TY - JFULL AU - Youssef Khmou and Said Safi and Miloud Frikel PY - 2014/10/ TI - Generalized Maximum Entropy Method for Cosmic Source Localization T2 - International Journal of Physical and Mathematical Sciences SP - 1239 EP - 1243 VL - 8 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9999616 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 93, 2014 N2 - The Maximum entropy principle in spectral analysis was used as an estimator of Direction of Arrival (DoA) of electromagnetic or acoustic sources impinging on an array of sensors, indeed the maximum entropy operator is very efficient when the signals of the radiating sources are ergodic and complex zero mean random processes which is the case for cosmic sources. In this paper, we present basic review of the maximum entropy method (MEM) which consists of rank one operator but not a projector, and we elaborate a new operator which is full rank and sum of all possible projectors. Two dimensional Simulation results based on Monte Carlo trials prove the resolution power of the new operator where the MEM presents some erroneous fluctuations. ER -