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We introduce a new technique for imaging the polarized radio sky using interferometric data. The new approach, which we call Faraday synthesis, combines aperture and rotation measure synthesis imaging and deconvolution into a single…

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Radio observations of the neutral hydrogen signal from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionisation have helped to provide constraints on the properties of the first stars and galaxies. Since this global 21-cm cosmological signal from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Christian J. Kirkham , Dominic J. Anstey , Eloy de Lera Acedo

The CLEAN algorithm, widely used in radio interferometry for the deconvolution of radio images, performs well only if the raw radio image (dirty image) is, to good approximation, a simple convolution between the instrumental point-spread…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 I. M. Stewart , D. M. Fenech , T. W. B. Muxlow

The "Tapered Gridded Estimator" (TGE) is a novel way to directly estimate the angular power spectrum from radio-interferometric visibility data that reduces the computation by efficiently gridding the data, consistently removes the noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-27 Samir Choudhuri , Nirupam Roy , Somnath Bharadwaj , Sk. Saiyad Ali , Abhik Ghosh , Prasun Dutta

Modern radio interferometers deliver large volumes of data containing high-sensitivity sky maps over wide fields-of-view. These large area observations can contain various and superposed structures such as point sources, extended objects,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Richard Fuchs , Jakob Knollmüller , Jakob Roth , Vincent Eberle , Philipp Frank , Torsten A. Enßlin , Lukas Heinrich

Neural rendering techniques have made substantial progress in generating photo-realistic 3D scenes. The latest 3D Gaussian Splatting technique has achieved high quality novel view synthesis as well as fast rendering speed. However, 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xinran Yang , Donghao Ji , Yuanqi Li , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo , Junyuan Xie

With the development of modern radio interferometers, wide-field continuum surveys have been planned and undertaken, for which accurate wide-field imaging methods are essential. Based on the widely-used W-stacking method, we propose a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-01 Haoyang Ye , Steve F. Gull , Sze M. Tan , Bojan Nikolic

The redshifted 21\,cm line is an emerging tool in observational cosmology that can serve as a direct probe of the intergalactic medium throughout the cosmic timeline. However, the observation of the cosmological 21\,cm signal from early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Samit Kumar Pal , Abhirup Datta , Aishrila Mazumder , Anshuman Tripathi

Bayesian imaging inverse problems in astrophysics and cosmology remain challenging, particularly in low-data regimes, due to complex forward operators and the frequent lack of well-motivated priors for non-Gaussian signals. In this paper,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Sébastien Pierre , Erwan Allys , Pablo Richard , Roman Soletskyi , Alexandros Tsouros

CLEAN, the commonly employed imaging algorithm in radio interferometry, suffers from a number of shortcomings: in its basic version it does not have the concept of diffuse flux, and the common practice of convolving the CLEAN components…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Philipp Arras , Hertzog L. Bester , Richard A. Perley , Reimar Leike , Oleg Smirnov , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten A. Enßlin

The linear algorithm of the Wiener filter and constrained realizations (CRs) of Gaussian random fields is extended here to perform non-linear CRs. The procedure consists of: (1) Using low resolution data to constrain a high resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Bistolas , Y. Hoffman

We present a maximum-likelihood analysis for estimating the angular distribution of power in an anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background using ground-based laser interferometers. The standard isotropic and gravitational-wave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Eric Thrane , Stefan Ballmer , Joseph D. Romano , Sanjit Mitra , Dipongkar Talukder , Sukanta Bose , Vuk Mandic

This paper is concerned with inverse acoustic scattering problem of inferring the position and shape of a sound-soft obstacle from phaseless far-field data. We propose the Bayesian approach to recover sound-soft disks, line cracks and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Zhipeng Yang , Xinping Gui , Ju Ming , Guanghui Hu

One of the major priorities of international radio astronomy is to study the early universe through the detection of the 21 cm HI line from the epoch of reionisation (EoR). Due to the weak nature of the 21 cm signal, an important part in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Michael A. Kriele , Randall B. Wayth , Mark J. Bentum , Budi Juswardy , Cathryn M. Trott

In this talk I describe MAGIC, an efficient approach to covariance estimation and signal reconstruction for Gaussian random fields (MAGIC Allows Global Inference of Covariance). It solves a long-standing problem in the field of cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Benjamin D. Wandelt

Our understanding of the dynamics of the interstellar medium is informed by the study of the detailed velocity structure of emission line observations. One approach to study the velocity structure is to decompose the spectra into individual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Manuel Riener , Jouni Kainulainen , Jonathan D. Henshaw , Jan H. Orkisz , Claire E. Murray , Henrik Beuther

Efficient estimation of wideband spectrum is of great importance for applications such as cognitive radio. Recently, sub-Nyquist sampling schemes based on compressed sensing have been proposed to greatly reduce the sampling rate. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-23 Haoyu Fu , Yuejie Chi

Future gravitational wave (GW) standard siren catalogues will probe the late-time expansion history of the Universe across redshift ranges largely inaccessible to traditional electromagnetic observations. To determine how effectively this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Gourab Nandi , Anish Ghoshal , David F. Mota

Diffuse Galactic emission at low frequencies is a major contaminant for studies of redshifted $21$ cm line studies. Removal of these foregrounds is essential for exploiting the signal from neutral hydrogen at high redshifts. Analysis of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Sandeep Rana , Tuhin Ghosh , J. S. Bagla , Pravabati Chingangbam

Mixed noise, composed of white Gaussian noise (WGN) and impulsive noise (IN), appears in numerous communication scenarios and can severely degrade system performance. In this paper, we optimize the transmitted constellation under mixed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Tianfu Qi , Jun Wang