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This work is devoted to the study of the influence of quantization noise on the spectral characteristics of a digital signal and the assessment of spectrum measurement errors that arise due to the quantization noise of an analog-to-digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Anzhelika Stakhova

In practical systems, recorded analog signals must be digitized for processing, introducing quantization as a critical aspect of data acquisition. While prior studies have examined quantization effects in various signal processing contexts,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Shweta Pal , Arun Kumar , Monika Agrawal

Multi-frequency measurements of the microwave sky can be decomposed into maps of distinct physical components such as the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. Each of the multi--frequency measurements is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sarah Church , Lloyd Knox , Martin White

Millimeter wave systems suffer from high power consumption and are constrained to use low resolution quantizers --digital to analog and analog to digital converters (DACs and ADCs). However, low resolution quantization leads to reduced data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Abbas Khalili , Elza Erkip , Sundeep Rangan

We present a simple way of coding and compressing the data on board the Planck instruments (HFI and LFI) to address the problem of the on board data reduction. This is a critical issue in the Planck mission. The total information that can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Gaztanaga , A. Romeo , J. Barriga , E. Elizalde

Destriping methods for constructing maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies have been investigated extensively in the literature. However, their error properties have been studied in less detail. Here we present an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Efstathiou

The large size of the time ordered data of cosmic microwave background experiments presents challenges for mission planning and data analysis. These issues are particularly significant for Antarctica- and space-based experiments, which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-05 L. Balkenhol , C. L. Reichardt

Low frequency detector noise in CMB experiments must be corrected to produce faithful maps of the temperature and polarization anisotropies. For a Planck-type experiment the low frequency noise corrections lead to residual stripes in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Efstathiou

The lack of power anomaly is an intriguing feature at the largest angular scales of the CMB anisotropy temperature pattern, whose statistical significance is not strong enough to claim any new physics beyond the standard cosmological model.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-11 M. Billi , A. Gruppuso , N. Mandolesi , L. Moscardini , P. Natoli

In radio interferometry, the quantization process introduces a bias in the magnitude and phase of the measured correlations which translates into errors in the measurement of source brightness and position in the sky, affecting both the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-13 J. Mena-Parra , K. Bandura , M. A. Dobbs , J. R. Shaw , S. Siegel

In this paper we study the effects of quantization in DNN training. We hypothesize that weight quantization is a form of regularization and the amount of regularization is correlated with the quantization level (precision). We confirm our…

We formally study the effects of a restricted single-qubit noise model inspired by real quantum hardware, and corruption in quantum training data, on the performance of binary classification using quantum circuits. We find that, under the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Yonghoon Lee , Doga Murat Kurkcuoglu , Gabriel Nathan Perdue

This paper studies the impact of quantization in integrate-and-fire time encoding machine (IF-TEM) sampler used for bandlimited (BL) and finite-rate-of-innovation (FRI) signals. An upper bound is derived for the mean squared error (MSE) of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Hila Naaman , Neil Irwin Bernardo , Alejandro Cohen , Yonina C. Eldar

We study the effects due to mismatches in passbands, polarization angles, and temperature and polarization calibrations in the context of the upcoming cosmic microwave background experiment Simons Observatory (SO). Using the SO…

Measurements are a vital part of any quantum computation, whether as a final step to retrieve results, as an intermediate step to inform subsequent operations, or as part of the computation itself (as in measurement-based quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Stefanie J. Beale , Joel J. Wallman

We describe an assembly of numerical tools to model the output data of the Planck satellite. These start with the generation of a CMB sky in a chosen cosmology, add in various foreground sources, convolve the sky signal with arbitrary, even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Reinecke , Klaus Dolag , Reinhard Hell , Matthias Bartelmann , Torsten Ensslin

Low-resolution quantization is essential to reduce implementation cost and power consumption in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems for 5G and 6G. While most existing studies assume perfect channel state information (CSI),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Reza Mohammadkhani , Azad Azizzadeh , Seyed Vahab Al-Din Makki , John Thompson , Maziar Nekovee

We apply state-of-the art data analysis methods to a number of fictitious CMB mapping experiments, including 1/f noise, distilling the cosmological information from time-ordered data to maps to power spectrum estimates, and find that in all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Max Tegmark

Recent studies introduced effective compression techniques for Large Language Models (LLMs) via post-training quantization or low-bit weight representation. Although quantized weights offer storage efficiency and allow for faster inference,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Irina Proskurina , Luc Brun , Guillaume Metzler , Julien Velcin

We present an analysis of the effects of beam deconvolution on noise properties in CMB measurements. The analysis is built around the artDeco beam deconvolver code. We derive a low-resolution noise covariance matrix that describes the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-09 E. Keihänen , K. Kiiveri , V. Lindholm , M. Reinecke , A. -S. Suur-Uski
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