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In the era of the next-generation gravitational-wave detectors, signal overlaps will become prevalent due to high detection rate and long signal duration, posing significant challenges to data analysis. While effective algorithms are being…

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A probabilistic technique for the joint estimation of background and sources with the aim of detecting faint and extended celestial objects is described. Bayesian probability theory is applied to gain insight into the coexistence of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Guglielmetti , R. Fischer , V. Dose

This paper deals with a source separation strategy based on second-order statistics, namely, on data covariance matrices estimated at several lags. In general, ``blind'' approaches to source separation do not assume any knowledge on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Bedini , D. Herranz , E. Salerno , C. Baccigalupi , E. E. Kuruouglu , A. Tonazzini

Currently, gravitational microlensing survey experiments toward the Galactic bulge field utilize two different methods of minimizing blending effect for the accurate determination of the optical depth \tau. One is measuring \tau based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cheongho Han

To perform precise and accurate photometric catalogue cross-matches -- assigning counterparts between two separate datasets -- we need to describe all possible sources of uncertainty in object position. With ever-increasing time baselines…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-23 Tom J. Wilson

One of the biggest problems faced by current and next-generation astronomical surveys is trying to produce large numbers of accurate cross identifications across a range of wavelength regimes with varying data quality and positional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Isaac G. Roseboom , Seb Oliver , David Parkinson , Mattia Vaccari

Quantifying synchronization phenomena based on the timing of events has recently attracted a great deal of interest in various disciplines such as neuroscience or climatology. A multitude of similarity measures has been proposed for this…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-02-24 Adrian Odenweller , Reik V. Donner

Gravitational microlensing surveys target very dense stellar fields in the local group. As a consequence the microlensed source stars are often blended with nearby unresolved stars. The presence of `blending' is a cause of major uncertainty…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Martin C. Smith , Przemyslaw Wozniak , Shude Mao , Takahiro Sumi

In conventional x-ray ptychography, diffraction data is collected by scanning a sample through a monochromatic, and spatially coherent, x-ray beam. A high-resolution image is then retrieved using an iterative algorithm. Combined with a scan…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-26 Wiebe Stolp , Silvia Cipiccia , Darren Batey , Matthieu Boone

Unsupervised source separation involves unraveling an unknown set of source signals recorded through a mixing operator, with limited prior knowledge about the sources, and only access to a dataset of signal mixtures. This problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ali Siahkoohi , Rudy Morel , Randall Balestriero , Erwan Allys , Grégory Sainton , Taichi Kawamura , Maarten V. de Hoop

We present a new probabilistic method for detecting, deblending, and cataloging astronomical sources called the Bayesian Light Source Separator (BLISS). BLISS is based on deep generative models, which embed neural networks within a Bayesian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 Derek Hansen , Ismael Mendoza , Runjing Liu , Ziteng Pang , Zhe Zhao , Camille Avestruz , Jeffrey Regier

We present a general probabilistic formalism for cross-identifying astronomical point sources in multiple observations. Our Bayesian approach, symmetric in all observations, is the foundation of a unified framework for object matching,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tamas Budavari , Alexander S. Szalay

Analysing extended emission in photometric observations of star-forming regions requires maps free from compact foreground, embedded, and background sources, which can interfere with various techniques used to characterise the interstellar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 M. Madarász , G. Marton , I. Gezer , S. Lehner , J. Roquette , M. Audard , D. Hernandez , O. Dionatos

The distribution of entanglement via satellite links will drastically extend the reach of quantum networks. Highly efficient entangled photon sources are an essential requirement towards overcoming high channel loss and achieving practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Emma Brambila , Rodrigo Gómez , Riza Fazili , Markus Gräfe , Fabian Steinlechner

A method for spatial deconvolution of spectra is presented. It follows the same fundamental principles as the ``MCS image deconvolution algorithm'' (Magain, Courbin, Sohy, 1998) and uses information contained in the spectrum of a reference…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Courbin , P. Magain , M. Kirkove , S. Sohy

Extended X-ray emission can be studied either spatially (through its surface brightness profile) or spectrally (by analyzing the spectrum at various locations in the field). Both techniques have advantages and disadvantages, and when the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Michael E. Anderson , Joel N. Bregman

We propose a Bayesian inference framework to estimate uncertainties in inverse scattering problems. Given the observed data, the forward model and their uncertainties, we find the posterior distribution over a finite parameter field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Ana Carpio , Sergei Iakunin , Georg Stadler

A common challenge in the natural sciences is to disentangle distinct, unknown sources from observations. Examples of this source separation task include deblending galaxies in a crowded field, distinguishing the activity of individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Sebastian Wagner-Carena , Aizhan Akhmetzhanova , Sydney Erickson

Current analysis of astronomical data are confronted with the daunting task of modeling the awkward features of astronomical data, among which heteroscedastic (point-dependent) errors, intrinsic scatter, non-ignorable data collection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-19 S. Andreon

The event camera is a novel bio-inspired vision sensor. When the brightness change exceeds the preset threshold, the sensor generates events asynchronously. The number of valid events directly affects the performance of event-based tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Xijie Xiang , Lin Zhu , Jianing Li , Yonghong Tian , Tiejun Huang