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Large-scale astronomical surveys can capture numerous images of celestial objects, including galaxies and nebulae. Analysing and processing these images can reveal intricate internal structures of these objects, allowing researchers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning , Yu Song , Nan Li , Kaifan Ji , Chenzhou Cui , Shanshan Li

This paper provides a theoretical analysis of diffraction-limited superresolution, demonstrating that arbitrarily close point sources can be resolved in ideal situations. Precisely, we assume that the incoming signal is a linear combination…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-14 Geoffrey Schiebinger , Elina Robeva , Benjamin Recht

The data reduction procedure for radio interferometers can be viewed as a combined calibration and imaging problem. We present an algorithm that unifies cross-calibration, self-calibration, and imaging. Being a Bayesian method, that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Philipp Arras , Philipp Frank , Reimar Leike , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten Enßlin

We present a method for subtracting point sources from interferometric radio images via forward modeling of the instrument response and involving an algebraic nonlinear minimization. The method is applied to simulated maps of the Murchison…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Bernardi , D. A. Mitchell , S. M. Ord , L. J. Greenhill , B. Pindor , R. B. Wayth , J. S. B. Wyithe

We present an algorithm capable of detecting diffuse, dim sources of any size in an astronomical image. These sources often defeat traditional methods for source finding, which expand regions around points of high intensity. Extended…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-05 T. Butler-Yeoman , M. Frean , C. P. Hollitt , D. W. Hogg , M. Johnston-Hollitt

Crossmatching catalogs at different wavelengths is a difficult problem in astronomy, especially when the objects are not point-like. At radio wavelengths an object can have several components corresponding, for example, to a core and lobes.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 Dongwei Fan , Tamás Budavári , Ray P. Norris , Andrew M. Hopkins

We present the starblade algorithm, a method to separate superimposed point sources from auto-correlated, diffuse flux using a Bayesian model. Point sources are assumed to be independent from each other and to follow a power-law brightness…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-07 Jakob Knollmüller , Philipp Frank , Torsten A. Enßlin

Resolving high-contrast targets is a fundamental yet highly challenging task in astronomy. Using quantum estimation theory, we demonstrate that the ultimate limit for estimating the separation between two unequal-brightness thermal sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Chenyu Hu , Ben Wang , Jiandong Zhang , Kunxu Wang , Huigen Liu , Jilin Zhou , Lijian Zhang

Modern Earth observation satellites capture multi-exposure bursts of push-frame images that can be super-resolved via computational means. In this work, we propose a super-resolution method for such multi-exposure sequences, a problem that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Ngoc Long Nguyen , Jérémy Anger , Axel Davy , Pablo Arias , Gabriele Facciolo

Modern high-sensitivity radio telescopes are discovering an increased number of resolved sources with intricate radio structures and fainter radio emissions. These sources often present a challenge because source detectors might identify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Lara Alegre , Philip Best , Jose Sabater , Huub Rottgering , Martin Hardcastle , Wendy Williams

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

In this paper we introduce a reliable, fully automated and fast algorithm to detect extended extragalactic radio sources (cluster of galaxies, filaments) in existing and forthcoming surveys (like LOFAR and SKA). The proposed solution is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-11 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Annalisa Bonafede

Infrared space interferometers can surpass the spatial resolution limitations of single-dish space telescopes. However, stellar interferometers from space have not been realized because of technical difficulties. Two beams coming from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-20 Taro Matsuo , Satoshi Ikari , Hirotaka Kondo , Sho Ishiwata , Shinichi Nakasuka , Tomoyasu Yamamuro

In this paper we study the high-dimensional super-resolution imaging problem. Here we are given an image of a number of point sources of light whose locations and intensities are unknown. The image is pixelized and is blurred by a known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Bakytzhan Kurmanbek , Elina Robeva

New telescopes like the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will push into a new sensitivity regime and expose systematics, such as direction-dependent effects, that could previously be ignored. Current methods for handling such systematics rely…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-22 Michelle Lochner , Iniyan Natarajan , Jonathan T. L. Zwart , Oleg Smirnov , Bruce A. Bassett , Nadeem Oozeer , Martin Kunz

A new technique is presented for producing images from interferometric data. The method, ``smear fitting'', makes the constraints necessary for interferometric imaging double as a model, with uncertainties, of the sky brightness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert I. Reid

A radio interferometer indirectly measures the intensity distribution of the sky over the celestial sphere. Since measurements are made over an irregularly sampled Fourier plane, synthesising an intensity image from interferometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 Daniel Muscat

Radio interferometry allows astronomers to probe small spatial scales that are often inaccessible with single-dish instruments. However, recovering the radio sky from an interferometer is an ill-posed deconvolution problem that astronomers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Liam Connor , Katherine L. Bouman , Vikram Ravi , Gregg Hallinan

Super-resolution is the problem of recovering a superposition of point sources using bandlimited measurements, which may be corrupted with noise. This signal processing problem arises in numerous imaging problems, ranging from astronomy to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Qingqing Huang , Sham M. Kakade

We developed a radio interferometric technique for the observation of extensive air showers initiated by cosmic particles. In this proof-of-principle study we show that properties of extensive air showers can be derived with high accuracy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-11 Harm Schoorlemmer , Washington R. Carvalho