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Radio interferometric imaging aims to estimate an unknown sky intensity image from degraded observations, acquired through an antenna array. In the theoretical case of a perfectly calibrated array, it has been shown that solving the…

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The future large adaptive telescopes will trigger new constraints for the calibration of Adaptive Optics (AO) systems equipped with pre-focal Deformable Mirrors (DM). The image of the DM actuators grid as seen by the Wave-Front Sensor (WFS)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 C. T. Heritier , T. Fusco , S. Oberti , B. Neichel , S. Esposito , P. -Y. Madec

Context. The GRAVITY+ upgrade implies a complete renewal of its adaptive optics (AO) systems. Its complex design, featuring moving components between the deformable mirrors and the wavefront sensors, requires the monitoring and…

We consider \emph{Alternating Direction Implicit} (ADI) splitting schemes to compute efficiently the numerical solution of the PDE osmosis model considered by Weickert et al. for several imaging applications. The discretised scheme is shown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Luca Calatroni , Claudio Estatico , Nicola Garibaldi , Simone Parisotto

The conventional direction of arrival (DOA) estimation methods are performed with multiple receiving channels. In this paper, a changeling DOA estimation problem is addressed in a different scenario with only one full-functional receiving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Peng Chen , Zhimin Chen , Beixiong Zheng , Xianbin Wang

Radio interferometric gain calibration can be biased by incomplete sky models and radio frequency interference, resulting in calibration artefacts that can restrict the dynamic range of the resulting images. It has been suggested that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-21 Ulrich Armel Mbou Sob , Hertzog Landman Bester , Oleg Smirnov , Jonathan Kenyon , Trienko Grobler

This article introduces a method of evaluating subsamples until any prescribed level of classification accuracy is attained, thus obtaining arbitrary accuracy. A logarithmic reduction in error rate is obtained with a linear increase in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Michael C. Kleder

Astronomical imaging using aperture synthesis telescopes requires deconvolution of the point spread function as well as calibration of instrumental and atmospheric effects. In general, such effects are time-variable and vary across the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bhatnagar , T. J. Cornwell , K. Golap , Juan M. Uson

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is an important research in the area of array signal processing, and has been studied for decades. High resolution DOA estimation requires large array aperture, which leads to the increase of hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Yangying Zhao , Peng Chen , Zhenxin Cao , Xianbin Wang

In the context of satellite communications, random access (RA) methods can significantly increase throughput and reduce latency over the network. The recent RA methods are based on multi-user multiple access transmission at the same time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Karine Zidane , Jérôme Lacan , Marie-Laure Boucheret , Charly Poulliat

Distributed radio interferometric calibration based on consensus optimization has been shown to improve the estimation of systematic errors in radio astronomical observations. The intrinsic continuity of systematic errors across frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-17 Sarod Yatawatta , Faruk Diblen , Hanno Spreeuw

In standard adversarial training, models are optimized to fit one-hot labels within allowable adversarial perturbation budgets. However, the ignorance of underlying distribution shifts brought by perturbations causes the problem of robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yu-Yu Wu , Hung-Jui Wang , Shang-Tse Chen

Calibration of a typical radio interferometric array yields thousands of parameters as solutions. These solutions contain valuable information about the systematic errors in the data (ionosphere and beam shape). This information could be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Sarod Yatawatta

Many modern computer vision and machine learning applications rely on solving difficult optimization problems that involve non-differentiable objective functions and constraints. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Zheng Xu , Mario A. T. Figueiredo , Xiaoming Yuan , Christoph Studer , Tom Goldstein

A nonlinear optimization method is proposed for the solution of inverse medium problems with spatially varying properties. To avoid the prohibitively large number of unknown control variables resulting from standard grid-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Yannik G. Gleichmann , Marcus J. Grote

Recent developments in optimization theory have extended some traditional algorithms for least-squares optimization of real-valued functions (Gauss-Newton, Levenberg-Marquardt, etc.) into the domain of complex functions of a complex…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-27 Oleg Smirnov , Cyril Tasse

This paper presents an adaptive observer-based navigation strategy for spacecraft in Circular Relative Orbit (CRO) scenarios, addressing challenges in proximity operations like formation flight and uncooperative target inspection. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Dario Ruggiero , Mauro Mancini , Elisa Capello

We reformulate the gain correction problem of the radio interferometry as an optimization problem with regularization, which is solved efficiently with an iterative algorithm. Combining this new method with our previously proposed imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-05 Shiro Ikeda , Takeshi Nakazato , Takashi Tsukagoshi , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Masayuki Yamaguchi

Recently, several authors have suggested the use of first order methods, such as fast dual ascent and the alternating direction method of multipliers, for embedded model predictive control. The main reason is that they can be implemented…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Pontus Giselsson

This paper investigates parametric direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in a particular context: i) each sensor is characterized by an unknown complex gain and ii) the array consists of a collection of subarrays which are substantially…