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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

CLEAN, the commonly employed imaging algorithm in radio interferometry, suffers from a number of shortcomings: in its basic version it does not have the concept of diffuse flux, and the common practice of convolving the CLEAN components…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Philipp Arras , Hertzog L. Bester , Richard A. Perley , Reimar Leike , Oleg Smirnov , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten A. Enßlin

In radio-interferometry, we recover an image from an incompletely sampled Fourier data. The de-facto standard algorithm, the Cotton-Schwab CLEAN, is iteratively switching between computing a deconvolution (minor loop) and subtracting the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Hendrik Müller , Mingyu Hsieh , Sanjay Bhatnagar

In recent works, sparse models and convex optimization techniques have been applied to radio-interferometric (RI) imaging showing the potential to outperform state-of-the-art imaging algorithms in the field. In this talk, I will review our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-19 Rafael E. Carrillo , Jason D. McEwen , Yves Wiaux

Context: Interferometric imaging is algorithmically and computationally challenging as there is no unique inversion from the measurement data back to the sky maps, and the datasets can be very large. Many imaging methods already exist, but…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Jakob Roth , Philipp Frank , Hertzog L. Bester , Oleg M. Smirnov , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten A. Enßlin

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

Deconvolution, imaging and calibration of data from radio interferometers is a challenging computational (inverse) problem. The upcoming generation of radio telescopes poses significant challenges to existing, and well proven data reduction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Hendrik Müller , Sanjay Bhatnagar

The standard imaging algorithm for interferometric radio data, CLEAN, is optimal for point source observations, but suboptimal for diffuse emission. Recently, RESOLVE, a new Bayesian algorithm has been developed, which is ideal for extended…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-28 Maksim Greiner , Valentina Vacca , Henrik Junklewitz , Torsten A. Enßlin

The proposed next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) will enable the imaging of astronomical sources in unprecedented detail by providing an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity and angular resolution compared with radio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Kazunori Akiyama , Lynn D. Matthews

Producing images from interferometer data requires accurate modeling of the sources in the field of view, which is typically done using the CLEAN algorithm. Given the large number of degrees of freedom in interferometeric images, one…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Amanda A. Kepley , Takahiro Tsutsumi , Crystal L. Brogan , Remy Indebetouw , Ilsang Yoon , Brian Mason , Jennifer Donovan Meyer

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

Radio-astronomical observations are increasingly contaminated by interference, and suppression techniques become essential. A powerful candidate for interference mitigation is adaptive spatial filtering. We study the effect of spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Amir Leshem , Alle-Jan van der Veen

CLEAN is a well-established deconvolution approach to Fourier imaging at both radio wavelwengths and hard X-ray energies. However, specifically for hard X-ray imaging, CLEAN suffers two significant drawbacks: a rather limited degree of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Miriana Catalano , Anna Volpara , Paolo Massa , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a radio-astronomical technique in which the correlated signal from various baselines is combined into an image of highest angular resolution. Due to sparsity of the measurements, this imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Hendrik Müller , Andrei Lobanov

Radio synthesis imaging is dependent upon deconvolution algorithms to counteract the sparse sampling of the Fourier plane. These deconvolution algorithms find an estimate of the true sky brightness from the necessarily incomplete sampled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. J. Cornwell

The CLEAN algorithm, first published by H\"{o}gbom and its later variants such as Multiscale CLEAN (msCLEAN) by Cornwell, has been the most popular tool for deconvolution in radio astronomy. Interferometric imaging used in aperture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Daniel Wright , Karel Adámek , Wesley Armour

In recent works, compressed sensing (CS) and convex optimization techniques have been applied to radio-interferometric imaging showing the potential to outperform state-of-the-art imaging algorithms in the field. We review our latest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Rafael E. Carrillo , Jason D. McEwen , Yves Wiaux

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is currently revolutionizing observational astrophysics. The aperture synthesis technique provides angular resolution otherwise unachievable with the conventional single-aperture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-06 Łukasz Tychoniec , Fabrizia Guglielmetti , Philipp Arras , Torsten Enßlin , Eric Villard

Extracting polarimetric information from very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data is demanding but vital for understanding the synchrotron radiation process and the magnetic fields of celestial objects, such as active galactic nuclei…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Jong-Seo Kim , Jakob Roth , Jongho Park , Jack D. Livingston , Philipp Arras , Torsten A. Enßlin , Michael Janssen , J. Anton Zensus , Andrei P. Lobanov

Interferometric radio astronomy data require the effects of limited coverage in the Fourier plane to be accounted for via a deconvolution process. For the last 40 years this process, known as `cleaning', has been performed almost…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt
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