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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…

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Cosmic shear measurements rely on our ability to measure and correct the Point Spread Function (PSF) of the observations. This PSF is measured using stars in the field, which give a noisy measure at random points in the field. Using Wiener…

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Current and future imaging surveys will measure cosmic shear with a statistical precision that demands a deeper understanding of potential systematic biases in galaxy shape measurements than has been achieved to date. We investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. E. Meyers , P. R. Burchat

The existing large scale weak lensing surveys typically reserve the best seeing conditions for a certain optical band to minimize shape measurement errors and maximize the number of usable background galaxies. This is because most popular…

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In preparation of future Multi-Object Spectrographs (MOS) whose one of the major role is to provide an extensive statistical studies of high redshifted galaxies surveyed, the demonstrator Canary has been designed to tackle technical…

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Images taken by space telescopes typically have a superb spatial resolution, but a relatively poor sampling rate due to the finite CCD pixel size. Beyond the Nyquist limit, it becomes uncertain how much the pixelation effect may affect the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-06 Zhi Shen , Jun Zhang , Hekun Li , Haoran Wang , Chengliang Wei , Guoliang Li , Xiaobo Li , Zhang Ban , Dan Yue

We present a simple method to accurately infer line of sight (LOS) integrated lensing effects for galaxy scale strong lens systems through image reconstruction. Our approach enables us to separate weak lensing LOS effects from the main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Simon Birrer , Cyril Welschen , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

Point spread function (PSF) engineering is vital for precisely controlling the focus of light in computational imaging, with applications in neural imaging, fluorescence microscopy, and biophotonics. The PSF is derived from the magnitude of…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-22 Aleksey Valouev

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

Dispersion relation reflects the dependence of wave frequency on its wave vector when the wave passes through certain material. It demonstrates the properties of this material and thus it is critical. However, dispersion relation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Yueqi Wang , Guanglian Li

Space telescopes for solar hard X-ray imaging provide observations made of sampled Fourier components of the incoming photon flux. The aim of this study is to design an image reconstruction method relying on enhanced visibility…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Emma Perracchione , Paolo Massa , Anna Maria Massone , Michele Piana

The Shear TEsting Programme (STEP) is a collaborative project to improve the accuracy and reliability of weak lensing measurement, in preparation for the next generation of wide-field surveys. We review sixteen current and emerging shear…

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) is a key cosmological probe that requires precise measurement of galaxy images to infer shape distortions, or shear, and constrain cosmology. Accurate estimation of the Point Spread Function (PSF) is crucial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Federico Berlfein , Rachel Mandelbaum , Xiangchong Li , Tianqing Zhang , Scott Dodelson , Katarina Markovic

Dedicated 'Stage IV' observatories will soon observe the entire extragalactic sky, to measure the 'cosmic shear' distortion of galaxy shapes by weak gravitational lensing. To measure the apparent shapes of those galaxies, we present an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-08 Xiangchong Li , Yin Li , Richard Massey

By measuring photoelectron tracks, the gas pixel detectors of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer satellite provide estimates of the photon detection location and its electric vector position angle (EVPA). However, imperfections in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Jack T. Dinsmore , Roger W. Romani

The tilt, rotation, or offset of each CCD with respect to the focal plane, as well as the distortion of the focal plane itself, cause shape distortions to the observed objects, an effect typically known as field distortion (FD). We point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Jun Zhang , Fuyu Dong , Hekun Li , Xiangchong Li , Yingke Li , Dezi Liu , Wentao Luo , Liping Fu , Guoliang Li , Zuhui Fan

In a previous work we have demonstrated a novel numerical model for the point spread function (PSF) of an optical system that can efficiently model both experimental measurements and lens design simulations of the PSF. The novelty lies in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-25 Matthias Lehmann , Christian Wittpahl , Hatem Ben Zakour , Alexander Braun

The point spread function (PSF) is fundamental to any type of microscopy, most importantly so for single-molecule localization techniques, where the exact PSF shape is crucial for precise molecule localization at the nanoscale. However,…

We present the theoretical and analytical bases of optimal techniques to measure weak gravitational shear from images of galaxies. We first characterize the geometric space of shears and ellipticity, then use this geometric interpretation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. M. Bernstein , M. Jarvis

Accurate knowledge of the telescope's point spread function (PSF) is essential for the weak gravitational lensing measurements that hold great promise for cosmological constraints. For space telescopes, the PSF may vary with time due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhaoming Ma , Gary Bernstein , Alan Weinstein , Michael Sholl