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Improving the resolution of fluorescence microscopy beyond the diffraction limit can be achievedby acquiring and processing multiple images of the sample under different illumination conditions.One of the simplest techniques, Random…

Recording and identifying faint objects through atmospheric scattering media by an optical system are fundamentally interesting and technologically important. In this work, we introduce a comprehensive model that incorporates contributions…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-24 Libang Chen , Jun Yang , Lingye Chen , Yuyang Shui , Yikun Liu , Jianying Zhou

Aims. We investigate the maximum astrometric precision that can be reached on moving targets observed with digital-sensor arrays, and provide an estimate for its ultimate lower limit based on the Cram\'er-Rao bound. Methods. We extend…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 S. Bouquillon , R. A. Mendez , M. Altmann , T. Carlucci , C. Barache , F. Taris , A. H. Andrei , R. Smart

Super-resolution imaging refers to imaging techniques that surpass the Rayleigh resolution limit. One standard way to achieve super-resolution is by structuring the phase of the field illuminating the object. Although super-resolution…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Nilakshi Senapati , Abhinandan Bhattacharjee , Kedar Khare , Anand K Jha

We realize a scanning probe microscope using single trapped $^{87}$Rb atoms to measure optical fields with subwavelength spatial resolution. Our microscope operates by detecting fluorescence from a single atom driven by near-resonant light…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Emma Deist , Justin A. Gerber , Yue-Hui Lu , Johannes Zeiher , Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Due to the importance of accurate Fourier parameters, we devise a method that is more appropriate for deriving these parameters on low-quality data than the traditional Fourier fitting. Based on the accurate light curves of 248 fundamental…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Kovacs , G. Kupi

Supernovae are bright luminous stellar objects observable up to redshifts close to z~1. They are used to probe the geometry of the Universe and its expansion rate by applying different methods. In this article, I review various approaches…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 P. Ruiz-Lapuente

High-resolution imagery plays a critical role in improving the performance of visual recognition tasks such as classification, detection, and segmentation. In many domains, including remote sensing and surveillance, low-resolution images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ch Muhammad Awais , Marco Reggiannini , Davide Moroni , Oktay Karakus

We investigate how accurately the total mass of neutrinos is constrained from the magnitude dispersion of SNe Ia due to the effects of gravitational lensing. For this purpose, we use the propagation equation of light bundles in a realistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-30 Ryuichiro Hada , Toshifumi Futamase

Super-resolution aims at increasing image resolution by algorithmic means and has progressed over the recent years due to advances in the fields of computer vision and deep learning. Convolutional Neural Networks based on a variety of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 M. U. Müller , N. Ekhtiari , R. M. Almeida , C. Rieke

A persistent challenge in astronomical machine learning is a systematic bias where predictions compress the dynamic range of true values-high values are consistently predicted too low while low values are predicted too high. Understanding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-17 Yuan-Sen Ting

The achievable level of precision on photospheric abundances of stars is a major limiting factor on investigations of exoplanet host star characteristics, the chemical histories of star clusters, and the evolution of the Milky Way and other…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Bedell , J. Melendez , J. Bean , I. Ramirez , P. Leite , M. Asplund

The largest uncertainty on measurements of dark energy using type Ia supernovae is presently due to systematics from photometry; specifically to the relative uncertainty on photometry as a function of wavelength in the optical spectrum. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 J. Albert , D. Budker , K. Chance , I. E. Gordon , F. Pedreros Bustos , M. Pospelov , S. M. Rochester , H. R. Sadeghpour

Already since the work by Abbe and Rayleigh the difficulty of super resolution where one wants to recover a collection of point sources from low-resolved microscopy measurements is thought to be dependent on whether the distance between the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Mathias Hockmann

Ground-based optical surveys such as PanSTARRS, DES, and LSST, will produce large catalogs to limiting magnitudes of r > 24. Star-galaxy separation poses a major challenge to such surveys because galaxies---even very compact…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ross Fadely , David W. Hogg , Beth Willman

The absolute visual magnitude as function of the observed colour (B-V), also named Hertzsprung-Russell diagram can be described through five equations; that in presence of calibrated stars means eight constants. The developed framework…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lorenzo Zaninetti

Wide field small aperture telescopes are widely used for optical transient observations. Detection and classification of astronomical targets in observed images are the most important and basic step. In this paper, we propose an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Peng Jia , Qiang Liu , Yongyang Sun

We present a maximum-likelihood analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing effects in galaxy clusters and in the field. The aim is to determine the accuracy and robustness of constraints that can be obtained on galaxy halo properties in both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marceau Limousin , Jean Paul Kneib , Priyamvada Natarajan

We present a table of 215 SNRs with distances. New distances are found to SNR G$51.26+0.11$ of $6.6 \pm 1.7$ kpc using HI absorption spectra, and to 5 other SNRs using maser/molecular cloud associations. We recalculate the distances and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 S. Ranasinghe , D. Leahy

A recently proposed technique allows one to constrain both the background and perturbation cosmological parameters through the distribution function of supernova Ia apparent magnitudes. Here we extend this technique to alternative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-28 Luca Amendola , Tiago Castro , Valerio Marra , Miguel Quartin