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Review of the mathematical foundations of data fusion techniques in surface metrology
The recent proliferation of engineered surfaces, including freeform and structured surfaces, is challenging current metrology techniques. Measurement using multiple sensors has been proposed to achieve enhanced benefits, mainly in terms of spatial frequency bandwidth, which a single sensor cannot provide. When using data from different sensors, a process of data fusion is required and there is much active research in this area. In this paper, current data fusion methods and applications are reviewed, with a focus on the mathematical foundations of the subject. Common research questions in the fusion of surface metrology data are raised and potential fusion algorithms are discussed
Geometric calibration of Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System of ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter
There are many geometric calibration methods for "standard" cameras. These
methods, however, cannot be used for the calibration of telescopes with large
focal lengths and complex off-axis optics. Moreover, specialized calibration
methods for the telescopes are scarce in literature. We describe the
calibration method that we developed for the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging
System (CaSSIS) telescope, on board of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).
Although our method is described in the context of CaSSIS, with camera-specific
experiments, it is general and can be applied to other telescopes. We further
encourage re-use of the proposed method by making our calibration code and data
available on-line.Comment: Submitted to Advances in Space Researc
YARARA: Significant improvement of RV precision through post-processing of spectral time-series
Aims: Even the most-precise radial-velocity instruments gather
high-resolution spectra that present systematic errors that a data reduction
pipeline cannot identify and correct for efficiently. In this paper, we aim at
improving the radial-velocity precision of HARPS measurements by cleaning
individual extracted spectra using the wealth of information contained in
spectra time-series.
Methods: We developed YARARA, a post-processing pipeline designed to clean
high-resolution spectra from instrumental systematics and atmospheric
contamination. Spectra are corrected for: tellurics, interference pattern,
detector stitching, ghosts and fiber B contaminations as well as more advanced
spectral line-by-line corrections. YARARA uses Principal Component Analysis on
spectra time-series with prior information to disentangle contaminations from
real Doppler shifts. We applied YARARA on three systems: HD10700, HD215152 and
HD10180 and compared our results to the HARPS standard Data Reduction Software
and the SERVAL post-processing pipeline.
Results: On HD10700, we obtain radial-velocity measurements that present a
rms smaller than 1 m/s over the 13 years of the HARPS observations, which is 20
and 10 % better than the HARPS Data Reduction Software and the SERVAL
post-processing pipeline, respectively. We also injected simulated planets on
the data of HD10700 and demonstrated that YARARA does not alter pure Doppler
shifted signals. On HD215152, we demonstrated that the 1-year signal visible in
the periodogram becomes marginal after processing with YARARA and that the
signals of the known planets become more significant. Finally, on HD10180, the
known six exoplanets are well recovered although different orbitals parameters
and planetary masses are provided by the new reduced spectra.Comment: 23 pages, 19 figure
The Mid-IR Properties of Starburst Galaxies from Spitzer-IRS Spectroscopy
We present 5-38um mid-infrared spectra at a spectral resolution of R~65-130
of a large sample of 22 starburst nuclei taken with the Infrared Spectrograph
IRS on board the Spitzer Space Telescope. The spectra show a vast range in
starburst SEDs. The silicate absorption ranges from essentially no absorption
to heavily obscured systems with an optical depth of tau(9.8um)~5. The spectral
slopes can be used to discriminate between starburst and AGN powered sources.
The monochromatic continuum fluxes at 15um and 30um enable a remarkably
accurate estimate of the total infrared luminosity of the starburst. We find
that the PAH equivalent width is independent of the total starburst luminosity
L_IR as both continuum and PAH feature scale proportionally. However, the
luminosity of the 6.2um feature scales with L_IR and can be used to approximate
the total infrared luminosity of the starburst. Although our starburst sample
covers about a factor of ten difference in the [NeIII]/[NeII] ratio, we found
no systematic correlation between the radiation field hardness and the PAH
equivalent width or the 7.7um/11.3um PAH ratio. These results are based on
spatially integrated diagnostics over an entire starburst region, and local
variations may be ``averaged out''. It is presumably due to this effect that
unresolved starburst nuclei with significantly different global properties
appear spectrally as rather similar members of one class of objects.Comment: 22 pages, accepted for publication in ApJ, a high-resolution version
is available from http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~brandl/IRS_starbursts.pd
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