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We study the impact of sky-based calibration errors from source mismodeling on 21\,cm power spectrum measurements with an interferometer and propose a method for suppressing their effects. While emission from faint sources that are not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Aaron Ewall-Wice , Joshua S. Dillon , Adrian Liu , Jacqueline Hewitt

Radio-interferometric arrays require very precise calibration to detect the Epoch of Reionization 21-cm signal. A remarkably complete and accurate sky model is therefore needed in the patches of the sky used to perform the calibration.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Khandakar Md Asif Elahi , Samir Choudhuri , Nirupam Roy , Md Rashid , Philip Bull , Dharam Vir Lal

Position and frequency switching techniques used for the removal of the bandpass dependence of radio astronomical spectra are presented and discussed in detail. Both methods are widely used, although the frequency dependence of the system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. Winkel , A. Kraus , U. Bach

Global 21cm cosmology aims to investigate the cosmic dawn and epoch of reionisation by measuring the sky averaged HI absorption signal, which requires, accurate modelling of, or correction for, the bright radio foregrounds and distortions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Dominic Anstey , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Will Handley

Calibrating out per-antenna signal chain effects is an essential step in analyzing radio interferometric data. For drift-scanning arrays, robustly calibrating the data is especially challenging due to the lack of the ability to track a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Robert Pascua , Jonathan Sievers , Adrian Liu

We introduce CALAMITY, a precision bandpass calibration method for radio interferometry. CALAMITY can solve for direction independent gains with arbitrary frequency structure to the high precision required for 21 cm cosmology with minimal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Aaron Ewall-Wice , Joshua S. Dillon , Bharat Gehlot , Aaron Parsons , Tyler Cox , Daniel C. Jacobs

21 cm Epoch of Reionization observations promise to transform our understanding of galaxy formation, but these observations are impossible without unprecedented levels of instrument calibration. We present end-to-end simulations of a full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-09 N. Barry , B. Hazelton , I. Sullivan , M. F. Morales , J. C. Pober

Growing interest in 21 cm tomography has led to the design and construction of broadband radio interferometers with low noise, moderate angular resolution, high spectral resolution, and wide fields of view. With characteristics somewhat…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-25 Adrian Liu , Max Tegmark , Scott Morrison , Andrew Lutomirski , Matias Zaldarriaga

Instruments targeting 21~cm emission at high redshifts need a spectral dynamic range of better than ten thousand to distinguish the 21~cm background against bright foregrounds. Systematics arising from the antenna pattern are a leading…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Daniel C. Jacobs

Precise sensor calibration is critical for autonomous vehicles as a prerequisite for perception algorithms to function properly. Rotation error of one degree can translate to position error of meters in target object detection at large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhongyuan Li , Honggang Gou , Ping Li , Jiaotong Guo , Mao Ye

This paper describes the calibration procedure for the drift tubes of the CMS barrel muon system and reports the main results obtained with data collected during a high statistics cosmic ray data-taking period. The main goal of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 CMS Collaboration

We describe a method for spectral cleaning and timing calibration of short voltage time series data from individual radio interferometer receivers. It makes use of the phase differences in Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) spectra across antenna…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 A. Corstanje , S. Buitink , J. E. Enriquez , H. Falcke , J. R. Hörandel , M. Krause , A. Nelles , J. P. Rachen , P. Schellart , O. Scholten , S. ter Veen , S. Thoudam , T. N. G. Trinh

Accurately calibrating the center-of-mass (CoM) offset between the spacecraft (SC) and the inertial sensor test mass (TM) is crucial for space-based gravitational-wave (GW) antennas, such as LISA and Taiji. Current calibration methods…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-23 Haoyue Zhang , Dong Ye , Peng Xu , Yunhai Geng , Li-E Qiang , Ziren Luo

The real-time data processing of the next generation of experiments conducted at FAIR requires a reliable reconstruction of event topologies and, therefore, will depend heavily on in-situ calibration procedures. A neural network-based…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-26 Valentin Kladov , Johan Messchendorp , James Ritman

Channel measurements in MIMO systems hinge on precise synchronization. While methods for time and frequency synchronization are well established, maintaining real-time phase coherence remains an open requirement for many MIMO systems. Phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Carl Collmann , Ahmad Nimr , Gerhard Fettweis

In the recent literature on machine learning and decision making, calibration has emerged as a desirable and widely-studied statistical property of the outputs of binary prediction models. However, the algorithmic aspects of measuring model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Lunjia Hu , Arun Jambulapati , Kevin Tian , Chutong Yang

We investigate systematic effects in direction dependent gain calibration in the context of the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) 21-cm Epoch of Reionization (EoR) experiment. The LOFAR EoR Key Science Project aims to detect the 21-cm signal of…

Many mobile robotic platforms rely on an accurate knowledge of the extrinsic calibration parameters, especially systems performing visual stereo matching. Although a number of accurate stereo camera calibration methods have been developed,…

Many astronomical questions require deep, wide-field observations at low radio frequencies. Phased arrays like LOFAR and SKA-low are designed for this, but have inherently unstable element gains, leading to time, frequency and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 S. A. Brackenhoff , A. R. Offringa , M. Mevius , L. V. E. Koopmans , J. K. Chege , E. Ceccotti , C. Höfer , L. Gao , S. Ghosh , F. G. Mertens , S. Munshi

The Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON) has provided high-quality high-cadence observations from as far back in time as 1978. These data must be calibrated from the raw observations into radial velocity and the quality of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-01 G. R. Davies , W. J. Chaplin , Y. Elsworth , S. J. Hale