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Telescope Point Spread Function (PSF) quality is critical for realising the potential of cosmic weak lensing observations to constrain dark energy and test General Relativity. In this paper we use quantitative weak gravitational lensing…

The point spread function (PSF) reflects states of a telescope and plays an important role in development of data processing methods, such as PSF based astrometry, photometry and image restoration. However, for wide field small aperture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Peng Jia , Xuebo Wu , Zhengyang Li , Bo Li , Weihua Wang , Qiang Liu , Adam Popowicz

The three-point correlation function (3PCF) of a weak lensing shear field contains information that is complementary to that in the two-point correlation function (2PCF), which can help improve the cosmological parameters and calibrate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Sunao Sugiyama , Rafael C. H. Gomes , Mike Jarvis

A simple theoretical framework for the description and interpretation of spatially correlated modelling residuals is presented, and the resulting tools are found to provide a useful aid to model selection in the context of weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Barnaby Rowe

We apply the Fourier Power Function Shapelets (FPFS) shear estimator to the first year data of the Hyper Suprime-Cam survey to construct a shape catalog. The FPFS shear estimator has been demonstrated to have multiplicative bias less than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-19 Xiangchong Li , Masamune Oguri , Nobuhiko Katayama , Wentao Luo , Wenting Wang , Jiaxin Han , Hironao Miyatake , Keigo Nakamura , Surhud More

Weak gravitational lensing, or weak lensing, is one of the most powerful probes for dark matter and dark energy science, although it faces increasing challenges in controlling systematic uncertainties as \edit{the statistical errors become…

Nowadays, astronomers perform point spread function (PSF) fitting for most types of observational data. Interpolation of the PSF is often an intermediate step in such algorithms. In the case of the Multi-AO Imaging Camera for Deep…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-11 Mariia Demianenko , Joerg-Uwe Pott , Kai Polsterer

Context: in astronomy, observing large fractions of the sky within a reasonable amount of time implies using large field-of-view (fov) optical instruments that typically have a spatially varying Point Spread Function (PSF). Depending on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-20 F. M. Ngolè Mboula , J. -L. Starck

The next generation of space-based telescopes used for weak lensing surveys will require exquisite point spread function (PSF) determination. Previously negligible effects may become important in the reconstruction of the PSF, in part…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 T. Kuntzer , F. Courbin , G. Meylan

The point-spread function (PSF) of an imaging system describes the response of the system to a point source. Accurately determining the PSF enables one to correct for the combined effects of focussing and scattering within the imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-01 Stefan Johann Hofmeister , Michael Hahn , Daniel Wolf Savin

The accurate modelling of the Point Spread Function (PSF) is of paramount importance in astronomical observations, as it allows for the correction of distortions and blurring caused by the telescope and atmosphere. PSF modelling is crucial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Tobias Liaudat , Jean-Luc Starck , Martin Kilbinger

Point-spread function (PSF) estimation in spatially undersampled images is challenging because large pixels average fine-scale spatial information. This is problematic when fine-resolution details are necessary, as in optimal photometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Teresa Symons , Michael Zemcov , James Bock , Yun-Ting Cheng , Brendan Crill , Christopher Hirata , Stephanie Venuto

Galaxy imaging surveys observe a vast number of objects that are affected by the instrument's Point Spread Function (PSF). Weak lensing missions, in particular, aim at measuring the shape of galaxies, and PSF effects represent an important…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 T. Liaudat , J. Bonnin , J. -L. Starck , M. A. Schmitz , A. Guinot , M. Kilbinger , S. D. J. Gwyn

The knowledge of the exact structure of the optical system PSF enables a high-quality image reconstruction in fluorescence microscopy. Accurate PSF models account for the vector nature of light and the phase and amplitude modifications.…

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

Weak lensing by large-scale structure is an invaluable cosmological tool given that most of the energy density of the concordance cosmology is invisible. Several large ground-based imaging surveys will attempt to measure this effect over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Eric M. Huff , Christopher M. Hirata , Rachel Mandelbaum , David Schlegel , Uros Seljak , Robert H. Lupton

We generalize ERA method of PSF correction for more realistic situations. The method re-smears the observed galaxy image(galaxy image smeared by PSF) and PSF image by an appropriate function called Re-Smearing Function(RSF) to make new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Yuki Okura , Toshifumi Futamase

We present the results from the first public blind PSF reconstruction challenge, the GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 2010 (GREAT10) Star Challenge. Reconstruction of a spatially varying PSF, sparsely sampled by stars, at non-star…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 T. D. Kitching , B. Rowe , M. Gill , C. Heymans , R. Massey , D. Witherick , F. Courbin , K. Georgatzis , M. Gentile , D. Gruen , M. Kilbinger , G. L. Li , A. P. Mariglis , G. Meylan , A. Storkey , B. Xin

We present the development of a data-driven, AI-based model of the Point Spread Function (PSF) that achieves higher accuracy than the current state-of-the-art approach, "PSF in the Full Field-of-View'' (PIFF). PIFF is widely used in leading…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Dayana Andrea Henao Arbeláez , Pierre-François Léget , Andrés Alejandro Plazas Malagón

Chromatic point-spread-function (PSF) effects arise from differences between the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of stars, used to model the PSF, and galaxies, used to measure shape distortions due to weak gravitational lensing, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Federico Berlfein , Rachel Mandelbaum , Jiachuan Xu , Tianqing Zhang