NAME¶

purify - Reconstruct images from radio interferometers using PADMM

SYNOPSIS¶

purify --measurement_set path --name path [options]

DESCRIPTION¶

PURIFY is a tool for radio interferometric imaging including file handling (for both visibilities and fits files), implementation of the measurement operator and set-up of the different optimization problems used for image deconvolution.

The code is given for educational purpose. The code is in beta and still under development.

OPTIONS¶

--measurement_set

Path of measurement set. (required)

--name

Path of file output. (required)

--noise

Path of measurement_set with Stokes V noise estimate. (Assumes Stokes V of measurement set).

--niters

Number of iterations.

--stokes

Choice of stokes I, Q, U, or V (I is default).

--cellsize

Size of a pixel in arcseconds.

--size

Image size in pixels.

--width

Image width in pixels.

--height

Image height in pixels.

--beta

Values used to set the stepsize of PADMM

--noadapt

Choose not to update the stepsize.

--diagnostic

Save diagnostic information to log file.

--l2_bound

Factor to multiply the l2 bound by.

--relative_variation

Convergence criteria on relative variation (default is 1e-3).

--residual_convergence

Factor to multiply the l2 bound by for convergence. (default is 1)

--relative_gamma_adapt

Relative difference criteria for adapting the stepsize gamma (default 0.01).

--power_iterations

Maximum iterations for the power method.

--primary_beam

Choice of primary beam model. (none is the only option).

--fft_grid_correction

Choose calculate the gridding correction using an FFT rather than analytic formula.

--kernel

Type of gridding kernel to use, kb, gauss, pswf, box. (kb is default)

--kernel_support

Support of kernel in grid cells. (4 is the default)

--logging_level

Determines the output logging level for sopt and purify. ("debug" is the default)

--help

Print usage information.

AUTHORS¶

PURIFY was initially created by Rafael Carrillo, Jason McEwen and Yves Wiaux but major contributions have since been made by a number of others. The full list of contributors is as follows: Rafael E. Carrillo, Jason D. McEwen, Yves Wiaux, Luke Pratley, and Mayeul d'Avezac.

BUGS¶

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact Rafael Carrillo or Jason McEwen, or add an issue in the issue tracker https://github.com/astro-informatics/purify/issues

LICENSE¶

PURIFY Copyright (C) 2013 Rafael Carrillo, Jason McEwen, Yves Wiaux

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.