Neural blind deconvolution to reconstruct high-resolution ground-based solar observations

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Hauptverfasser: Schirninger, Christoph, Jarolim, Robert, Veronig, Astrid M., Rempel, Matthias, Wöger, Friedrich
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author Schirninger, Christoph
Jarolim, Robert
Veronig, Astrid M.
Rempel, Matthias
Wöger, Friedrich
author_facet Schirninger, Christoph
Jarolim, Robert
Veronig, Astrid M.
Rempel, Matthias
Wöger, Friedrich
contents Ground-based solar observations enable unprecedented spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution of the lower solar atmosphere, yet Earths turbulent atmosphere imposes significant limitations, requiring advanced post-facto image reconstruction. State-of-the-art reconstruction methods are based on restoring a burst of short exposure frames to a single observation. Limitations of these techniques arise due to the sparse information about the atmospheric point spread function (PSF) that degrade the observations and consequently the quality of reconstructions. We develop a novel image reconstruction method to achieve unprecedented spatial resolution from short exposure image bursts. This can provide high-quality reconstructions and therefore advance the study of the smallest spatial scales from the solar photosphere to the chromosphere. In this study, we present a novel approach for high-resolution solar image reconstruction based on physics-informed neural networks. In the training process, the neural network maps coordinate points directly to their corresponding intensity values while simultaneously updating the PSF parameters. The method convolves the true object from the neural network with the estimated PSFs and optimizes the network by minimizing the loss between the synthesized and real short-exposure image burst. This approach enables the simultaneous estimation of both the degrading PSF and the real high-resolution intensity distribution. We demonstrate the method on synthetic intensity data derived from a radiative MHD simulation and apply it to high-resolution observations from GREGOR and DKIST. Our results demonstrate the ability to reconstruct small-scale solar features that exceed the reconstruction performance of state-of-the-art reconstruction methods. With this approach we lay the foundation for future spatially varying PSFs.
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spellingShingle Neural blind deconvolution to reconstruct high-resolution ground-based solar observations
Schirninger, Christoph
Jarolim, Robert
Veronig, Astrid M.
Rempel, Matthias
Wöger, Friedrich
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Ground-based solar observations enable unprecedented spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution of the lower solar atmosphere, yet Earths turbulent atmosphere imposes significant limitations, requiring advanced post-facto image reconstruction. State-of-the-art reconstruction methods are based on restoring a burst of short exposure frames to a single observation. Limitations of these techniques arise due to the sparse information about the atmospheric point spread function (PSF) that degrade the observations and consequently the quality of reconstructions. We develop a novel image reconstruction method to achieve unprecedented spatial resolution from short exposure image bursts. This can provide high-quality reconstructions and therefore advance the study of the smallest spatial scales from the solar photosphere to the chromosphere. In this study, we present a novel approach for high-resolution solar image reconstruction based on physics-informed neural networks. In the training process, the neural network maps coordinate points directly to their corresponding intensity values while simultaneously updating the PSF parameters. The method convolves the true object from the neural network with the estimated PSFs and optimizes the network by minimizing the loss between the synthesized and real short-exposure image burst. This approach enables the simultaneous estimation of both the degrading PSF and the real high-resolution intensity distribution. We demonstrate the method on synthetic intensity data derived from a radiative MHD simulation and apply it to high-resolution observations from GREGOR and DKIST. Our results demonstrate the ability to reconstruct small-scale solar features that exceed the reconstruction performance of state-of-the-art reconstruction methods. With this approach we lay the foundation for future spatially varying PSFs.
title Neural blind deconvolution to reconstruct high-resolution ground-based solar observations
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05033