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The effects of seeing on Sersic r^{1/n} profile parameters are extensively studied using a Moffat function. This analytical approximation to the point spread function (PSF) is shown to provide the best fit to the PSF predicted from…

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We investigate the power spectra of outflow-driven turbulence through high-resolution three-dimensional isothermal numerical simulations where the turbulence is driven locally in real-space by a simple spherical outflow model. The resulting…

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The probabilistic approach to turbulence is applied to investigate density fluctuations in supersonic turbulence. We derive kinetic equations for the probability distribution function (PDF) of the logarithm of the density field, $s$, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-24 Liubin Pan , Paolo Padoan , Åke Nordlund

The present study extends the analysis of turbulence-affected beam statistics through a manifold-based statistical framework that unifies probabilistic modeling with geometric interpretation. The spatial intensity distributions, distorted…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-22 Shouvik Sadhukhan , C. S. Narayanamurthy

We study wave turbulence in shallow water flows in numerical simulations using two different approximations: the shallow water model, and the Boussinesq model with weak dispersion. The equations for both models were solved using periodic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. Clark di Leoni , P. J. Cobelli , P. D. Mininni

Adaptive optics (AO) restore the angular resolution of ground-based telescopes, but at the cost of delivering a time- and space-varying point spread function (PSF) with a complex shape. PSF knowledge is crucial for breaking existing limits…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-17 O. Beltramo-Martin , C. M. Correia , E. Mieda , B. Neichel , T. Fusco , G. Witzel , J. Lu , J. -P. Véran

Accurate blur estimation is essential for high-performance imaging across various applications. Blur is typically represented by the point spread function (PSF). In this paper, we propose a physics-informed PSF learning framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Liqun Chen , Yuxuan Li , Jun Dai , Jinwei Gu , Tianfan Xue

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

High-fidelity simulated astronomical images are an important tool in developing and measuring the performance of image-processing algorithms, particularly for high precision measurements of cosmic shear -- correlated distortions of images…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-25 Claire-Alice Hébert , Joshua E. Meyers , My H. Do , Patricia R. Burchat , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

A standard approach to study time-dependent stochastic processes is the power spectral density (PSD), an ensemble-averaged property defined as the Fourier transform of the autocorrelation function of the process in the asymptotic limit of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Vittoria Sposini , Ralf Metzler , Gleb Oshanin

We present here an overview of the Fourier Transform Scanning Tunneling spectroscopy technique (FT-STS). This technique allows one to probe the electronic properties of a two-dimensional system by analyzing the standing waves formed in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. Simon , C. Bena , F. Vonau , M. Cranney , D. Aubel

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 shape of a focus-modulated point spread function (PSF) is used as a quick visual assessment tool of aberration modes in the PSF. Further analysis in terms of shape moments can permit quantifying the modal coefficients with an accuracy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-11 Hanshin Lee

Simulations of strongly stratified turbulence often exhibit coherent large-scale structures called vertically sheared horizontal flows (VSHFs). VSHFs emerge in both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) stratified turbulence with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-10 Joseph G. Fitzgerald , Brian F. Farrell

We examined the anisotropic point spread function (PSF) of Suprime-Cam data utilizing dense star field data. We decomposed the PSF ellipticities into three components, the optical aberration, atmospheric turbulence, and chip-misalignment in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Takashi Hamana , Satoshi Miyazaki , Yuki Okura , Tomohiro Okamura , Toshifumi Futamase

In this letter we propose a practical methodology to interpret future Parker Solar Probe (PSP) turbulent time signals even when Taylor's hypothesis is not valid. By extending Kraichnan's sweeping model used in hydrodynamics we derive the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Sofiane Bourouaine , Jean C Perez

The classical structure-function (SF) method in fully developed turbulence or for scaling processes in general is influenced by large-scale energetic structures, known as infrared effect. Therefore, the extracted scaling exponents…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Y. X. Huang

We constrain the temporal power spectrum of the sSFR(t) of star-forming galaxies, using a well-defined sample of Main Sequence galaxies from MaNGA and our earlier measurements of the ratio of the SFR averaged within the last 5 Myr to that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Enci Wang , Simon J. Lilly

A robust and extended characterization of the point spread function (PSF) is crucial to extract the photometric information produced by deep imaging surveys. Here, we present the extended PSFs of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), one of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-28 Raúl Infante-Sainz , Ignacio Trujillo , Javier Román

Turbulence is a dominant feature operating in gaseous flows across nearly all scales in astrophysical environments. Accordingly, accurately estimating the statistical properties of such flows is necessary for developing a comprehensive…

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