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A simple, yet general, formalism for the optimized linear combination of astrophysical images is constructed and demonstrated. The formalism allows the user to combine multiple undersampled images to provide oversampled output at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Barnaby Rowe , Christopher Hirata , Jason Rhodes

Optimal error estimation is key to achieve accurate photometry and astrometry. Stellar fluxes and positions in high angular resolution images are typically measured with PSF fitting routines, such as StarFinder. However, the formal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-12 E. Gallego-Cano , R. Schödel , A. T. Gallego-Calvente , A. M. Ghez

The question of representation of 3D geometry is of vital importance when it comes to leveraging the recent advances in the field of machine learning for geometry processing tasks. For common unstructured surface meshes state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Isaak Lim , Alexander Dielen , Marcel Campen , Leif Kobbelt

A critical examination is made of two simple implementations of the idea that cosmology can be viewed as a renormalization group flow. Both implementations are shown to fail when applied to a massless, minimally coupled scalar with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. P. Woodard

Cosmological probes pose an inverse problem where the measurement result is obtained through observations, and the objective is to infer values of model parameters which characterize the underlying physical system -- our Universe. Modern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-21 Timur Takhtaganov , Zarija Lukic , Juliane Mueller , Dmitriy Morozov

We introduce the concept of compressed convolution, a technique to convolve a given data set with a large number of non-orthogonal kernels. In typical applications our technique drastically reduces the effective number of computations. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-08 F. Elsner , B. D. Wandelt

Gaussian processes provide a method for extracting cosmological information from observations without assuming a cosmological model. We carry out cosmography -- mapping the time evolution of the cosmic expansion -- in a model-independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-11 Arman Shafieloo , Alex G. Kim , Eric V. Linder

In this article we give an account of a method of smoothing spatial inhomogeneous data sets by using wavelet reconstruction on a regular grid in an auxilliary space onto which the original data is mapped. In a previous paper by the present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Rauzy , M. Lachièze-Rey , R. N. Henriksen

Reconstructing a complete object from its parts is a fundamental problem in many scientific domains. The purpose of this article is to provide a systematic survey on this topic. The reassembly problem requires understanding the attributes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jiaxin Lu , Yongqing Liang , Huijun Han , Jiacheng Hua , Junfeng Jiang , Xin Li , Qixing Huang

The geometric calibration of the Planck satellite is investigated, specifically those parameters which require the use of the science data for their extraction. Methods for the recovery of these geometric-calibration parameters from point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. L. Harrison , F. van Leeuwen

In this chapter, we identify fundamental geometric structures that underlie the problems of sampling, optimisation, inference and adaptive decision-making. Based on this identification, we derive algorithms that exploit these geometric…

Modern astronomy relies on massive databases collected by robotic telescopes and digital sky surveys, acquiring data in a much faster pace than what manual analysis can support. Among other data, these sky surveys collect information about…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-29 Evan Kuminski , Lior Shamir

This review summarizes popular unsupervised learning methods, and gives an overview of their past, current, and future uses in astronomy. Unsupervised learning aims to organise the information content of a dataset, in such a way that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Sotiria Fotopoulou

In this paper we will consider the problem of the numerical simulation of non-Gaussian, scalar random fields with a prescribed correlation structure provided either by a theoretical model or computed on a set of observational data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Roberto Vio , Paola Andreani , Willem Wamsteker

Observational cosmology provides us with a large number of high precision data which are used to derive models trying to reproduce ``on the mean'' our observable patch of the Universe. Most of these attempts are achieved in the framework of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 Marie-Noëlle Célérier

Electron tomography is becoming an increasingly important tool in materials science for studying the three-dimensional morphologies and chemical compositions of nanostructures. The image quality obtained by many current algorithms is…

Image-based surface reconstruction and characterization are crucial for missions to small celestial bodies (e.g., asteroids), as it informs mission planning, navigation, and scientific analysis. Recent advances in Gaussian splatting enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jennifer Nolan , Travis Driver , John Christian

Integral field spectroscopy of high-redshift galaxies has become a powerful tool for understanding their dynamics and evolutionary states. However, in the case of gravitationally lensed systems, it has proved difficult to model both lensing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-13 Anthony J. Young , Charles R. Keeton , Andrew J. Baker

Monitoring space objects is crucial for space situational awareness, yet reconstructing 3D satellite models from ground-based telescope images is challenging due to atmospheric turbulence, long observation distances, limited viewpoints, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Zhiming Chang , Boyang Liu , Yifei Xia , Youming Guo , Boxin Shi , He Sun

We apply an iterative reconstruction method to galaxy mocks in redshift space obtained from $N$-body simulations. Comparing the two-point correlation functions for the reconstructed density field, we find that although the performance is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Ryuichiro Hada , Daniel J. Eisenstein