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The development of large-aperture submillimeter telescopes, such as the Large Submillimeter Telescope (LST) and the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST), is essential to overcome the limitations of current observational…

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In almost 30 years of operation, the Very Large Array (VLA) has proved to be a remarkably flexible and productive radio telescope. However, the basic capabilities of the VLA have changed little since it was designed. A major expansion…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Perley , P. Napier , J. Jackson , B. Butler , B. Carlson , D. Fort , P. Dewdney , B. Clark , R. Hayward , S. Durand , M. Revnell , M. McKinnon

Radio interferometric imaging aims to estimate an unknown sky intensity image from degraded observations, acquired through an antenna array. In the theoretical case of a perfectly calibrated array, it has been shown that solving the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-25 Audrey Repetti , Jasleen Birdi , Arwa Dabbech , Yves Wiaux

The incorporation of subarrays in Direct Radiating Arrays for satellite missions is fundamental in reducing the number of Radio Frequency chains, which correspondingly diminishes cost, power consumption, space, and mass. Despite the…

This work compares the performance of different antenna configurations in radio astronomy interferometry, including the golden spiral, a grid, a random arrangement, and the "Y" configuration similar to the Very Large Array. One hundred…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Elio Quiroga Rodriguez

Radio interferometers are phased arrays producing high-resolution images from the covariance matrix of measurements. Calibration of such instruments is necessary and is a critical task. This is how the estimation of instrumental errors is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Yassine Mhiri , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Arnaud Breloy , Pascal Larzabal

This paper presents an automated antenna design and optimization framework employing multi-objective genetic algorithms (MOGAs) to investigate various evolutionary optimization approaches, with a primary emphasis on multi-band frequency…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Moahmed Hamza Boulaich , Said Ohamouddou , Mohammed Ali Ennasar , Abdelatif El Afia

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground based observatory in very high energy gamma ray astronomy. The facility will achieve a wide energy coverage, starting from a threshold of a few tens of GeV up to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel , M. Gaug , P. Majumdar

We outline here a simple yet efficient method for finding optimized configurations of the elements of radio-astronomical interferometers with fixed pad locations. The method can be successfully applied, as we demonstrate, to define new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Karastergiou , R. Neri , M. A. Gurwell

We consider sparse array beamfomer design achieving maximum signal-to interference plus noise ratio (MaxSINR). Both array configuration and weights are attuned to the changing sensing environment. This is accomplished by simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Syed A. Hamza , Moeness G. Amin

An important aspect of a humanoid robot is audition. Previous work has presented robot systems capable of sound localization and source segregation based on microphone arrays with various configurations. However, no theoretical framework…

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Aims: Optical interferometry from space for the purpose of detecting and characterising exoplanets is seeing a revival, specifically from missions such as the proposed Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). A default assumption since…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Jonah T. Hansen , Michael J. Ireland , the LIFE Collaboration

Modern interferometric imaging relies on advanced calibration that incorporates direction-dependent effects. Their increasing number of antennas (e.g. in LOFAR, VLA, MeerKAT/SKA) and sensitivity are often tempered with the accuracy of their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 K. Iheanetu , J. N. Girard , O. Smirnov , K. M. B. Asad , M. de Villiers , K. Thorat , S. Makhathini , R. A. Perley

The Genetically Evolved NEutrino Telescopes for Improved Sensitivity, or GENETIS, project seeks to optimize detectors in physics for science outcomes in high dimensional parameter spaces. In this project, we designed an antenna using a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-07 J. Rolla , A. Machtay , A. Patton , W. Banzhaf , A. Connolly , R. Debolt , L. Deer , E. Fahimi , E. Ferstle , P. Kuzma , C. Pfendner , B. Sipe , K. Staats , S. A. Wissel

Active incoherent millimeter-wave (AIM) imaging is a recently developed technique that has been shown to generate fast millimeter-wave imaging using sparse apertures and Fourier domain sampling. In these systems, spatial frequency sampling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Jorge R. Colon-Berrios , Derek Luzano , Daniel Chen , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

To overcome the limited payload of lightweight vehicles such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and the aerodynamic constraints on the onboard radar, a compact nonuniform conformal array is proposed in order to achieve a wide beamscanning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Yuanyan Su , Icaro V. Soares , Siegfred Daquioag Balon , Jun Cao , Denys Nikolayev , Anja K. Skrivervik

Imaging in radioastronomy is an ill-posed inverse problem. Particularly the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration investigated the fidelity of their image reconstructions convincingly by large surveys solving the problem with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Hendrik Müller , Alejandro Mus , Andrei Lobanov

Future wireless networks, deploying thousands of antenna elements, may operate in the radiative near-field (NF), enabling spatial multiplexing across both angle and range domains. Sparse arrays have the potential to achieve comparable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Emil Björnson , Ahmed M. Eltawil

Next generation radio telescopes, like the Square Kilometre Array, will acquire an unprecedented amount of data for radio astronomy. The development of fast, parallelisable or distributed algorithms for handling such large-scale data sets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-28 Alexandru Onose , Rafael E. Carrillo , Jason D. McEwen , Yves Wiaux

In this paper, we investigate the optimal precoding scheme for relay networks with finite-alphabet constraints. We show that the previous work utilizing various design criteria to maximize either the diversity order or the transmission rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Weiliang Zeng , Chengshan Xiao , Mingxi Wang , Jianhua Lu