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This study presents a nonlinear signal processing method for accurate radar-based heartbeat interval estimation by exploiting the periodicity of higher-order harmonics inherent in heartbeat signals. Unlike conventional approaches that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Kohei Shimomura , Chi-Hsuan Lee , Takuya Sakamoto

Reverberation mapping (RM) is a powerful approach for determining the nature of the broad-line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei. However, inferring physical BLR properties from an observed spectroscopic time series is a difficult…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-28 S. W. Mangham , C. Knigge , P. Williams , Keith Horne , A. Pancoast , J. H. Matthews , K. S. Long , S. A. Sim , N. Higginbottom

We present a first-principles machine-learning computational framework to investigate anharmonic effects in polarization-orientation (PO) Raman spectra of molecular crystals, focusing on anthracene and naphthalene. By combining machine…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-15 Paolo Lazzaroni , Shubham Sharma , Mariana Rossi

Statistics of polarized synchrotron radiation carry information about the properties of the underlying turbulence. Different statistical measures constructed from observables probe turbulence properties in different ways. We consider a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-26 Aliaksandr Melnichenka , Alex Lazarian , Dmitri Pogosyan

Faraday Rotation Measures (RM) should be interpreted with caution because there could be multiple magneto-ionized medium components that contribute to the net Faraday rotation along sight-lines. We introduce a simple test using Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 Seoyoung Lyla Jung , Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths , Alex S. Hill

Polarimetry using a half-wave plate (HWP) modulator provides the strong tools to avoid a detector 1/f noise and instrument-originated spurious polarization systematic effects. While the Pancharatnam achromatic HWP (AHWP) is commonly used…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-24 Tomotake Matsumura

The goal of this work is to put constraints on the strength and structure of the magnetic field in the cluster of galaxies A2382. We investigate the relationship between magnetic field and Faraday rotation effects in the cluster, using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Guidetti , M. Murgia , F. Govoni , P. Parma , L. Gregorini , H. R. de Ruiter , R. A. Cameron , R. Fanti

We are using "broadband" (4.6 to 43 GHz) multi-frequency VLBA polarization observations of compact AGN to investigate the 3-D structure of their jet magnetic (B) fields. Observing at several frequencies, separated by short and long…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-01 Shane P. O'Sullivan , Denise C. Gabuzda

This paper presents the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) data processing procedures for the Planck 2018 release. Major improvements in mapmaking have been achieved since the previous 2015 release. They enabled the first significant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Planck Collaboration , N. Aghanim , Y. Akrami , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , K. Benabed , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , J. Carron , A. Challinor , H. C. Chiang , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , F. Couchot , B. P. Crill , F. Cuttaia , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , E. Di Valentino , J. M. Diego , O. Doré , M. Douspis , A. Ducout , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , E. Falgarone , Y. Fantaye , F. Finelli , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frolov , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Gerbino , T. Ghosh , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , W. Handley , F. K. Hansen , S. Henrot-Versillé , D. Herranz , E. Hivon , Z. Huang , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , A. Karakci , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , J. Kim , T. S. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , F. Levrier , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , M. López-Caniego , Y. -Z. Ma , J. F. Macías-Pérez , G. Maggio , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Matarrese , N. Mauri , J. D. McEwen , A. Melchiorri , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , D. Molinari , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , A. Moss , S. Mottet , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , G. Patanchon , L. Patrizii , O. Perdereau , F. Perrotta , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , A. Renzi , G. Rocha , G. Roudier , L. Salvati , M. Sandri , M. Savelainen , D. Scott , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. D. Spencer , R. Sunyaev , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , M. Tenti , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , T. Trombetti , J. Valiviita , F. Vansyngel , B. Van Tent , L. Vibert , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , A. Zonca

When internal states of atoms are manipulated using coherent optical or radio-frequency (RF) radiation, it is essential to know the polarization of the radiation with respect to the quantization axis of the atom. We first present a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 J. Koepsell , T. Thiele , J. Deiglmayr , A. Wallraff , F. Merkt

The all-sky 408 MHz map of Haslam et al. is one the most important total-power radio surveys. It has been widely used to study diffuse synchrotron radiation from our Galaxy and as a template to remove foregrounds in cosmic microwave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Remazeilles , C. Dickinson , A. J. Banday , M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , T. Ghosh

Studying the nature and origin of the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) is an outstanding problem of cosmology. Measuring Faraday rotation would be a promising method to explore the IGMF in the large-scale structure (LSS) of the universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Takuya Akahori , Dongsu Ryu

Faraday rotation occurs along every line of sight in the Galaxy; Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis allows a three-dimensional representation of the interstellar magnetic field. This study uses data from the Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey,…

We consider propagation of polarization in the inner parts of pair-symmetric magnetar winds, close to the light cylinder. Pair plasmas in magnetic field is birefringent, a $\propto B^2$ effect. As a result, such plasmas work as phase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Maxim Lyutikov

PURPOSE: To extend magnitude-based PDFF (Proton Density Fat Fraction) and $R_2^*$ mapping with resolved water-fat ambiguity to calculate field inhomogeneity (field map) using the phase images. THEORY: The estimation is formulated in matrix…

We present Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) properties of seven active galactic nuclei (AGN), observed with the NRAO VLA at three epochs in 2012-2014. Data was taken at 1.4, 2.2, 5.0, 8.2, 15.4, 22.4, 33.5 and 43.1 GHz quasi simultaneously in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 E. V. Kravchenko , W. D. Cotton , Y. Y. Kovalev

The ability of NICMOS to perform high accuracy polarimetry is currently hampered by an uncalibrated residual instrumental polarization at a level of 1.2-1.5%. To better quantify and characterize this residual we obtained observations of…

We characterize the problem of artificial polarization for the Submillimeter High Angular Resolution Polarimeter (SHARP) through the use of simulated data and observations made at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO). These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Attard , Martin Houde , Giles Novak , John E. Vaillancourt

We use high-quality VLA images of the Fanaroff & Riley Class I radio galaxy 3C 31 at six frequencies in the range 1365 to 8440MHz to explore the spatial scale and origin of the rotation measure (RM) fluctuations on the line of sight to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. A. Laing , A. H. Bridle , P. Parma , M. Murgia

Determining magnetic field properties in different environments of the cosmic large-scale structure as well as their evolution over redshift is a fundamental step toward uncovering the origin of cosmic magnetic fields. Radio observations…