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We explore the practical feasibility of AGN broad-band reverberation mapping and present first results. We lay out and apply a rigorous approach for stochastic reverberation mapping of unevenly sampled multi-broad-band flux measurements,…
The upcoming Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will dramatically increase the number of strong gravitational lensing systems, requiring precise modeling of line-of-sight (LOS) effects to mitigate biases in…
In this paper, we investigate the impacts of transmitter and receiver windows on orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) modulation and propose a window design to improve the OTFS channel estimation performance. Assuming ideal pulse shaping…