POLISH'ing the Sky: Wide-Field and High-Dynamic Range Interferometric Image Reconstruction with Application to Strong Lens Discovery

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09162v1
• Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:59:26 GMT
• Title: POLISH'ing the Sky: Wide-Field and High-Dynamic Range Interferometric Image Reconstruction with Application to Strong Lens Discovery
• Abstract summary: We introduce improvements to enable robust reconstruction and super-resolution under real-world conditions.<n>Our results highlight the potential of DL models as practical, scalable tools for next-generation radio astronomy.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Radio interferometry enables high-resolution imaging of astronomical radio sources by synthesizing a large effective aperture from an array of antennas and solving a deconvolution problem to reconstruct the image. Deep learning has emerged as a promising solution to the imaging problem, reducing computational costs and enabling super-resolution. However, existing DL-based methods often fall short of the requirements for real-world deployment due to limitations in handling high dynamic range, large field of view, and mismatches between training and test conditions. In this work, we build upon and extend the POLISH framework, a recent DL model for radio interferometric imaging. We introduce key improvements to enable robust reconstruction and super-resolution under real-world conditions: (1) a patch-wise training and stitching strategy for scaling to wide-field imaging and (2) a nonlinear arcsinh-based intensity transformation to manage high dynamic range. We conduct comprehensive evaluations using the T-RECS simulation suite with realistic sky models and point spead functions (PSF), and demonstrate that our approach significantly improves reconstruction quality and robustness. We test the model on realistic simulated strong gravitational lenses and show that lens systems with Einstein radii near the PSF scale can be recovered after deconvolution with our POLISH model, potentially yielding 10$\times$ more galaxy-galaxy lensing systems from the Deep Synoptic Array (DSA) survey than with image-plane CLEAN. Our results highlight the potential of DL models as practical, scalable tools for next-generation radio astronomy.

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