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Similarity search is a popular technique for seismic signal processing, with template matching, matched filters and subspace detectors being utilized for a wide variety of tasks, including both signal detection and source discrimination.…

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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has an exceptionally large plate scale of 21"/px, causing most TESS light curves to record the blended light of multiple stars. This creates a danger of misattributing variability observed by…

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This paper proposes an original approach to cluster multi-component data sets, including an estimation of the number of clusters. From the construction of a minimal spanning tree with Prim's algorithm, and the assumption that the vertices…

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We consider the high-resolution imaging problem of 3D point source image recovery from 2D data using a method based on point spread function (PSF) engineering. The method involves a new technique, recently proposed by S.~Prasad, based on…

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Optical interferometers may not require a phase-stable optical link between the stations if instead sources of quantum-mechanically entangled pairs could be provided to them, enabling long baselines. We developed a new variation of this…

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Source localization is the process of estimating the location of signal sources based on the signals received at different antennas of an antenna array. It has diverse applications, ranging from radar systems and underwater acoustics to…

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Computing polarised intensities from noisy data in Stokes U and Q suffers from a positive bias that should be suppressed. To develop a correction method that, when applied to maps, should provide a distribution of polarised intensity that…

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We consider the problem of reconstructing one-dimensional point sources from their Fourier measurements in a bounded interval $[-\Omega, \Omega]$. This problem is known to be challenging in the regime where the spacing of the sources is…

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The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) presents significant potential for high-precision astrometry. In this study, we show that the point spread function (PSF) modeled by the discrete PSF with Multi-Gaussian function can…

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Image retrieval task consists of finding similar images to a query image from a set of gallery (database) images. Such systems are used in various applications e.g. person re-identification (ReID) or visual product search. Despite active…

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Centroid based clustering methods such as k-means, k-medoids and k-centers are heavily applied as a go-to tool in exploratory data analysis. In many cases, those methods are used to obtain representative centroids of the data manifold for…

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In partial differential equations-based (PDE-based) inverse problems with many measurements, many large-scale discretized PDEs must be solved for each evaluation of the misfit or objective function. In the nonlinear case, evaluating the…

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Estimating the true background in an astronomical image is fundamental to detecting faint sources. In a typical low-photon count astronomical image, such as in the far and near-ultraviolet wavelength range, conventional methods relying on…

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Radiation source detection has seen various applications in the past decade, ranging from the detection of dirty bombs in public places to scanning critical nuclear facilities for leakage or flaws, and in the autonomous inspection of…

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Coadded astronomical images are created by stacking multiple single-exposure images. Because coadded images are smaller in terms of data size than the single-exposure images they summarize, loading and processing them is less…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Mallory Wang , Ismael Mendoza , Cheng Wang , Camille Avestruz , Jeffrey Regier

Projection Pursuit is a classic exploratory technique for finding interesting projections of a dataset. We propose a method for recovering projections containing either Imbalanced Clusters or a Bernoulli-Rademacher distribution using a…

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We consider the problem of finding a "fair" meeting place when S people want to get together. Specifically, we will consider the cases where a "fair" meeting place is defined to be either 1) a node on a graph that minimizes the maximum…

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We develop a semi-analytic deterministic framework for charged-particle transport with continuous slowing-down in energy and angular scattering. Directed transport and energy advection are treated by method-of-characteristics integration,…

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Obtaining accurate photometric redshift estimations is an important aspect of cosmology, remaining a prerequisite of many analyses. In creating novel methods to produce redshift estimations, there has been a shift towards using machine…

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