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| Paper: |
A New Synthesis Imaging Tool for ALMA Based on Sparse Modeling |
| Volume: |
523, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVIII |
| Page: |
143 |
| Authors: |
Nakazato, T.; Ikeda, S.; Akiyama, K.; Kosugi, G.; Yamaguchi, M.; Honma, M. |
| Abstract: |
A new imaging tool for radio interferometry has been developed based on the sparse modeling approach. It has been implemented as a Python module operating on Common Astronomy Software Applications (CASA) so that the tool is able to process the data taken by Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). In order to handle large data of ALMA, the Fast Fourier Transform has been implemented with gridding process. This imaging tool runs even on a standard laptop PC and processes ALMA data within a reasonable time. The interface of the tool is comprehensible to CASA users and the usage is so simple that it consists of mainly three steps to obtain the result: configuration, gridding, and imaging. A remarkable feature of the tool is that it produces the solution without human intervention. Furthermore, the solution is robust in the sense that it is less affected by the processing parameters. For the verification of the imaging tool, we have tested it with two extreme examples from ALMA Science Verification Data: the protoplanetary disk, HL Tau as a typical smooth and filled image, and the lensed galaxy, SDP.81 as a sparse image. The comparison between our results and those of traditional CLEAN method will also be provided. |
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