An algorithm for deconvolution by the maximum entropy method with astronomical applications

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(92)90332-SMaRDI QIDQ1201698zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Johann Reiter

Publication date 17 January 1993

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(92)90332-S

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmdeconvolving optical pictures of the sky taken with astronomical telescopesFredholm integral equation of the first kindill-posed problemintegral equation of convolution typemaximum entropy methodnonlinear optimization problemradio astronomy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fredholm integral equations (45B05) Integral equations of the convolution type (Abel, Picard, Toeplitz and Wiener-Hopf type) (45E10) Numerical methods for integral equations (65R20) Numerical methods for ill-posed problems for integral equations (65R30) Computational methods for problems pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-08) Astronomy and astrophysics (85A99)

Review text

The maximum entropy method is used to reformulate the solution of a Fredholm integral equation as a nonlinear optimization problem with constraints.

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