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The recently proposed pseudo-LiDAR based 3D detectors greatly improve the benchmark of monocular/stereo 3D detection task. However, the underlying mechanism remains obscure to the research community. In this paper, we perform an in-depth…

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Deep wide spectral line surveys with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will expand the cosmic frontiers of neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) in galaxies. However, at cosmologically significant redshifts ($z \gtrsim 0.5$), detections will…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-12 Charissa Button , Roger Deane

The 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen serves as a critical tool for unraveling the astrophysical processes that shaped cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionization. We explore the usually overlooked impact of re-scattering of 21-cm photons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Sudipta Sikder , Rennan Barkana , Anastasia Fialkov

We experimentally observe the spatial intensity statistics of light transmitted through three-dimensional isotropic scattering media. The intensity distributions measured through layers consisting of zinc oxide nanoparticles differ…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-12-23 Tom Strudley , Duygu Akbulut , Willem L. Vos , Ad Lagendijk , Allard P. Mosk , Otto L. Muskens

The cosmic 21-cm line of hydrogen is expected to be measured in detail by the next generation of radio telescopes. The enormous dataset from future 21-cm surveys will revolutionize our understanding of early cosmic times. We present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-11 Sudipta Sikder , Rennan Barkana , Itamar Reis , Anastasia Fialkov

Lightcone observations are the natural data format of galaxy surveys, but their evolving geometry breaks the translational symmetry assumed by standard convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In particular, applying CNNs to 3D gridded…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Min Zhiwei , Xiao Xu , Jiang Zhujun , Xiao Liang , Yin Fenfen , Ding Jiacheng , Miao Haitao , Chen Shupei , Lin Qiufan , Wang yang , Zhang Le , Li XiaoDong

Multi-channel satellite imagery, from stacked spectral bands or spatiotemporal data, have meaningful representations for various atmospheric properties. Combining these features in an effective manner to create a performant and trustworthy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Jason Stock , Chuck Anderson

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to both extract more information than the traditional two-point statistics from cosmological fields, and marginalise over astrophysical effects extremely well. However, CNNs require large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-28 Christian Pedersen , Michael Eickenberg , Shirley Ho

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and star-forming galaxies are leading candidates for being the luminous sources that reionized our Universe. Next-generation 21cm surveys are promising to break degeneracies between a broad range of reionization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-20 Sultan Hassan , Adrian Liu , Saul Kohn , Paul La Plante

Absorption or emission against the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) may be observed in the redshifted 21cm line if the spin temperature of the neutral intergalactic medium prior to reionization differs from the CMB temperature.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-10 Tiziana Di Matteo , Rosalba Perna , Tom Abel , Martin J. Rees

We introduce simulations aimed at assessing how well weak gravitational lensing of 21cm radiation from the Epoch of Reionization ($z \sim 8$) can be measured by an SKA-like radio telescope. A simulation pipeline has been implemented to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-21 Alessandro Romeo , R. Benton Metcalf , Alkistis Pourtsidou

We investigate the use of type Ic Super Luminous Supernovae as standardizable candles and distance indicators. Their appeal as cosmological probes stems from their remarkable peak luminosities, hot blackbody temperatures and bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Cosimo Inserra , Stephen J. Smartt

Type Ia Supernovae are standard candles so their mean apparent magnitude has been exploited to learn about the redshift-distance relationship. Besides intrinsic scatter in this standard candle, additional source of scatter is caused by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott Dodelson , Alberto Vallinotto

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR), when the first luminous sources ionised the intergalactic medium, represents a new frontier in cosmology. The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will offer unprecedented insights into this era through…

In a previous paper we presented the results of applying machine learning to classify whether an HI 21-cm absorption spectrum arises in a source intervening the sight-line to a more distant radio source or within the host of the radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 S. J. Curran

The 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization should be observed within the next decade. While a simple statistical detection is expected with SKA pathfinders, the SKA will hopefully produce a full 3D mapping of the signal. To extract…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-28 Hayato Shimabukuro , Benoit Semelin

We study the signatures of reionization and ionizing properties of the early galaxies in the cross-correlations between the 21cm emission from the spin-flip transition of neutral hydrogen (HI) and the underlying galaxy population, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Anne Hutter , Pratika Dayal , Volker Müller , Cathryn Trott

We introduce a ScatterNet that uses a parametric log transformation with Dual-Tree complex wavelets to extract translation invariant representations from a multi-resolution image. The parametric transformation aids the OLS pruning algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Amarjot Singh , Nick Kingsbury

Non-invasive detection of objects embedded inside an optically scattering medium is essential for numerous applications in engineering and sciences. However, in most applications light at visible or near-infrared wavebands is scattered by…

We theoretically investigate the recovery of global spectrum (monopole) from visibilities (cross-correlation only) measured by the interferometer array and the feasibility of extracting 21 cm signal of cosmic dawn. In our approach, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Xin Zhang , Bin Yue , Yuan Shi , Fengquan Wu , Xuelei Chen