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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

Radio astronomy plays a crucial role in understanding the universe, particularly within the realm of non-thermal astrophysics. Images of celestial objects are derived from the signals (called visibility) measured by radio telescopes. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kai Cheng , Ruoqi Wang , Qiong Luo

The advent of large aperture arrays, such as the currently under construction Square Kilometer Array (SKA), allows for observing the universe in the radio-spectrum at unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. However, these telescopes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 S. Wang , S. Prunet , S. Mignot , A. Ferrari

Polarimetric imaging is one of the most effective techniques for high-contrast imaging and characterization of circumstellar environments. These environments can be characterized through direct-imaging polarimetry at near-infrared…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Laurence Denneulin , Maud Langlois , Éric Thiébaut , Nelly Pustelnik

The emerging generation of radio interferometric (RI) telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will acquire massive volumes of data and transition radio astronomy to a big-data era. The ill-posed inverse problem of imaging the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-04 Xiaohao Cai , Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen

Radio interferometry invariably suffers from an incomplete coverage of the spatial Fourier space, which leads to imaging artifacts. The current state-of-the-art technique is to create an image by Fourier-transforming the incomplete…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 F. Geyer , K. Schmidt , J. Kummer , M. Brüggen , H. W. Edler , D. Elsässer , F. Griese , A. Poggenpohl , L. Rustige , W. Rhode

The advent of large aperture arrays, such as the ones currently under construction for the SKA project, allows for observing the Universe in the radio-spectrum at unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. To process the enormous amounts of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 S. Wang , S. Mignot , S. Prunet , L. Di Mascolo , M. Spinelli , A. Ferrari

In this work, we propose a novel method for the detailed reconstruction of transparent objects by exploiting polarimetric cues. Most of the existing methods usually lack sufficient constraints and suffer from the over-smooth problem. Hence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Mingqi Shao , Chongkun Xia , Dongxu Duan , Xueqian Wang

In a recent paper (Brown & Battye 2011), we proposed the use of integrated polarization measurements of background galaxies in radio weak gravitational lensing surveys and investigated the potential impact on the statistical measurement of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Michael L. Brown , Richard A. Battye

In radio astronomy, signals from radio telescopes are transformed into images of observed celestial objects, or sources. However, these images, called dirty images, contain real sources as well as artifacts due to signal sparsity and other…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Ruoqi Wang , Zhuoyang Chen , Qiong Luo , Feng Wang

We present an imaging algorithm for polarimetric interferometric data from radio telescopes. It is based on Bayesian statistics and thereby able to provide uncertainties and to incorporate prior information such as positivity of the total…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Philipp Arras , Jakob Roth , Martin Reinecke , Richard A. Perley , Andrei Frolov , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten A. Enßlin

This paper is concerned with polarimetric dense map reconstruction based on a polarization camera with the help of relative depth information as a prior. In general, polarization imaging is able to reveal information about surface normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Moein Shakeri , Shing Yan Loo , Hong Zhang

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Zihui Wu , Liam Connor , Samuel McCarty , Katherine L. Bouman

Reflection removal is challenging due to complex light interactions, where reflections obscure important details and hinder scene understanding. Polarization naturally provides a powerful cue to distinguish between reflected and transmitted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Mingde Yao , Menglu Wang , King-Man Tam , Lingen Li , Tianfan Xue , Jinwei Gu

Photometric surveys have provided incredible amounts of astronomical information in the form of images. However, astronomical images often contain artifacts that can critically hinder scientific analysis by misrepresenting intensities or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Suchetha Cooray , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Moe Yoda , Kazuo Sorai

Recovering images from optical interferometric observations is one of the major challenges in the field. Unlike the case of observations at radio wavelengths, in the optical the atmospheric turbulence changes the phases on a very short time…

Radio emission in the form of giant radio relics is observed at the periphery of galaxy clusters. This non-thermal emission is an important tracer for cosmic-ray electrons and intracluster magnetic fields. One striking observational feature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Denis Wittor , Matthias Hoeft , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen , Paola. Domínguez-Fernández

While there are a lot of models for instance segmentation, PolarMask stands out as a unique one that represents an object by a Polar coordinate system. With an anchor-box-free design and a single-stage framework that conducts detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ke-Lei Wang , Pin-Hsuan Chou , Young-Ching Chou , Chia-Jen Liu , Cheng-Kuan Lin , Yu-Chee Tseng

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

X-ray polarization is a powerful tool for unveiling the anisotropic characteristics of high-energy celestial objects. We present a novel imaging reconstruction method designed for hard X-ray polarimeters employing a Si CMOS sensor and coded…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Tsubasa Tamba , Hirokazu Odaka , Taihei Watanabe , Toshiya Iwata , Tomoaki Kasuga , Atsushi Tanimoto , Satoshi Takashima , Masahiro Ichihashi , Hiromasa Suzuki , Aya Bamba
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