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In plane-wave imaging, multiple unfocused ultrasound waves are transmitted into a medium of interest from different angles and an image is formed from the recorded reflections. The number of plane waves used leads to a trade-off between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Georgios Pilikos , Chris L. de Korte , Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix Lucka

Upcoming radio interferometers are aiming to image the sky at new levels of resolution and sensitivity, with wide-band image cubes reaching close to the Petabyte scale for SKA. Modern proximal optimization algorithms have shown a potential…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin , Abdullah Abdulaziz , Arwa Dabbech , Audrey Repetti , Yves Wiaux

Current and future radio interferometric arrays such as LOFAR and SKA are characterized by a paradox. Their large number of receptors (up to millions) allow theoretically unprecedented high imaging resolution. In the same time, the ultra…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-03 André Ferrari , David Mary , Rémi Flamary , Cédric Richard

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be sensitive enough to discover all of the pulsars in the Milky Way that are beamed towards Earth. Already in the initial deployment, SKA Phase 1, it will make significant advances in pulsar science. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 E. F. Keane

Reconstructing 3D scenes from unconstrained image collections poses significant challenges due to variations in appearance. In this paper, we propose Scalable Micro-macro Wavelet-based Gaussian Splatting (SMW-GS), a novel method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yihui Li , Chengxin Lv , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang

The upcoming Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope marks a significant step forward in radio astronomy, presenting new opportunities and challenges for data analysis. Traditional visual models pretrained on optical photography images may…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-25 Thomas Cecconello , Simone Riggi , Ugo Becciani , Fabio Vitello , Andrew M. Hopkins , Giuseppe Vizzari , Concetto Spampinato , Simone Palazzo

We present a new imaging technique, swept-angle synthetic wavelength interferometry, for full-field micron-scale 3D sensing. As in conventional synthetic wavelength interferometry, our technique uses light consisting of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Alankar Kotwal , Anat Levin , Ioannis Gkioulekas

The Spreading Projection Algorithm for Rapid K-space samplING, or SPARKLING, is an optimization-driven method that has been recently introduced for accelerated 2D T2*-w MRI using compressed sensing. It has then been extended to address 3D…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Chaithya G R , Pierre Weiss , Guillaume Daval-Frérot , Aurélien Massire , Alexandre Vignaud , Philippe Ciuciu

The next generation interferometric radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be the most sensitive and largest radio telescope ever constructed, could greatly contribute to the detection, survey and characterization of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-05 Alan Cosimo Ruggeri , Salvatore Capozziello

In this paper, we consider non-contiguous wideband spectrum sensing (WSS) for spectrum characterization and allocation in next generation heterogeneous networks. The proposed WSS consists of sub-Nyquist sampling and digital reconstruction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-18 Himani Joshi , Sumit J Darak , A Anil Kumar , Rohit Kumar

In a companion paper, a faceted wideband imaging technique for radio interferometry, dubbed Faceted HyperSARA, has been introduced and validated on synthetic data. Building on the recent HyperSARA approach, Faceted HyperSARA leverages the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin , Arwa Dabbech , Ming Jiang , Abdullah Abdulaziz , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Adrian Jackson , Yves Wiaux

We construct a pipeline for simulating weak lensing cosmology surveys with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), taking as inputs telescope sensitivity curves; correlated source flux, size and redshift distributions; a simple ionospheric model;…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Anna Bonaldi , Ian Harrison , Stefano Camera , Michael L. Brown

Performance of digitally beamformed phased arrays relies on accurate calibration of the array by obtaining gains of each antenna in the array. The stations of the Square Kilometer Array-Low (SKA-Low) are such digital arrays, where the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Jishnu N. Thekkeppattu , Randall B. Wayth , Marcin Sokolowski

Karabo is a versatile Python-based software framework simplifying research with radio astronomy data. It bundles existing software packages into a coherent whole to improve the ease of use of its components. Karabo includes useful…

The desire for wide-field of view, large fractional bandwidth, high sensitivity, high spectral and temporal resolution has driven radio interferometry to the point of big data revolution where the data is represented in at least three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 M. Atemkeng , O. Smirnov , C. Tasse , G. Foster , S. Makhathini

The low-frequency radio telescope of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is being built by the international radio astronomical community to (i) have orders of magnitude higher sensitivity and (ii) be able to map the sky several hundred times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Agaram Raghunathan , Keerthipriya Satish , Arasi Sathyamurthy , T. Prabu , B. S. Girish , K. S. Srivani , Shiv K. Sethi

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), when it becomes functional, is expected to enrich neutron star (NS) catalogues by at least an order of magnitude over their current state. This includes the discovery of new NS objects leading to better…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Mihir Arjunwadkar , Akanksha Kashikar , Manjari Bagchi

Object detection in astronomical images, generically referred to as source finding, is often performed before the object characterisation stage in astrophysical processing work flows. In radio astronomy, source finding has historically been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Luis Lucas , Tim Staley , Anna Scaife

We propose a sampling scheme that can perfectly reconstruct a collection of spikes on the sphere from samples of their lowpass-filtered observations. Central to our algorithm is a generalization of the annihilating filter method, a tool…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Ivan Dokmanic , Yue M. Lu

Parallax measurements of pulsars allow for accurate measurements of the interstellar electron density and contribute to accurate tests of general relativity using binary systems. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be an ideal instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Smits , S. J. Tingay , N. Wex , M. Kramer , B. Stappers