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We introduce a new statistic to measure more accurately the cosmic sound speed of clusters of galaxies at different redshifts. This statistic is evaluated by cross-correlating cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations caused by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Atrio--Barandela , A. Kashlinsky , J. P. Mücket

X-ray ptychography is a cutting edge imaging technique providing ultra-high spatial resolutions. In ptychography, phase retrieval, i.e., the recovery of a complex valued signal from intensity-only measurements, is enabled by exploiting a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Felix Wittwer , Peter Modregger

In this paper, we present a novel approach to the estimation of strongly varying backgrounds in astronomical images by means of small objects removal and subsequent missing pixels interpolation. The method is based on the analysis of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 Adam Popowicz , Bogdan Smolka

We propose a method for recovering the two-dimensional gravitational potential of galaxy clusters which combines data from weak and strong gravitational lensing. A first estimate of the potential from weak lensing is improved at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Cacciato , M. Bartelmann , M. Meneghetti , L. Moscardini

Knowledge of the intrinsic shape of galaxy clusters is very important in investigating cosmic structure formation and astrophysical processes. The reconstruction of the 3-dimensional structure usually relies on deprojecting 2-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Sereno

Reconstructing the galaxy peculiar velocity field from the distribution of large-scale structure plays an important role in cosmology. On one hand, it gives us an insight into structure formation and gravity; on the other, it allows us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Simone Ferraro , Bernardita Ried Guachalla , Emmanuel Schaan

Speed-of-sound is a biomechanical property for quantitative tissue differentiation, with great potential as a new ultrasound-based image modality. A conventional ultrasound array transducer can be used together with an acoustic mirror, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Valery Vishnevskiy , Sergio J Sanabria , Orcun Goksel

Compressive sensing promises to enable bandwidth-efficient on-board compression of astronomical data by lifting the encoding complexity from the source to the receiver. The signal is recovered off-line, exploiting GPUs parallel computation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Attilio Fiandrotti , Sophie M. Fosson , Chiara Ravazzi , Enrico Magli

In recent years, spectral clustering has become a standard method for data analysis used in a broad range of applications. In this paper we propose a new class of algorithms for multiway spectral clustering based on optimization of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-05 James Voss , Mikhail Belkin , Luis Rademacher

We use a new approach based on self-supervised deep learning networks originally applied to transparency separation in order to simultaneously extract the components of the extragalactic submillimeter sky, namely the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-05 V. Bonjean , H. Tanimura , N. Aghanim , T. Bonnaire , M. Douspis

As a neuromorphic sensor with high temporal resolution, spike camera can generate continuous binary spike streams to capture per-pixel light intensity. We can use reconstruction methods to restore scene details in high-speed scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Liwen Hu , Ziluo Ding , Mianzhi Liu , Lei Ma , Tiejun Huang

The Pixon method is a high-performance, nonlinear image reconstruction method that provides statistically unbiased photometry and robust rejection of spurious sources. Relative to other methods, it can increase linear spatial resolution by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Richard C. Puetter , Amos Yahil

The fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) intensity due to the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect are the sum of a thermal and a kinetic contribution. Separating the two components to measure the peculiar velocity of galaxy…

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a powerful tool for studying clusters of galaxies and cosmology. Large mm-wave telescopes are now routinely detecting and mapping the SZ effect in a number of clusters, measure their comptonisation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-09 Paolo de Bernardis , Sergio Colafrancesco , Giuseppe D' Alessandro , Luca Lamagna , Paolo Marchegiani , Silvia Masi , Alessandro Schillaci

X-ray single particle imaging involves the measurement of a large number of noisy diffraction patterns of isolated objects in random orientations. The missing information about these patterns is then computationally recovered in order to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-25 Kartik Ayyer

This study provides a computationally effective deconvolution algorithm capable to reconstruct piled-up events in scintillating detector systems with high count rate where fully digitized waveforms are available. A fixed-point iteration…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-18 Georgi Georgiev

Ptychography is an emerging imaging technique that is able to provide wavelength-limited spatial resolution from specimen with extended lateral dimensions. As a scanning microscopy method, a typical two-dimensional image requires a number…

We present an alternative method for reconstructing a velocity-delay map in reverberation mapping (RM) based on the pixon algorithm initially proposed for image reconstruction by Pina & Puetter (1993). The pixon algorithm allows for a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Yan-Rong Li , Ming Xiao , Jian-Min Wang

We investigate the amount of primordial information that can be reconstructed from spectroscopic galaxy surveys, as well as what sets the noise in reconstruction at low wavenumbers, by studying a simplified universe in which galaxies are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Matthew McQuinn

We propose a supervised machine learning approach for boosting existing signal and image recovery methods and demonstrate its efficacy on example of image reconstruction in computed tomography. Our technique is based on a local nonlinear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Joseph Shtok , Michael Zibulevsky , Michael Elad