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Multi-frequency imaging in VLBI

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The new technique, multi-frequency imaging (MFI) is developed. In VLBI, Multi-Frequency Imaging (MFI) consists of multi-frequency synthesis (MFS) and multi-frequency analysis (MFA) of the VLBI data obtained from observations on various frequencies. A set of linear deconvolution MFI algorithms is described. The algorithms make it possible to obtain high quality images interpolated on any given frequency inside any given bandwidth, and to derive reliable estimates of spectral indexes for radio sources with continuum spectrum. Thus MFI approach makes it is possible not only to improve the quality and fidelity of the images and also essentially to derive the morphology of the observed radio sources.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0412470,
  title  = {Multi-frequency imaging in VLBI},
  author = {S. Likhachev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0412470},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

2 pages. no figures. Proceedings of the 7th European VLBI Network Symposium held in Toledo, Spain on October 12-15, 2004. Editors: R. Bachiller, F. Colomer, J.-F. Desmurs, P. de Vicente (Observatorio Astronomico Nacional), p. 325-326. Needs evn2004.cls