Calibration and Image Formation in Interferometry

Presenter: Athol Kemball, Astronomy Department, University of Illinois

Tuesday, October 18

8 AM Pacific / 9 AM Mountain / 10 AM Central / 11 AM Eastern

Abstract

Image formation for interferometric astronomical arrays requires solution of a challenging inverse problem that includes a joint solution for calibration and propagation effects as well as the unknown source brightness distribution. We consider this problem within the broader domain of adaptive optics and consider new approaches facilitated by large-scale computing. Interferometric image formation has many different domain applications and we also briefly discuss some overlapping concerns in these adjacent disciplines.

Biography

Athol Kemball is Professor of Astronomy at UIUC and an adjunct faculty member at NCSA. Prior to joining UIUC in 2003 he worked as a scientist and administrator at a national astronomy center. His interests lie in the application of computation to problems in observational astronomy.

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