| A Pixon reconstruction of the 60-micron IRAS satellite survey scans of the galaxy M51 (''whirlpool galaxy''). The resolution of the reconstructed image is 20 times finer than the raw co-added scans (in the cross-scan direction) and the sensitivity to the detection of faint sources is improved by a factor of 100. Overlaid on the reconstruction are the 5 GHz radio contours of van der Hulst et al., Astronomy & Astrophysics, 195, 328 (1988). Also identified are a number of optical sources and Ha knots. |
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