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J-comb: An image fusion algorithm to combine observations covering different spatial frequency ranges

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Lin,  Yuxin
MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Jiao, S., Lin, Y., Shui, X., Wu, J., & Li, Z. R. &. D. (2022). J-comb: An image fusion algorithm to combine observations covering different spatial frequency ranges. Science China - Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 65(9): 299511. doi:10.1007/s11433-021-1902-3.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-7977-7
Abstract
Ground-based, high-resolution bolometric (sub)millimeter continuum mapping observations on spatially extended target sources are often subject to significant missing fluxes. This hampers accurate quantitative analyses. Missing flux can be recovered by fusing high-resolution images with observations that preserve extended structures. However, the commonly adopted image fusion approaches do not maintain the simplicity of the beam response function and do not try to elaborate the details of the yielded beam response functions. These make the comparison of the observations at multiple wavelengths not straightforward. We present a new algorithm, J-comb, which combines the high and low-resolution images linearly. By applying a taper function to the low-pass filtered image and combining it with a high-pass filtered image using proper weights, the beam response functions of our combined images are guaranteed to have near-Gaussian shapes. This makes it easy to convolve the observations at multiple wavelengths to share the same beam response functions. Moreover, we introduce a strategy to tackle the specific problem that the imaging at 850 µm from the present-date ground-based bolometric instrument and that taken with the Planck satellite do not overlap in the Fourier domain. We benchmarked our method against two other widely-used image combination algorithms, CASA-feather and MIRIAD-immerge, with mock observations of star-forming molecular clouds. We demonstrate that the performance of the J-comb algorithm is superior to those of the other two algorithms. We applied the J-comb algorithm to real observational data of the Orion A star-forming region. We successfully produced dust temperature and column density maps with ∼10″ angular resolution, unveiling much greater details than the previous results. A python code release of J-comb and implementation of the algorithm are available at https://github.com/SihanJiao/J-comb.