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Raluca Felea

Publications and source records attributed to Raluca Felea.

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arXiv2026

Microlocal analysis of Radon transforms over quadric surfaces

We study the microlocal properties of generalized Radon transforms over a family of quadric hypersurfaces whose centers lie on an orientable hypersurface $S$. The quadric surfaces we consider are level sets of the quadratic form associated to a symmetric, invertible matrix $A$, with real entries. We study the singularities of the right and left projections of the canonical relation associated with these operators and show that they are determined by the signature of the matrix $A$ and the hypersurface $S$. If the matrix is positive/negative definite (i.e., the surface of integration is an ellipsoid) and $S$ is strictly convex, we prove that the singularities are folds. If the matrix is indefinite (i.e., the surface of integration is a hyperboloid-type quadric) and $S$ is either strictly convex or a cylinder, then cusp, fold, or blowdown singularities are present. We also study the case when the surface of integration is a paraboloid and show that the Bolker condition is satisfied.

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arXiv2021

Microlocal analysis of borehole seismic data

Borehole seismic data is obtained by receivers located in a well, with sources located on the surface or in another well. Using microlocal analysis, we study possible approximate reconstruction via linearized, filtered backprojection of an isotropic sound speed in the subsurface for three types of data sets. The sources may form a dense array on the surface, or be located along a line on the surface (walkaway geometry) or in another borehole (crosswell). We show that for the dense array, reconstruction is feasible, with no artifacts in the absence of caustics in the background ray geometry, and mild artifacts in the presence of fold caustics in a sense that we define. In contrast, the walkaway and crosswell data sets both give rise to strong, nonremovable artifacts.

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arXiv2018

Microlocal analysis of Doppler Synthetic Aperture Radar

We study the existence and suppression of artifacts for a Doppler-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (DSAR) system. The idealized air- or space-borne system transmits a continuous wave at a fixed frequency and a co-located receiver measures the resulting scattered waves; a windowed Fourier transform then converts the raw data into a function of two variables: slow time and frequency. Under simplifying assumptions, we analyze the linearized forward scattering map and the feasibility of inverting it via filtered backprojection, using techniques of microlocal analysis which robustly describe how sharp features in the target appear in the data. For DSAR with a straight flight path, there is, as with conventional SAR, a left-right ambiguity artifact in the DSAR image, which can be avoided via beam forming to the left or right. For a circular flight path, the artifact has a more complicated structure, but filtering out echoes coming from straight ahead or behind the transceiver, as well as those outside a critical range, allows one to obtain an artifact-free image. Initially derived under a start-stop approximation widely used in range-based SAR, we show that some of these results are robust and hold under a more realistic approximation.

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arXiv2017

Singular FIOs in SAR Imaging, II: Transmitter and Receiver at Different Speeds

In this article, we consider two bistatic cases arising in synthetic aperture radar imaging: when the transmitter and receiver are both moving with different speeds along a single line parallel to the ground in the same direction or in the opposite directions. In both cases, we classify the forward operator $\Fc$ as a Fourier integral operator with fold/blowdown singularities. Next we analyze the normal operator $\Fc^*\Fc$ in both cases (where $\Fc^{*}$ is the $L^{2}$-adjoint of $\Fc$). When the transmitter and receiver move in the same direction, we prove that $\Fc^*\Fc$ belongs to a class of operators associated to two cleanly intersecting Lagrangians, $I^{p,l} (Δ, C_1)$. When they move in opposite directions, $\Fc^*\Fc$ is a sum of such operators. In both cases artifacts appear and we show that they are, in general, as strong as the bona-fide part of the image. Moreover, we demonstrate that as soon as the source and receiver start to move in opposite directions, there is an interesting bifurcation in the type of artifact that appears in the image.

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arXiv2010

An FIO calculus for marine seismic imaging, II: Sobolev estimates

We establish sharp $L^2$-Sobolev estimates for classes of pseudodifferential operators with singular symbols whose non-pseudodifferential (Fourier integral operator) parts exhibit two-sided fold singularities. The operators considered include both singular integral operators along curves in $R^2$ with simple inflection points and normal operators arising in linearized seismic imaging in the presence of fold caustics.

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arXiv2010

Fourier integral operators with open umbrellas and seismic inversion for cusp caustics

In general the composition of Fourier integral operators (FIOs) need not be an FIO. Motivated by the problem of linearized seismic inversion in the presence of cusp caustics for the background sound speed, we consider FIOs whose canonical relations have certain two-sided cusp degeneracies, and show that the resulting compositions have wave-front relations in the union of the diagonal and an open umbrella, the simplest type of singular Lagrangian manifold.

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arXiv2007

An FIO calculus for marine seismic imaging: folds and cross caps

We consider a linearized inverse problem, arising in offshore seismic exploration, for an isotropic wave equation with sound speed assumed to be a small, singular perturbation of a smooth background. Under an assumption of at most fold caustics for the background, we identify the geometry of the canonical relation underlying the linearization, F, which is a Fourier integral operator, and establish a composition calculus sufficient to describe the normal operator F^*F. The resulting artifacts are 1/2 derivative smoother than in the case of a single-source seismic experiment.

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