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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

In radio astronomy, visibility data, which are measurements of wave signals from radio telescopes, are transformed into images for observation of distant celestial objects. However, these resultant images usually contain both real sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Ruoqi Wang , Zhuoyang Chen , Jiayi Zhu , Qiong Luo , Feng Wang

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

Refraction by the atmosphere causes the positions of sources to depend on the airmass through which an observation was taken. This shift is dependent on the underlying spectral energy of the source and the filter or bandpass through which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Matthias Lee , Tamas Budavari , Ian Sullivan , Andrew Connolly

Radio telescopes produce visibility data about celestial objects, but these data are sparse and noisy. As a result, images created on raw visibility data are of low quality. Recent studies have used deep learning models to reconstruct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Ruoqi Wang , Haitao Wang , Qiong Luo , Feng Wang , Hejun Wu

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

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…

Astronomers usually need the highest angular resolution possible, but the blurring effect of diffraction imposes a fundamental limit on the image quality from any single telescope. Interferometry allows light collected at widely-separated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 John D. Monnier , Ronald J. Allen

Image restoration and enhancement are pivotal for numerous computer vision applications, yet unifying these tasks efficiently remains a significant challenge. Inspired by the iterative refinement capabilities of diffusion models, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Minglong Xue , Jinhong He , Shivakumara Palaiahnakote , Mingliang Zhou

Optical interferometers provide multiple wavelength measurements. In order to fully exploit the spectral and spatial resolution of these instruments, new algorithms for image reconstruction have to be developed. Early attempts to deal with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Éric Thiébaut , Ferréol Soulez , Loïc Denis

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

Reconstructing images of the radio sky from incomplete Fourier information is a key challenge in radio astronomy. In this work, we present a method for radio interferometric image reconstruction using a data-driven prior for the radio sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Michel Morales , Emma Tolley , Remi Poitevineau

Given the incomplete sampling of spatial frequencies by radio interferometers, achieving precise restoration of astrophysical information remains challenging. To address this ill-posed problem, compressive sensing(CS) provides a robust…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-09 Lei Yu , Bin Liu , Cheng-Jin Jin , Ru-Rong Chen , Hong-Wei Xi , Bo Peng

Performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction from under-sampled k-space data can accelerate the procedure to acquire MRI scans and reduce patients' discomfort. The reconstruction problem is usually formulated as a denoising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Tianqi Xiang , Wenjun Yue , Yiqun Lin , Jiewen Yang , Zhenkun Wang , Xiaomeng Li

Radio interferometry is a powerful technique for astronomical imaging. The theory of Compressed Sensing (CS) has been applied recently to the ill-posed inverse problem of recovering images from the measurements taken by radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 J. D. McEwen , Y. Wiaux

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

Modern interferometers routinely provide radio-astronomical images down to subarcsecond resolution. However, interferometers filter out spatial scales larger than those sampled by the shortest baselines, which affects the measurement of…

We describe a "spatio-spectral" deconvolution algorithm for wide-band imaging in radio interferometry. In contrast with the existing multi-frequency reconstruction algorithms, the proposed method does not rely on a model of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-01 André Ferrari , Jérémy Deguignet , Chiara Ferrari , David Mary , Antony Schutz , Oleg Smirnov

The spatial-frequency coverage of a radio interferometer is increased by combining samples acquired at different times and observing frequencies. However, astrophysical sources often contain complicated spatial structure that varies within…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 U. Rau

Radio interferometric imaging aims to estimate an unknown sky intensity image from degraded observations, acquired through an antenna array. In the theoretical case of a perfectly calibrated array, it has been shown that solving the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-25 Audrey Repetti , Jasleen Birdi , Arwa Dabbech , Yves Wiaux
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