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We present a new method of time-dependent instrumental polarization calibration for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). This method has been implemented in the recently developed polarization calibration pipeline GPCAL. Instrumental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Jongho Park , Keiichi Asada , Do-Young Byun

Calibration is a key step in the signal processing pipeline of any radio astronomical instrument. The required sky, ionospheric and instrumental models for this step can suffer from various kinds of incompleteness. In this paper we analyze…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-08 A. Mouri Sardarabadi , L. V. E. Koopmans

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) provides the highest-resolution radio intensity maps, crucial for detailed studies of compact sources like active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their relativistic jets. Analyzing jet components in these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 Alfredo Amador-Portes , Eva Palafox , Víctor M. Patiño-Álvarez , Vahram Chavushyan , Andrei P. Lobanov , Sergio A. Dzib

This study concentrates on advancing mathematical and computational methodology for radar tomography imaging in which the unknown volumetric velocity distribution of a wave within a bounded domain is to be reconstructed. Our goal is to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Mika Takala , Defne Us , Sampsa Pursiainen

In this paper, we describe the principle of a multi-aperture interferometer that uses a phase-shifting technique and is suitable for quick, snapshot imaging of astrophysical objects at extreme angular resolution through Fourier inversion. A…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Francois Henault

Flagship near-future surveys targeting $10^8-10^9$ galaxies across cosmic time will soon reveal the processes of galaxy assembly in unprecedented resolution. This creates an immediate computational challenge on effective analyses of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Bingjie Wang , Joel Leja , V. Ashley Villar , Joshua S. Speagle

Traditional phase-shifting interferometry technique cannot be used to measure time-varying phase distributions. But single shot techniques could resolve the problem. Many efforts have been made on the phase retrieval methods from a single…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-31 Lifa Hu , Wen Shena , Wenchao Ma , Dongting Hu , Xinyu Liu

Calibration of radio interferometric observations becomes increasingly difficult towards lower frequencies. Below ~300 MHz, spatially variant refractions and propagation delays of radio waves traveling through the ionosphere cause phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. T. Intema , S. van der Tol , W. D. Cotton , A. S. Cohen , I. M. van Bemmel , H. J. A. Rottgering

(Abridged) The CASA software suite, can now reduce very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data with the recent addition of a fringe fitter. Here, we present the Radboud PIpeline for the Calibration of high Angular Resolution Data…

We present a new way to solve the platform deformation problem of co-planar interferometers. The platform of a co-planar interferometer can be deformed due to driving forces and gravity. A deformed platform will induce extra components into…

Interferometry techniques are essential for extracting phase information from optical systems, enabling precise measurements of dispersion and highly sensitive detection of perturbations. While phase sensing offers enhanced sensitivity…

This paper presents a non-classic approach to narrow field astrometry that offers a significant improvement over conventional techniques due to enhanced reduction of atmospheric image motion. The method is based on two key elements:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Petro F. Lazorenko , Galina A. Lazorenko

The VLTI Spectro Imager project aims to perform imaging with a temporal resolution of 1 night and with a maximum angular resolution of 1 milliarcsecond, making best use of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer capabilities. To fulfill the…

This paper studies a robust design problem for far-field line-of-sight (LOS) channels where phase errors are present. Compared with the commonly used additive error model, the phase error model is more suitable for capturing the uncertainty…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Man-Chung Yue , Sissi Xiaoxiao Wu , Anthony Man-Cho So

The advent of a new generation of low frequency interferometers has opened a direct window into the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). However, key to a detection of the faint 21-cm signal, and reaching the sensitivity limits of these arrays, is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Ronniy C. Joseph , Cathryn M. Trott , Randall B. Wayth

In this paper, we address the challenging task of achieving multi-view dimensionality reduction. The goal is to effectively use the availability of multiple views for extracting a coherent low-dimensional representation of the data. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Ofir Lindenbaum , Arie Yeredor , Moshe Salhov , Amir Averbuch

Geodetic and astrometric VLBI has entered a new era with the implementation of the VLBI Global Observing System (VGOS). These broadband and dual linear polarization observations aim at an accuracy of station coordinates of 1 mm and a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-10 F. Jaron , L. Baldreich , J. Böhm , P. Charlot , A. Collioud , J. Gruber , H. Krásná , I. Martí-Vidal , A. Nothnagel , V. Pérez-Díez

Accurate extrinsic calibration of multiple LiDARs is crucial for improving the foundational performance of three-dimensional (3D) map reconstruction systems. This paper presents a novel targetless extrinsic calibration framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Han Ye , Yuqiang Jin , Jinyuan Liu , Tao Li , Wen-An Zhang , Minglei Fu

High resolution (~1 arcminute) astronomical imaging at low frequency (below 150 MHz) has only recently become practical with the development of new calibration algorithms for removing ionospheric distortions. In addition to opening a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. S. Cohen , H. J. A. Röttgering

We introduce the cross spectrum based FRB (Fast Radio Burst) search method for VLBI observation. This method optimizes the fringe fitting scheme in geodetic VLBI data post processing, which fully utilizes the cross spectrum fringe phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-06 Lei Liu , Fengxian Tong , Weimin Zheng , Juan Zhang , Li Tong