Joint deconvolution of astronomical images in the presence of Poisson noise
File(s)Donath_2024_AJ_168_182.pdf (1.94 MB)
Published version
Author(s)
Donath, Axel
Siemiginowska, Aneta
Kashyap, Vinay
van Dyk, David
Burke, Douglas
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We present a new framework for joint likelihood deconvolution (Jolideco) of a set of astronomical observations of the same sky region in the presence of Poisson noise. The observations may be obtained from different instruments with different resolution, and different point-spread functions (PSFs). Jolideco reconstructs a single flux image by optimizing the posterior distribution based on the joint Poisson likelihood of all observations under one of several prior distributions. Most notably, we employ a patch-based image prior that is parameterized via a Gaussian mixture model, which we train on high-signal-to-noise astronomical images, including data from the JWST and the GLEAM radio survey. This prior favors correlation structures among the reconstructed pixel intensities that are characteristic of those observed in the training images. It is, however, not informative for the mean or scale of the reconstruction. By applying the method to simulated data, we show that the combination of multiple observations and the patch-based prior leads to much improved reconstruction quality in many different source scenarios and signal-to-noise regimes. We demonstrate that with the patch prior Jolideco yields superior reconstruction quality relative to alternative standard methods such as the Richardson–Lucy method. We illustrate the results of Jolideco applied to example data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. By comparing the measured width of a counts-based and the corresponding Jolideco flux profile of an X-ray filament in SNR 1E 0102.2–7219, we find the deconvolved width of 0farcs58 ± 0farcs02 to be consistent with the theoretical expectation derived from the known width of the PSF.
Date Issued
2024-10-01
Date Acceptance
2024-07-25
Citation
The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics, 2024, 168 (4)
ISSN
0004-637X
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Journal / Book Title
The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics
Volume
168
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© 2024. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.
License URL
Identifier
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad6b98
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
182
Date Publish Online
2024-09-30