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Based on the background of the 2021 Higher Education Club Cup National College Students Mathematical Contest in Modeling A, according to the relevant data of the China Sky Eye (FAST) radio telescope, the main cable nodes and actuators are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Tongyue Shi , Siyu Tao , Haining Wang

The DRAO Synthesis Telescope (ST) is a forefront telescope for imaging large-scale neutral hydrogen and polarized radio continuum emission at arcminute resolution. Equipped for observations at 1420 and 408 MHz, the ST completed the Canadian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 T. L. Landecker , L. Belostotski , J. C. Brown , B. R. Carlson , X. Du , T. Foster , A. S. Hill , T. Johnson , R. Kothes , M. Rupen , S. Safi-Harb , K. Vanderlinde , B. G. Veidt , J. L. West

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is a Chinese mega-science project funded by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of the People's Republic of China. The National Astronomical Observatories of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Di Li , Zhichen Pan

In this paper, we studied the problem of beam alignment for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications, in which we assume a hybrid analog and digital beamforming structure is employed at the transmitter (i.e. base station), and an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xingjian Li , Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Zhi Chen , Hongbin Li

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST) was launched on September 25,2016.From early 2017,we began to use the FAST wideband receiver,which was designed,constructed and installed on the FAST in Guizhou,China.The front…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Xin-xin Zhang , Ran Duan , Xin-ying Yu , Di Li , Ning-yu Tang , Dao-chong Qing

We address the problem of recovering a signal (up to global phase) from its short-time Fourier transform (STFT) magnitude measurements. This problem arises in several applications, including optical imaging and speech processing. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Tamir Bendory , Yonina C. Eldar

Raman spectroscopy is a powerful and non-invasive method for analysis of chemicals and detection of unknown substances. However, Raman signal is so weak that background noise can distort the actual Raman signal. These baseline shifts that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-28 M. Hamed Mozaffari , Li-Lin Tay

We propose a decomposition method for the spectral peaks in an observed frequency spectrum, which is efficiently acquired by utilizing the Fast Fourier Transform. In contrast to the traditional methods of waveform fitting on the spectrum,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

Radio frequency interference (RFI) detection and excision are key steps in the data-processing pipeline of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Because of its high sensitivity and large data rate, FAST requires…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 Zhicheng Yang , Ce Yu , Jian Xiao , Bo Zhang

One of the primary sources of suboptimal image quality in ultrasound imaging is phase aberration. It is caused by spatial changes in sound speed over a heterogeneous medium, which disturbs the transmitted waves and prevents coherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Mostafa Sharifzadeh , Sobhan Goudarzi , An Tang , Habib Benali , Hassan Rivaz

The Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) will make contributions to the study of Galactic and extragalactic masers. The telescope, now finished construction and commissioning in China, has an innovative design that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-24 J. S. Zhang , D. Li , J. Z. Wang , Q. F. Zhu , J. Li

Aims: We provide an open-source code allowing an easy, intuitive, and robust normalisation of spectra. Methods: We developed RASSINE, a Python code for normalising merged 1D spectra through the concepts of convex hulls. The code uses six…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Michael Cretignier , Jérémie Francfort , Xavier Dumusque , Romain Allart , Francesco Pepe

Radio interferometers consisting of identical antennas arranged on a regular lattice permit fast Fourier transform beamforming, which reduces the correlation cost from $\mathcal{O}(n^2)$ in the number of antennas to $\mathcal{O}(n\log n)$.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-20 Kiyoshi W. Masui , J. Richard Shaw , Cherry Ng , Kendrick M. Smith , Keith Vanderlinde , Adiv Paradise

We present a filtering technique that can be applied to individual baselines of wide-bandwidth, wide-field interferometric data to geometrically select regions on the celestial sphere that contain primary calibration sources. The technique…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Aaron R. Parsons , Donald C. Backer

For submillimeter spectroscopy with ground-based single-dish telescopes, removing noise contribution from the Earth's atmosphere and the instrument is essential. For this purpose, here we propose a new method based on a data-scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-20 Akio Taniguchi , Yoichi Tamura , Shiro Ikeda , Tatsuya Takekoshi , Ryohei Kawabe

The Haystack Telescope is an antenna with a diameter of 37~m and an elevation-dependent surface accuracy of $\le{}100~\mu{}\rm{}m$ that is capable of millimeter-wave observations. The radome-enclosed instrument serves as a radar sensor for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-10 Jens Kauffmann , Ganesh Rajagopalan , Kazunori Akiyama , Vincent Fish , Colin Lonsdale , Lynn D. Matthews , Thushara G. S. Pillai

The Haslam 408 MHz all-sky map is widely used as a template to model the diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission at radio and microwave frequencies. Recent studies have suggested that there are large uncorrected flux scale errors in this map,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Ainulnabilah Nasirudin , Philip Bull

In this paper, we propose a modified Newton-Raphson algorithm to estimate the frequency parameter in the fundamental frequency model in presence of an additive stationary error. The proposed estimator is super efficient in nature in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Swagata Nandi , Debasis Kundu

Direct imaging and spectral characterization of exoplanets using extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) is a key science goal of future extremely large telescopes and space observatories. However, quasi-static wavefront errors will limit the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Benjamin L. Gerard , Christian Marois , Raphaël Galicher

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique allows us to determine positions of thousands of radio sources using the absolute astrometry approach. I have investigated the impact of a selection of observing frequencies in a range from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Leonid Petrov