Explicit tight bounds on the stably recoverable information for the inverse source problem

Abstract

For the inverse source problem with the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation, the singular values of the 'source-to-near field' forward operator reveal a sharp frequency cut-off in the stably recoverable information on the source. We prove and numerically validate an explicit, tight lower bound for the spectral location of this cut-off. We also conjecture and support numerically a tight upper bound for the cut-off. The bounds are expressed in terms of zeros of Bessel functions of the first and second kind.