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In the past two decades, a rebirth of interest in low-frequency radio astronomy for 21 cm tomography of the Epoch of Reionization, has given rise to a new class of radio interferometers with $N \gg 100$ antennas. The availability of…

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Radio interferometry enables high-resolution imaging of astronomical radio sources by synthesizing a large effective aperture from an array of antennas and solving a deconvolution problem to reconstruct the image. Deep learning has emerged…

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We propose a method for optical interferometry in telescope arrays assisted by quantum networks. In our approach, the quantum state of incoming photons along with an arrival time index is stored in a binary qubit code at each receiver.…

Radio astronomy has entered its golden era, with many revolutionary facilities such as SKA, ngVLA, and LOFAR2.0 coming online in the next decade. These facilities are certain to redefine radio astronomy. However, on smaller scales-such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 G B Raghavkrishna , Deeptangshu Banik , B Ravi Kumar , D Veeraswamy

Indirect image registration is a promising technique to improve image reconstruction quality by providing a shape prior for the reconstruction task. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid method that seeks to reconstruct high quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-18 Jiulong Liu , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Hui Ji , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In radio astronomy, visibility data, which are measurements of wave signals from radio telescopes, are transformed into images for observation of distant celestial objects. However, these resultant images usually contain both real sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Ruoqi Wang , Zhuoyang Chen , Jiayi Zhu , Qiong Luo , Feng Wang

Tests of general relativity (GR) are still in their infancy on cosmological scales, but forthcoming experiments promise to greatly improve their precision over a wide range of distance scales and redshifts. One such experiment, the Square…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-25 Philip Bull

Modern reconstruction methods for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exploit the spatially varying sensitivity profiles of receive-coil arrays as additional source of information. This allows to reduce the number of time-consuming…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Martin Uecker

(arXiv abridged abstract) The current years are seeing huge developments of radio telescopes and a tremendous increase of their capabilities. Such systems make mandatory the design of more sophisticated techniques not only for transporting,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Arwa Dabbech , Chiara Ferrari , David Mary , Eric Slezak , Oleg Smirnov , Jonathan S. Kenyon

As of 2023, the low-frequency part of the Square Kilometre Array will go online in Australia. It will constitute the largest and most powerful low-frequency radio-astronomical observatory to date, and will facilitate a rich science…

The paper reviews progress in imaging in radio interferometry for the period 1993-1996. Unlike an optical telescope, the basic measurements of a radio interferometer (correlations between antennas) are indirectly related to a sky brightness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Sault , T. A. Oosterloo

The epoch of reionization (EoR) sets a fundamental benchmark in cosmic structure formation, corresponding to the formation of the first luminous objects that act to ionize the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM). Recent observations at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Carilli , S. Furlanetto , F. Briggs , M. Jarvis , S. Rawlings , H. Falcke

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will transform our understanding of the role of the cold, atomic gas in galaxy evolution. The interstellar medium (ISM) is the repository of stellar ejecta and the birthsite of new stars and, hence, a key…

The bandwith, sensitivity and sheer survey speed of the SKA offers unique potential for deep spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way. Within the frequency bands available to the SKA lie many transitions that trace the ionised, radical and…

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

Cosmic-ray air shower detection with the low-frequency part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope is envisioned to yield very high precision measurements of the particle composition of cosmic rays between $10^{16}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 A. Corstanje , S. Buitink , S. Bouma , M. Desmet , J. R. Hörandel , T. Huege , P. Laub , K. Mulrey , A. Nelles , O. Scholten , K. Terveer , S. Thoudam , K. Watanabe

Radio astronomy is an indispensable discipline for observing distant celestial objects. Measurements of wave signals from radio telescopes, called visibility, need to be transformed into images for astronomical observations. These dirty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kai Cheng , Ruoqi Wang , Qiong Luo

Modern machine learning will allow for simulation-based inference from reionization-era 21cm observations at the Square Kilometre Array. Our framework combines a convolutional summary network and a conditional invertible network through a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Benedikt Schosser , Caroline Heneka , Tilman Plehn

Inferring sky surface brightness distributions from noisy interferometric data in a principled statistical framework has been a key challenge in radio astronomy. In this work, we introduce Imaging for Radio Interferometry with Score-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-07 Noé Dia , M. J. Yantovski-Barth , Alexandre Adam , Micah Bowles , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Yashar Hezaveh , Anna Scaife