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High-accuracy localization is a key enabler for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), playing an essential role in various applications such as autonomous driving. Antenna arrays and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Mengting Li , Hui Chen , Sigurd Sandor Petersen , Huiping Huang , Alireza Pourafzal , Yu Ge , Ming Shen , Henk Wymeersch

Analyzing classification model performance is a crucial task for machine learning practitioners. While practitioners often use count-based metrics derived from confusion matrices, like accuracy, many applications, such as weather…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Peter Xenopoulos , Joao Rulff , Luis Gustavo Nonato , Brian Barr , Claudio Silva

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed third generation ground-based interferometer, for which the target is a sensitivity that is a factor of ten better than Advanced LIGO and a frequency range that extends down to about 1Hz. ET will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-18 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R. Gair

The integrating sphere (IS) is an indispensable tool for measuring transmission and scattering of materials and their colorimetry, as well as other photometric tasks. The accuracy of its data depends critically on port sizes used for…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-28 A. M. Bratkovsky

Compton telescopes provide a good sensitivity over a wide field of view in the difficult energy range running from a few hundred keV to several MeV. Their angular resolution is, however, poor and strongly energy dependent. We present a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-29 M. Forot , P. Laurent , F. Lebrun , O. Limousin

The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is emphasized as a controlled scattering cluster. To this end, scatterers and traveling paths of multipath components are classified to build a new channel model. Unlike the conventional modeling,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Musab Alayasra , Huseyin Arslan

An important tool for the development of the next generation of extremely large telescopes (ELTs) is the Systems Engineering (SE). GMACS is the first-generation multi-object spectrograph working at visible wavelengths for the Giant Magellan…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 D. M. Faes , A. Souza , D. R. Bortoletto , M. C. P. Almeida

In model development, model calibration and validation play complementary roles toward learning reliable models. In this article, we expand the Bayesian Validation Metric framework to a general calibration and validation framework by…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-04 Tony Tohme , Kevin Vanslette , Kamal Youcef-Toumi

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which consists of a large number of tunable reflective elements, is capable of enhancing the wireless propagation environment in a cellular network by intelligently reflecting the electromagnetic waves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Tao Jiang , Hei Victor Cheng , Wei Yu

Calibration models have been developed for determination of trace elements, silver for instance, in soil using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). The major concern is the matrix effect. Although it affects the accuracy of LIBS…

The Infra-Red Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is one of the three first light instruments for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and is the only one to directly sample the diffraction limit. The instrument consists of a parallel imager and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Anna M. Moore , Brian J. Bauman , Elizabeth J. Barton , David Crampton , Alex Delacroix , James E. Larkin , Luc Simard , Ryuji Suzuki , Shelley A. Wright

This paper describes a concept for the high-accuracy absolute calibration of the instrumental polarization introduced by the primary mirror of a large-aperture telescope. This procedure requires a small aperture with polarization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Socas-Navarro

Strong gravitational lensing of active galactic nuclei (AGN) enables measurements of cosmological parameters through time-delay cosmography (TDC). With data from the upcoming LSST survey, we anticipate using a sample of O(1000) lensed AGN…

Since the release of the INTEGRAL Offline Scientific Analysis (OSA) software version 9.0, the ghost busters module has been introduced in the INTEGRAL/IBIS imaging procedure, leading to an improvement of the sensitivity around bright…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-26 S. Soldi , F. Lebrun , A. Gros , G. Belanger , V. Beckmann , I. Caballero , A. Goldwurm , D. Gotz , F. Mattana , J. A. Zurita Heras , A. Bazzano , P. Ubertini

One of the well-known problems of producing instruments for Extremely Large Telescopes is that their size (and hence cost) scales rapidly with telescope aperture. To try to break this relation alternative new technologies have been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. J. Harris , J. R. Allington-Smith

The start of operation of several large-aperture telescopes has motivated several groups around the world to conduct deep large imaging surveys, complementing other wide-area but shallower surveys. A special class of imaging surveys are the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. A. N. da Costa

The Ising model was generalized to a system of cells interacting exclusively by presence of shared spins. Within the cells there are interactions of any complexity, the simplest intracell interactions come down to the Ising model. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-23 Vadym Sakhno , Mykola Sakhno

In the context of computer models, calibration is the process of estimating unknown simulator parameters from observational data. Calibration is variously referred to as model fitting, parameter estimation/inference, an inverse problem, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-16 Richard D. Wilkinson , Christopher W. Lanyon

We have developed observation control software for the Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) slit-viewing camera module, which maintains the position of an astronomical target on the spectroscopic slit. It is composed of several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Hye-In Lee , Soojong Pak , Gregory N. Mace , Kyle F. Kaplan , Huynh Anh N. Le , Heeyoung Oh , Chan Park , Sungho Lee

The InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a first-light instrument being designed for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). IRIS is a combination of an imager that will cover a 16.4" field of view at the diffraction limit of TMT (4 mas…