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Deep optical images are often crowded with overlapping objects. This is especially true in the cores of galaxy clusters, where images of dozens of galaxies may lie atop one another. Accurate measurements of cluster properties require…

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There is increasing evidence that the highly ionized multiphase components of AGN disk winds may be due to thermal instability. The ions responsible for forming the observed X-ray absorption lines may only exist in relatively cold clumps…

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Measuring the Hamiltonian of dipolar coupled spin systems is usually a difficult task due to the high complexity of their spectra. Currently, molecules with unknown geometrical structure and low symmetry are extremely tedious or impossible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 Denis-Alexandre Trottier , Virginia Jauregui-Villanueva , Jingfu Zhang

Template-fit approach is often used to separate the Galactic dust emission and the cosmic infrared background (CIB) anisotropies at low $\text{HI}$ column density regions with an underlying assumption that the gas and dust are tightly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-09 Srijita Sinha , Tuhin Ghosh , Erwan Allys , François Boulanger , Jean-Marc Delouis

Optical quasar spectra can be used to trace variations of the fine-structure constant alpha. Controversial results that have been published in last years suggest that in addition to to wavelength calibration problems systematic errors might…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Nils Prause , Dieter Reimers

The determination of crystallographic texture through elastic wave propagation offers a cost-effective, nondestructive means of obtaining through-thickness information with minimal sample preparation. Existing ultrasonic approaches rely on…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-19 Diego A. Cowes , Juan I. Mieza , Martín P. Gómez

Light scattering by dust particles is often modeled assuming the dust is spherical for numerical simplicity and speed. However, real dust particles have highly irregular morphologies that significantly affect their scattering properties. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-14 Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin , Alycia J. Weinberger , Evgenij Zubko , Jessica A. Arnold , Gorden Videen

Measurements of element abundances in galaxies from astrophysical spectroscopy depend sensitively on the atomic data used. With the goal of making the latest atomic data accessible to the community, we present a compilation of selected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-20 Frances H. Cashman , Varsha P. Kulkarni , Romas Kisielius , Gary J. Ferland , Pavel Bogdanovich

With the rapid development of asteroseismology thanks to space-based photometry missions such as CoRoT, Kepler, TESS, and in the future, PLATO, and the use of inversion techniques, quasi-model-independent constraints on the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 J. Bétrisey , G. Buldgen

The angular power spectrum is a gauge-independent observable that is in principle the natural tool for analysing galaxy number counts. In practice, the problem is that the computational requirements for next-generation spectroscopic surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-12 Stefano Camera , José Fonseca , Roy Maartens , Mário G. Santos

We present a general method to calculate radiative transfer including scattering in the continuum as well as in lines in spherically symmetric systems that are influenced by the effects of general relativity (GR). We utilize a comoving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Knop , P. H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

We describe a new method for analyzing gravitational lens images, for the case where the source light distribution is pixelized. The method is suitable for high resolution, high S/N data of a multiply-imaged extended source. For a given…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steve Warren , Simon Dye

Determining accurate and precise stellar ages is a major problem in astrophysics. These determinations are either obtained through empirical relations or model-dependent approaches. Currently, seismic modelling is one of the best ways of…

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The spectral flux density of stars can indicate their atmospheric physical properties. A detector can obtain any band flux density at the design stage. However, the band flux density is confirmed and fixed in the process of operation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Chuanxin Zhang , Yuan Yuan , Zhaoyang Yu , Fuqiang Wang , Heping Tan

When modeling global satellite data to recover a planetary magnetic or gravitational potential field and evaluate it elsewhere, the method of choice remains their analysis in terms of spherical harmonics. When only regional data are…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Alain Plattner , Frederik J. Simons

We invoke a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to jointly analyse two traditional emission-line classification schemes of galaxy ionization sources: the Baldwin-Phillips-Terlevich (BPT) and $\rm W_{H\alpha}$ vs. [NII]/H$\alpha$ (WHAN) diagrams,…

The motivation of this work is an inverse problem for the acoustic wave equation, where an array of sensors probes an unknown medium with pulses and measures the scattered waves. The goal of the inversion is to determine from these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Liliana Borcea , Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky

The "spectral correlation function" analysis we introduce in this paper is a new tool for analyzing spectral-line data cubes. Our initial tests, carried out on a suite of observed and simulated data cubes, indicate that the spectral…

Time-domain analysis of harmonic fields with sub-cycle resolution is now experimentally viable due to the emergence of sensitive, on-chip techniques for petahertz-scale optical-field sampling. We demonstrate how such a time-domain,…

We show that the shape of P-Cygni line profiles of photospheric phase supernova can be analytically inverted to extract both the optical depth and source function of the line -- i.e. all the physical content of the model for the case when…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel Kasen , David Branch , E. Baron , David Jeffery