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Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging approach to survey the Universe, using relatively low-aperture instruments to scan large portions of the sky and collect the total spectral-line emission from galaxies and the intergalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 José Luis Bernal , Ely D. Kovetz

With the ability of providing direct and accurate enough range measurements, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is playing an essential role in localization and detection for autonomous vehicles. Since single LiDAR suffers from hardware…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Yusheng Wang , Yidong Lou , Weiwei Song , Huan Yu , Zhiyong Tu

We present the Bayesian Global Sky Model (B-GSM), a new absolutely calibrated model of the diffuse Galactic foreground at frequencies below 408 MHz. We assemble a dataset of publicly available diffuse emission maps at frequencies between 45…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 George Carter , Will Handley , Mark Ashdown , Nima Razavi-Ghods

Low-cost air pollution sensor networks are increasingly being deployed globally, supplementing sparse regulatory monitoring with localized air quality data. In some areas, like Baltimore, Maryland, there are only few regulatory (reference)…

Applications · Statistics 2025-09-11 Claire Heffernan , Kirsten Koehler , Drew R. Gentner , Roger D. Peng , Abhirup Datta

Calibration precision is currently a limiting systematic in 21 cm cosmology experiments. While there are innumerable calibration approaches, most can be categorized as either `sky-based,' relying on an extremely accurate model of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Ruby Byrne , Miguel F. Morales , Bryna Hazelton , Michael Wilensky

We describe and implement an exact, flexible, and computationally efficient algorithm for joint component separation and CMB power spectrum estimation, building on a Gibbs sampling framework. Two essential new features are 1) conditional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 H. K. Eriksen , J. B. Jewell , C. Dickinson , A. J. Banday , K. M. Gorski , C. R. Lawrence

HI intensity mapping is a new observational technique to map fluctuations in the large-scale structure of matter using the 21 cm emission line of atomic hydrogen (HI). Sensitive radio surveys have the potential to detect Baryon Acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 L. C. Olivari , M. Remazeilles , C. Dickinson

Galactic all-sky maps at very disparate frequencies, like in the radio and $\gamma$-ray regime, show similar morphological structures. This mutual information reflects the imprint of the various physical components of the interstellar…

Sensor calibration is the fundamental block for a multi-sensor fusion system. This paper presents an accurate and repeatable LiDAR-IMU calibration method (termed LI-Calib), to calibrate the 6-DOF extrinsic transformation between the 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Jiajun Lv , Jinhong Xu , Kewei Hu , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

Accurate extrinsic calibration between multiple LiDAR sensors and a GNSS-aided inertial navigation system (GINS) is essential for achieving reliable sensor fusion in intelligent mining environments. Such calibration enables vehicle-road…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Junhui Wang , Yan Qiao , Chao Gao , Naiqi Wu

The development of new phased array systems in radio astronomy, as the low frequency array (LOFAR) and the square kilometre array (SKA), formed of a large number of small and flexible elementary antennas, has led to significant challenges.…

Bayesian calibration is widely used for inverse analysis and uncertainty analysis for complex systems in the presence of both computer models and observation data. In the present work, we focus on large-scale fluid-structure interaction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Shunxiang Cao , Daniel Zhengyu Huang

Foreground removal remains an ongoing challenge in radio cosmology, and increasingly sensitive experiments necessitate more robust analysis techniques. In this work, we model simulated data from a single-dish intensity mapping experiment,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Geoff G. Murphy , Philip Bull , Mario G. Santos , Zheng Zhang , Steven Cunnington

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging technique to probe the large-scale structure of the Universe. By targeting the integrated intensity of specific spectral lines, it captures the emission from all sources and is sensitive to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-15 Gabriela Sato-Polito , Nickolas Kokron , José Luis Bernal

Reverberation mapping is a technique in which the mass of a Seyfert I galaxy's central supermassive black hole is estimated, along with the system's physical scale, from the timescale at which variations in brightness propagate through the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Hugh G. McDougall , Tamara M. Davis , Benjamin J. S. Pope

Self-calibration methods with the CLEAN algorithm have been widely employed in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data processing in order to correct antenna-based amplitude and phase corruptions present in the data. However, human…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Jong-Seo Kim , Aleksei S. Nikonov , Jakob Roth , Torsten A. Ensslin , Michael Janssen , Philipp Arras , Hendrik Mueller , Andrei P. Lobanov

In this work, we formalize a new technique to investigate joint posterior density of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal and its theoretical angular power spectrum given the observed data, using the global internal-linear-combination…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-23 Vipin Sudevan , Rajib Saha

The problem of estimating the dynamic direction of arrival of far field signals impinging on a uniform linear array, with mutual coupling effects, is addressed. This work proposes two novel approaches able to provide accurate solutions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Matthew Hawes , Lyudmila Mihaylova , François Septier , Simon Godsill

We introduce a Bayesian approach to predictive density calibration and combination that accounts for parameter uncertainty and model set incompleteness through the use of random calibration functionals and random combination weights.…

Applications · Statistics 2016-10-26 Federico Bassetti , Roberto Casarin , Francesco Ravazzolo

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