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A new generation of wide-field radio interferometers designed for 21-cm surveys is being built as drift scan instruments allowing them to observe large fractions of the sky. With large numbers of antennas and frequency channels the enormous…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-10 Philippe Berger , Niels Oppermann , Ue-Li Pen , J. Richard Shaw

Since the 1970s, much of traditional interferometric imaging has been built around variations of the CLEAN algorithm, in both terminology, methodology, and algorithm development. Recent developments in applying new algorithms from convex…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-29 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Jason D. McEwen

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

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

The new generation of radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), requires dramatic advances in computer hardware and software, in order to process the large amounts of produced data efficiently. In this document, we explore…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 Matthias Petschow

W projection is a commonly-used approach to allow interferometric imaging to be accelerated by Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs), but it can require a huge amount of storage for convolution kernels. The kernels are not separable, but we show…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Bruce Merry

Incorporating wide-field considerations in interferometric imaging is of increasing importance for next-generation radio telescopes. Compressed sensing techniques for interferometric imaging have been extended to wide fields recently,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-29 J. D. McEwen , Y. Wiaux

Aims : We describe MS-MFS, a multi-scale multi-frequency deconvolution algorithm for wide-band synthesis-imaging, and present imaging results that illustrate the capabilities of the algorithm and the conditions under which it is feasible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Urvashi Rau , Tim J. Cornwell

Wide-field images made by radio interferometers are invariably affected by direction-dependent systematic effects such as the ionosphere or the beam pattern. Calibration along a set of discrete directions in the sky is the default technique…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Sebastiaan van der Tol , Sarod Yatawatta , Bram Veenboer , David Rafferty

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

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

Modeling the wireless radiance field (WRF) is fundamental to modern communication systems, enabling key tasks such as localization, sensing, and channel estimation. Traditional approaches, which rely on empirical formulas or physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Mufan Liu , Cixiao Zhang , Qi Yang , Yujie Cao , Yiling Xu , Yin Xu , Shu Sun , Mingzeng Dai , Yunfeng Guan

In this paper, we present a novel approach that can exactly recover extended targets in wave-based multistatic interferometric imaging, based on Generalized Wirtinger Flow (GWF) theory [1]. Interferometric imaging is a generalization of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Bariscan Yonel , Il-Young Son , Birsen Yazici

In this article, we report an imaging method, termed Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM), which iteratively stitches together a number of variably illuminated, low-resolution intensity images in Fourier space to produce a wide-field,…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-02 Guoan Zheng , Roarke Horstmeyer , Changhuei Yang

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

We present a new imaging technique, swept-angle synthetic wavelength interferometry, for full-field micron-scale 3D sensing. As in conventional synthetic wavelength interferometry, our technique uses light consisting of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Alankar Kotwal , Anat Levin , Ioannis Gkioulekas

We present a filtering technique that can be applied to individual baselines of wide-bandwidth, wide-field interferometric data to geometrically select regions on the celestial sphere that contain primary calibration sources. The technique…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Aaron R. Parsons , Donald C. Backer

We present a new method, called "forced-spectrum fitting", for physically-based spectral modelling of radio sources during deconvolution. This improves upon current common deconvolution fitting methods, which often produce inaccurate…

We introduce a new technique for imaging the polarized radio sky using interferometric data. The new approach, which we call Faraday synthesis, combines aperture and rotation measure synthesis imaging and deconvolution into a single…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. R. Bell , T. A. Enßlin