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We use full sky simulations, including the effects of foreground contamination and removal, to explore multi-tracer synergies between a SKA-like 21cm intensity mapping survey and a LSST-like photometric galaxy redshift survey. In particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Amadeus Witzemann , David Alonso , José Fonseca , Mario G. Santos

We present a survey strategy to detect the neutral hydrogen (HI) power spectrum at $5<z<6$ using the SKA-Low radio telescope in presence of foregrounds and instrumental effects. We simulate observations of the inherently weak HI signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Zhaoting Chen , Emma Chapman , Laura Wolz , Aishrila Mazumder

One of the most promising probes to complement current standard cosmological surveys is the HI intensity map, i.e. the distribution of temperature fluctuations in neutral hydrogen. In this paper we present calculations of the 2-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-24 Anut Sangka , David Bacon

Bias field, which is caused by imperfect MR devices or imaged objects, introduces intensity inhomogeneity into MR images and degrades the performance of MR image analysis methods. Many retrospective algorithms were developed to facilitate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Dong Liang , Xingyu Qiu , Kuanquan Wang , Gongning Luo , Wei Wang , Yashu Liu

The ability to subtract foreground contamination from low-frequency observations is crucial to reveal the underlying 21 cm signal. The traditional line-of-sight methods can deal with the removal of diffuse emission and unresolved point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Xiao-Chun Mao

Mathematical methods of step-by-step and combined shifts are proposed for experimental data processing to reconstruct the measuring system impulse response distorted by shift-invariant blur. Proposed methods base on direct non-blind…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-24 Andrey V. Novikov-Borodin

We present a framework and an open-source python toolkit to analyse the 2-point statistics of 3D fluctuations in the context of HI intensity maps using the multipole expansion formalism. We include simulations of the cosmological HI signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-19 Steven Cunnington , Alkistis Pourtsidou , Paula S. Soares , Chris Blake , David Bacon

We present and compare several methods to mitigate time-correlated (1/f) noise within the HI intensity mapping component of the MeerKAT Large Area Synoptic Survey (MeerKLASS). By simulating scan strategies, the HI signal, foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-10 Melis O. Irfan , Yichao Li , Mario G. Santos , Philip Bull , Junhua Gu , Steven Cunnington , Keith Grainge , Jingying Wang

We present a simulation-based framework to forecast the HI power spectrum on non-linear scales ($k\gtrsim 1\ {\rm Mpc^{-1}}$), as measured by interferometer arrays like MeerKAT in the low-redshift ($z\leq 1.0$) universe. Building on a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Zhixing Li , Laura Wolz , Hong Guo , Steven Cunnington , Yi Mao

Aiming to correctly restore the redshifted 21 cm signals emitted by the neutral hydrogen during the cosmic reionization processes, we re-examine the separation approaches based on the quadratic polynomial fitting technique in frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jingying Wang , Haiguang Xu , Tao An , Junhua Gu , Xueying Guo , Weitian Li , Yu Wang , Chengze Liu , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Xiang-Ping Wu

The treatment of unknown foreground contaminations will be one of the major challenges for galaxy clustering analyses of coming decadal surveys. These data contaminations introduce erroneous large-scale effects in recovered power spectra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Natalia Porqueres , Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux

Foreground removal remains an ongoing challenge in radio cosmology, and increasingly sensitive experiments necessitate more robust analysis techniques. In this work, we model simulated data from a single-dish intensity mapping experiment,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Geoff G. Murphy , Philip Bull , Mario G. Santos , Zheng Zhang , Steven Cunnington

The first direct measurements of the HI intensity mapping power spectrum were recently made using the MeerKAT telescope. These measurements are on nonlinear scales, at redshifts 0.32 and 0.44. We develop a formalism for modelling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Roy Maartens , Obinna Umeh , Stefano Camera

Dense depth maps have been used as a key element of visual perception tasks. There have been tremendous efforts to enhance the depth quality, ranging from optimization-based to learning-based methods. Despite the remarkable progress for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jin-Hwi Park , Chanhwi Jeong , Junoh Lee , Hae-Gon Jeon

We propose a novel bias-free method for reconstructing the power spectrum of the weak lensing deflection field from cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. The proposed method is in contrast to the standard method of CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Blake D. Sherwin , Sudeep Das

This paper introduces a technique called NKL, which cleans both polarized and unpolarized foregrounds from HI intensity maps by applying a Karhunen-Lo\`eve transform on the needlet coefficients. In NKL, one takes advantage of correlations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 John Podczerwinski , Peter Timbie

Transformer-based approaches have achieved superior performance in image restoration, since they can model long-term dependencies well. However, the limitation in capturing local information restricts their capacity to remove degradations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shihao Zhou , Duosheng Chen , Jinshan Pan , Jufeng Yang

It is well-known that foreground subtraction in 21cm surveys removes large scale power. We investigate associated systematic biases. We show that removing line-of-sight fluctuations on large scales aliases into suppression of the 3D power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nada Petrovic , S. Peng Oh

Hyperspectral image fusion (HIF) is critical to a wide range of applications in remote sensing and many computer vision applications. Most traditional HIF methods assume that the observation model is predefined or known. However, in real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Wu Wang , Yue Huang , Xinhao Ding

Intensity mapping experiments survey the spectrum of diffuse line radiation rather than detect individual objects at high signal-to-noise. Spectral maps of unresolved atomic and molecular line radiation contain three-dimensional information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-19 Eric R. Switzer , Tzu-Ching Chang , Kiyoshi W. Masui , Ue-Li Pen , Tabitha C. Voytek