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Radio-interferometric arrays require very precise calibration to detect the Epoch of Reionization 21-cm signal. A remarkably complete and accurate sky model is therefore needed in the patches of the sky used to perform the calibration.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Khandakar Md Asif Elahi , Samir Choudhuri , Nirupam Roy , Md Rashid , Philip Bull , Dharam Vir Lal

The third generation of the Beijing Electron Spectrometer, BESIII, is an apparatus for high energy physics research. The hunting of new particles and the measurement of their properties or the research of rare processes are sought to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-16 Riccardo Farinelli

Wavelength calibration is a routine and critical part of any spectral work-flow, but many astronomers still resort to matching detected peaks and emission lines by hand. We present RASCAL (RANSAC Assisted Spectral CALibration), a python…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-13 Josh Veitch-Michaelis , Marco C Lam

The Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is a sampling hadronic calorimeter covering the central region of the ATLAS experiment. TileCal uses steel as absorber and plastic scintillators as active medium. The scintillators are read-out by the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-20 Merve Nazlim Agaras

Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) is one of the most powerful spectroscopic techniques, capable of attaining a nearly complete picture of a quantum system including its couplings, quantum coherence properties and its real-time…

The HeRSCheL detector consists of a set of scintillating counters, designed to increase the coverage of the LHCb experiment in the high-rapidity regions on either side of the main spectrometer. The new detector improves the capabilities of…

Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (HRISs) constitute a new paradigm of truly smart metasurfaces with the additional features of signal reception and processing, which have been primarily considered for channel estimation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Ioannis Gavras , George C. Alexandropoulos

A cylindrical GEM tracker is under construction in order to replace and improve the inner tracking system of the BESIII experiment. Tests with planar chamber prototypes were carried out on the H4 beam line of SPS (CERN) with muons of 150…

Two primary types of numerical instabilities often occur in low-order finite element method (FEM) analyses of thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) phenomena: (1) pressure oscillations arising improper interpolation of pressure and displacement…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Zi-Qi Tang , Xi-Wen Zhou , Yin-Fu Jin , Zhen-Yu Yin , Qi Zhang

In a companion paper, we presented BayesCal, a mathematical formalism for mitigating sky-model incompleteness in interferometric calibration. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of BayesCal to calibrate the degenerate gain parameters of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Peter H. Sims , Jonathan C. Pober , Jonathan L. Sievers

An online PMU-assisted Power System Parameter Calibration System (PSPCS) was recently developed and implemented at State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Company (JEPC). PSPCS leverages high-resolution PMU data and data mining techniques to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Xiao Lu , Di Shi , Bin Zhu , Zhiwei Wang , Jianyu Luo , Dawei Su , Chunlei Xu

The Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) project is the planned Chinese space telescope for detecting the X and gamma-ray counterpart. It consists of two micro-satellites in low earth orbit with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-17 P. Lv , S. L. Xiong , X. L. Sun , J. G. Lv , Y. G. Li

SLAM has matured significantly over the past few years, and is beginning to appear in serious commercial products. While new SLAM systems are being proposed at every conference, evaluation is often restricted to qualitative visualizations…

HERMES is a second generation experiment to study the spin structure of the nucleon, in which measurements of the spin dependent properties of semi-inclusive deep-inelastic lepton scattering are emphasized. Data have been accumulated for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-17 H. E. Jackson

HERD is the High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection instrument proposed to operate onboard China's space station in the 2020s. It is designed to detect energetic cosmic ray nuclei, leptons and photons with a high energy resolution ($\sim1\%$…

H.E.S.S. - the High Energy Stereoscopic System- is a new system of large atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes for GeV/TeV astronomy. Each of the four telescopes of 107 m^2 mirror area is equipped with a 960-pixel photomulitiplier-tube camera.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , F. Aharonian

We present the first public version of SImMER, an open-source Python reduction pipeline for astronomical images of point sources. Current capabilities include dark-subtraction, flat-fielding, sky-subtraction, image registration, FWHM…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Arjun B. Savel , Lea A. Hirsch , Holden Gill , Courtney D. Dressing , David R. Ciardi

The Terahertz band is envisioned to meet the demanding 100 Gbps data rates for 6G wireless communications. Aiming at combating the distance limitation problem with low hardware-cost, ultra-massive MIMO with hybrid beamforming is promising.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Yuhang Chen , Longfei Yan , Chong Han

Rapid response and short time latency are very important for Time Domain Astronomy, such as the observations of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) and electromagnetic (EM) counterparts of gravitational waves (GWs). Based on the near real-time…

Context: Data from ground-based, high-resolution solar telescopes can only be used for science with calibrations and processing, which requires detailed knowledge about the instrumentation. [...] Aims: We aim to provide observers with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 M. G. Löfdahl , T. Hillberg , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , G. Vissers , O. Andriienko , G. B. Scharmer , S. V. H. Haugan , T. Fredvik