the most interesting and productive fields of astrophysics. Current IACT telescope arrays (MAGIC, H.E.S.S, VERITAS) use…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-04 D. Guberman , J. Cortina , J. E. Ward , A. Hahn , D. Mazin , J. Boix , A. Dettlaff , D. Fink , J. Gaweda , W. Haberer , J. Illa , J. Mundet , Y. Vera , H. Wetteskind

We study the effects of a collective flow and multiple scattering on two-particle correlation measurements in Hanbury-Brown-Twiss intensity interferometry. We find that under a collective flow the effective source distribution in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Cheuk-Yin Wong

Holography is 3D imaging which can record intensity and phase at the same time. The importance of construct hologram is holographic recording and wavefront reconstruction. It is surprised that holography be discovered in study interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-02 Jiang Dong