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Accurate modelling of the effective point spread function (ePSF) is essential for high-precision photometry and astrometry, particularly in undersampled imaging regimes. In this work, we build on a well-established ePSF modelling framework…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Emma Godden , Katherine M. Blundell

Point-spread-function (PSF) engineering is a powerful computational imaging techniques wherein a custom phase mask is integrated into an optical system to encode additional information into captured images. Used in combination with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Sachin Shah , Sakshum Kulshrestha , Christopher A. Metzler

We present revised point-spread functions (PSFs) for the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). These PSFs provide a robust estimate of the light diffracted by the meshes holding the entrance and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Stefan Hofmeister , Daniel Wolf Savin , Michael Hahn

One of the possible approaches to detecting optical counterparts of GRBs requires monitoring large parts of the sky. This idea has gained some instrumental support in recent years, such as with the "Pi of the Sky" project. The broad sky…

Modeling the optical point spread function (PSF) is particularly challenging for adaptive optics (AO)-assisted observations owing to the its complex shape and spatial variations. We aim to (i) exhaustively demonstrate the accuracy of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Olivier Beltramo-Martin , Romain Fétick , Benoit Neichel , Thierry Fusco

Ground based optical telescopes are seriously affected by atmospheric turbulence induced aberrations. Understanding properties of these aberrations is important both for instruments design and image restoration methods development. Because…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Peng Jia , Xuebo Wu , Yi Huang , Bojun Cai , Dongmei Cai

Optical astronomical images are strongly affected by the point spread function (PSF) of the optical system and the atmosphere (seeing) which blurs the observed image. The amount of blurring depends both on the observed band, and on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 Hong Wang , Sreevarsha Sreejith , Yuewei Lin , Nesar Ramachandra , Anže Slosar , Shinjae Yoo

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) presents significant potential for high-precision astrometry. In this study, we show that the point spread function (PSF) modeled by the discrete PSF with Multi-Gaussian function can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jialu Nie , Peng Wei , Zihuang Cao , Yibo Yan , Chao Liu , Hao Tian , Xin Zhang , Haijun Tian

The weak gravitational lensing is a powerful tool in modern cosmology. To accurately measure the weak lensing signal, one has to control the systematic bias to a small level. One of the most difficult problems is how to correct the smearing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Q. Y. Liu , X. Z. Er , Z. H. Fan , D. Z. Liu , G. L. Li , C. L. Wei , Z. Ban , X. B. Li , D. Yue

High quality, repeatable point-spread functions are important for science cases like direct exoplanet imaging, high-precision astrometry, and high-resolution spectroscopy of exoplanets. For such demanding applications, the initial on-sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-19 Steven P. Bos , Michael Bottom , Sam Ragland , Jacques-Robert Delorme , Sylvain Cetre , Laurent Pueyo

We created the Herschel Footprint Database and web services for the Herschel Space Observatory imaging data. For this database we set up a unified data model for the PACS and SPIRE Herschel instruments, from the pointing and header…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 E. Varga-Verebélyi , L. Dobos , T. Budavári , Cs. Kiss

The ability to accurately measure the shapes of faint objects in images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys(ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) depends upon detailed knowledge of the Point Spread Function (PSF). We show that…

In this paper, we address the task of aberration-aware depth-from-defocus (DfD), which takes account of spatially variant point spread functions (PSFs) of a real camera. To effectively obtain the spatially variant PSFs of a real camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Zhuofeng Wu , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

Recently introduced angular-memory-effect based techniques enable non-invasive imaging of objects hidden behind thin scattering layers. However, both the speckle-correlation and the bispectrum analysis are based on the statistical average…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Tengfei Wu , Jonathan Dong , Xiaopeng Shao , Sylvain Gigan

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the most powerful tools for cosmology, while subject to challenges in quantifying subtle systematic biases. The Point Spread Function (PSF) can cause biases in weak lensing shear inference when the PSF…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-13 Tianqing Zhang , Rachel Mandelbaum , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

A main science goal for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is to measure the cosmic shear signal from weak lensing to extreme accuracy. One difficulty, however, is that with the short exposure time ($\simeq$15 seconds) proposed, the…

Imaging with a layered superlens is a spatial filtering operation characterized by the point spread function (PSF). We show that in the same optical system the image of a narrow sub-wavelength Gaussian incident field may be surprisingly…

Optics · Physics 2010-04-08 Rafal Kotynski , Tomasz Stefaniuk

Access to knowledge of the point spread function (PSF) of adaptive optics(AO)-assisted observations is still a major limitation when processing AO data. This limitation is particularly important when image analysis requires the use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 A. Lau , R. JL. Fétick , B. Neichel , O. Beltramo-Martin , T. Fusco

The point-spread function (PSF) of an adaptive optics (AO) system is often poorly known. This ignorance can lead to significant systematic errors in photometry. Since the degree of AO correction is sensitive to the observing conditions:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Christopher D. Sheehy , Nate McCrady , James R. Graham

Precise knowledge of the point spread function (PSF) underpins many data analysis steps in astronomy, from photometry and astrometry to source de-blending and deconvolution. In adaptive optics (AO) observations, however, the PSF is highly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Arseniy Kuznetsov , Benoit Neichel , Sylvain Oberti , Thierry Fusco