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SARAS is a correlation spectrometer purpose designed for precision measurements of the cosmic radio background and faint features in the sky spectrum at long wavelengths that arise from redshifted 21-cm from gas in the reionization epoch.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-25 Nipanjana Patra , Ravi Subrahmanyan , A. Raghunathan , N. Udaya Shankar

Increasing the angular resolution of an interferometric array requires placing its elements at large separations. This often leads to sparse coverage and introduces challenges to reconstructing images from interferometric data. We introduce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel , Yassine Ben Zineb

The Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP) is the largest homogeneous high-resolution ($\sim 0.035$ arcsec, or $\sim$ 5 au) disk continuum imaging survey with ALMA so far. In the coming years, many more disks will be…

Galaxy clusters have been found to host a range of diffuse, non-thermal emission components, generally with steep, power law spectra. In this work we report on the detection and follow-up of radio halos, relics, remnant radio galaxies, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 S. W. Duchesne , M. Johnston-Hollitt , I. Bartalucci

The forthcoming generation of radio telescope arrays promises significant advancements in sensitivity and resolution, enabling the identification and characterization of many new faint and diffuse radio sources. Conventional manual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Chiara Stuardi , Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Andrea Botteon

We present a large-scale clustering analysis of radio galaxies in the Very Large Array (VLA) Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm (FIRST) survey over the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey area, limited to S1.4 GHz >1 mJy with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 S. N. Lindsay , M. J. Jarvis , M. G. Santos , M. J. I. Brown , S. M. Croom , S. P. Driver , A. M. Hopkins , J. Liske , J. Loveday , P. Norberg , A. S. G. Robotham

We describe the internal photometric calibration of the Deep Lens Survey, which consists of five widely separated fields observed by two different observatories. Adopting the global linear least-squares ("ubercal") approach developed for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 D. Wittman , R. Ryan , P. Thorman

We present an atlas of full-scan spectra from the Short-Wavelength Spectrometer (SWS) aboard the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) after reprocessing and improving an earlier version published 22 years ago. The SWS spectra cover the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 D. R. Mizuno , T. A. Kuchar , Kathleen E. Kraemer , G. C. Sloan , Samantha Greene , Elianna Cohen , Holly Branco

In our work, we examine, for the first time, the possibility of fast and efficient source localization directly from the uvobservations, omitting the recovering of the dirty or clean images. We propose a deep neural network-based framework…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 O. Taran , O. Bait , M. Dessauges-Zavadsky , T. Holotyak , D. Schaerer , S. Voloshynovskiy

This paper describes the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS) under construction at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA) of the Australian National University (ANU) for the ANU 2.3m telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Michael Dopita , John Hart , Peter McGregor , Patrick Oates , Gabe Bloxham , Damien Jones

We present reduced images and catalogues of photometric and emission line data ($\sim$230,000 and $\sim$8,000 sources, respectively) for the WFC3 Infrared Spectroscopic Parallel (WISP) Survey. These data are made publicly available on the…

This paper describes a programme to map large-scale cosmic structures on the largest possible scales by using the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) to make a 21 cm (red-shifted) intensity map of the sky for the range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 George F. Smoot , Ivan Debono

Radio interferometric imaging has long relied on the CLEAN algorithm, valued for its speed, robustness, and integration with calibration pipelines. However, next-generation facilities such as the ngVLA, SKA, and ALMAs Wideband Sensitivity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-19 Hendrik Müller

Calibration of instrumental polarization is critical for measuring polarized radio emissions from astrophysical sources to extract the magnetic field information in astrophysical, heliospheric, and terrestrial plasmas. At meter wavelengths,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-08 Devojyoti Kansabanik , Angelos Vourlidas , Soham Dey , Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi

Radio interferometry allows astronomers to probe small spatial scales that are often inaccessible with single-dish instruments. However, recovering the radio sky from an interferometer is an ill-posed deconvolution problem that astronomers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Liam Connor , Katherine L. Bouman , Vikram Ravi , Gregg Hallinan

In the era of big data, radio astronomical image reconstruction algorithms are challenged to estimate clean images given limited computing resources and time. This article is driven by the need for large scale image reconstruction for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-20 Rita Ammanouil , André Ferrari , David Mary , Chiara Ferrari , Francesca Loi

We report the first astrophysical application of the technique of wide-field Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). This powerful technique allows us to identify and measure sub-arcsecond compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 R. Chhetri , J. Morgan , R. D. Ekers , J-P Macquart , E. M. Sadler , M. Giroletti , J. R. Callingham , S. J. Tingay

Wide-field high-resolution microscopy requires fast scanning and accurate image mosaicking to cover large fields of view without compromising image quality. However, conventional galvanometric scanning, particularly under sinusoidal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Ziyi Huang , Rosalinda Xiong , Yaning Wang , Jinglun Yu , Jin U. Kang

Sparse signal models are in the focus of recent developments in narrowband DOA estimation. Applying these methods to localizing audio sources, however, is challenging due to the wideband nature of the signals. The common approach of…

Sound · Computer Science 2014-03-07 Clemens Hage , Tim Habigt , Martin Kleinsteuber

It has been proposed that radio pulsars can be distinguished from other point-like radio sources in continuum images by their unique interstellar scintillation signatures. Using data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder…