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A new generation of interferometric instruments is emerging which aim to use intensity mapping of redshifted $21\,$cm radiation to measure the large-scale structure of the Universe at $z\simeq 1-2$ over wide areas of sky. While these…

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We propose a numerical interferometry method for identification of optical multiply-scattering systems when only intensity can be measured. Our method simplifies the calibration of optical transmission matrices from a quadratic to a linear…

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The digital revolution is transforming astronomy from a data-starved to a data-submerged science. Instruments such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), and the Square Kilometer Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Melvyn Wright

Astrometry is one of the main science case which drives the requirements of the next multiconjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) systems for future extremely large telescopes. The small diffraction limited point-spread function (PSF) and the high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-09 M. Patti , C. Arcidiacono , M. Lombini , E. Diolaiti , F. Cortecchia

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is an ideal instrument to conduct deep extragalactic surveys. It has a large field of view and is sensitive to large scale and compact emission. It is, however, very challenging to synthesize thermal noise…

We propose the implementation of an imaging telescope in combination with an inter-frequency calibrator to measure the spectral shape of the microwave sky by exploiting the differences in the sky intensity between multiple pairs of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-25 Suvodip Mukherjee , Joseph Silk , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Precise cosmological measurements are essential for understanding the evolution of the universe and the nature of dark energy. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the most sensitive single-dish radio telescope, has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 Jun-Da Pan , Peng-Ju Wu , Guo-Hong Du , Yichao Li , Xin Zhang

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array remains the largest mm radio interferometer observatory world-wide. It is now conducting its 11th observing cycle. In our previous paper presented at this conference series in 2020, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-09 Dirk Petry , María Díaz Trigo , Rüdiger Kneissl , Ignacio Toledo , Atsushi Miyazaki , Toshinobu Takagi , Ashley Barnes , Francesca Bonanomi

The Earth's atmospheric turbulence degrades the precision of ground-based astrometry. Here, we discuss these limitations and propose that, with proper treatment of systematics and by leveraging the many epochs available from the Korean…

The fidelity of radio astronomical images is generally assessed by practical experience, i.e. using rules of thumb, although some aspects and cases have been treated rigorously. In this paper we present a mathematical framework capable of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-12 Stefan J. Wijnholds , Alle-Jan van der Veen

The light field camera is useful for computer graphics and vision applications. Calibration is an essential step for these applications. After calibration, we can rectify the captured image by using the calibrated camera parameters.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-17 Yichao Xu , Kazuki Maeno , Hajime Nagahara , Rin-ichiro Taniguchi

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international initiative to build the next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. Full sky coverage will be assured by two arrays, one located on each of the northern and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Maria Concetta Maccarone , Dan Parsons , Markus Gaug , Raquel de los Reyes

Computer model calibration is a crucial step in building a reliable computer model. In the face of massive physical observations, a fast estimation for the calibration parameters is urgently needed. To alleviate the computational burden, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Shurui Lv , Yan Wang , Jun Yu

We propose a new algorithm, for parameter estimation that is applicable to imaging using moving and synthetic aperture arrays. The new method results in higher resolution and more accurate estimation than commonly used methods when strong…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-31 Ronny Levanda , Amir Leshem

The advent of next-generation radio interferometers like the Square Kilometer Array promises to revolutionise our radio astronomy observational capabilities. The unprecedented volume of data these devices generate requires fast and accurate…

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With ever increasing data rates produced by modern radio telescopes like LOFAR and future telescopes like the SKA, many data processing steps are overwhelmed by the amount of data that needs to be handled using limited compute resources.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Sarod Yatawatta

The trajectory of a primary gamma-ray detected with an array of at least four atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescopes can be reconstructed from the shower image centroid positions and geometrical considerations independent of the primary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-18 S. LeBohec , C. Duke , P. Jordan

Detecting gravitational wave bursts (characterised by short durations and poorly modelled waveforms) requires to have coincidences between several interferometric detectors in order to reject non-stationary noise events. As the wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicolas Arnaud , Matteo Barsuglia , Marie-Anne Bizouard , Philippe Canitrot , Fabien Cavalier , Michel Davier , Patrice Hello , Thierry Pradier

We present a novel method to significantly speed up cosmological parameter sampling. The method relies on constructing an interpolation of the CMB-log-likelihood based on sparse grids, which is used as a shortcut for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mona Frommert , Dirk Pflueger , Thomas Riller , Martin Reinecke , Hans-Joachim Bungartz , Torsten Ensslin

In radio astronomy, accurate calibration is of crucial importance for the new generation of radio interferometers. More specifically, because of the potential presence of outliers which affect the measured data, robustness needs to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Virginie Ollier , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , André Ferrari , Rémy Boyer , Pascal Larzabal