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Table 2.

Imaging parameters characterizing the ground truth, CLEAN, multiscale CLEAN, MEM_GE, uv_smooth_VSK, and u-CLEAN reconstructions for two approaching circular Gaussian sources (see Fig. 3).

First source Second source


Total flux max xmax ymax FWHMx FWHMy max xmax ymax FWHMx FWHMy
ground truth 10000 11.07 −41 39 20 20 5.18 39 −41 30 30
CLEAN 12888 6.81 −38 41 24 27 4.41 35 −43 33 35
multi-scale CLEAN 9641 7.59 −39 42 24 24 4.92 39 −45 27 26
MEM_GE 9709 9.52 −39 41 18 14 3.91 39 −45 35 21
uv_smooth_VSK 12958 12.80 −39 42 22 21 10.04 35 −42 24 23
u-CLEAN 10795 12.69 −37 41 21 21 7.49 33 −41 28 23

ground truth 10000 11.17 −12 11 20 20 4.91 11 −12 30 30
CLEAN 11650 6.85 −11 11 29 23 4.22 10 −12 41 24
multi-scale CLEAN 10101 8.68 −11 10 25 23 4.68 11 −14 28 25
MEM_GE 10103 9.05 −12 11 18 18 3.61 9 −12 31 25
uv_smooth_VSK 10337 8.42 −12 11 27 27 4.28 9 −13 40 20
u-CLEAN 10513 10.95 −12 13 23 21 5.97 11 −13 28 21

ground truth 10000 11.45 −11 9 20 20 4.95 9 −10 30 30
CLEAN 11439 7.13 −9 8 30 26 4.55 6 −7 43 16
multi-scale CLEAN 10037 9.43 −9 7 25 25 4.69 6 −8 42 17
MEM_GE 10119 9.38 −10 9 19 19 3.97 6 −7 36 16
uv_smooth_VSK 10275 9.22 −10 9 28 27 4.59 8 −7 40 15
u-CLEAN 10499 10.93 −10 10 24 22 5.42 10 −13 29 16

Notes. The total flux is conceived in counts s−1 cm−2 keV−1, max is expressed in counts s−1 cm−2 keV−1 arcsec−2, and xmax, ymax, FWHMx, FWHMy are conceived in arcsec.

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