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We present a new algorithm to perform wide-field radio interferometric image reconstruction, with exact non-coplanar correction, that scales to big-data. This algorithm allows us to image 2 billion visibilities on 50 nodes of a computing…
With the development of modern radio interferometers, wide-field continuum surveys have been planned and undertaken, for which accurate wide-field imaging methods are essential. Based on the widely-used W-stacking method, we propose a new…
We generalize Gaussian/Wuppertal smearing in order to produce non-spherical wave functions. We show that we can achieve a reduction in the noise-to-signal ratio for correlation functions of certain hadrons at non-zero momentum, while at the…
Incorporating wide-field considerations in interferometric imaging is of increasing importance for next-generation radio telescopes. Compressed sensing techniques for interferometric imaging have been extended to wide fields recently,…
On an example of the open nonlinear electrodynamic system - transverse non-homogeneous, isotropic, nonmagnetic, linearly polarized, nonlinear (a Kerr-like dielectric nonlinearity) dielectric layer, the algorithms of solution of the…
After several generations of interferometers in radioastronomy, wide-field imaging at high angular resolution is today a major goal for trying to match optical wide-field performances. All the radio-interferometric, wide-field imaging…
We introduce the Fast Holographic Deconvolution method for analyzing interferometric radio data. Our new method is an extension of A-projection/software-holography/forward modeling analysis techniques and shares their precision…
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An obstacle to the detection of redshifted 21cm emission from the epoch of reionization (EoR) is the presence of foregrounds which exceed the cosmological signal in intensity by orders of magnitude. We argue that in principle it would be…
The Australia Telescope Compact Array and the Very Large Array are currently being upgraded to operate with wide bandwidths; interferometers dedicated to the measurement of cosmic microwave background anisotropies are being designed with…
The increased sensitivity of future radio telescopes will result in requirements for higher dynamic range within the image as well as better resolution and immunity to interference. In this paper we propose a new matrix formulation of the…
If the optical system of a telescope is perturbed from rotational symmetry, the Zernike wavefront aberration coefficients describing that system can be expressed as a function of position in the focal plane using spin-weighted Zernike…
In this work we present a new WENO b-spline based quasi-interpolation algorithm. The novelty of this construction resides in the application of the WENO weights to the b-spline functions, that are a partition of unity, instead to the…
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Imaging methods are usually based on algorithms of match-filtering type, without considering the scene's characteristic, which causes limited imaging quality. Besides, post-processing steps…
We study the impact of the spread spectrum effect in radio interferometry on the quality of image reconstruction. This spread spectrum effect will be induced by the wide field-of-view of forthcoming radio interferometric telescopes. The…
Context: Low-frequency radio observations are heavily impacted by the ionosphere, where dispersive delays can outpace even instrumental clock offsets, posing a serious calibration challenge. Especially below 100 MHz, phase unwrapping…
The paper reviews progress in imaging in radio interferometry for the period 1993-1996. Unlike an optical telescope, the basic measurements of a radio interferometer (correlations between antennas) are indirectly related to a sky brightness…
The development of new phased array systems in radio astronomy, as the low frequency array (LOFAR) and the square kilometre array (SKA), formed of a large number of small and flexible elementary antennas, has led to significant challenges.…
Radio interferometer arrays such as HERA consist of many close-packed dishes arranged in a regular pattern, giving rise to a large number of `redundant' baselines with the same length and orientation. Since identical baselines should see an…
Large radio telescopes in the 21st century such as the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) or the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) make use of phased aperture arrays of antennas to achieve superb survey speeds. The Square Kilometer Array low…