Synthesis Imaging Distributions -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Synthesis Imaging Distributions

Let Z be an intensity distribution containing unmeasured spatial frequencies, so

where is the dirty beam. Therefore, if is a solution to

then so is , where is a constant. Solutions Z satisfying

are called invisible distributions, while the solution having 0 amplitude at all unsampled spatial frequencies is called the principle solution.