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Intelligent spectrum management is crucial for improving spectrum efficiency and achieving secure utilization of spectrum resources. However, existing intelligent spectrum management methods, typically based on small-scale models, suffer…

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Computational spectrometers are pivotal in enabling low-cost, in-situ and rapid spectral analysis, with potential applications in chemistry, biology, and environmental science. However, filter-based spectral encoding approaches typically…

In this paper are summarized the main advances of the last years in the field of SN spectra . The arguments against a monodimensional sequence for SNIa are discussed as well as the efforts to improve the temporal and spectral coverage of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Turatto

this paper presents a detailed methodology of a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) based low-power design for radioisotope identification. A low power cost of 72 mW has been achieved on FPGA with the inference accuracy of 100% at 10 cm test…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Xiaoyu Huang , Edward Jones , Siru Zhang , Shouyu Xie , Steve Furber , Yannis Goulermas , Edward Marsden , Ian Baistow , Srinjoy Mitra , Alister Hamilton

Ultra-compact spectrometers are becoming increasingly popular for their promising applications in biomedical analysis, environmental monitoring, and food safety. In this work, we report a novel single-pixel-photodetector spectrometer with a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Jingyi Wang , Beibei Pan , Zi Wang , Jiakai Zhang , Zhiqi Zhou , Lu Yao , Yanan Wu , Wuwei Ren , Jianyu Wang , Jingyi Yu , Baile Chen

The ISS (Integral-field Spectrograph System) has been designed as part of the EAGLE Phase A Instrument Study for the E-ELT. It consists of two input channels of 1.65x1.65 arcsec field-of-view, each reconfigured spatially by an image-slicing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. R. Hastings , B. Stobie , S. Vives , P. Vola , M. Wells , C. J. Evans

Empirically, Type Ia supernovae are the most useful, precise, and mature tools for determining astronomical distances. Acting as calibrated candles they revealed the presence of dark energy and are being used to measure its properties.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-15 D. Andrew Howell

Supernovae (SNe) are the most fascinating objects in astronomy and are intensely investigated. However, many mysteries such as nucleosynthesis and the origin of SNe Ia remain unsolved. Although the thermonuclear explosion of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-22 Yoshitaka Mizumura , Atsushi Takada , Toru Tanimori

The classification of stripped-envelope supernovae (SE-SNe) is revisited using modern data-sets. Spectra are analysed using an empirical method to "blindly" categorise SNe according to spectral feature strength and appearance. This method…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-08 S. J. Prentice , P. A. Mazzali

We study the characteristics of a narrow band type Ia supernova survey through simulations based on the upcoming Javalambre Physics of the accelerating universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS). This unique survey has the capabilities of…

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) can be calibrated to be good standard candles at cosmological distances. We propose a supernova pencil beam survey that could yield between dozens to hundreds of SNe Ia in redshift bins of 0.1 up to $z=1.5$,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Yun Wang

A target recognition framework relying on near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems is proposed. By exploiting the distance-dependent spatial signatures provided by the near-field spherical wavefront, high-accuracy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Zongyao Zhao , Zhaolin Wang , Lincong Han , Jing Jin , Kaibin Huang

The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS)is one of the three instruments on board the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) to be launched in December 2001. The IRS will provide high resolution spectra R~600 from 10--37microns and low resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Houck , J. van Cleve , B. Brandl , V. Charmandaris , D. Devost , K. Uchida

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have been intensively investigated due to its great homogeneity and high luminosity, which make it possible to use them as standardizable candles for the determination of cosmological parameters. In 2011, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-04 Rodrigo C. V. Coelho , Maurício O. Calvão , Ribamar R. R. Reis , Beatriz B. Siffert

Observational cosmology employing optical surveys often require precise flux calibration. In this context we present SNIFS Calibration Apparatus (SCALA), a flux calibration system developed for the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-04 Simona Lombardo , Greg Aldering , Akos Hoffmann , Marek Kowalski , Daniel Kuesters , Klaus Reif , Mickael Rigault

We describe a novel method for blind, single-image spectral super-resolution. While conventional super-resolution aims to increase the spatial resolution of an input image, our goal is to spectrally enhance the input, i.e., generate an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Silvano Galliani , Charis Lanaras , Dimitrios Marmanis , Emmanuel Baltsavias , Konrad Schindler

Spectroscopic photoacoustic (sPA) imaging uses multiple wavelengths to differentiate chromophores based on their unique optical absorption spectra. This technique has been widely applied in areas such as vascular mapping, tumor detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Fangzhou Lin , Shang Gao , Yichuan Tang , Xihan Ma , Ryo Murakami , Ziming Zhang , John D. Obayemi , Winston W. Soboyejo , Haichong K. Zhang

We present a compact, noise-resilient reconstructive spectrometer-on-a-chip that achieves high-resolution hyperspectral imaging across an extended near-infrared (NIR) range up to 1100nm. The device integrates monolithically fabricated…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-26 Ahasan Ahamed , Htet Myat , Amita Rawat , Lisa N McPhillips , M Saif Islam

Hyperspectral imaging provides detailed information about the scanned objects, as it captures their spectral characteristics within a large number of wavelength bands. Classification of such data has become an active research topic due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Jakub Nalepa , Lukasz Tulczyjew , Michal Myller , Michal Kawulok

Here, we present an astrophotonic spectrograph in the near-IR H-band (1.45 -1.65 $\mu m$) and a spectral resolution ($\lambda/\delta\lambda$) of 1500. The main dispersing element of the spectrograph is a photonic chip based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 Pradip Gatkine , Meghna Sitaram , Sylvain Veilleux , Mario Dagenais , Joss Bland-Hawthorn