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The Interstellar Boundary EXplorer (IBEX) mission has recently studied the flow of interstellar neutral He atoms through the solar system, and discovered the existence of a secondary He flow likely originating in the outer heliosheath. We…

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Direct sampling of neutral interstellar (NIS) atoms by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) can potentially provide a complementary method for studying element abundances in the Local Interstellar Cloud and processes in the heliosphere…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Bzowski , J. M. Sokół , M. A. Kubiak , H. Kucharek

The HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS) Catalogue forms the largest uniform catalogue of HI sources compiled to date, with 4,315 sources identified purely by their HI content. The catalogue data comprise the southern region declination <+2…

Scientific exploitation of the ever increasing volumes of astronomical data requires efficient and practical methods for data access, visualisation, and analysis. Hierarchical sky tessellation techniques enable a multi-resolution approach…

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We present the first large set of all-sky synthetic dust polarization maps derived directly from a self-consistent magnetohydrodynamics simulation using the TIGRESS framework. Turbulence in this simulation is predominantly driven by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-07 Chang-Goo Kim , Steve K. Choi , Raphael Flauger

We present here the results of a deep survey in a 0.4 sq.deg. blank field in Selected Area 57 conducted with the ISOPHOT instrument aboard ESAs Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) at both 60 um and 90 um. The resulting sky maps have a spatial…

HERMES is a scientific mission composed of 3U nano-satellites dedicated to the detection and localization of high-energy astrophysical transients, with a distributed space architecture to form a constellation in Earth orbits. The space…

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A method is developed for fitting theoretically predicted astronomical spectra to an observed spectrum. Using a hierarchical Bayesian principle, the method takes both systematic and statistical measurement errors into account, which has not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Shkedy , L. Decin , G. Molenberghs , C. Aerts

Characterizing the structure of the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) in three dimensions is of high importance for accurate modeling of dust emission as a foreground to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). At high Galactic latitude,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-22 G. V. Panopoulou , D. Lenz

Neutral interstellar helium has been observed by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) since 2009 with a signal-to-noise ratio well above 1000. Because of the geometry of the observations, the signal observed from January to March each…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-22 Justyna M. Sokół , M. Bzowski , M. A. Kubiak , P. Swaczyna , A. Galli , P. Wurz , E. Möbius , H. Kucharek , S. A. Fuselier , D. J. McComas

High fidelity radio interferometric data calibration that minimises spurious spectral structure in the calibrated data is essential in astrophysical applications, such as 21 cm cosmology, which rely on knowledge of the relative spectral…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Peter H. Sims , Jonathan C. Pober , Jonathan L. Sievers

The proliferation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations has intensified the challenge of space debris management. This paper introduces DebriSense-THz, a novel Terahertz-Enabled Debris Sensing system for LEO satellites that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Haofan Dong , Ozgur B. Akan

Observations of energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) allow for remote studies of the plasma condition in the heliosphere and the neighboring local interstellar medium. The first IBEX results revealed an arc-like enhancement of the ENA intensity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-30 Paweł Swaczyna , Maciej Bzowski , Justyna M. Sokół

Measurement of the global 21-cm signal during Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is made difficult by bright foreground emission which is 2-5 orders of magnitude larger than the expected signal. Fitting for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Michael Pagano , Peter Sims , Adrian Liu , Dominic Anstey , Will Handley , Eloy De Lera Acedo

The Galactic All-Sky Survey is a survey of Galactic atomic hydrogen emission in the southern sky observed with the Parkes 64-m Radio Telescope. The first data release (GASS I) concerned survey goals and observing techniques, the second…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-10 Peter M. W. Kalberla , Urmas Haud

We report the spectral index of diffuse radio emission between 50 and 100 MHz from data collected with two implementations of the Experiment to Detect the Global EoR Signature (EDGES) low-band system. EDGES employs a wide beam…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-08 Thomas J. Mozdzen , Nivedita Mahesh , Raul A. Monsalve , Alan E. E. Rogers , Judd D. Bowman

Hyperspectral imaging is a powerful tool for Earth exploration, allowing for detailed analysis of spectral features. India has launched a dedicated hyperspectral Earth observation satellite capable of capturing data across a wide…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Ankur Garg , Abhishek Patil , Meenakshi Sarkar , S. Manthira Moorthi , Debajyoti Dhar

The IBEX-Lo instrument on the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission measures interstellar neutral (ISN) helium atoms. The detection of helium atoms is made through negative hydrogen (H$^-$) ions sputtered by the helium atoms from…

Stratospheric aerosols play an important role in the earth system and can affect the climate on timescales of months to years. However, estimating the characteristics of partially observed aerosol injections, such as those from volcanic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 J. Hart , I. Manickam , M. Gulian , L. Swiler , D. Bull , T. Ehrmann , H. Brown , B. Wagman , J. Watkins

We present a comparison between the performance of a selection of source finders using a new software tool called Hydra. The companion paper, Paper~I, introduced the Hydra tool and demonstrated its performance using simulated data. Here we…