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arXiv 2009.07010astro-ph.IM
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无线电干涉宽场成像中位置相关点扩散函数响应的快速近似算法

Fast algorithms to approximate the position-dependent point spread function responses in radio interferometric wide-field imaging

M. Atemkeng, O. Smirnov, C. Tasse, G. Foster, S. Makhathini

摘要:

对宽视场、大分数带宽、高灵敏度、高光谱和时间分辨率的需求已经将无线电干涉测量驱动到大数据革命的程度,其中数据以至少三个维度表示,其中轴用于光谱窗口、基线、源等;其中每个轴具有其自己的子维度集合。与存储和处理这些数据相关联的成本非常大,因此已经研究了压缩干涉测量数据和/或加速处理的若干技术。不幸的是,用于可见度数据压缩的基于平均的方法对数据保真度是有害的,因为点扩散函数(PSF)是位置相关的,即,作为距相位中心的距离的函数而失真和衰减。PSF的位置依赖性变得更加严重,需要更多的PSF计算用于宽场成像。反卷积算法必须在主周期和次周期中考虑失真,以适当地减去PSF并恢复图像的保真度。这种方法在计算上是昂贵的,因为在每次去卷积迭代时,必须计算失真的PSF。我们提出了两种算法,近似这些位置相关的PSF与更少的计算。第一种算法近似$uv$平面中的位置相关PSF,第二种算法近似图像平面中的位置相关PSF。所提出的算法进行了验证,使用模拟数据从MeerKAT望远镜。

英文摘要:

The desire for wide-field of view, large fractional bandwidth, high sensitivity, high spectral and temporal resolution has driven radio interferometry to the point of big data revolution where the data is represented in at least three dimensions with an axis for spectral windows, baselines, sources, etc; where each axis has its own set of sub-dimensions. The cost associated with storing and handling these data is very large, and therefore several techniques to compress interferometric data and/or speed up processing have been investigated. Unfortunately, averaging-based methods for visibility data compression are detrimental to the data fidelity, since the point spread function (PSF) is position-dependent, i.e. distorted and attenuated as a function of distance from the phase centre. The position dependence of the PSF becomes more severe, requiring more PSF computations for wide-field imaging. Deconvolution algorithms must take the distortion into account in the major and minor cycles to properly subtract the PSF and recover the fidelity of the image. This approach is expensive in computation since at each deconvolution iteration a distorted PSF must be computed. We present two algorithms that approximate these position-dependent PSFs with fewer computations. The first algorithm approximates the position-dependent PSFs in the $uv$-plane and the second algorithm approximates the position-dependent PSFs in the image-plane. The proposed algorithms are validated using simulated data from the MeerKAT telescope.

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