Radio astronomical imaging in the presence of strong radio interference
arXiv:astro-ph/0008239 · doi:10.1109/18.857787
Abstract
Radio-astronomical observations are increasingly contaminated by interference, and suppression techniques become essential. A powerful candidate for interference mitigation is adaptive spatial filtering. We study the effect of spatial filtering techniques on radio astronomical imaging. Current deconvolution procedures such as CLEAN are shown to be unsuitable to spatially filtered data, and the necessary corrections are derived. To that end, we reformulate the imaging (deconvolution/calibration) process as a sequential estimation of the locations of astronomical sources. This not only leads to an extended CLEAN algorithm, the formulation also allows to insert other array signal processing techniques for direction finding, and gives estimates of the expected image quality and the amount of interference suppression that can be achieved. Finally, a maximum likelihood procedure for the imaging is derived, and an approximate ML image formation technique is proposed to overcome the computational burden involved. Some of the effects of the new algorithms are shown in simulated images. Keywords: Radio astronomy, synthesis imaging, parametric imaging, interference mitigation, spatial filtering, maximum likelihood, minimum variance, CLEAN.
27 pages, 7 figures. Paper with higher resolution color figures at http://cobalt.et.tudelft.nl/~leshem/postscripts/leshem/imaging.ps.gz
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