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Radio interferometry invariably suffers from an incomplete coverage of the spatial Fourier space, which leads to imaging artifacts. The current state-of-the-art technique is to create an image by Fourier-transforming the incomplete…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 F. Geyer , K. Schmidt , J. Kummer , M. Brüggen , H. W. Edler , D. Elsässer , F. Griese , A. Poggenpohl , L. Rustige , W. Rhode

We present a technique to automatically minimise the re-computation when a data analysis program is iteratively changed, or added to, as is often the case in exploratory data analysis in astronomy. A typical example is flagging and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-07 Bojan Nikolic , Des Small , Mark Kettenis

Interferometers (e.g. ALMA and NOEMA) allow us to obtain the detailed brightness distribution of astronomical sources in 3 dimensions (R.A., Dec., frequency). However, the spatial correlation of the noise makes it difficult to evaluate the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-21 Takafumi Tsukui , Satoru Iguchi , Ikki Mitsuhashi , Kenichi Tadaki

Context: Radio interferometers measure frequency components of the sky brightness, modulated by the gains of the individual radio antennas. Due to atmospheric turbulence and variations in the operational conditions of the antennas these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Jakob Roth , Philipp Arras , Martin Reinecke , Richard A. Perley , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten A. Enßlin

Low-frequency radio observatories are reaching unprecedented levels of sensitivity in an effort to detect the 21 cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn. High precision is needed because the expected signal is overwhelmed by foreground…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Adam E. Lanman , Steven G. Murray , Daniel C. Jacobs

Expanding laser plasmas, produced by high energy laser radiation, possess both high thermal and magnetic field energy density. Characterization of such plasma is challenging but needed for understanding of its physical behaviour. Among all…

Clustering is an effective tool for astronomical spectral analysis, to mine clustering patterns among data. With the implementation of large sky surveys, many clustering methods have been applied to tackle spectroscopic and photometric data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-19 Haifeng Yang , Chenhui Shi , Jianghui Cai , Lichan Zhou , Yuqing Yang , Xujun Zhao , Yanting He , Jing Hao

The seek of high precision analyses in $\gamma$-ray astronomy leads to the implementation of multivariate combination, benefiting from several reconstruction methods. Such analysis, called $X_{eff}$, was developed for the H.E.S.S. data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-14 C. Trichard , A. Fiasson , G. Maurin , G. Lamanna

Optical stellar intensity interferometry with air Cherenkov telescope arrays, composed of nearly 100 telescopes, will provide means to measure fundamental stellar parameters and also open the possibility of model-independent imaging. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Paul D. Nunez , Richard Holmes , David Kieda , Stephan LeBohec

Ground-based, high-resolution bolometric (sub)millimeter continuum mapping observations on spatially extended target sources are often subject to significant missing fluxes. This hampers accurate quantitative analyses. Missing flux can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-02 Sihan Jiao , Yuxin Lin , Xiangyu Shui , Jingwen Wu , Zhiyuan Ren , Di Li

Digital co-addition of astronomical images is a common technique for increasing signal-to-noise and image depth. A modification of this simple technique has been applied to the detection of minor bodies in the Solar System: first stationary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alex H. Parker , JJ. Kavelaars

Interferometry techniques are essential for extracting phase information from optical systems, enabling precise measurements of dispersion and highly sensitive detection of perturbations. While phase sensing offers enhanced sensitivity…

The newly installed Silmaril beam combiner at the CHARA array is designed to observe previously inaccessible faint targets, including Active Galactic Nuclei and T-Tauri Young Stellar Objects. Silmaril leverages cutting-edge optical design,…

Incorporating wide-field considerations in interferometric imaging is of increasing importance for next-generation radio telescopes. Compressed sensing techniques for interferometric imaging have been extended to wide fields recently,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-29 J. D. McEwen , Y. Wiaux

During more than 17 years of operation in space INTEGRAL telescope has accumulated large data set that contains records of hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray astronomical sources. These data can be re-used in the context of multi-wavelength or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 A. Neronov , V. Savchenko , A. Tramacere , M. Meharga , C. Ferrigno , S. Paltani

In many areas of science multiple sets of data are collected pertaining to the same system. Examples are food products which are characterized by different sets of variables, bio-processes which are on-line sampled with different…

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

The multiple Doppler readouts available on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) permit simultaneous formation of several interferometric observables. All these observables are independent of laser frequency fluctuations and have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas A. Prince , Massimo Tinto , Shane L. Larson , J. W. Armstrong

We present a new approach to multi-frequency synthesis in radio astronomy. Using Bayesian inference techniques, the new technique estimates the sky brightness and the spectral index simultaneously. In principle, the bandwidth of a wide-band…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 H. Junklewitz , M. A. Bell , T. Enßlin

In the last two decades, unsupervised latent variable models---blind source separation (BSS) especially---have enjoyed a strong reputation for the interpretable features they produce. Seldom do these models combine the rich diversity of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-12 Rogers F. Silva , Sergey M. Plis , Tulay Adali , Marios S. Pattichis , Vince D. Calhoun
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