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Askaryan Radio Array (ARA), a large-scale radio Cherenkov observatory which scientists propose to develop in Antarctica, aims at discovering the origin and evolution of the cosmic accelerators that produce the highest energy cosmic rays by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-02 Shang-Yu Sun , Pisin Chen , Melin Huang

A521 has been a subject of extensive panchromatic studies from X-ray to radio. The cluster possesses a number of remarkable features including a bright radio relic with a steep spectrum, more than three distinct galaxy groups forming a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-18 Mijin Yoon , Wonki Lee , M. James Jee , Kyle Finner , Rory Smith , Jae-woo Kim

Radio astronomy is entering the era of large surveys. This paper describes the plans for wide surveys with the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) and their synergy with large surveys at higher frequencies (in particular in the 1-2 GHz band) that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 R. Morganti , H. Rottgering , I. Snellen , G. Miley , P. Barthel , P. Best , M. Bruggen , G. Brunetti , K. Chyzy , J. Conway , M. Jarvis , M. Lehnert

The Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY (WALLABY) is a neutral hydrogen survey (HI) that is running on the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), a precursor telescope for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The goal of WALLABY is…

Pulsar radio emission and its polarization are observed to evolve with frequency. This frequency dependence is key to the emission mechanism and the structure of the radio beam. With the new Ultra-Wideband receiver (UWL) on the Parkes radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Lucy Oswald , Aris Karastergiou , Simon Johnston

Given the recent advances in gravitational-wave detection technologies, the detection and characterisation of gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a real possibility. To assess the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Carlo R. Contaldi , Mauro Pieroni , Arianna I. Renzini , Giulia Cusin , Nikos Karnesis , Marco Peloso , Angelo Ricciardone , Gianmassimo Tasinato

We present the largest Wiener reconstruction of the cosmic density field made to date. The reconstruction is based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 6 covering the northern Galactic cap. We use a novel supersampling algorithm to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Francisco S. Kitaura , Jens Jasche , Cheng Li , Torsten A. Ensslin , R. Benton Metcalf , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Gerard Lemson , Simon D. M. White

Great successes have been achieved using deep learning techniques for image super-resolution (SR) with fixed scales. To increase its real world applicability, numerous models have also been proposed to restore SR images with arbitrary scale…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Zhihong Pan , Baopu Li , Dongliang He , Wenhao Wu , Errui Ding

Galactic all-sky maps at very disparate frequencies, like in the radio and $\gamma$-ray regime, show similar morphological structures. This mutual information reflects the imprint of the various physical components of the interstellar…

Non-repetitive solid-state LiDAR scanning leads to an extremely sparse measurement regime for detecting airborne UAVs: a small quadrotor at 10-25 m typically produces only 1-2 returns per scan, which is far below the point densities assumed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Nivand Khosravi , Rodrigo Ventura , Meysam Basiri

Wide-field radio interferometric telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array now being designed are subject to a number of aberrations. One particularly pernicious aberration is that due to non-coplanar baselines whereby long baselines…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. J. Cornwell , M. A. Voronkov , B. Humphreys

Long axial field-of-view PET scanners offer increased field-of-view and sensitivity compared to traditional PET scanners. However, a significant cost is associated with the densely packed photodetectors required for the extended-coverage…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Klara Leffler , Luigi Tommaso Luppino , Samuel Kuttner , Karin Söderkvist , Jan Axelsson

We present a study of weak lensing shear measurements for simulated galaxy images at radio wavelengths. We construct a simulation pipeline into which we can input galaxy images of known ellipticity, and with which we then simulate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Prina Patel , Filipe B. Abdalla , David J. Bacon , Barnaby Rowe , Oleg Smirnov , Rob J. Beswick

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), and its recently-developed Voltage Capture System (VCS), facilitates extending the low-frequency range of pulsar observations at high-time and -frequency resolution in the Southern Hemisphere, providing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-23 Mengyao Xue , N. D. R. Bhat , S. E. Tremblay , S. M. Ord , C. Sobey , N. A. Swainston , D. L. Kaplan , Simon Johnston , B. W. Meyers , S. J. McSweeney

The all-sky 408 MHz map of Haslam et al. is one the most important total-power radio surveys. It has been widely used to study diffuse synchrotron radiation from our Galaxy and as a template to remove foregrounds in cosmic microwave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Remazeilles , C. Dickinson , A. J. Banday , M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , T. Ghosh

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe for constraining cosmological parameters, but its success relies on accurate shear measurements. In this paper, we use image simulations to investigate how a joint analysis of high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Shiyang Zhang , Shun-Sheng Li , Henk Hoekstra

Optical interferometers provide multiple wavelength measurements. In order to fully exploit the spectral and spatial resolution of these instruments, new algorithms for image reconstruction have to be developed. Early attempts to deal with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Éric Thiébaut , Ferréol Soulez , Loïc Denis

Image quality in mosaicked observations from interferometric radio telescopes is strongly dependent on the accuracy with which the antenna primary beam is calibrated. The next generation of radio telescope arrays such as the Allen Telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Charles L. H. Hull , Geoffrey C. Bower , Steve Croft , Peter K. G. Williams , Casey Law , David Whysong

We introduce the first AI-based framework for deep, super-resolution, wide-field radio-interferometric imaging, and demonstrate it on observations of the ESO~137-006 radio galaxy. The algorithmic framework to solve the inverse problem for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Arwa Dabbech , Matthieu Terris , Adrian Jackson , Mpati Ramatsoku , Oleg M. Smirnov , Yves Wiaux

Extended radio sources in the sky require a dense sampling of short baselines to be properly imaged by interferometers. This problem arises in many areas of radio astronomy, such as in the study of galaxy clusters, which may host Mpc-scale…