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Deploying Vision Transformers (ViTs) on near-sensor analog accelerators demands training pipelines that are explicitly aligned with device-level noise and energy constraints. We introduce a compact framework for silicon-photonic execution…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xuming Chen , Deniz Najafi , Chengwei Zhou , Pietro Mercati , Arman Roohi , Mohsen Imani , Mahdi Nikdast , Shaahin Angizi , Gourav Datta

The Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is an approved satellite mission for Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) studies, developed in cooperation between the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA), the Chinese Academy of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-25 Stéphane Schanne , Bertrand Cordier , Jean-Luc Atteia , Olivier Godet , Cyril Lachaud , Karine Mercier

The weak-lensing science of the LSST project drives the need to carefully model and separate the instrumental artifacts from the intrinsic lensing signal. The dominant source of the systematics for all ground based telescopes is the spatial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. James Jee , J. Anthony Tyson

The soft gamma-ray telescope ECLAIRs with its Scientific Trigger Unit is in charge of detecting Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) on-board the future SVOM satellite. Using the "scientific software model" (SSM), we study the efficiency of both…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-25 S. Antier , S. Schanne , B. Cordier , A. Gros , D. Götz , C. Lachaud

The Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) focal plane camera is a front-illuminated MOS CCD, providing a spectral response kernel of 144 eV FWHM at 6.5 keV. We describe the CCD calibration program based on celestial and on-board calibration sources,…

The Space multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM) is an astronomical satellite jointly developed by China and France, primarily focused on the detection of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and transient sources. The SVOM satellite was launched on…

The Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD), to be deployed onboard the {\it ASTRO-H} satellite, has been developed to provide the highest sensitivity observations of celestial sources in the energy band of 60-600~keV by employing a detector concept…

We describe the design and performance of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) which operates at a base temperature of 30 mK in a vector magnetic field. The cryogenics is based on an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) top-loading wet dilution…

We describe calibration data, and discuss performance of the photon-counting flight detectors for the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescopes on the Astrosat observatory. The paper describes dark current, flat field and light-spot images for FUV,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Postma , J. B. Hutchings , D. Leahy

Here we describe the implementation and calibration of a streaked visible spectrometer (SVS) for optical pyrometry and emission/absorption spectroscopy on light gas gun platforms in the UC Davis Shock Compression Laboratory. The diagnostic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-02 Erik J. Davies , Dylan K. Spaulding , Sarah T. Stewart

On-board the SVOM mission, the Microchannel X-ray Telescope observes the soft X-ray band of the gamma-ray bursts afterglows. The so-called lobster-eye optics focuses X-rays to the camera subsystem that performs imaging and spectroscopy of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 M. Moita , A. Meuris , P. Ferrando , A. Sauvageon , H. Goto , D. Götz , C. Plasse , L. Godinaud , A. Fort , K. Mercier , S. Crepaldi

We present a sample-variance-limited measurement of the temperature power spectrum ($TT$) of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using observations of a $\sim\! 1500 \,\mathrm{deg}^2$ field made by SPT-3G in 2018. We report multifrequency…

The CCAT Observatory's Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is designed to observe submillimeter astronomical signals with high precision, using receivers fielding state-of-the-art kinetic inductance detector (KID) arrays. Mod-Cam, a…

The Space Variable Object Monitor (SVOM) is a forthcoming Chinese - French astrophysics space mission dedicated to the study of Gamma-ray bursts and high-energy transients. ECLAIRs, a wide-field hard X-ray coded mask imager, is the leading…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Sujay Mate , Laurent Bouchet , Jean-Luc Atteia , Arnaud Claret , Bertrand Cordier , Nicolas Dagoneau , Olivier Godet , Aleksandra Gros , Stéphane Schanne , Henri Triou

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have attained exceptional success across multimodal tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering. However, their robustness under noisy conditions remains unfamiliar. In this study, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Purushoth , Alireza

Current and future experiments observing the cosmic microwave background require a detailed understanding of optical performance at cryogenic temperatures. Pre-deployment analysis of optics can be performed in custom-engineered cryogenic…

The fifth Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) Local Volume Mapper (LVM) is a wide-field integral field unit (IFU) survey that uses an array of four 160 mm fixed telescopes with siderostats to minimize the number of moving parts. Individual…

We describe a camera beam simulator for the LSST which is capable of illuminating a 60mm field at f/1.2 with realistic astronomical scenes, enabling studies of CCD astrometric and photometric performance. The goal is to fully simulate LSST…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 J. A. Tyson , J. Sasian , K. Gilmore , A. Bradshaw , C. Claver , M. Klint , G. Muller , G. Poczulp , E. Resseguie

We simulate the flux emitted from galaxy halos in order to quantify the brightness of the circumgalactic medium (CGM). We use dedicated zoom-in cosmological simulations with the hydrodynamical Adaptive Mesh Refinement code RAMSES, which are…