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The Maximum Entropy Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

S.F. Gull
Affiliation:
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
G.J. Daniell
Affiliation:
Department of Physics University of Southampton, United Kingdom

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We have heard so far at this meeting from the practical-minded men of radio astronomy. Faced with the problem: ‘my map has sidelobes and noise on it’, they promptly reach for the nearest available weapons – ‘cleaners, polishers and kneaders’. All these use varying amounts of subjective human judgement, as for example in ‘window cleaning’.

Type
Part V: Maximum Entropy Image Reconstruction
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1979

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