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We study the classical problem of recovering a multidimensional source signal from observations of nonlinear mixtures of this signal. We show that this recovery is possible (up to a permutation and monotone scaling of the source's original…

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In the standard (classic) approach, galaxy clustering measurements from spectroscopic surveys are compressed into baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift space distortions measurements, which in turn can be compared to cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 Samuel Brieden , Héctor Gil-Marín , Licia Verde

Coadded astronomical images are created by stacking multiple single-exposure images. Because coadded images are smaller in terms of data size than the single-exposure images they summarize, loading and processing them is less…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Mallory Wang , Ismael Mendoza , Cheng Wang , Camille Avestruz , Jeffrey Regier

In this paper we study the high-dimensional super-resolution imaging problem. Here we are given an image of a number of point sources of light whose locations and intensities are unknown. The image is pixelized and is blurred by a known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Bakytzhan Kurmanbek , Elina Robeva

The PICsIT detector onboard the INTEGRAL satellite was designed to provide information about emission in the soft gamma-ray band for many bright sources. Due to strong and variable instrumental background, only 4 objects have been detected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Piotr Lubinski

The South Pole Telescope (SPT), using its third-generation camera, SPT-3G, is conducting observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in temperature and polarization across approximately 10 000 deg$^2$ of the sky at 95, 150, and…

The Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) on the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory utilizes a pioneering design for its imaging spectrometer in the form of a Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS). The standard…

In recent years, deep learning approaches have achieved state-of-the-art results in the analysis of point cloud data. In cosmology, galaxy redshift surveys resemble such a permutation invariant collection of positions in space. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Sotiris Anagnostidis , Arne Thomsen , Tomasz Kacprzak , Tilman Tröster , Luca Biggio , Alexandre Refregier , Thomas Hofmann

A Galactic cosmic-ray transport model featuring non-homogeneous transport has been developed over the latest years. This setup is aimed at reproducing gamma-ray observations in different regions of the Galaxy (with particular focus on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Pedro De la Torre Luque , Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso

Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect and X-ray emission from galaxy clusters have been extensively used to constrain cosmological parameters. These constraints are highly sensitive to the relations between cluster masses and observables…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 G. Hurier , N. Aghanim , M. Douspis

We present a new algorithm for estimating the Point Spread Function (PSF) in wide-field astronomical images with extreme source crowding. Robust and accurate PSF estimation in crowded astronomical images dramatically improves the fidelity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Brendt Wohlberg , Przemek Wozniak

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) of GeV gamma rays can be explained as a signal of annihilating dark matter or of emission from unresolved astrophysical sources, such as millisecond pulsars. Evidence for the latter is provided by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Laura J. Chang , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Mariangela Lisanti , Malte Buschmann , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi

Obtaining robust galaxy number counts is crucial for understanding galaxy evolution, and submillimetre counts in particular have proven valuable for revising subgrid physics models in cosmological simulations. In confusion-limited surveys,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Yunting Wang , Ryley Hill , Douglas Scott , Tessa Vernstrom

Observations of exoplanet transit spectra are essential to understanding the physics and chemistry of distant worlds. The effects of opacity sources and many physical processes combine to set the shape of a transit spectrum. Two such key…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Tyler D. Robinson , Jonathan J. Fortney , William B. Hubbard

We present A-PHOT, a new publicly available code for performing aperture photometry on astronomical images, that is particularly well suited for multi-band extragalactic surveys. A-PHOT estimates the fluxes emitted by astronomical objects…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 E. Merlin , S. Pilo , A. Fontana , M. Castellano , D. Paris , V. Roscani , P. Santini , M. Torelli

With increasing amounts of data in astronomy, automated analysis methods have become crucial. Synthetic data are required for developing and testing such methods. Current simulations often suffer from insufficient detail or inaccurate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Tobias Vičánek Martínez , Nicolás Barón Pérez , Marcus Brüggen

Precise knowledge of the point spread function (PSF) underpins many data analysis steps in astronomy, from photometry and astrometry to source de-blending and deconvolution. In adaptive optics (AO) observations, however, the PSF is highly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Arseniy Kuznetsov , Benoit Neichel , Sylvain Oberti , Thierry Fusco

We present a detailed analysis of the stacked frequency spectrum of a large sample of galaxy clusters using Planck data, together with auxiliary data from the AKARI and IRAS missions. Our primary goal is to search for the imprint of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-01 Jens Erler , Kaustuv Basu , Jens Chluba , Frank Bertoldi

The INTEGRAL observatory has been performing a deep survey of the Galactic central radian since 2003, with the goal of both extracting a catalog of sources and gaining insight into the Galactic diffuse emission. This paper concentrates on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 L. Bouchet , J. P. Roques , P. Mandrou , A. Strong , R. Diehl , F. Lebrun , R. Terrier

We present the development of a data-driven, AI-based model of the Point Spread Function (PSF) that achieves higher accuracy than the current state-of-the-art approach, "PSF in the Full Field-of-View'' (PIFF). PIFF is widely used in leading…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Dayana Andrea Henao Arbeláez , Pierre-François Léget , Andrés Alejandro Plazas Malagón