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Accurately estimating the point spread function (PSF) of an optical system requires solving free-space wave propagation, which entails evaluating a diffraction integral. This integral is traditionally computed numerically using Fast Fourier…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Nicholas Ganino , Qi Guo

Direct imaging of exoplanets is limited by bright quasi-static speckles in the point spread function (PSF) of the central star. This limitation can be reduced by subtraction of reference PSF images. We have developed an algorithm to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 David Lafreniere , Christian Marois , Rene Doyon , Daniel Nadeau , Etienne Artigau

As one of the automotive sensors that have emerged in recent years, 4D millimeter-wave radar has a higher resolution than conventional 3D radar and provides precise elevation measurements. But its point clouds are still sparse and noisy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hongsi Liu , Jun Liu , Guangfeng Jiang , Xin Jin

Star formation rates (SFRs) are a crucial observational tracer of galaxy formation and evolution. Spectroscopy, which is expensive, is traditionally used to estimate SFRs. This study tests the possibility of inferring SFRs of large samples…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-10 Satvik Raghav , Prasanth Ayitapu , Sathwik Narkedimilli , Sujith Makam , Aswath Babu H

We describe here a new full 2-D parameterization of the PSFs of the three XMM-Newton EPIC telescopes as a function of instrument, energy, off-axis angle and azimuthal angle, covering the whole field-of-view of the three EPIC detectors. It…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. M. Read , S. R. Rosen , R. D. Saxton , J. Ramirez

We present an algorithm to derive difference images for data taken with the JWST with matched point-spread functions (PSFs). It is based on the saccadic fast Fourier transform (SFFT) method but with revisions to accommodate the rotations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Lei Hu , Lifan Wang

Context. Most popular algorithms in use to remove the effects of a telescope's point spread function (PSF) in radio astronomy are variants of the CLEAN algorithm. Most of these algorithms model the sky brightness using the delta-function…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-18 L. Zhang , S. Bhatnagar , U. Rau , M. Zhang

We introduce a new framework for point-spread function (PSF) subtraction based on the spatio-temporal variation of speckle noise in high-contrast imaging data where the sampling timescale is faster than the speckle evolution timescale. One…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-23 Briley L. Lewis , Michael P. Fitzgerald , Rupert H. Dodkins , Kristina K. Davis , Jonathan Lin

Recent technological advances have led to a flood of new data on cosmology rich in information about the formation and evolution of the universe, e.g., the data collected in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) for more than 200 million objects.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-25 Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay , Sisir Roy , Sourabh Bhattacharya

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

Localization microscopy often relies on detailed models of point spread functions. For applications such as deconvolution or PSF engineering, accurate models for light propagation in imaging systems with high numerical aperture are…

Wavelength-dependent point spread functions (PSFs) violate an implicit assumption in current galaxy shape measurement algorithms that deconvolve the PSF measured from stars (which have stellar spectral energy distributions (SEDs)) from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Joshua E. Meyers , Patricia R. Burchat

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

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

In the imaging process of an astronomical telescope, the deconvolution of its beam or Point Spread Function (PSF) is a crucial task. However, deconvolution presents a classical and challenging inverse computation problem. In scenarios where…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Shulei Ni , Yisheng Qiu , Yunchun Chen , Zihao Song , Hao Chen , Xuejian Jiang , Huaxi Chen

We explore the impact of aperture size and shape on automotive camera systems for deep-learning-based tasks like traffic sign recognition and light state detection. A method is proposed to simulate optical effects using the point spread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Ofer Bar-Shalom , Tzvi Philipp , Eran Kishon

I present a method for the fast convolution of a model galaxy profile by a point-spread function (PSF) model represented as a pixel grid. The method relies upon three observations: First, most simple radial galaxy profiles of common…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-01 Dustin Lang

The ultimate goal of the "Pi of the Sky" apparatus is observation of optical flashes of astronomical origin and other light sources variable on short timescales. We search mainly for optical emission of Gamma Ray Bursts, but also for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-02 Lech Wiktor Piotrowski

Interferometric scattering (iSCAT) microscopy is an emerging label-free technique optimized for the sensitive detection of nano-matter. Previous iSCAT studies have approximated the point spread function in iSCAT by a Gaussian intensity…

We make the in-orbit calibration to the point-spread functions (PSFs) of the collimators of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope with the scanning observation of the Crab. We construct the empirical adjustments to the theoretically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Yi Nang , Jin-Yuan Liao , Na Sai , Chen Wang , Ju Guan , Cheng-Kui Li , Cheng-Cheng Guo , Yuan Liu , Jing Jin , Xiao-Bo Li , Shu Zhang , Shuang-Nan Zhang