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The volume of radio-astronomical data is a considerable burden in the processing and storing of radio observations with high time and frequency resolutions and large bandwidths. Lossy compression of interferometric radio-astronomical data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 A. R. Offringa

We present RESOLVE, a new algorithm for radio aperture synthesis imaging of extended and diffuse emission in total intensity. The algorithm is derived using Bayesian statistical inference techniques, estimating the surface brightness in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 H. Junklewitz , M. R. Bell , M. Selig , T. A. Enßlin

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

Next-generation radio interferometers, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will revolutionise our understanding of the universe through their unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. However, to realise these goals significant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Mayeul d'Avezac , Rafael E. Carrillo , Alexandru Onose , Yves Wiaux

Presented is a novel way to combine snapshot compressive imaging and lateral shearing interferometry in order to capture the spatio-spectral phase of an ultrashort laser pulse in a single shot. A deep unrolling algorithm is utilised for the…

Extreme ultraviolet pulses as generated by high harmonic generation (HHG) are a powerful tool for both time-resolved spectroscopy and coherent diffractive imaging. However, the integration of spectroscopy and microscopy to harness the…

We present a novel algorithm for high resolution coherent imaging of sound sources in random scattering media using time resolved measurements of the acoustic pressure at an array of receivers. The sound waves travel a long distance between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Liliana Borcea , Ilker Kocyigit

Extremely high data rates expected in next-generation radio interferometers necessitate a fast and robust way to process measurements in a big data context. Dimensionality reduction can alleviate computational load needed to process these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 S. Vijay Kartik , Arwa Dabbech , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Yves Wiaux

Next generation radio interferometric telescopes are entering an era of big data with extremely large data sets. While these telescopes can observe the sky in higher sensitivity and resolution than before, computational challenges in image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-17 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Mayeul d'Avezac , Xiaohao Cai , David Perez-Suarez , Ilektra Christidi , Roland Guichard

Long baseline diffraction-limited optical aperture synthesis technology by interferometry plays an important role in scientific study and practical application. In contrast to amplitude (phase) interferometry, intensity interferometry --…

Interferometric phase (InPhase) imaging is an important part of many present-day coherent imaging technologies. Often in such imaging techniques, the acquired images, known as interferograms, suffer from two major degradations: 1) phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-25 Joshin P. Krishnan , Mário A. T. Figueiredo , José M. Bioucas-Dias

Next generation radio-interferometers, like the Square Kilometre Array, will acquire tremendous amounts of data with the goal of improving the size and sensitivity of the reconstructed images by orders of magnitude. The efficient processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-26 Alexandru Onose , Arwa Dabbech , Yves Wiaux

Wide-field imaging has become a major challenge for modern radio astronomy, which uses high sensitivity acquisition systems that deal with huge amounts of data. In this paper we investigate a fast wide-field imaging solution based on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-19 Luis F. R. Lucas , Chris J. Skipper , Anna M. M. Scaife

Compressed sensing theory is slowly making its way to solve more and more astronomical inverse problems. We address here the application of sparse representations, convex optimization and proximal theory to radio interferometric imaging.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-28 Julien N. Girard , Hugh Garsden , Jean Luc Starck , Stéphane Corbel , Arnaud Woiselle , Cyril Tasse , John P. McKean , Jérôme Bobin

The desire for wide-field of view, large fractional bandwidth, high sensitivity, high spectral and temporal resolution has driven radio interferometry to the point of big data revolution where the data is represented in at least three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 M. Atemkeng , O. Smirnov , C. Tasse , G. Foster , S. Makhathini

A simple, yet general, formalism for the optimized linear combination of astrophysical images is constructed and demonstrated. The formalism allows the user to combine multiple undersampled images to provide oversampled output at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Barnaby Rowe , Christopher Hirata , Jason Rhodes

Multiphoton absorption is of vital importance in many spectroscopic, microscopic or lithographic applications. However, given that it is an inherently weak process, the detection of multiphoton absorption signals typically requires large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Shahram Panahiyan , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Maria V. Chekhova , Frank Schlawin

Gridding operation, which is to map non-uniform data samples onto a uniformly distributedgrid, is one of the key steps in radio astronomical data reduction process. One of the mainbottlenecks of gridding is the poor computing performance,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-14 Hao Wang , Ce Yu , Bo Zhang , Jian Xiao , Qi Luo

Radio interferometry is an observational technique used to study astrophysical phenomena. Data gathered by an interferometer requires substantial processing before astronomers can extract the scientific information from it. Data processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Brian M. Kirk , Urvashi Rau , Ramyaa Ramyaa

Image subtraction in astronomy is a tool for transient object discovery such as asteroids, extra-solar planets and supernovae. To match point spread functions (PSFs) between images of the same field taken at different times a convolution…

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