Sparse Bayesian imaging of solar flares

DOI10.1137/18M1204103MaRDI QIDQ5236645zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Federica Sciacchitano, Silvio Lugaro, Alberto Sorrentino

Publication date 9 October 2019

Published in SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11287

zbMATH Keywords

astronomical imagingBayesian inferencesequential Monte Carlosolar flaressparse imaging

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Image analysis in multivariate analysis (62H35) Sequential estimation (62L12) Random fields; image analysis (62M40) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Monte Carlo methods (65C05) General questions in astronomy and astrophysics (85A04)

Abstract: We consider imaging of solar flares from NASA RHESSI data as a parametric imaging problem, where flares are represented as a finite collection of geometric shapes. We set up a Bayesian model in which the number of objects forming the image is a priori unknown, as well as their shapes. We use a Sequential Monte Carlo algorithm to explore the corresponding posterior distribution. We apply the method to synthetic and experimental data, largely known in the RHESSI community. The method reconstructs improved images of solar flares, with the additional advantage of providing uncertainty quantification of the estimated parameters.

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Uses Software

• AS 136
• glmnet

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