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The sparse layouts of radio interferometers result in an incomplete sampling of the sky in Fourier space which leads to artifacts in the reconstructed images. Cleaning these systematic effects is essential for the scientific use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Kevin Schmidt , Felix Geyer , Stefan Fröse , Paul-Simon Blomenkamp , Marcus Brüggen , Francesco de Gasperin , Dominik Elsässer , Wolfgang Rhode

The inversion of linear systems is a fundamental step in many inverse problems. Computational challenges exist when trying to invert large linear systems, where limited computing resources mean that only part of the system can be kept in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Yushan Gao , Thomas Blumensath

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

A radio interferometer indirectly measures the intensity distribution of the sky over the celestial sphere. Since measurements are made over an irregularly sampled Fourier plane, synthesising an intensity image from interferometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 Daniel Muscat

Current and future radio interferometric arrays such as LOFAR and SKA are characterized by a paradox. Their large number of receptors (up to millions) allow theoretically unprecedented high imaging resolution. In the same time, the ultra…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-03 André Ferrari , David Mary , Rémi Flamary , Cédric Richard

The advent of enhanced technologies in radio interferometry and the perspective of the SKA telescope bring new challenges in image reconstruction. One of these challenges is the spatio-spectral reconstruction of large (Terabytes) data cubes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-07 Jérémy Deguignet , André Ferrari , David Mary , Chiara Ferrari

Wide-field radio interferometric telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array now being designed are subject to a number of aberrations. One particularly pernicious aberration is that due to non-coplanar baselines whereby long baselines…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. J. Cornwell , M. A. Voronkov , B. Humphreys

Next-generation radio interferometric telescopes will exhibit non-coplanar baseline configurations and wide field-of-views, inducing a w-modulation of the sky image, which in turn induces the spread spectrum effect. We revisit the impact of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-27 L. Wolz , J. D. McEwen , F. B. Abdalla , R. E. Carrillo , Y. Wiaux

This paper introduces the Wide-band Asp-Clean (\texttt{WAsp}) algorithm, a novel scale-sensitive image reconstruction method tailored for wide-band imaging applications. This algorithm is particularly beneficial for thermal noise-limited…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 M. Hsieh , S. Bhatnagar , U. Rau

We develop a novel algorithm for large-scale holographic reconstruction of 3D particle fields. Our method is based on a multiple-scattering beam propagation method (BPM) combined with sparse regularization that enables recovering dense 3D…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-24 Hao Wang , Waleed Tahir , Jiabei Zhu , Lei Tian

Imaging in radio astronomy is usually carried out with a single-dish radio telescope doing a raster scan of a region of the sky or with an interferometer that samples the visibility function of the sky brightness. Mosaic observations are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Urvashi Rau , Nikhil Naik , Timothy Braun

Optical interferometers provide multiple wavelength measurements. In order to fully exploit the spectral and spatial resolution of these instruments, new algorithms for image reconstruction have to be developed. Early attempts to deal with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Éric Thiébaut , Ferréol Soulez , Loïc Denis

We present a reference-free computational wavefront sensor based on binary amplitude modulation and phase retrieval. The method employs Digital Micro-mirror Device as a programmable amplitude modulator and reconstructs the complex optical…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-12 Ondrej Denk , Jan Pilar , Martin Divoky , Miroslav Cech , Tomas Mocek

The celebrated CLEAN algorithm has been the cornerstone of deconvolution algorithms in radio interferometry almost since its conception in the 1970s. For all its faults, CLEAN is remarkably fast, robust to calibration artefacts and in its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-21 Hertzog L. Bester , Audrey Repetti , Simon Perkins , Oleg M. Smirnov , Jonathan S. Kenyon

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 analyse the accuracy of radio interferometric gridding of visibilities with the aim to quantify the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21-cm power spectrum bias caused by gridding, ultimately to determine the suitability of different imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 A. R. Offringa , F. Mertens , S. van der Tol , B. Veenboer , B. K. Gehlot , L. V. E. Koopmans , M. Mevius

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

Next generation radio telescopes, like the Square Kilometre Array, will acquire an unprecedented amount of data for radio astronomy. The development of fast, parallelisable or distributed algorithms for handling such large-scale data sets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-28 Alexandru Onose , Rafael E. Carrillo , Jason D. McEwen , Yves Wiaux

In the context of next generation radio telescopes, like the Square Kilometre Array, the efficient processing of large-scale datasets is extremely important. Convex optimisation tasks under the compressive sensing framework have recently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 Alexandru Onose , Rafael E. Carrillo , Audrey Repetti , Jason D. McEwen , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Yves Wiaux

Purpose: To develop an algorithm for robust partial Fourier (PF) reconstruction applicable to diffusion-weighted (DW) images with non-smooth phase variations. Methods: Based on an unrolled proximal splitting algorithm, a neural network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Fasil Gadjimuradov , Thomas Benkert , Marcel Dominik Nickel , Andreas Maier