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Direct deconvolution of radio synthesis images using L1 minimisation

Stephen J. Hardy
POBox 6, Pymble BC, 2073 Australia
arXiv:1310.2078 [astro-ph.IM], (8 Oct 2013)

@ARTICLE{2013A&A…557A.134H,

   author={Hardy}, S.~J.},

   title={"{Direct deconvolution of radio synthesis images using L$_{1}$ minimisation}"},

   journal={aap},

   archivePrefix={"arXiv"},

   eprint={1310.2078},

   primaryClass={"astro-ph.IM"},

   keywords={Methods: analytical, methods: numerical, techniques: image processing, techniques: interferometric},

   year={2013},

   month={sep},

   volume={557},

   eid={A134},

   pages={A134},

   doi={10.1051/0004-6361/201321833},

   adsurl={http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013A%26A…557A.134H},

   adsnote={Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}

}

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We introduce an algorithm for the deconvolution of radio synthesis images that accounts for the non-coplanar-baseline effect, allows multiscale reconstruction onto arbitrarily positioned pixel grids, and allows the antenna elements to have directional dependent gains. Using numerical L1-minimisation techniques established in the application of compressive sensing to radio astronomy, we directly solve the deconvolution equation using GPU (graphics processing unit) hardware. This approach relies on an analytic expression for the contribution of a pixel in the image to the observed visibilities, and the well-known expression for Dirac delta function pixels is used along with two new approximations for Gaussian pixels, which allow for multi-scale deconvolution. The algorithm is similar to the CLEAN algorithm in that it fits the reconstructed pixels in the image to the observed visibilities while minimising the total flux; however, unlike CLEAN, it operates on the ungridded visibilities, enforces positivity, and has guaranteed global convergence. The pixels in the image can be arbitrarily distributed and arbitrary gains between each pixel and each antenna element can also be specified. Direct deconvolution of the observed visibilities is shown to be feasible for several deconvolution problems, including a 1 megapixel wide-field image with over 400,000 visibilities. Correctness of the algorithm is shown using synthetic data, and the algorithm shows good image reconstruction performance. Though this algorithm requires significantly more computation than methods based on the CLEAN algorithm, we demonstrate that it is trivially parallelisable across multiple GPUs and potentially can be scaled to GPU clusters. We also demonstrate that a significant speed up is possible through the use of multi-scale analysis using Gaussian pixels.
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