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Image Reconstruction in Optical Interferometry: An Up-to-Date Overview

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Optical interferometry is now routinely used to image stars and their environments with sub-milliarcsecond resolution. We present here a brief review of model-independent interferometric imaging, discussing the most recent advances in regularisation , optimisation algorithms , and imaging procedures with minimal formalism.

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My work on image reconstruction is partially supported by NSF-AST 1445935.

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Baron, F. (2016). Image Reconstruction in Optical Interferometry: An Up-to-Date Overview. In: Boffin, H., Hussain, G., Berger, JP., Schmidtobreick, L. (eds) Astronomy at High Angular Resolution. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 439. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39739-9_5

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