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An experimental technique is developed to simultaneously measure both temporal and spatial coherences of a light source by altering a standard Michelson interferometer, which has been primarily used for measuring temporal coherence only.…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-17 Mohit Kumar Singh , Shouvik Datta

Aperture synthesis instruments providing a generally highly uniform sampling of the visibility function often leave an unsampled hole near the origin of the (u,v)-plane. In this paper, originally published in 1979, we first describe the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 R. D. Ekers , A. H. Rots

Radio interferometry is a powerful technique that allows astronomers to create high-resolution images of astronomical objects. The distribution of radio telescopes in an interferometer is a critical factor that determines the resolution and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Elio Quiroga Rodriguez

Current cosmological analyses which use Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) observations combine SN samples to expand the redshift range beyond that of a single sample and increase the overall sample size. The inhomogeneous photometric calibration…

Optical interferometers increasingly use single-mode fibers as spatial filters to convert varying wavefront distortion into intensity fluctuations which can be monitored for accurate calibration of fringe amplitudes. Here I propose using an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. D. Monnier

New radio interferometers such as MeerKAT, SKA, ngVLA, and DSA-2000 drive advancements in software for two key reasons. First, handling the vast data from these instruments requires subdivision and multi-node processing. Second, their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Simon J. Perkins , Jonathan S. Kenyon , Lexy A. L. Andati , Hertzog L. Bester , Oleg M. Smirnov , Benjamin V. Hugo

Novel methods for rapidly estimating single-photon source (SPS) quality have been promoted in recent literature to address the expensive and time-consuming nature of experimental validation via intensity interferometry. However, the…

Modern radio telescopes will daily generate data sets on the scale of exabytes for systems like the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Massive data sets are a source of unknown and rare astrophysical phenomena that lead to discoveries.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-08 Steven Ndung'u , Trienko Grobler , Stefan J. Wijnholds , Dimka Karastoyanova , George Azzopardi

Compressed sensing theory is slowly making its way to solve more and more astronomical inverse problems. We address here the application of sparse representations, convex optimization and proximal theory to radio interferometric imaging.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-28 Julien N. Girard , Hugh Garsden , Jean Luc Starck , Stéphane Corbel , Arnaud Woiselle , Cyril Tasse , John P. McKean , Jérôme Bobin

Stacks of digital astronomical images are combined in order to increase image depth. The variable seeing conditions, sky background and transparency of ground-based observations make the coaddition process non-trivial. We present image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Barak Zackay , Eran O. Ofek

This paper develops a unifying framework for signal reconstruction from interferometric measurements that is broadly applicable to various applications of interferometry. In this framework, the problem of signal reconstruction in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Davood Mardani , George K. Atia , Ayman F. Abouraddy

In recent years, a large number of geosynchronous satellites are being planned to provide augmentation services for enhancing the precision to global positioning systems, e.g., GPS, in applications such as aircraft landing. In this paper,…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-09-23 C. R. Subrahmanya , Peeyush Prasad , R. Somashekar

High-dimensional astronomical data cubes provide a wealth of spectral and structural information that can be used to study astrophysical and chemical processes. The complexity and sheer size of these datasets pose significant challenges in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Haley N. Scolati , Ryan A. Loomis , Anthony J. Remijan , Kin Long Kelvin Lee

Data fusion describes the method of combining data from (at least) two initially independent data sources to allow for joint analysis of variables which are not jointly observed. The fundamental idea is to base inference on identifying…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-02 Florian Meinfelder , Jannik Schaller

Object detection in astronomical images, generically referred to as source finding, is often performed before the object characterisation stage in astrophysical processing work flows. In radio astronomy, source finding has historically been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Luis Lucas , Tim Staley , Anna Scaife

Remote sensing (RS) images are important to monitor and survey earth at varying spatial scales. Continuous observations from various RS sources complement single observations to improve applications. Fusion into single or multiple images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Hessah Albanwan

The advent of large aperture arrays, such as the ones currently under construction for the SKA project, allows for observing the Universe in the radio-spectrum at unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. To process the enormous amounts of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 S. Wang , S. Mignot , S. Prunet , L. Di Mascolo , M. Spinelli , A. Ferrari

The study of protoplanetary disks, where the planets are believed to form, will certainly allow the formation of our Solar System to be understood. To conduct observations of these objects at the milli-arcsecond scale, infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Renard , F. Malbet , E. Thiebaut , J. -P. Berger

The Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-Optical Reconnaissance (SPIDER) is an optical interferometric imaging device that aims to offer an alternative to the large space telescope designs of today with reduced size, weight and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Matthijs Mars , Marta M. Betcke , Jason D. McEwen

We outline here a simple yet efficient method for finding optimized configurations of the elements of radio-astronomical interferometers with fixed pad locations. The method can be successfully applied, as we demonstrate, to define new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Karastergiou , R. Neri , M. A. Gurwell