Faceting for direction-dependent spectral deconvolution

C Tasse, B Hugo, M Mirmont, O Smirnov… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
The new generation of radio interferometers is characterized by high sensitivity, wide fields
of view and large fractional bandwidth. To synthesize the deepest images enabled by the …

GALARIO: a GPU accelerated library for analysing radio interferometer observations

M Tazzari, F Beaujean, L Testi - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present GALARIO, a computational library that exploits the power of modern graphical
processing units (GPUs) to accelerate the analysis of observations from radio …

cubical – fast radio interferometric calibration suite exploiting complex optimization

JS Kenyon, OM Smirnov, TL Grobler… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
It has recently been shown that radio interferometric gain calibration can be expressed
succinctly in the language of complex optimization. In addition to providing an elegant …

A super-resolution analysis of the DSHARP survey: substructure is common in the inner 30 au

J Jennings, RA Booth, M Tazzari… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The DSHARP survey evidenced the ubiquity of substructure in the mm dust distribution of
large, bright protoplanetary discs. Intriguingly, these data sets have yet higher resolution …

Unified radio interferometric calibration and imaging with joint uncertainty quantification

P Arras, P Frank, R Leike, R Westermann… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
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 …

Multi-GPU maximum entropy image synthesis for radio astronomy

M Cárcamo, PE Román, S Casassus, V Moral… - Astronomy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The maximum entropy method (MEM) is a well known deconvolution technique in radio-
interferometry. This method solves a non-linear optimization problem with an entropy …

Seeing the unseen: a method to detect unresolved rings in protoplanetary disks

CE Scardoni, RA Booth, CJ Clarke… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract While high-resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)
observations reveal a wealth of substructure in protoplanetary disks, they remain incapable …

Radio interferometric calibration using a complex Student's t-distribution and Wirtinger derivatives

UM Sob, HL Bester, OM Smirnov… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Radio interferometric gain calibration can be biased by incomplete sky models and radio
frequency interference, resulting in calibration artefacts that can restrict the dynamic range of …

Resolving the blazar CGRaBS J0809+ 5341 in the presence of telescope systematics

I Natarajan, ZPJ Zwart, S Perkins… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We analyse Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations of the blazar
CGRaBS J0809+ 5341 using Bayesian inference methods. The observation was carried out …

Africanus I. Scalable, distributed and efficient radio data processing with Dask-MS and Codex Africanus

SJ Perkins, JS Kenyon, LAL Andati, HL Bester… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
New radio interferometers such as MeerKAT, SKA, ngVLA, and DSA-2000 drive
advancements in software for two key reasons. First, handling the vast data from these …