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The simulation of Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) signal response is an important and powerful tool for the design and optimization of such detectors. However, several attempts to simulate exactly the effective charge gain have not…

Characteristics of triple GEM detector have been studied systematically. The variation of the effective gain and energy resolution of GEM with variation of the applied voltage has been measured with Fe55 X-ray source for different gas…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Biswas , A. Abuhoza , U. Frankenfeld , J. Hehner , C. J. Schmidt , H. R. Schmidt , M. Traeger , S. Colafranceschi , A. Marinov , A. Sharma

A precise understanding of the optical properties of the instrumented Antarctic ice sheet is crucial to the performance of optical Cherenkov telescopes such as the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and its planned successor, IceCube-Gen2. One…

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Recently several European National Measurement Institutes have established traceable calibration methods for dynamic mechanical quantities, e.g., dynamic force, torque and pressure. However, the use in industry and elsewhere of dynamic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Trevor Esward , Sascha Eichstädt , Ian Smith , Thomas Bruns , Peter Davis , Peter Harris

Stabilizing the gain of a radio astronomy receiver is of great importance for sensitive radio intensity mapping. In this paper we discuss a stabilization method using a continuous-wave reference signal injected into the signal chain and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Alexander W. Pollak , Christian M. Holler , Michael E. Jones , Angela C. Taylor

This paper proposes a new methodology for design of a stabilizing control law for multi-input linear systems with time-varying, singular gains on the control. The results presented here assume the control gain to satisfy persistence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-17 Srikant Sukumar , Maruthi R. Akella

We study structural clustering on graphs in dynamic scenarios, where the graphs can be updated by arbitrary insertions or deletions of edges/vertices. The goal is to efficiently compute structural clustering results for any clustering…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zhuowei Zhao , Junhao Gan , Boyu Ruan , Zhifeng Bao , Jianzhong Qi , Sibo Wang

Straw tube detectors are single wire proportional counters that are widely used as a tracking device. We have carried out R$\&$D with a straw tube detector prototype. The motivation of this work is to study the stability of the performance…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-07 S. Roy , S. Jaiswal , S. Chatterjee , A. Sen , S. Das , S. K. Ghosh , S. Raha , V. M. Lysan , G. D. Kekelidze , V. V. Myalkovsky , S. Biswas

In online applications with streaming data, awareness of how far the training or test set has shifted away from the original dataset can be crucial to the performance of the model. However, we may not have access to historical samples in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-10 Yu Chen , Song Liu , Tom Diethe , Peter Flach

We present a theoretical background for the data analysis of the gravitational-wave signals from spinning neutron stars for Earth-based laser interferometric detectors. We introduce a detailed model of the signal including both the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Piotr Jaranowski , Andrzej Królak , Bernard F. Schutz

We report on a 350-ks NuSTAR observation of the magnetar 1E 1841-045 taken in 2013 September. During the observation, NuSTAR detected six bursts of short duration, with $T_{90}<1$ s. An elevated level of emission tail is detected after the…

We present new results of a study of the sub-millimetre continuum emission from a sample of 9 radio galaxies and 4 radio-quiet quasars at redshifts $z = 0.75 - 4.26$. The observations were made at 800$\mu m$, using the single-element…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 David Hughes , J. S. Dunlop , Steve Rawlings

In this paper, a review is given of methods useful for XMM-Newton EPIC data analysis of extended sources, along with some applications to a bright massive cluster of galaxies at z=0.2, Abell 209. This may constitute an introduction to that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Philippe B. Marty , Jean-Paul Kneib , Rachida Sadat , Harald Ebeling , Ian Smail

We present a statistical method for detecting and analysing state changes in experimental measurements using the Cuscore statistic and its special case, the Centred Cuscore statistic. These statistics are designed to identify deviations in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-06 Jichao Zhang , Baohua Sun , Isao Tanihata , Zilun Shen

A large number of AGN have been monitored for nearly 30 years at 22, 37 and 87 GHz in Mets\"ahovi Radio Observatory. These data were combined with lower frequency 4.8, 8.0 and 14.5 GHz data from the University of Michigan Radio Astronomy…

Continuous gravitational waves (CGWs) from various astrophysical sources are one of the many future probes of upcoming gravitational wave (GW) search missions. Neutron stars (NSs) with deformity are one of the leading sources of CGW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-10 Pooja Bhattacharjee , Amit Dutta Banik

A muon tracking system consisting of four 9cm x 10cm sized bulk Micromegas detectors with 128um amplification-gap and two 10cm x 10cm triple GEM detectors is foreseen for high-precision tracking of 140GeV muons at the H8 beamline at CERN…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-03 Jonathan Bortfeldt , Otmar Biebel , David Heereman , Ralf Hertenberger

Pixel detectors typically display pixel-to-pixel gain variation of a few percent which result in reduced spectroscopic performance. We have developed a calibration method which relies on cross-correlating histograms of many pixel pairs and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-17 G. Blaj , G. Haller , C. J. Kenney

Control performance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is directly affected by their ability to estimate their states accurately. With the increasing popularity of autonomous UAV solutions in real world applications, it is imperative to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Mohamad Wahbah , Mohamad Chehadeh , Yahya Zweiri