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Electron density irregularities in the ionosphere are known to be magnetically anisotropic, preferentially elongated along the lines of force. While many studies of their morphology have been undertaken by topside sounding and whistler…

(Abridged) Quantitative three-dimensional (3D) position and velocity estimates obtained by passive radar will assist the Galileo Project in the detection and classification of aerial objects by providing critical measurements of range,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-01 Mitch Randall , Alex Delacroix , Carson Ezell , Ezra Kelderman , Sarah Little , Abraham Loeb , Eric Masson , Wesley Andrés Watters , Richard Cloete , Abigail White

This paper addresses the challenge of achieving robust and reliable positioning of a radio device carried by an agent, in scenarios where direct line-of-sight (LOS) radio links are obstructed by the agent. We propose a Bayesian estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Hong Zhu , Alexander Venus , Erik Leitinger , Klaus Witrisal

The sparsity of millimeter wave (mmWave) channels in the angular and temporal domains is beneficial to channel estimation, while the associated channel parameters can be utilized for localization. However, line-of-sight (LoS) blockage poses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Kunlun Li , Jiguang He , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Lie-Liang Yang

Effective space traffic management requires positive identification of artificial satellites. Current methods for extracting object identification from observed data require spatially resolved imagery which limits identification to objects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-12 J. Zachary Gazak , Ian McQuaid , Ryan Swindle , Matthew Phelps , Justin Fletcher

Backed by advances in digital electronics, signal processing, computation, and storage technologies, aperture arrays, which had strongly influenced the design of telescopes in the early years of radio astronomy, have made a comeback. Amid…

Multi-target detection is one of the primary tasks in radar-based localization and sensing, typically built on phased array antennas. However, the bulky hardware in the phased array restricts its potential for enhancing detection accuracy,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Xiaoyu Zhang , Haobo Zhang , Ruoqi Deng , Liang Liu , Boya Di

The visual detection and tracking of surface terrain is required for spacecraft to safely land on or navigate within close proximity to celestial objects. Current approaches rely on template matching with pre-gathered patch-based features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Timothy Chase , Karthik Dantu

We present the first dedicated observations of Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). We have developed a synthesis imaging technique, tailored to the properties of modern "large-N" low-frequency radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 J . S. Morgan , J-P. Macquart , R. Ekers , R. Chhetri , M. Tokumaru , P. K. Manoharan , S. Tremblay , M. M. Bisi , B. V. Jackson

We present a catalog of 857 white dwarf (WD)-M binaries from the sixth data release (DR6) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), most of which were previously identified. For 636 of them, we complete a spectral analysis and derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 René Heller , Derek Homeier , Stefan Dreizler , Roy Østensen

We report the first astrophysical application of the technique of wide-field Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). This powerful technique allows us to identify and measure sub-arcsecond compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 R. Chhetri , J. Morgan , R. D. Ekers , J-P Macquart , E. M. Sadler , M. Giroletti , J. R. Callingham , S. J. Tingay

A point cloud enhancement method for 4D mmWave radar imagery is proposed in this paper. Based on the patch antenna and MIMO array theories, the MIMO array with small redundancy and high SNR is designed to provide the probability of high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Qingmian Wan , Hongli Peng , Xing Liao , Kuayue Liu , Junfa Mao

The radio interferometric closure phases can be a valuable tool for studying cosmological {H\scriptsize{I}}~from the early Universe. Closure phases have the advantage of being immune to element-based gains and associated calibration errors.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 Himanshu Tiwari , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Cathryn M. Trott , Benjamin McKinley

The determination of the full population of Resident Space Objects (RSOs) in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is a key issue in the field of space situational awareness that will only increase in importance in the coming years. We endeavour to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-12 Benjamin F. Cooke , James A. Blake , Paul Chote , James McCormac , Don Pollacco

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) gravitational-wave (GW) observatory will be limited in its ability to detect mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) in the stellar-mass range. A future ground-based detector network, meanwhile,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Kaze W. K. Wong , Ely D. Kovetz , Curt Cutler , Emanuele Berti

We report the independent discovery of PSR J0027-1956 with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in the ongoing Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-meter (SMART) pulsar survey. J0027-1956 has a period of ~1.306 s, a dispersion measure (DM) of ~20.869…

In this letter, we propose a new wireless sensing system equipped with a rotatable antenna (RA) array to enhance the sensing performance of a uniform sparse array (USA). To tackle the severe spatial undersampling issues, we propose a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Chengzhi Ye , Ruoyu Zhang , Jincheng Du , Wenyan Ma , Qingqing Wu , Wen Wu , Rui Zhang

Satellite remote sensing images pose significant challenges for object detection due to their high resolution, complex scenes, and large variations in target scales. To address the insufficient detection accuracy of the YOLOv11n model in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shuaiyu Zhu , Sergey Ablameyko