A Million Points of Light are needed to synthesize image cubes from interferometers.
MPoL is a flexible Python package designed for Regularized Maximum Likelihood imaging. We focus on supporting spectral line and continuum observations from interferometers like the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). There is potential to extend the package to work on other Fourier reconstruction problems like sparse aperture masking and kernel phase interferometry.
Documentation and installation instructions: https://mpol-dev.github.io/MPoL/
If you use this package or derivatives of it, please cite the following two references:
@software{mpol,
author = {Ian Czekala and
Jeff Jennings and
Brianna Zawadzki and
Ryan Loomis and
Kadri Nizam and
Megan Delamer and
Kaylee de Soto and
Robert Frazier and
Hannah Grzybowski and
Mary Ogborn and
Tyler Quinn},
title = {MPoL-dev/MPoL: v0.2.0 Release},
month = nov,
year = 2023,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {v0.2.0},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3594081},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3594081}
}
and
@ARTICLE{2023PASP..135f4503Z,
author = {{Zawadzki}, Brianna and {Czekala}, Ian and {Loomis}, Ryan A. and {Quinn}, Tyler and {Grzybowski}, Hannah and {Frazier}, Robert C. and {Jennings}, Jeff and {Nizam}, Kadri M. and {Jian}, Yina},
title = "{Regularized Maximum Likelihood Image Synthesis and Validation for ALMA Continuum Observations of Protoplanetary Disks}",
journal = {\pasp},
keywords = {Protoplanetary disks, Submillimeter astronomy, Radio interferometry, Deconvolution, Open source software, 1300, 1647, 1346, 1910, 1866, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics},
year = 2023,
month = jun,
volume = {135},
number = {1048},
eid = {064503},
pages = {064503},
doi = {10.1088/1538-3873/acdf84},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
eprint = {2209.11813},
primaryClass = {astro-ph.EP},
adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023PASP..135f4503Z},
adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}
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