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Imaging algorithms form powerful analysis tools for VLBI data analysis. However, these tools cannot measure certain image features (e.g., ring diameter) by their non-parametric nature. This is unfortunate since these image features are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Paul Tiede , Avery E. Broderick , Daniel C. M. Palumbo

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astrometry is a well established technique for achieving $\pm10~\mu$as parallax accuracies at frequencies well above 10~GHz. At lower frequencies, uncompensated interferometer delays associated with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Lucas J. Hyland , Mark J. Reid , Simon P. Ellingsen , Maria J. Rioja , Richard Dodson , Gabor Orosz , Colin R. Masson , Jamie M. McCallum

We investigate Hermite Gaussian Imaging (HGI) -- a novel passive super-resolution technique -- for complex 2D incoherent objects in the sub-Rayleigh regime. The method consists of measuring the field's spatial mode components in the image…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-20 Jernej Frank , Alexander Duplinskiy , Kaden Bearne , A. I. Lvovsky

Just as turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere can severely limit the angular resolution of optical telescopes, turbulence in the ionized interstellar medium fundamentally limits the resolution of radio telescopes. We present a scattering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Michael D. Johnson

Atmospheric propagation errors are a main constraint on the accuracy of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astrometry. For relative astrometry, differential techniques can mitigate these errors, but their effectiveness diminishes with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-26 Jingdong Zhang , Bo Zhang , Shuangjing Xu , Maria J. Rioja , Richard Dodson , Xiaofeng Mai , Oleg Titov

In this work, we study how to infer the orbit of a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) by time-dependent measurements with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), such as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Assuming a point-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Yun Fang , Huan Yang

Lucky Imaging is now an established observing procedure that delivers near diffraction-limited images in the visible on ground-based telescopes up to ~2.5 m in diameter. Combined with low order adaptive optics it can deliver resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Craig Mackay

Very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) at frequencies above 230 GHz with Earth-diameter baselines gives spatial resolution finer than the ${\sim}50 \mu$as "shadow" of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, Sagittarius A* (Sgr…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Michael D. Johnson , Katherine L. Bouman , Andrew A. Chael

Hyperspectral image reconstruction from a compressed measurement is a highly ill-posed inverse problem. Current data-driven methods suffer from hallucination due to the lack of spectral diversity in existing hyperspectral image datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Juan Romero , Qiang Fu , Matteo Ravasi , Wolfgang Heidrich

Very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a challenging observational technique, which requires in-depth knowledge about radio telescope instrumentation, interferometry, and the handling of noisy data. The reduction of the raw data is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Michael Janssen , Jack F. Radcliffe , Jan Wagner

We consider the black hole (BH) shadow images which can be restored by data processing and image recovery procedures in future space Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) missions. For Kerr BHs with masses and coordinates of SgrA*, M87*…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 E. V. Mikheeva , S. V. Repin , V. N. Lukash

The concept of a new space very long baseline interferometry system named the Event Horizon Imager (EHI) has been proposed to dramatically improve black hole imaging and provide precise tests of the theory of general relativity. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-04 Anastasia Shlentsova , Freek Roelofs , Sara Issaoun , Jordy Davelaar , Heino Falcke

Images of the linear polarization of synchrotron radiation around Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) identify their projected magnetic field lines and provide key data for understanding the physics of accretion and outflow from supermassive black…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Andrew A. Chael , Michael D. Johnson , Ramesh Narayan , Sheperd S. Doeleman , John F. C. Wardle , Katherine L. Bouman

The imaging fidelity of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is currently determined by its sparse baseline coverage. In particular, EHT coverage is dominated by long baselines, and is highly sensitive to atmospheric conditions and loss of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 S. Issaoun , M. D. Johnson , L. Blackburn , M. Mościbrodzka , A. Chael , H. Falcke

Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, with a resolution beyond the diffraction limit of light, has become an indispensable tool to directly visualize biological structures in living cells at a nanometer-scale resolution. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Yu Li , Fan Xu , Fa Zhang , Pingyong Xu , Mingshu Zhang , Ming Fan , Lihua Li , Xin Gao , Renmin Han

Direct electromagnetic observation of the orbital motion of a sub-parsec, supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) would provide the first conclusive proof of such systems existing. Widely considered to be the sources of gravitational waves,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 B. Hudson , L. I. Gurvits , E. Mooij , A. Ricarte , D. Palumbo

The new technique, multi-frequency imaging (MFI) is developed. In VLBI, Multi-Frequency Imaging (MFI) consists of multi-frequency synthesis (MFS) and multi-frequency analysis (MFA) of the VLBI data obtained from observations on various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Likhachev

While conventional imaging in VLBI provides information only about the relative position between different features of a given source, phase-referenced observations can provide precise positional information with respect to an external…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eduardo Ros

We propose a probabilistic framework for performing simultaneous estimation of source structure and fringe-fitting parameters in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations. As a first step, we demonstrate this technique through…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Iniyan Natarajan , Roger Deane , Ilse van Bemmel , Huib Jan van Langevelde , Des Small , Mark Kettenis , Zsolt Paragi , Oleg Smirnov , Arpad Szomoru

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) recently released the first horizon-scale images of the black hole in M87. Combined with other astronomical data, these images constrain the mass and spin of the hole as well as the accretion rate and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-15 Joshua Yao-Yu Lin , Dominic W. Pesce , George N. Wong , Ajay Uppili Arasanipalai , Ben S. Prather , Charles F. Gammie