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20122026
most citedRadio Continuum Surveys with Square Kilometre Array Pathfinders

101 citations · 493 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

A distributed resource-adaptive implementation of the widefield radio-interferometric measurement model for scalable image formation

Arwa Dabbech, Yves Wiaux

Modern image formation algorithms in radio interferometry rely on repeated applications of the operator Φ modelling the measurement process and its adjoint {Phi^\dagger} to enforce…

astro-ph.IM2025

HyperAIRI: a plug-and-play algorithm for precise hyperspectral image reconstruction in radio interferometry

Chao Tang, Arwa Dabbech, Adrian Jackson +1

The next-generation radio-interferometric (RI) telescopes require imaging algorithms capable of forming high-resolution high-dynamic-range images from large data volumes spanning w…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Toward a Robust R2D2 Paradigm for Radio-interferometric Imaging: Revisiting Deep Neural Network Training and Architecture

Amir Aghabiglou, Chung San Chu, Chao Tang +2

The R2D2 Deep Neural Network (DNN) series was recently introduced for image formation in radio interferometry. It can be understood as a learned version of CLEAN, whose minor cycle…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

The R2D2 deep neural network series paradigm for fast precision imaging in radio astronomy

Amir Aghabiglou, Chung San Chu, Arwa Dabbech +1

Radio-interferometric (RI) imaging entails solving high-resolution high-dynamic range inverse problems from large data volumes. Recent image reconstruction techniques grounded in o…

astro-ph.IM2024

R2D2 image reconstruction with model uncertainty quantification in radio astronomy

Amir Aghabiglou, Chung San Chu, Arwa Dabbech +1

The ``Residual-to-Residual DNN series for high-Dynamic range imaging'' (R2D2) approach was recently introduced for Radio-Interferometric (RI) imaging in astronomy. R2D2's reconstru…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

CLEANing Cygnus A deep and fast with R2D2

Arwa Dabbech, Amir Aghabiglou, Chung San Chu +1

A novel deep learning paradigm for synthesis imaging by radio interferometry in astronomy was recently proposed, dubbed "Residual-to-Residual DNN series for high-Dynamic range imag…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 18 cited

Scalable precision wide-field imaging in radio interferometry: II. AIRI validated on ASKAP data

Amanda G. Wilber, Arwa Dabbech, Matthieu Terris +2

Accompanying Part I, this sequel delineates a validation of the recently proposed AI for Regularisation in radio-interferometric Imaging (AIRI) algorithm on observations from the A…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 17 cited

Scalable precision wide-field imaging in radio interferometry: I. uSARA validated on ASKAP data

Amanda G. Wilber, Arwa Dabbech, Adrian Jackson +1

As Part I of a paper series showcasing a new imaging framework, we consider the recently proposed unconstrained Sparsity Averaging Reweighted Analysis (uSARA) optimisation algorith…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 10 cited

Parallel faceted imaging in radio interferometry via proximal splitting (Faceted HyperSARA): II. Code and real data proof of concept

Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin, Arwa Dabbech, Ming Jiang +4

In a companion paper, a faceted wideband imaging technique for radio interferometry, dubbed Faceted HyperSARA, has been introduced and validated on synthetic data. Building on the…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 36 cited

First AI for deep super-resolution wide-field imaging in radio astronomy: unveiling structure in ESO 137--006

Arwa Dabbech, Matthieu Terris, Adrian Jackson +3

We introduce the first AI-based framework for deep, super-resolution, wide-field radio-interferometric imaging, and demonstrate it on observations of the ESO~137-006 radio galaxy.…

eess.IV2022★ 50 cited

Image reconstruction algorithms in radio interferometry: from handcrafted to learned regularization denoisers

Matthieu Terris, Arwa Dabbech, Chao Tang +1

We introduce a new class of iterative image reconstruction algorithms for radio interferometry, at the interface of convex optimization and deep learning, inspired by plug-and-play…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 17 cited

Cygnus A jointly calibrated and imaged via non-convex optimisation from VLA data

Arwa Dabbech, Audrey Repetti, Rick A. Perley +2

Radio interferometric (RI) data are noisy under-sampled spatial Fourier components of the unknown radio sky affected by direction-dependent antenna gains. Failure to model these an…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 25 cited

Parallel faceted imaging in radio interferometry via proximal splitting (Faceted HyperSARA): I. Algorithm and simulations

Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin, Abdullah Abdulaziz, Arwa Dabbech +2

Upcoming radio interferometers are aiming to image the sky at new levels of resolution and sensitivity, with wide-band image cubes reaching close to the Petabyte scale for SKA. Mod…

eess.IV2018★ 24 cited

Wideband Super-resolution Imaging in Radio Interferometry via Low Rankness and Joint Average Sparsity Models (HyperSARA)

Abdullah Abdulaziz, Arwa Dabbech, Yves Wiaux

We propose a new approach within the versatile framework of convex optimization to solve the radio-interferometric wideband imaging problem. Our approach, dubbed HyperSARA, solves…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 36 cited

Cygnus A super-resolved via convex optimisation from VLA data

Arwa Dabbech, Alexandru Onose, Abdullah Abdulaziz +3

We leverage the Sparsity Averaging Reweighted Analysis (SARA) approach for interferometric imaging, that is based on convex optimisation, for the super-resolution of Cyg A from obs…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 1 cited

Robust dimensionality reduction for interferometric imaging of Cygnus A

S. Vijay Kartik, Arwa Dabbech, Jean-Philippe Thiran +1

Extremely high data rates expected in next-generation radio interferometers necessitate a fast and robust way to process measurements in a big data context. Dimensionality reductio…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 15 cited

The w-effect in interferometric imaging: from a fast sparse measurement operator to super-resolution

Arwa Dabbech, Laura Wolz, Luke Pratley +2

Modern radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will probe the radio sky over large fields-of-view, which results in large w-modulations of the sky image. This e…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 36 cited

Non-convex optimization for self-calibration of direction-dependent effects in radio interferometric imaging

Audrey Repetti, Jasleen Birdi, Arwa Dabbech +1

Radio interferometric imaging aims to estimate an unknown sky intensity image from degraded observations, acquired through an antenna array. In the theoretical case of a perfectly…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 37 cited

An accelerated splitting algorithm for radio-interferometric imaging: when natural and uniform weighting meet

Alexandru Onose, Arwa Dabbech, Yves Wiaux

Next generation radio-interferometers, like the Square Kilometre Array, will acquire tremendous amounts of data with the goal of improving the size and sensitivity of the reconstru…

astro-ph.CO2014

Non-thermal emission from galaxy clusters: feasibility study with SKA1

Chiara Ferrari, Arwa Dabbech, Oleg Smirnov +20

Galaxy clusters are known to host a variety of extended radio sources: tailed radio galaxies whose shape is modelled by the interaction with the intra-cluster medium (ICM); radio b…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 66 cited

MORESANE: MOdel REconstruction by Synthesis-ANalysis Estimators. A sparse deconvolution algorithm for radio interferometric imaging

Arwa Dabbech, Chiara Ferrari, David Mary +3

(arXiv abridged abstract) The current years are seeing huge developments of radio telescopes and a tremendous increase of their capabilities. Such systems make mandatory the design…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 101 cited

Radio Continuum Surveys with Square Kilometre Array Pathfinders

Ray P. Norris, J. Afonso, D. Bacon +48

In the lead-up to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, several next-generation radio telescopes and upgrades are already being built around the world. These include APERTIF (T…