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Given the incomplete sampling of spatial frequencies by radio interferometers, achieving precise restoration of astrophysical information remains challenging. To address this ill-posed problem, compressive sensing(CS) provides a robust…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-09 Lei Yu , Bin Liu , Cheng-Jin Jin , Ru-Rong Chen , Hong-Wei Xi , Bo Peng

CLEAN, the commonly employed imaging algorithm in radio interferometry, suffers from a number of shortcomings: in its basic version it does not have the concept of diffuse flux, and the common practice of convolving the CLEAN components…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Philipp Arras , Hertzog L. Bester , Richard A. Perley , Reimar Leike , Oleg Smirnov , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten A. Enßlin

Super-resolution techniques overcome the diffraction-limit and get very high resolutions. A category of these techniques, e.g., STED achieves this by creating an illumination spot smaller than the Airy Disk. As a result, points are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Yaohua Xie

Bolton and Schlegel presented a promising deconvolution method to extract 1D spectra from a 2D optical fiber spectral CCD image. The method could eliminate the PSF difference between fibers, extract spectra to the photo noise level, as well…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Guangwei Li , Haotong Zhang , Zhongrui Bai

A fruitful approach for solving signal deconvolution problems consists of resorting to a frame-based convex variational formulation. In this context, parallel proximal algorithms and related alternating direction methods of multipliers have…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Nelly Pustelnik , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Caroline Chaux

Recovering high-fidelity images of the night sky from blurred observations is a fundamental problem in astronomy, where traditional methods typically fall short. In ground-based astronomy, combining multiple exposures to enhance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Yashil Sukurdeep , Fausto Navarro , Tamás Budavári

We report a point spread function (PSF) and deconvolution procedure to remove stray light from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) data. Pre-launch calibration observations, post-launch Venus transit and lunar transit data were used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 A. A. Norton , T. L. Duvall, , J. Schou , R. S. Bogart , J. Zhao , C. Rabello-Soares , P. J. Levens , J. T. Hoeksema , C. S. Baldner

The Bluebild algorithm is a new technique for image synthesis in radio astronomy which decomposes the sky into distinct energy levels using functional principal component analysis. These levels can be linearly combined to construct a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Emma Tolley , Simon Frasch , Etienne Orliac , Shreyam Krishna , Michele Bianco , Sepand Kashani , Paul Hurley , Matthieu Simeoni , Jean-Paul Kneib

Methods of three-dimensional deconvolution with a point-spread function as frequently employed in optical microscopy to reconstruct true three-dimensional distribution of objects are extended to holographic reconstructions. Two such schemes…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-09 Tatiana Latychevskaia , Fabian Gehri , Hans-Werner Fink

The signal demixing problem seeks to separate a superposition of multiple signals into its constituent components. This paper studies a two-stage approach that first decompresses and subsequently deconvolves the noisy and undersampled…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zhenan Fan , Halyun Jeong , Babhru Joshi , Michael P. Friedlander

Raw images taken in low-light conditions are very noisy due to low photon count and sensor noise. Learning-based denoisers have the potential to reconstruct high-quality images. For training, however, these denoisers require large paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Liying Lu , Raphaël Achddou , Sabine Süsstrunk

This paper presents B-CLEAN-SC, a variation of CLEAN-SC for broadband sources. Opposed to CLEAN-SC, which ``deconvolves'' the beamforming map for each frequency individually, B-CLEAN-SC processes frequency intervals. Instead of performing a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Armin Goudarzi

A new method is presented for determining the Point Spread Function (PSF) of images that lack bright and isolated stars. It is based on the same principles as the MCS (Magain, Courbin, Sohy, 1998) image deconvolution algorithm. It uses the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Magain , F. Courbin , M. Gillon , S. Sohy , G. Letawe , V. Chantry , Y. Letawe

A non iterative direct blind deconvolution procedure, previously used successfully to sharpen Hubble Space Telescope imagery, is now found useful in sharpening nanoscale scanning electron microscope (SEM) and helium ion microscope (HIM)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-28 Alfred S. Carasso , Andras E. Vladar

Polarized synchrotron emission from multiple Faraday depths can be separated by calculating the complex Fourier transform of the Stokes' parameters as a function of the wavelength squared, known as Faraday Synthesis. As commonly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Lawrence Rudnick , William D. Cotton

Radio interferometry allows astronomers to probe small spatial scales that are often inaccessible with single-dish instruments. However, recovering the radio sky from an interferometer is an ill-posed deconvolution problem that astronomers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Liam Connor , Katherine L. Bouman , Vikram Ravi , Gregg Hallinan

Context. Most popular algorithms in use to remove the effects of a telescope's point spread function (PSF) in radio astronomy are variants of the CLEAN algorithm. Most of these algorithms model the sky brightness using the delta-function…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-18 L. Zhang , S. Bhatnagar , U. Rau , M. Zhang

Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are extensively employed as photosensors in neutrino and dark matter detection. The precise charge and timing information extracted from the PMT waveform plays a crucial role in energy and vertex reconstruction.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-14 Jingzhe Tang , Tianying Xiao , Xuan Tang , Yongbo Huang

Recovering sharper images from blurred observations, referred to as deconvolution, is an ill-posed problem where classical approaches often produce unsatisfactory results. In ground-based astronomy, combining multiple exposures to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Fausto Navarro , Daniel Hall , Tamas Budavari , Yashil Sukurdeep

Ground-based solar image restoration is a computationally expensive procedure that involves nonlinear optimization techniques. The presence of atmospheric turbulence produces perturbations in individual images that make it necessary to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 A. Asensio Ramos , S. Esteban Pozuelo , C. Kuckein