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Extremely high data rates expected in next-generation radio interferometers necessitate a fast and robust way to process measurements in a big data context. Dimensionality reduction can alleviate computational load needed to process these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 S. Vijay Kartik , Arwa Dabbech , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Yves Wiaux

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…

Recent all-sky and large-area astronomical surveys and their catalogued data over the whole range of electromagnetic spectrum are reviewed, from Gamma-ray to radio, such as Fermi-GLAST and INTEGRAL in Gamma-ray, ROSAT, XMM and Chandra in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-24 A. M. Mickaelian

We propose an illumination strategy for interferometric imaging that allows for robust depth recovery from intensity-only measurements. For an array with colocated sources and receivers, we show that all the possible interferometric data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Miguel Moscoso , Alexei Novikov , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

Radio interferometry enables high-resolution imaging of astronomical radio sources by synthesizing a large effective aperture from an array of antennas and solving a deconvolution problem to reconstruct the image. Deep learning has emerged…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Zihui Wu , Liam Connor , Samuel McCarty , Katherine L. Bouman

At present, the principal limitation on the resolution and contrast of astronomical imaging instruments comes from aberrations in the optical path, which may be imposed by the Earth's turbulent atmosphere or by variations in the alignment…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-23 Benjamin Pope , Peter Tuthill , Sasha Hinkley , Michael J. Ireland , Alexandra Greenbaum , Alexey Latyshev , John D. Monnier , Frantz Martinache

We present the method of multiplexed imaging designed for astronomical observations of large sky areas in the IR, visible and UV frequencies. Our method relies on the sparse nature of astronomical observations. The method consists of an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 Barak Zackay , Avishay Gal-Yam

We describe the recent modifications to the data reduction technique for observations acquired with the scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) mounted on the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory that allow the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 A. V. Moiseev

Calibration precision is currently a limiting systematic in 21 cm cosmology experiments. While there are innumerable calibration approaches, most can be categorized as either `sky-based,' relying on an extremely accurate model of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Ruby Byrne , Miguel F. Morales , Bryna Hazelton , Michael Wilensky

Energy consumption and hardware cost of signal digitization together with the management of the resulting data volume form serious issues for high-rate measurement systems with multiple sensors. Switching to binary sensing front-ends…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-16 Manuel S. Stein

The radio astronomical data analysis package CASA was selected to be the designated tool for observers to analyse the data from the Atacama Large mm/sub-mm Array (ALMA) which is under construction and has recently started taking its first…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Dirk Petry

UAVs showed great efficiency on scanning bridge decks surface by taking a single shot or through stitching a couple of overlaid still images. If potential surface deficits are identified through aerial images, subsequent ground inspections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Zhexiong Shang , Chongsheng Cheng , Zhigang Shen

Large radio astronomy multi-element interferometers are frequently used as single dishes in a tied-array mode when signals from separate antennas are added. Phase shifts arising during wave propagation through a turbulent atmosphere can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 P. A. Fridman

This paper introduces a single-pixel HyperSpectral (HS) imaging framework based on Fourier Transform Interferometry (FTI). By combining a space-time coding of the light illumination with partial interferometric observations of a collimated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Amirafshar Moshtaghpour , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Laurent Jacques

We explore the feasibility of HI galaxy redshift surveys with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) and its proposed Core Array interferometry. Using semi-analytical simulations, we compare the performance of the FAST…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Zhenglong Li , Diyang Liu , Chengliang Xu , Yichao Li , Xin Zhang

We present the combination of ALMA-IMF and single-dish continuum images from the Mustang-2 Galactic Plane Survey (MGPS90) at 3 millimeters and the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS) at 1 millimeter. Six and ten out of the fiffteen…

A long-held astronomical vision is to realize diffraction-limited optical aperture synthesis over kilometer baselines. This will enable imaging of stellar surfaces and their environments, show their evolution over time, and reveal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Dainis Dravins , Tiphaine Lagadec

We present new data processing techniques that allow to correct the main instrumental effects that degrade the images obtained by ISOCAM, the camera on board the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). Our techniques take advantage of the fact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. -A. Miville-Deschenes , F. Boulanger , A. Abergel , J. -P. Bernard

Radio interferometers observe the Fourier space of the sky, at locations determined by the array geometry. Before a real space image is constructed by a Fourier transform, the data is weighted to improve the quality of reconstruction. Two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Sarod Yatawatta

This paper presents a novel statistical information fusion method to integrate multiple-view sensor data in multi-object tracking applications. The proposed method overcomes the drawbacks of the commonly used Generalized Covariance…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Xiaoying Wang , Reza Hoseinnezhad , Amirali K. Gostar , Tharindu Rathnayake , Benlian Xu , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar