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Radio synthesis imaging is dependent upon deconvolution algorithms to counteract the sparse sampling of the Fourier plane. These deconvolution algorithms find an estimate of the true sky brightness from the necessarily incomplete sampled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. J. Cornwell

Radio-astronomical observations are increasingly contaminated by interference, and suppression techniques become essential. A powerful candidate for interference mitigation is adaptive spatial filtering. We study the effect of spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Amir Leshem , Alle-Jan van der Veen

Multi-scale deconvolution is an ill-posed inverse problem in imaging, with applications ranging from microscopy, through medical imaging, to astronomical remote sensing. In the case of high-energy space telescopes, multi-scale deconvolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-30 Anna Volpara , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone

The CLEAN algorithm, widely used in radio interferometry for the deconvolution of radio images, performs well only if the raw radio image (dirty image) is, to good approximation, a simple convolution between the instrumental point-spread…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 I. M. Stewart , D. M. Fenech , T. W. B. Muxlow

We present a blind multiframe image-deconvolution method based on robust statistics. The usual shortcomings of iterative optimization of the likelihood function are alleviated by minimizing the M-scale of the residuals, which achieves more…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-09 Matthias Lee , Tamas Budavari , Richard White , Charles Gulian

CLEAN is a well-established deconvolution approach to Fourier imaging at both radio wavelwengths and hard X-ray energies. However, specifically for hard X-ray imaging, CLEAN suffers two significant drawbacks: a rather limited degree of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Miriana Catalano , Anna Volpara , Paolo Massa , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone

Deconvolution is essential for radio interferometric imaging to produce scientific quality data because of finite sampling in the Fourier plane. Most deconvolution algorithms are based on CLEAN which uses a grid of image pixels, or clean…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-18 Sarod Yatawatta

Mapping the relativistic jets emanating from AGN requires the use of a deconvolution algorithm to account for the effects of missing baseline spacings. The CLEAN algorithm is the most commonly used algorithm in VLBI imaging today and is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Colm P. Coughlan , Denise C. Gabuzda

Interferometric radio astronomy data require the effects of limited coverage in the Fourier plane to be accounted for via a deconvolution process. For the last 40 years this process, known as `cleaning', has been performed almost…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

We introduce an algorithm for the deconvolution of radio synthesis images that accounts for the non-coplanar-baseline effect, allows multiscale reconstruction onto arbitrarily positioned pixel grids, and allows the antenna elements to have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-09 Stephen J. Hardy

We investigate the problem of reconstructing signals from a subsampled convolution of their modulated versions and a known filter. The problem is studied as applies to specific imaging systems relying on spatial phase modulation by randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Sohail Bahmani , Justin Romberg

Diffractive lenses have recently been applied to the domain of multispectral imaging in the X-ray and UV regimes where they can achieve very high resolution as compared to reflective and refractive optics. Conventionally, spectral…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Evan Widloski , Ulas Kamaci , Farzad Kamalabadi

Deconvolution, imaging and calibration of data from radio interferometers is a challenging computational (inverse) problem. The upcoming generation of radio telescopes poses significant challenges to existing, and well proven data reduction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Hendrik Müller , Sanjay Bhatnagar

The proposed next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) will enable the imaging of astronomical sources in unprecedented detail by providing an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity and angular resolution compared with radio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Kazunori Akiyama , Lynn D. Matthews

The CLEAN algorithm, first published by H\"{o}gbom and its later variants such as Multiscale CLEAN (msCLEAN) by Cornwell, has been the most popular tool for deconvolution in radio astronomy. Interferometric imaging used in aperture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Daniel Wright , Karel Adámek , Wesley Armour

Image deconvolution is still to be a challenging ill-posed problem for recovering a clear image from a given blurry image, when the point spread function is known. Although competitive deconvolution methods are numerically impressive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Hang Yang , Zhongbo Zhang , Yujing Guan

CLEAN algorithms are a class of deconvolution solvers which are widely used to remove the effect of the telescope Point Spread Function (PSF). Loop gain is one important parameter in CLEAN algorithms. Currently the parameter is fixed during…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 L. Zhang , M. Zhang , X. Liu

We describe a maximum likelihood regularized beam deconvolution map-making algorithm for data from high resolution, polarization sensitive instruments, such as the Planck data set. The resulting algorithm, which we call PReBeaM, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Charmaine Armitage-Caplan , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Radio polarisation images of the jets of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) can provide a deep insight into the launching and collimation mechanisms of relativistic jets. However, even at VLBI scales, resolution is often a limiting factor in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Colm P. Coughlan , Denise C. Gabuzda

Deconvolution is the important problem of estimating the distribution of a quantity of interest from a sample with additive measurement error. Nearly all methods in the literature are based on Fourier transformation because it is…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-03 Yun Cai , Hong Gu , Toby Kenney
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