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The hard X-ray (HXR) emission in solar flares comes almost exclusively from a very small part of the flaring region, the footpoints of magnetic loops. Using RHESSI observations of solar flare footpoints, we determine the radial positions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Marina Battaglia , Eduard P. Kontar

A new method is presented for determining the Point Spread Function (PSF) of images that lack bright and isolated stars. It is based on the same principles as the MCS (Magain, Courbin, Sohy, 1998) image deconvolution algorithm. It uses the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Magain , F. Courbin , M. Gillon , S. Sohy , G. Letawe , V. Chantry , Y. Letawe

Even though the technology of adaptive optics (AO) is rapidly maturing, calibration of the resulting images remains a major challenge. The AO point-spread function (PSF) changes quickly both in time and position on the sky. In a typical…

In this work, we present a novel centroiding method based on Fourier space Phase Fitting(FPF) for Point Spread Function(PSF) reconstruction. We generate two sets of simulations to test our method. The first set is generated by GalSim with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-12 Tianhuan Lu , Wentao Luo , Jun Zhang , Jiajun Zhang , Hekun Li , Fuyu Dong , Yingke Li , Dezi Liu , Liping Fu , Guoliang Li , Zuhui Fan

We observe and characterize the scattering of acoustic wave packets by a sunspot, in a regime where the wavelength is comparable to the size of the sunspot. Spatial maps of wave traveltimes and amplitudes are measured from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-04 Z. -C. Liang , L. Gizon , H. Schunker

The intra-halo light (IHL) is the diffuse stellar component that surrounds galaxies, groups, and clusters. Its formation is intimately linked to the hierarchical assembly of the system, making it a key tracer of galaxy evolution. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-02 L. P. Garate-Nuñez , A. S. G. Robotham , S. Bellstedt , L. J. M. Davies

Relative impulse responses between microphones are usually long and dense due to the reverberant acoustic environment. Estimating them from short and noisy recordings poses a long-standing challenge of audio signal processing. In this paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zbynek Koldovsky , Jiri Malek , Sharon Gannot

Ground based optical telescopes are seriously affected by atmospheric turbulence induced aberrations. Understanding properties of these aberrations is important both for instruments design and image restoration methods development. Because…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Peng Jia , Xuebo Wu , Yi Huang , Bojun Cai , Dongmei Cai

We present the results of ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI) observations and the survey data of the radio-loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy (NLS1) PKS 0558--504. We find strong and persistent X-ray variability on both short and medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Gliozzi , Th. Boller , W. Brinkmann , W. N. Brandt

We present and apply a method to identify the stellar content of the ROSAT all-sky survey (RASS). We performed a crossmatch between the RASS sources and stellar candidates selected from Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) and estimated stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 S. Freund , S. Czesla , J. Robrade , P. C. Schneider , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

This work studies both limited sensitivity and nonlinearity of far field RF energy harvesting observed in reality and quantifies their effect, attempting to fill a major hole in the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Panos N. Alevizos , Aggelos Bletsas

We present the data and preliminary analysis for a series of 90 ROSAT HRI and two ASCA observations of the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 390.3. These data were obtained during the period 1995 January 2 to 1995 October 6 as part of an intensive…

The polarization properties of radio sources at very low frequencies (<200 MHz) have not been widely measured, but the new generation of low-frequency radio telescopes, including the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR: a Square Kilometre Array Low…

This paper presents a method for estimating significant wave height (Hs) from sparse S_pectral P_oint using a T_ransformer-based approach (SPT). Based on empirical observations that only a minority of spectral points with strong power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Yi Zhou , Li Wang , Hang Su , Tian Wang

AIMS: To determine the Point Source Location Accuracy (PSLA) for the INTEGRAL/IBIS telescope based on analysis of archival in-flight data. METHODS: Over 40000 individual pointings (science windows) of INTEGRAL/IBIS data were analysed using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Scaringi , A. J. Bird , A. B. Hill , D. J. Clark , V. A. McBride , A. J. Dean , A. Bazzano , L. Natalucci , J. B. Stephen

We have made cross-correlation analyses of (2 -- 15 keV) HEAO A2 and 1 keV ROSAT PSPC All-Sky Survey maps over a selected area ($\sim$ 4000 deg$^2$) with high galactic latitude (b>40 deg). We have calculated the correlations for the bright…

We report on 40 kiloseconds of ROSAT HRI observations of the globular cluster M92 (NGC 6341) and 20 kiloseconds of observations of the globular cluster M13 (NGC 6205). We find that the low-luminosity (10^{32.5} erg/sec at 7.5 kpc) source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Fox , W. Lewin , B. Margon , J. van Paradijs , F. Verbunt

Current and future imaging surveys will measure cosmic shear with a statistical precision that demands a deeper understanding of potential systematic biases in galaxy shape measurements than has been achieved to date. We investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. E. Meyers , P. R. Burchat

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) increasingly contaminates the radio astronomy spectrum, often exceeding astronomical signal amplitudes by 50-70 dB. Reliable detection and mitigation are therefore essential for studies of faint transient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Natalia A. Schmid , Sasanka Katreddi , Yechan Kweon

The AKARI Infrared Astronomical Satellite produced the all-sky survey (AFASS) maps in the far-IR at roughly arc-minute spatial resolution, enabling us to investigate the whole sky in the far-IR for objects having surface brightnesses…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Toshiya Ueta , Ryszard Szczerba , Andrew G. Fullard , Satoshi Takita