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We present initial results from the Subaru Strategic Program (SSP) with Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) on a comprehensive survey of emission-line galaxies at z<1.5 based on narrowband (NB) imaging. The first Public Data Release (PDR1) provides us…

We have carried out a systematic search for galaxy-scale strong lenses in multiband imaging from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey. Our automated pipeline, based on realistic strong-lens simulations, deep neural network classification, and…

The data volumes generated by the WALLABY atomic Hydrogen (HI) survey using the Australiian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) necessitate greater automation and reliable automation in the task of source-finding and cataloguing. To…

The Square Kilometre Array will be a revolutionary instrument for the study of gas in the distant Universe. SKA1 will have sufficient sensitivity to detect and image atomic 21 cm HI in individual galaxies at significant cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-19 J. Wagg , E. Da Cunha , C. L. Carilli , F. Walter , M. Aravena , I. Heywood , J. Hodge , E. Murphy , D. Riechers , M. Sargent , R. Wang

The vast collecting area of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), harnessed by sensitive receivers, flexible digital electronics and increased computational capacity, could permit the most sensitive and exhaustive search for…

In this second paper of the Hawaii SCUBA-2 Lensing Cluster Survey series, we cross-match SCUBA-2 maps with 3 and 6 GHz images from the Janksy-VLA Frontier Fields Legacy Survey for three cluster fields, MACS J0416.1--2403, MACS J0717.5+3745,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 Li-Yen Hsu , Vandana Desai , Eric Murphy , Lennox Cowie , Ian Heywood , Emmanuel Momjian , Amy Barger , Ian Smail

The SCUBA-2 Ambitious Sky Survey (SASSy) is composed of shallow 850-$\umu$m imaging using the Sub-millimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. Here we describe the extraction of a catalogue of…

This paper presents scale-adaptive filters that optimize the detection/separation of compact sources on a background. We assume that the sources have a multiquadric profile, i. e. $\tau (x) = {[1 + {(x/r_c)}^2]}^{-\lambda}, \lambda \geq…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Herranz , J. L. Sanz , R. B. Barreiro , E. Martinez-Gonzalez

More and more massive parallel codes running on several hundreds of thousands of cores enter the computational science and engineering domain, allowing high-fidelity computations on up to trillions of unknowns for very detailed analyses of…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Christoph Ertl , Jérôme Frisch , Ralf-Peter Mundani

The latest generation of radio astronomy interferometers will conduct all sky surveys with data products consisting of petabytes of spectral line data. Traditional approaches to identifying and parameterising the astrophysical sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-21 Stefan Westerlund , Christopher Harris

Fast imaging localises celestial transients using source finders in the image domain. The need for high computational throughput in this process is driven by next-generation telescopes such as Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which, upon…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 X. Li , K. Adamek , W. Armour

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a proposed next generation radio telescope. Between now and 2005 this project is in a technology development and prototyping phase, with construction likely to begin in $\sim 2010$. This paper describes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. F. Bell

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) presents a number of challenges in the area of source finding and cataloguing. The data rates and image sizes are very large, and require automated processing in a high-performance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Matthew Whiting , Ben Humphreys

Information $I$ in holographic imaging of massive particles by star-like screens is shown to represent the probability of detection based on their propagator. Results are derived for screens in the shape of a plane, cube and sphere from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

The extremely high sensitivity and resolution of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be useful for addressing a wide set of themes relevant for cosmology, in synergy with current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) projects. Many…

We have carried out a pilot study for the SCUBA-2 'All-Sky' Survey, SASSy, a wide and shallow mapping project at 850 microns, designed to find rare objects, both Galactic and extragalactic. Two distinct sets of exploratory observations were…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will operate one of the world's largest continuous scientific data systems, sustaining petascale imaging under strict power envelopes. Current radio-interferometric pipelines typically achieve only 4-14% of…

The cosmological case for a next generation radio observatory, the Square Kilometer Array, is discussed and reviewed. An instrument like the SKA would be able to measure galaxy redshifts of normal late-type galaxies, via the 21 cm line of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rien van de Weygaert , Tjeerd S. van Albada

This chapter describes the assumed specifications and sensitivities for HI galaxy surveys with SKA1 and SKA2. It addresses the expected galaxy number densities based on available simulations as well as the clustering bias over the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Mario G. Santos , David Alonso , Philip Bull , Marta Silva , Sahba Yahya

We discuss the detection of redshifted line and continuum emission at radio wavelengths using a Square Kilometer Array (SKA), specifically from low-excitation rotational molecular line transitions of CO and HCN (molecular lines), the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew W. Blain , C. L. Carilli , Jeremy Darling