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We present an algorithm capable of detecting diffuse, dim sources of any size in an astronomical image. These sources often defeat traditional methods for source finding, which expand regions around points of high intensity. Extended…

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Dynamical energy analysis was recently introduced as a new method for determining the distribution of mechanical and acoustic wave energy in complex built up structures. The technique interpolates between standard statistical energy…

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A future large-volume liquid scintillator detector such as the proposed 50 kton LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) detector would provide a high-statistics measurement of terrestrial antineutrinos originating from $\beta$-decays of the…

Pulsar dynamic spectra exhibit high visibility fringes arising from interference between scattered radio waves. These fringes may be random or highly ordered patterns, depending on the nature of the scattering or refraction. Here we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark Walker , Dan Stinebring

In this paper we develop tools for observers to use when analysing nebular spectra for temperatures and metallicities, with two goals: to present a new, simple method to calculate equilibrium electron temperatures for collisionally excited…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-18 David C. Nicholls , Michael A. Dopita , Ralph S. Sutherland , Lisa J. Kewley , Ethan Palay

Energy-based models (EBMs) offer a flexible framework for probabilistic modelling across various data domains. However, training EBMs on data in discrete or mixed state spaces poses significant challenges due to the lack of robust and fast…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-03 Tobias Schröder , Zijing Ou , Yingzhen Li , Andrew B. Duncan

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) and Innovation Method are recognized methods for solving global optimization problems and for the estimation of parameters in diffusion processes, respectively. Well known is also that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Zochil González Arenas , Juan Carlos Jimenez , Li-Vang Lozada-Chang , Roberto Santana

The diffuse Galactic neutrino flux is produced by cosmic rays interacting with the interstellar medium. The measurement of this flux can help to understand the distribution of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. The first observation of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-26 Jonas Hellrung , Julia Becker Tjus , Wolfgang Rhode

We present a powerful new algorithm that combines both spatial information (event locations and the point spread function) and spectral information (photon energies) to separate photons from overlapping sources. We use Bayesian statistical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-06 David E. Jones , Vinay L. Kashyap , David A. van Dyk

A methodology for determining the scattered Electromagnetic (EM) fields present for interconnected regions with common metasurface boundaries is presented. The method uses a Boundary Element Method (BEM) formulation of the frequency domain…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Scott A. Stewart , Sanam Moslemi-Tabrizi , Tom. J. Smy , Shulabh Gupta

In a typical multi-standard military communication receiver, fast and reliable spectrum sensing unit is required to extract the information of multiple channels (frequency bands) present in a wideband input signal. In this paper, an energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-16 S. J. Darak , A. P. Vinod , E. M-K. Lai

In this paper, we propose an efficient parallelization strategy for boundary element method (BEM) solvers that perform the electromagnetic analysis of structures with lossy conductors. The proposed solver is accelerated with the adaptive…

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Recent work has suggested that in highly correlated systems, such as sandpiles, turbulent fluids, ignited trees in forest fires and magnetization in a ferromagnet close to a critical point, the probability distribution of a global quantity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-29 Sandra Chapman , George Rowlands , Nicholas Watkins

A good understanding of the ionization rates of neutral species in the heliosphere is important for studies of the heliosphere and planetary atmospheres. So far, the intensities of the ionization reactions have been studied based on…

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The dynamical evolution and radiative properties of luminous radio galaxies and quasars of the FRII type, are well understood. As a result, through the use of detailed modeling of the observed radio emission of such sources, one can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Anna Wojtowicz , Lukasz Stawarz , Jerzy Machalski , Luisa Ostorero

Polarized synchrotron emission from ultra-relativistic electrons spiraling the Galactic magnetic field has become one of the most relevant emissions in the Interstellar medium these last years due to the improvement in the quality of…

In many applications, the two-dimensional trajectories of fluid particles are available, but little is known about the underlying flow. Oceanic floats are a clear example. To extract quantitative information from such data, one can measure…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-04-07 Jean-Luc Thiffeault

In this work, we propose an easy-to-implement fixed-point algorithm for reconstructing a space-time dependent source in a subdiffusion model from lateral boundary measurements. The numerical scheme combines a Galerkin finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Siyu Cen , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Zhi Zhou

In the interstellar medium, the cosmic elemental carbon abundance includes the total carbon in both gas and solid phases. The aim of the study was to trial a new method for measuring the amount and distribution of aliphatic carbon within…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-13 B. Günay , M. G. Burton , M. Afşar , T. W. Schmidt

This work presents a rigorous statistical and geometric framework for analyzing turbulence-impacted beam propagation and image topology with results obtained using a PMMA slab. The approach models beam intensity distributions as…

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