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Radio interferometers are phased arrays producing high-resolution images from the covariance matrix of measurements. Calibration of such instruments is necessary and is a critical task. This is how the estimation of instrumental errors is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Yassine Mhiri , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Arnaud Breloy , Pascal Larzabal

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

We propose a novel algorithm for image reconstruction in radio interferometry. The ill-posed inverse problem associated with the incomplete Fourier sampling identified by the visibility measurements is regularized by the assumption of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-12 R. E. Carrillo , J. D. McEwen , Y. Wiaux

In order to meet the theoretically achievable imaging performance, calibration of modern radio interferometers is a mandatory challenge, especially at low frequencies. In this perspective, we propose a novel parallel iterative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-09 Martin Brossard , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Marius Pesavento , Rémy Boyer , Pascal Larzabal , Stefan J. Wijnholds

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the largest radio interferometer under construction in the world. The high accuracy, wide-field and large size imaging significantly challenge the construction of the Science Data Processor (SDP) of SKA.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Yangfan Xie , Feng Wang , Hui Deng , Ying Mei , Ying-He Celeste Lu , Gabriella Hodosan , Vladislav Stolyarov , Oleg Smirnov , Xiaofeng Li , Tim Cornwell

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-25 Audrey Repetti , Jasleen Birdi , Arwa Dabbech , Yves Wiaux

Upcoming radio interferometers are aiming to image the sky at new levels of resolution and sensitivity, with wide-band image cubes reaching close to the Petabyte scale for SKA. Modern proximal optimization algorithms have shown a potential…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin , Abdullah Abdulaziz , Arwa Dabbech , Audrey Repetti , Yves Wiaux

With the next generation of interferometric telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the need for highly computationally efficient reconstruction techniques is particularly acute. The challenge in designing learned, data-driven…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 Matthijs Mars , Marta M. Betcke , Jason D. McEwen

Next-generation radio arrays, including the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its pathfinders, will open up new avenues for exciting transient science at radio wavelengths. Their innovative designs, comprising a large number of small…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. D. R. Bhat , J. N. Chengalur , P. J. Cox , Y. Gupta , J. Prasad , J. Roy , M. Bailes , S. Burke-Spolaor , S. S. Kudale , W. van Straten

The concept of a recently proposed small-scale interferometric optical imaging device, an instrument known as the Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-optical Reconnaissance (SPIDER), is of great interest for its possible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen

Spike and slab priors play a key role in inducing sparsity for sparse signal recovery. The use of such priors results in hard non-convex and mixed integer programming problems. Most of the existing algorithms to solve the optimization…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-02 Fekadu L. Bayisa , Zhiyong Zhou , Ottmar Cronie , Jun Yu

Radio Interferometry is an essential method for astronomical observations. Self-calibration techniques have increased the quality of the radio astronomical observations (and hence the science) by orders of magnitude. Recently, there is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-03 Sarod Yatawatta , Saleem Zaroubi , Ger de Bruyn , Leon Koopmans , Jan Noordam

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Shunjun Wei , Jun Shi

Modern radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will probe the radio sky over large fields-of-view, which results in large w-modulations of the sky image. This effect complicates the relationship between the measured…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-14 Arwa Dabbech , Laura Wolz , Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Yves Wiaux

We present an approach for improving spatial frequency sampling in active incoherent millimeter-wave (AIM) imaging systems using frequency diversity. AIM imaging relies on active transmission of spatio-temporally incoherent signals to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Jorge R. Colon-Berrios , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

The digital revolution is transforming astronomy from a data-starved to a data-submerged science. Instruments such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), and the Square Kilometer Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Melvyn Wright

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Chen Ben-David , Amir Leshem

The short-spacing problem describes the inherent inability of radio-interferometric arrays to measure the integrated flux and structure of diffuse emission associated with extended sources. New interferometric arrays, such as SKA, require…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 S. Faridani , F. Bigiel , L. Floeer , J. Kerp , S. Stanimirovic

Accurate simulation of pulsar flux variability is critical for testing Square Kilometre Array (SKA) interferometric pipelines. However, most existing simulators neglect the effects of integration time and related observational parameters,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 X. Li , V. Stolyarov