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Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) are the most energetic events in the Universe, and provide a complementary probe of dark energy by allowing the measurement of cosmic expansion history that extends to redshifts greater than 6. Unlike Type Ia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-09 Yun Wang

In this paper, we introduce the new concept of Crowd-Detectable Zero-Energy-Devices. Such devices harvest solar or ambient light energy to power themselves, backscatter ambient waves to communicate, and are detected simultaneously by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 D. -T. Phan-Huy , D. Barthel , P. Ratajczak , R. Fara , M. di Renzo , J. de Rosny

The Internet of Things (IoT) is seen as a novel technical paradigm aimed at enabling connectivity between billions of interconnected devices all around the world. This IoT is being served in various domains, such as smart healthcare,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Navod Neranjan Thilakarathne , Mohan Krishna Kagita , W. D Madhuka Priyashan

Renewable energy systems are an increasingly popular way to generate electricity. As with any new technological paradigm, new challenges have emerged which are unique to the utilization of renewable energy systems. One of these challenges…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-02-13 Nikolas Wolfe

Despite the growing emphasis on intelligent buildings as a cornerstone of sustainable urban development, significant energy inefficiencies persist due to suboptimal design, material choices, and user behavior. The applicability of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Yuhan Dai , Mingtong Chen , Zhengbao Yang

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-meter class survey telescope. It achieved its first light on 29$^{\rm th}$ April 2022 and is now undergoing the commissioning phase. It scans the sky in a fixed \ang{;22;} wide strip…

Mini-EUSO is a UV telescope that will look downwards to the Earth's atmosphere onboard the International Space Station. With the design of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray fluorescence detectors belonging to the JEM-EUSO program, it will…

The Internet of Things (IoT) sparks a whole new world of embedded applications. Most of these applications are based on deeply embedded systems that have to operate on limited or unreliable sources of energy, such as batteries or energy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Kyriakos Georgiou , Samuel Xavier-de-Souza , Kerstin Eder

Deriving reliable conclusions and insights from environmental observational data urgently requires the enrichment with consistent and comprehensive metadata, including time-resolved context such as changing deployments, configurations, and…

Soft cosmology is an extension of standard cosmology allowing for a scale-dependent equation-of-state (EoS) parameter in the dark sectors, which is one of the properties of soft materials in condensed-matter physics, that may arise either…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-12 Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan , Fotios K. Anagnostopoulos , Spyros Basilakos

Environmental monitoring is a crucial component of the smart city infrastructure. It enables informed decision making which enhances sustainability, public health and urban planning. However, the large-scale deployments of the smart sensors…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yichen Liu , Imam Akintomiwa Akinlade , Xiaochong Jiang , Wenting Yang , Shiqi Yang

Image degradation impedes our ability to extract information from astronomical observations. One factor contributing to this degradation is ``dome seeing", the reduction in image quality due to variations in the index of refraction within…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Ali Kurmus , Elana Urbach , Christopher W. Stubbs

We report what is believed to be the first example of fully continuous, 24-hour vertical monitoring of atmospheric optical turbulence. This is achieved using a novel instrument, the 24-hour Shack-Hartmann Image Motion Monitor (24hSHIMM).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Ryan Griffiths , James Osborn , Ollie Farley , Tim Butterley , Matthew J. Townson , Richard Wilson

We present an improved Global Sky Model (GSM) of diffuse galactic radio emission from 10 MHz to 5 THz, whose uses include foreground modeling for CMB and 21 cm cosmology. Our model improves on past work both algorithmically and by adding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Haoxuan Zheng , Max Tegmark , Joshua S. Dillon , Doyeon A. Kim , Adrian Liu , Abraham Neben , Justin Jonas , Patricia Reich , Wolfgang Reich

Characterisation of atmospheric optical turbulence is crucial for the design and operation of modern ground-based optical telescopes. In particular, the effective application of adaptive optics correction on large and extremely large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-02 Saavidra Perera , Richard W. Wilson , Tim Butterley , James Osborn , Ollie J. D. Farley , Douglas J. Laidlaw

Air pollutants, such as particulate matter, negatively impact human health. Most existing pollution monitoring techniques use stationary sensors, which are typically sparsely deployed. However, real-world pollution distributions vary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Zuohui Chen , Tony Zhang , Zhuangzhi Chen , Yun Xiang , Qi Xuan , Robert P. Dick

Submillimeter (submm) integral field units (IFUs) utilising kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) are a promising instrument architecture for the study of galaxies, galaxy clusters, and the large-scale structure of the Universe. In order to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 A. Moerman , N. Soshnin , S. A. Brackenhoff , S. O. Dabironezare , K. Karatsu , L. H. Marting , S. A. H. de Rooij , M. Roos , B. R. Brandl , A. Endo

We present the most recent technical improvements on SpIOMM, an Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (IFTS) attached to the 1.6 telescope of the Mont M\'egantic Observatory. The recent development of SpIOMM demonstrates that the concept…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. -P. Bernier , M. Charlebois , L. Drissen , F. Grandmont

In this paper, we present a scheme to investigate the opacity of the Universe in a cosmological-model-independent way, with the combination of current and future available data in gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) domain. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-25 Jing-Zhao Qi , Shuo Cao , Yu Pan , Jin Li

Mini-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a small-scale prototype cosmic-ray detector that will measure Earth`s UV emission and other atmospheric phenomena from space. It will be placed in the International Space Station (ISS)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Viktoria Kungel , Mario E. Bertaina , Francesca Bisconti , Marco Casolino , Johannes Eser , Lawrence Wiencke , JEM-EUSO Collaboration