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In High Contrast Imaging, a large instrumental, technological and algorithmic effort is made to reduce residual speckle noise and improve the detection capabilities. In this work, we explore the potential of using a precise physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Dotan Gazith , Barak Zackay

Modeling the Point Spread Function (PSF) of wide-field surveys is vital for many astrophysical applications and cosmological probes including weak gravitational lensing. The PSF smears the image of any recorded object and therefore needs to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 Jörg Herbel , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier , Aurelien Lucchi

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

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

Context . Initially designed to detect and characterise exoplanets, extreme adaptive optics (AO) systems open a new window onto the Solar System by resolving its small bodies. Nonetheless, their study remains limited by the accuracy of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Anthony Berdeu

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

In this paper we present the approach we have used to determine and account for the anisoplanatic point spread function (PSF) in deep adaptive optics (AO) images for the Survey of a Wide Area with NACO (SWAN) at the ESO VLT. The survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Cresci , R. I. Davies , A. J. Baker , M. D. Lehnert

Point-spread function of the probe forming optics ($PSF_{optics} $) is reported for the first time in an uncorrected (without multipole correctors) scanning electron microscope (SEM). In an SEM, the electron probe information is lost as the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-02 Surya Kamal , Richard K. Hailstone

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

A point spread function (PSF) describes the distribution of light for a pure point source in an astronomical image due to the optics of the instrument. An accurate PSF is key for deconvolution, point source photometry and source removal.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 Ava Polzin

We present extended point spread function (PSF) models for the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program Public Data Release 3 (HSC-SSP PDR3) in all $\textit{g,r,i,Z}$ and $\textit{Y}$-bands. Due to its 8.2m primary mirror and long…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-17 L. P. Garate-Nuñez , A. S. G. Robotham , S. Bellstedt , L. J. M. Davies , C. Martínez-Lombilla

We improve the ERA(Ellipticity of Re-smeared Artificial image) method of PSF(Point Spread Function) correction in weak lensing shear analysis in order to treat realistic shape of galaxies and PSF. This is done by re-smearing PSF and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yuki Okura , Toshifumi Futamase

The shear measurement is a crucial task in the current and the future weak lensing survey projects. And the reconstruction of the point spread function(PSF) is one of the essential steps. In this work, we present three different methods,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Baishun Li , Guoliang Li , Jun Cheng , John Peterson , Wei Cui

We describe the symmetries present in the point-spread function (PSF) of an optical system either located in space or corrected by an adaptive o to Strehl ratios of about 70% and higher. We present a formalism for expanding the PSF to…

We report Spitzer 3.6 and 4.5 $\mu$m photometry of 11 bright stars relative to Sirius, exploiting the unique optical stability of the Spitzer Space Telescope point spread function (PSF). Spitzer's extremely stable beryllium optics in its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Kate Y. L. Su , G. H. Rieke , M. Marengo , Everett Schlawin

We describe a rapid and direct method for regularizing, post-facto, the point-spread function (PSF) of a telescope or other imaging instrument, across its entire field of view. Imaging instruments in general blur point sources of light by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-20 J. M. Hughes , C. E. DeForest , D. B. Seaton

An undersampled point spread function may interact with the microstructure of a solid-state detector such that the total flux detected can depend sensitively on where the PSF center falls within a pixel. Such intra-pixel sensitivity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tod R. Lauer

Point Spread Function (PSF) engineering is used in single emitter localization to measure the emitter position in 3D and possibly other parameters such as the emission color or dipole orientation as well. Advanced PSF models such as spline…

Photometric surveys require precise point spread function (PSF) characterization, as it varies across filters and is crucial for accurate photometry and low surface brightness (LSB) studies. However, the small PSF size provided by default…

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