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A host of new low-frequency radio telescopes seek to measure the 21-cm transition of neutral hydrogen from the early universe. These telescopes have the potential to directly probe star and galaxy formation at redshifts $20 \gtrsim z…

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Obtaining a faithful source intensity distribution map of the sky from noisy data demands incorporating known information of the expected signal, especially when the signal is weak compared to the noise. We introduce a widely used procedure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Sambit Panda , Swetha Bhagwat , Jishnu Suresh , Sanjit Mitra

We consider the problem of estimating cross-spectral quantities in the low-frequency regime, where long observation times limit averaging over large ensembles of periodograms, thereby preventing the use of approximate Gaussian statistics.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Lorenzo Sala , Stefano Vitale

The transverse coherence functions (TCFs) of phase and amplitude fluctuations of a seismic wave are powerful to estimate the spatial distribution, length scales, and strength of random heterogeneities. However, TCFs have been formulated for…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Hao Hu , Yingcai Zheng

Inferring sky surface brightness distributions from noisy interferometric data in a principled statistical framework has been a key challenge in radio astronomy. In this work, we introduce Imaging for Radio Interferometry with Score-based…

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A central goal of modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is to reduce the time required to produce high-quality images. Efforts have included hardware and software innovations such as parallel imaging, compressed sensing, and deep…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Yihong Xu , Chad W. Farris , Stephan W. Anderson , Xin Zhang , Keith A. Brown

We present a model for the full-sky diffuse Galactic synchrotron spectral index with an appropriate level of spatial structure for a resolution of 56 arcmin (to match the resolution of the Haslam 408 MHz data). Observational data at 408 MHz…

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Radio interferometric data are used to estimate the sky brightness distributions in radio frequencies. Here we focus on estimators of the large-scale structure and the power spectrum of the sky brightness distribution inferred from radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Prasun Dutta , Meera Nandakumar

A convolution of the all-sky survey data with a smoothing function is crucial in calculating the smooth surface brightness of the sky survey data. The convolution is usually performed using a spherical version of the convolution theorem.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kwang-Il Seon

Accurately simulating the atmospheric turbulence behaviour is always challenging. The well-known FFT based method falls short in correctly predicting both the low and high frequency behaviours. Sub-harmonic compensation aids in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-15 Sorabh Chhabra , Jyotirmay Paul , A. N. Ramaprakash , Avinash Surendran

We present a compressive beamforming method for coherent plane-wave compounding (CPWC) ultrasound imaging based on a far-field decomposition of the received radiofrequency (RF) data into virtual plane waves. This decomposition recasts the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Nikunj Khetan , Jerome Mertz

Recent advancements in remote sensing technology and the increasing size of satellite constellations allows massive geophysical information to be gathered daily on a global scale by numerous platforms of different fidelity. The…

Computation · Statistics 2021-05-11 Si Cheng , Bledar A. Konomi , Jessica L. Matthews , Georgios Karagiannis , Emily L. Kang

Constraints on the original Cardassian model and the modified polytropic Cardassian model are examined from the recently derived 42 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) data calibrated with the method avoiding the circularity problem. The results show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Tai-Shan Wang , Nan Liang

We present a perturbative reconstruction method to make a skymap of gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) observed via space-based interferometer. In the presence of anisotropies in GWBs, the cross-correlated signals of observed GWBs are…

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Aims : We describe MS-MFS, a multi-scale multi-frequency deconvolution algorithm for wide-band synthesis-imaging, and present imaging results that illustrate the capabilities of the algorithm and the conditions under which it is feasible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Urvashi Rau , Tim J. Cornwell

The entropy computation of Gaussian mixture distributions with a large number of components has a prohibitive computational complexity. In this paper, we propose a novel approach exploiting the sphere decoding concept to bound and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Su Min Kim , Tan Tai Do , Tobias J. Oechtering , Gunnar Peters

Context. In order to understand galaxy evolution, it is essential to measure star formation rates (SFRs) across Cosmic times. Aims. The use of radio continuum emission as an extinction-free star formation tracer necessitates a good…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-13 V. Heesen , S. Schulz , M. Brüggen , H. Edler , M. Stein , R. Paladino , A. Boselli , A. Ignesti , M. Fossati , R. -J. Dettmar

Radio maps are important for environment-aware wireless communication, network planning, and radio resource optimization. However, dense radio map construction remains challenging when only a limited number of measurements are available,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhihan Zeng , Ning Wei , Muhammad Baqer Mollah , Kaihe Wang , Phee Lep Yeoh , Fei Xu , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang

Computed Tomography (CT) enables detailed cross-sectional imaging but continues to face challenges in balancing reconstruction quality and computational efficiency. While deep learning-based methods have significantly improved image quality…

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