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Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) technique enables convenient nanoscopic characterization for various systems and conditions. Nonetheless, lab-based SAXS systems intrinsically suffer from insufficient x-ray flux and limited angular…

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The feature based spatial verification method SAL is applied to cloud data, i.e. two-dimensional spatial fields of total cloud cover and spectral radiance. Model output is obtained from the COSMO-DE forward operator SynSat and compared to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Michael Weniger , Petra Friederichs

We present a new two-snapshot structured light illumination (SLI) reconstruction algorithm for fast image acquisition. The new algorithm, which only requires two mutually {\pi} phase-shifted raw structured images, is implemented on a…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-25 Yunlong Meng , Wei Lin , Chenglin Li , Shih-chi Chen

The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) is capable of imaging spectroscopy of the Sun in the 10-240 MHz frequency range, with high spectral, temporal, and spatial resolution. However, the complex and rapidly varying nature of solar radio emission -…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Soham Dey , Divya Oberoi , Pietro Zucca , Mattia Mancini , Deepan Patra , Devojyoti Kansabanik

The solar spectral irradiance (SSI) depicts the spectral distribution of solar energy flux reaching the top of the Earth's atmosphere. Daily SSI measurements constitute a matrix with spectrally (rows) and temporally (columns) resolved solar…

Applications · Statistics 2026-05-21 Yuxuan Ke , Xianglei Huang , Odele Coddington , Yang Chen

Selective plane illumination microscopy (SPIM) is an optical sectioning imaging approach based on orthogonal light pathways for excitation and detection. The excitation pathway has an inverse relation between the optical sectioning strength…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-29 Steven J. Sheppard , Peter T. Brown , Douglas P. Shepherd

X-ray Bragg coherent diffraction imaging has been demonstrated as a powerful three-dimensional (3D) microscopy approach for the investigation of sub-micrometer-scale crystalline particles. It is based on the measurement of a series of…

Several matrix approaches were developed to control light propagation through multiple scattering media under illumination of ultrashort pulses of light. These matrices can be recorded either with spectral or temporal resolution. Thanks to…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-08 Mickael Mounaix , Duc Minh Ta , Sylvain Gigan

In this paper, a new phase-retrieval algorithm from an X-ray schlieren image is proposed. The schlieren method allows phase-contrast imaging with an objective lens and a knife-edge filter placed at the back focal plane of the objective.…

Around the peaks of substantial flares, bright artifact nearly horizontal saturation streaks (B-streaks) corresponding to the brightest parts of the flare sources appear in the STEREO/EUVI 195 A images. We show that the length of such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 I. M. Chertok , A. V. Belov , V. V. Grechnev

This paper proposes four new methods to decontaminate spectra of stars and galaxies resulting from slitless spectroscopy used in many space missions such as Euclid. These methods are based on two distinct approaches and simultaneously take…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Mostafa Bella , Shahram Hosseini , Thierry Contini , Hicham Saylani

Spatially resolved observations of the Sun and the astronomical sample size of stellar bodies are the respective key strengths of solar and stellar observations. However, the large difference in object brightness between the Sun and other…

Saturation affects a significant rate of images recorded by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on the Solar Dynamics Observatory. This paper describes a computational method and a technological pipeline for the de-saturation of such images,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-10 Richard A Schwartz , Gabriele Torre , Anna Maria Massone , Michele Piana

We present a comparison of four methods of filtering solar-like variability to increase the efficiency of detection of Earth-like planetary transits by means of box-shaped transit finder algorithms. Two of these filtering methods are the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Bonomo , S. Aigrain , P. Bordé , A. F. Lanza

This paper shows that compressed sensing realized by means of regularized deconvolution and the Finite Isotropic Wavelet Transform is effective and reliable in hard X-ray solar imaging. The method utilizes the Finite Isotropic Wavelet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 M. A. Duval-Poo , M. Piana , A. M. Massone

The installation of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) allows for the first time two-dimensional optical and ultraviolet slitless spectroscopy of faint objects from space. The STIS Parallel…

The Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-Optical Reconnaissance (SPIDER) is an optical interferometric imaging device that aims to offer an alternative to the large space telescope designs of today with reduced size, weight and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Matthijs Mars , Marta M. Betcke , Jason D. McEwen

We present a method to determine the static aberrations in a nearly diffraction-limited spectrograph introduced, for example, by alignment or manufacturing errors. We consider an instrument with two stages separated by a slit or image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 B. Sánchez , A. M. Watson , S. Cuevas

Consider the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by heterogeneous media consisting of linear or nonlinear point scatterers and extended obstacles. A generalized Foldy-Lax formulation is developed to take fully into account of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Jun Lai , Ming Li , Peijun Li , Wei Li

Recently measured straylight PSFs in Hinode/SOT make granulation contrast in observed data and synthetic MHD data consistent. Data from earthbound telescopes also need accurate correction for straylight and fixed optical aberrations. We aim…

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