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分布式无线电干涉校准

Distributed Radio Interferometric Calibration

Sarod Yatawatta

摘要:

新一代无线电干涉仪提供的数据量越来越大,需要计算效率高且鲁棒的校准算法。在本文中,我们提出了分布式校准的方式,提高计算成本以及鲁棒性校准。我们利用数据的并行性跨频率,这是固有的射电天文观测记录为多个通道在不同的频率。此外,我们还利用跨频率的校准参数的变化的平滑性。数据并行使我们能够在计算代理网络上分配计算负载。频率的平滑性使我们能够将校准重新表述为共识优化问题。有了这个公式,我们可以在不同频率下校准数据的计算代理之间实现信息流,而无需实际传递数据,从而提高鲁棒性。我们目前的仿真结果显示的可行性,以及分布式校准的优势,而不是传统的校准。

英文摘要:

Increasing data volumes delivered by a new generation of radio interferometers require computationally efficient and robust calibration algorithms. In this paper, we propose distributed calibration as a way of improving both computational cost as well as robustness in calibration. We exploit the data parallelism across frequency that is inherent in radio astronomical observations that are recorded as multiple channels at different frequencies. Moreover, we also exploit the smoothness of the variation of calibration parameters across frequency. Data parallelism enables us to distribute the computing load across a network of compute agents. Smoothness in frequency enables us reformulate calibration as a consensus optimization problem. With this formulation, we enable flow of information between compute agents calibrating data at different frequencies, without actually passing the data, and thereby improving robustness. We present simulation results to show the feasibility as well as the advantages of distributed calibration as opposed to conventional calibration.

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