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We present a light-traces-mass (LTM) strong-lensing model of the massive lensing cluster MACS J2135.2-0102 ($z$=0.33; hereafter MACS2135), known in part for hosting the Cosmic Eye galaxy lens. MACS2135 is also known to multiply-lens a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-04 Adi Zitrin , Tom Broadhurst

A light-weight super-resolution (LSR) method from a single image targeting mobile applications is proposed in this work. LSR predicts the residual image between the interpolated low-resolution (ILR) and high-resolution (HR) images using a…

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In this study, we investigate the inverse source problem arising in bioluminescence tomography, the objective of which is to reconstruct both the support and the intensity of an internal light source from boundary measurements governed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Qianqian Wu , Rongfang Gong , Wei Gong , Ziyi Zhang , Shengfeng Zhu

A modification of the Press-Schechter theory allowing for presence of a background large-scale structure (LSS) - a supercluster or a void, is proposed. The LSS is accounted as the statistical constraints in form of linear functionals of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 E. P. Kurbatov

We present an in-depth weak lensing analysis of the cluster MS1008 based on deep multicolor imaging obtained during the Science Verification of FORS1 at the VLT. The image quality (half arcsec seeing) and depth of the VLT images allow the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lombardi , P. Rosati , M. Nonino , M. Girardi , S. Borgani , G. Squires

The proposed next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) will enable the imaging of astronomical sources in unprecedented detail by providing an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity and angular resolution compared with radio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Kazunori Akiyama , Lynn D. Matthews

A new method for the reconstruction of the projected mass distribution of clusters of galaxies from the image distortion of background galaxies is discussed. This method is essentially equivalent to the one we developed previously, i.e.,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stella Seitz , Peter Schneider

Large-area PhotoMultiplier Tubes (PMT) allow to efficiently instrument Liquid Scintillator (LS) neutrino detectors, where large target masses are pivotal to compensate for neutrinos' extremely elusive nature. Depending on the detector light…

In this paper, a new video super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) method with improved robustness to outliers is proposed. Although the R-LMS is one of the SRR algorithms with the best reconstruction quality for its computational cost, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Ricardo Augusto Borsoi , Guilherme Holsbach Costa , José Carlos Moreira Bermudez

The mechanisms behind the success of multi-view self-supervised learning (MVSSL) are not yet fully understood. Contrastive MVSSL methods have been studied through the lens of InfoNCE, a lower bound of the Mutual Information (MI). However,…

Fourier light-field microscopy (FLFM) uses a micro-lens array (MLA) to segment the Fourier Plane of the microscopic objective lens to generate multiple two-dimensional perspective views, thereby reconstructing the three-dimensional(3D)…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-29 Haixin Huang , Haoyuan Qiu , Hanzhe Wu , Yihong Ji , Heng Li , Bin Yu , Danni Chen , Junle Qu

We study here, using the Mannheim-Kazanas solution of Weyl conformal theory, the mass decomposition in the representative subsample of $57$ early-type elliptical lens galaxies of the SLACS on board the HST. We begin by showing that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-08 Alexander A. Potapov , Ramil N. Izmailov , Kamal K. Nandi

Measuring the 3D distribution of mass on galaxy cluster scales is a crucial test of the LCDM model, providing constraints on the nature of dark matter. Recent work investigating mass distributions of individual galaxy clusters (e.g. Abell…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Virginia L. Corless , Lindsay J. King , Douglas Clowe

Large-scale structure (LSS) analysis in galaxy surveys is a powerful cosmological probe but is limited by tracer bias, which can obscure underlying information and weaken parameter constraints. Existing methods either model bias or restrict…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Zhujun Jiang , Xiaolin Luo , Wenying Du , Zhiwei Min , Fenfen Yin , Longlong Feng , Jiacheng Ding , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

(Abridged) We measure the mass distribution of galaxy cluster Abell 1689 within 0.3 Mpc/h_70 of the cluster centre using its strong lensing effect on 32 background galaxies. The multiple images are based on those of Broadhurst et al. 2005…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Halkola , S. Seitz , M. Pannella

Empirical methods for connecting galaxies to their dark matter halos have become essential for interpreting measurements of the spatial statistics of galaxies. In this work, we present a novel approach for parameterizing the degree of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-30 Benjamin V. Lehmann , Yao-Yuan Mao , Matthew R. Becker , Samuel W. Skillman , Risa H. Wechsler

We report the discovery of two swallowtail image formations at $z=2.91$ and $z=6.70$ behind the galaxy cluster MS 0451.6-0305 in JWST-NIRCam imaging. We find that in both of the above lensed systems, the complex image morphology cannot be…

We address the problem of mesh reconstruction from live RGB-D video, assuming a calibrated camera and poses provided externally (e.g., by a SLAM system). In contrast to most existing approaches, we do not fuse depth measurements in a volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Thomas Schöps , Torsten Sattler , Marc Pollefeys

Recently, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images have limited and unsatisfactory resolutions due to various constraints such as physical, technological and economic considerations. Super-resolution techniques can obtain high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Yinghua Li , Bin Song , Jie Guo , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani