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We present a survey strategy to detect the neutral hydrogen (HI) power spectrum at $5<z<6$ using the SKA-Low radio telescope in presence of foregrounds and instrumental effects. We simulate observations of the inherently weak HI signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Zhaoting Chen , Emma Chapman , Laura Wolz , Aishrila Mazumder

We present a multi-scale, multi-wavelength source extraction algorithm called getsources. Although it has been designed primarily for use in the far-infrared surveys of Galactic star-forming regions with Herschel, the method can be applied…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Men'shchikov , Ph. André , P. Didelon , F. Motte , M. Hennemann , N. Schneider

We introduce a novel weighted convolution operator that enhances traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by integrating a spatial density function into the convolution operator. This extension enables the network to differentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Simone Cammarasana , Giuseppe Patanè

Sample-induced image-degradation remains an intricate wave-optical problem in light-sheet microscopy. Here we present biobeam, an open-source software package that enables to simulate operational light-sheet microscopes by combining data…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Martin Weigert , Eugene W. Myers , Moritz Kreysing

A long-standing issue in solar ground-based observations has been the contamination of data due to stray light, which is particularly relevant in inversions of spectropolarimetric data. We aim to build on a statistical method of correcting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-07 Sudharshan Saranathan , Michiel van Noort , Sami K. Solanki

The study of astronomical phenomena through ground-based observations is always challenged by the distorting effects of Earth's atmosphere. Traditional methods of post-facto image correction, essential for correcting these distortions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 A. Asensio Ramos

In this work we propose a deep learning approach to clean spectroscopy signals using only uncleaned data. Cleaning signals from spectroscopy instrument noise is challenging as noise exhibits an unknown, non-zero mean, multivariate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Juan Castorena , Diane Oyen

Optical microscopy is an essential tool in biology and medicine. Imaging thin, yet non-flat objects in a single shot (without relying on more sophisticated sectioning setups) remains challenging as the shallow depth of field that comes with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-14 Adrian Shajkofci , Michael Liebling

A key processing step in ground-based astronomy involves combining multiple noisy and blurry exposures to produce an image of the night sky with an improved signal-to-noise ratio. Typically, this is achieved via image coaddition, and can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 Yashil Sukurdeep , Tamás Budavári , Andrew J. Connolly , Fausto Navarro

We present a foundational, scalable algorithm architecture for processing data from aperture synthesis radio telescopes. The analysis leading to the architecture is rooted in the theory of aperture synthesis, signal processing and numerical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 S. Bhatnagar , U. Rau , M. Hsieh , J. Kern , R. Xue

Point source detection techniques are used to identify and localise point sources in radio astronomical surveys. With the development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope, survey images will see a massive increase in size from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Duncan Tilley , Christopher W. Cleghorn , Kshitij Thorat , Roger Deane

This article describes CLEAN, an approach to the detection of low-energy solar neutrinos and neutrinos released from supernovae. The CLEAN concept is based on the detection of elastic scattering events (neutrino-electron scattering and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. N. McKinsey , K. J. Coakley

This paper demonstrates a practical method that can correct spatial varying blur from a set of images of the same object. The algorithm jointly estimates the object and local point spread functions~(PSF). The method prioritizes sections…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Wouter van de Ketterij , Oleg Soloviev , Michel Verhaegen

The analysis of astronomical interferometric data is often performed on the images obtained after deconvolution of the interferometer's point spread function (PSF). This strategy can be understood (especially for cases of sparse arrays) as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 I. Marti-Vidal , W. H. T. Vlemmings , S. Muller , S. Casey

Lensless microscopy with coherent or partially coherent light sources is a well known imaging technique, commonly referred as digital in-line holographic microscopy. In the established methods, both the spatial and temporal coherence of…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-04 Sanjeev Kumar , Manjunatha Mahadevappa , Pranab Kumar Dutta

Endoscopy is the most widely used medical technique for cancer and polyp detection inside hollow organs. However, images acquired by an endoscope are frequently affected by illumination artefacts due to the enlightenment source orientation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Axel Garcia-Vega , Ricardo Espinosa , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Thomas Bazin , Luis Eduardo Falcon-Morales , Dominique Lamarque , Christian Daul

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

The upcoming Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will set a new standard regarding data volume generated by an astronomical instrument, which is likely to challenge widely adopted data-analysis tools that scale inadequately with the data size. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-09 D. Cornu , P. Salomé , B. Semelin , A. Marchal , J. Freundlich , S. Aicardi , X. Lu , G. Sainton , F. Mertens , F. Combes , C. Tasse

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will form the largest radio telescope ever built and such a huge instrument in the desert poses enormous engineering and logistic challenges. Algorithmic and architectural breakthroughs are needed. Data is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-17 Orhan Ocal , Paul Hurley , Giovanni Cherubini , Sanaz Kazemi

We report the results of a simulation and reconstruction of observations of a young stellar object (YSO) jet with the LINC-NIRVANA (LN) interferometric instrument, which will be mounted on the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Andrea La Camera , Simone Antoniucci , Mario Bertero , Patrizia Boccacci , Dario Lorenzetti , Brunella Nisini