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The absolute accuracy of the estimated parameters of gravitational wave sources will be fundamentally limited by the calibration uncertainties of the detectors in upcoming observation runs with the increased number of source statistics.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Yuki Inoue , Sadakazu Haino , Nobuyuki Kanda , Yujiro Ogawa , Toshikazu Suzuki , Takayuki Tomaru , Takahiro Yamamoto , Takaaki Yokozawa

With model trustworthiness being crucial for sensitive real-world applications, practitioners are putting more and more focus on improving the uncertainty calibration of deep neural networks. Calibration errors are designed to quantify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Sebastian G. Gruber , Florian Buettner

This manual is intended to help ALMA and other interferometer users improve images by recognising limitations and how to overcome them and deciding when and how to use self-calibration. The images provided by the ALMA Science Archive are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 A. M. S. Richards , E. Moravec , S. Etoka , E. B. Fomalont , A. F. Pérez-Sánchez , M. C. Toribio , R. A. Laing

Searching for gravitational-wave signals is a challenging and computationally intensive endeavor undertaken by multiple independent analysis pipelines. While detection depends only on observed noisy data, it is sometimes inconsistently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-15 Matthew Mould , Christopher J. Moore , Davide Gerosa

Calibration precision is currently a limiting systematic in 21 cm cosmology experiments. While there are innumerable calibration approaches, most can be categorized as either `sky-based,' relying on an extremely accurate model of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Ruby Byrne , Miguel F. Morales , Bryna Hazelton , Michael Wilensky

Response calibration is the process of inferring how much the measured data depend on the signal one is interested in. It is essential for any quantitative signal estimation on the basis of the data. Here, we investigate self-calibration…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Torsten A. Enßlin , Henrik Junklewitz , Lars Winderling , Maksim Greiner , Marco Selig

Bayesian Model Calibration is used to revisit the problem of scaling factor calibration for semi-empirical correction of ab initio harmonic properties (e.g. vibrational frequencies and zero-point energies). A particular attention is devoted…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Pascal Pernot , Fabien Cailliez

Calibration measures quantify how much a forecaster's predictions violates calibration, which requires that forecasts are unbiased conditioning on the forecasted probabilities. Two important desiderata for a calibration measure are its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Mingda Qiao , Eric Zhao

Atmospheric remote spectrometry from space has become in the last 20 years a key component of the Earth monitoring system: their large coverage and deci-kelvin stability have demonstrated their usefulness for weather prediction, atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-17 Pierre Dussarrat , Bertrand Theodore , Dorothee Coppens , Carsten Standfuss , Bernard Tournier

With ever increasing data rates produced by modern radio telescopes like LOFAR and future telescopes like the SKA, many data processing steps are overwhelmed by the amount of data that needs to be handled using limited compute resources.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Sarod Yatawatta

The ongoing improvements of the advanced gravitational wave (GW) detectors are setting challenging requirements on instrument calibration. We report tests of a calibration technique, based on the well-known gravitation force, which has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-21 D. Estevez , B. Lieunard , F. Marion , B. Mours , L. Rolland , D. Verkindt

The data reduction procedure for radio interferometers can be viewed as a combined calibration and imaging problem. We present an algorithm that unifies cross-calibration, self-calibration, and imaging. Being a Bayesian method, that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Philipp Arras , Philipp Frank , Reimar Leike , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten Enßlin

Interferometric calibration always yields non unique solutions. It is therefore essential to remove these ambiguities before the solutions could be used in any further modeling of the sky, the instrument or propagation effects such as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Sarod Yatawatta

Accurate measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy call for high precision and reliability of the in-flight calibration. For extended surveys the CMB dipole provides an excellent calibration source at frequencies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Cappellini , D. Maino , G. Albetti , P. Platania , R. Paladini , A. Mennella , M. Bersanelli

I present in this paper a method to calibrate data obtained from optical and infrared interferometers. I show that correlated noises and errors need to be taken into account for a very good estimate of individual error bars but also when…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Perrin

The next generation of ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers is expected to generate a bounty of new astrophysical discoveries, with sensitivities and bandwidths greatly improved compared to current-generation detectors. These…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Elenna Capote , Louis Dartez , Derek Davis

High fidelity radio interferometric data calibration that minimises spurious spectral structure in the calibrated data is essential in astrophysical applications, such as 21 cm cosmology, which rely on knowledge of the relative spectral…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Peter H. Sims , Jonathan C. Pober , Jonathan L. Sievers

Overconfidence and underconfidence in machine learning classifiers is measured by calibration: the degree to which the probabilities predicted for each class match the accuracy of the classifier on that prediction. How one measures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Jeremy Nixon , Mike Dusenberry , Ghassen Jerfel , Timothy Nguyen , Jeremiah Liu , Linchuan Zhang , Dustin Tran

Model calibration consists of using experimental or field data to estimate the unknown parameters of a mathematical model. The presence of model discrepancy and measurement bias in the data complicates this task. Satellite interferograms,…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-28 Mengyang Gu , Kyle Anderson , Erika McPhillips

As gravitational wave detectors improve in sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratios of compact binary coalescences will dramatically increase, reaching values in the hundreds and potentially thousands. Such strong signals offer both exciting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-15 Aasim Jan , Deborah Ferguson , Jacob Lange , Deirdre Shoemaker , Aaron Zimmerman