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Though in-orbit calibration is adopted to reduce position error of individual star spot down to 0.02pixel on star tracker, little study has been conducted on the accuracy to what extent for some significant error sources which often leads…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 J. Zhang , Y. C. Hao , L. Wang , Y. Long

Precisely measuring molecular orientation is key to understanding how molecules organize and interact in soft matter, but the maximum theoretical limit of measurement precision has yet to be quantified. We use quantum estimation theory and…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-23 Oumeng Zhang , Matthew D. Lew

In point spread function (PSF) photometry, the selection of the fitting aperture radius plays a critical role in determining the precision of flux and background estimations. Traditional methods often rely on maximizing the signal-to-noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Sebastian Espinosa , Mario L. Vicuña , Rene A. Mendez , Jorge F. Silva , Marcos Orchard

Super-resolution estimation is the problem of recovering a stream of spikes (point sources) from the noisy observation of a few numbers of its first trigonometric moments. The performance of super-resolution is recognized to be intimately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Urbashi Mitra

In many estimation theory and statistical analysis problems, the true data model is unknown, or partially unknown. To describe the model generating the data, parameterized models of some degree are used. A question that arises is which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Nadav E. Rosenthal , Joseph Tabrikian

In this paper we use the Cramer-Rao lower uncertainty bound to estimate the maximum precision that could be achieved on the joint simultaneous (or 2D) estimation of photometry and astrometry of a point source measured by a linear CCD…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Rene A. Mendez , Jorge F. Silva , Rodrigo Orsotica , Rodrigo Lobos

Complete awareness of the wireless environment, crucial for future intelligent networks, requires sensing all transmitted signals, not just the strongest. A fundamental barrier is estimating the target signal when it is buried under strong…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Bowen Li , Junting Chen , Nikolaos Pappas

In this letter, we develop a unified Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound (CRB) framework to characterize the fundamental performance limits of transmission activity detection in fluid antenna systems (FASs) and conventional multiple fixed-position antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zhentian Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Hao Jiang , Christos Masouros , Chan-Byoung Chae

Robust parameter estimation is a crucial task in several 3D computer vision pipelines such as Structure from Motion (SfM). State-of-the-art algorithms for robust estimation, however, still suffer from difficulties in converging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Huu Le , Christopher Zach

In recent times, distributed sensing has been extensively studied using squeezed states. While this is an excellent development, it is desirable to investigate the use of other quantum probes, such as entangled states of light. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Jiaxuan Wang , Girish Agarwal

Single molecule localization microscopy has the potential to resolve structural details of biological samples at the nanometer length scale. However, to fully exploit the resolution it is crucial to account for the anisotropic emission…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, mostly millisecond-duration transients of extragalactic origin whose emission mechanisms remain unknown. As FRB signals propagate through ionized media, they experience frequency-dependent delays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Hosein Rajabi , Zhejian Liu , Fereshteh Rajabi , Martin Houde

Multiband sensing is a promising technology that utilizes multiple non-contiguous frequency bands to achieve high-resolution target sensing. In this paper, we investigate the fundamental limits and optimization of multiband sensing,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Yubo Wan , An Liu , Rui Du , Tony Xiao Han

Passive source localization is a well known inverse problem in which we convert the observed measurements into information about the direction of arrivals. In this paper we focus on the optimal resolution of such problem. More precisely, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Rémy Boyer , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Alexandre Renaux , Sylvie Marcos

CRISPR genome engineering and single-cell RNA sequencing have accelerated biological discovery. Single-cell CRISPR screens unite these two technologies, linking genetic perturbations in individual cells to changes in gene expression and…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-13 Timothy Barry , Kathryn Roeder , Eugene Katsevich

Optical fluorescence imaging is capable of measuring both the spatial and rotational dynamics of single molecules. However, unavoidable measurement noise will result in inaccurate estimates of rotational dynamics, causing a molecule to…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-22 Oumeng Zhang , Matthew D. Lew

This paper derives a novel pilot-aided phase and channel estimation algorithm for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with phase noise and quasi-static channel fading. Our novel approach allows, for the first time, carrier phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Yiming Li , Zhouyi Hu , Andrew Ellis

The Fisher Information Matrix (FIM) has been the standard approximation to the accuracy of parameter estimation on gravitational-wave signals from merging compact binaries due to its ease-of-use and rapid computation time. While the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-30 Carl L. Rodriguez , Benjamin Farr , Will M. Farr , Ilya Mandel

Purpose: To develop a method for optimizing pulsed saturation transfer MR fingerprinting (ST MRF) acquisition. Methods: The Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) for variance assessment was employed on Bloch-McConnell-based simulated signals, followed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Nikita Vladimirov , Moritz Zaiss , Or Perlman

Scalable atom-based quantum platforms for simulation, computing, and metrology require fast high-fidelity, low-loss imaging of individual atoms. Standard fluorescence detection methods rely on continuous cooling, limiting the detection…