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Wide-field imaging has become a major challenge for modern radio astronomy, which uses high sensitivity acquisition systems that deal with huge amounts of data. In this paper we investigate a fast wide-field imaging solution based on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-19 Luis F. R. Lucas , Chris J. Skipper , Anna M. M. Scaife

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Emma Godden , Katherine M. Blundell

Modern Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (GSMT) like the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction depend heavily on Adaptive Optics (AO) systems to correct for atmospheric turbulence. To be able to correct wider fields…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-15 Roland Wagner , Daniela Saxenhuber , Ronny Ramlau , Simon Hubmer

We present a high-precision temporal-spatial phase-demodulation algorithm for phase-shifting interferometry (PSI) affected by random/systematic phase-stepping errors. Laser interferometers in standard optical-shops suffer from several error…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-11 Manuel Servin , Moises Padilla , Guillermo Garnica , Gonzalo Paez

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…

Optical imaging quality can be severely degraded by system and sample induced aberrations. Existing adaptive optics systems typically rely on iterative search algorithm to correct for aberrations and improve images. This study demonstrates…

To determine the precise positions of stars in CCD frames, various centering algorithms have been proposed for astrometry. The effective point spread function (ePSF) and the Gaussian centering algorithms are two representative centering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 F. R. Lin , Q. Y. Peng , Z. J. Zheng , B. F. Guo , Y. J. Shang

High quality, repeatable point-spread functions are important for science cases like direct exoplanet imaging, high-precision astrometry, and high-resolution spectroscopy of exoplanets. For such demanding applications, the initial on-sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-19 Steven P. Bos , Michael Bottom , Sam Ragland , Jacques-Robert Delorme , Sylvain Cetre , Laurent Pueyo

FPGAs provide a flexible and efficient platform to accelerate rapidly-changing algorithms for computer vision. The majority of existing work focuses on accelerating image classification, while other fundamental vision problems, including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Qijing Huang , Dequan Wang , Yizhao Gao , Yaohui Cai , Zhen Dong , Bichen Wu , Kurt Keutzer , John Wawrzynek

Point spread function (PSF) reconstruction (PSF-R) is a well established technique to determine reliably and accurately the PSF from Adaptive Optics (AO) control loop data. We have successfully applied this technique to improve the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Olivier Beltramo-Martin , Antonino Marasco , Thierry Fusco , Davide Massari , Julien Milli , Giuliana Fiorentino , B. Neichel

Wavelet decompositions of integral operators have proven their efficiency in reducing computing times for many problems, ranging from the simulation of waves or fluids to the resolution of inverse problems in imaging. Unfortunately,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Paul Escande , Pierre Weiss

We present STARRED, a Point Spread Function (PSF) reconstruction, two-channel deconvolution, and light curve extraction method designed for high-precision photometric measurements in imaging time series. An improved resolution of the data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-25 Martin Millon , Kevin Michalewicz , Frédéric Dux , Frédéric Courbin , Philip J. Marshall

Poor resolution of ultrasound images due to convolution of the tissue reflectivity function (TRF) with the system point spread function (PSF) is a major issue in medical ultrasound imaging. In this paper, we propose a correlation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-08 Jayanta Dey , Md. Kamrul Hasan

The advent of enhanced technologies in radio interferometry and the perspective of the SKA telescope bring new challenges in image reconstruction. One of these challenges is the spatio-spectral reconstruction of large (Terabytes) data cubes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-07 Jérémy Deguignet , André Ferrari , David Mary , Chiara Ferrari

We present a theoretical analysis of the measuring algorithm we use when applying the Diffracto-Astrometry technique to Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) saturated stellar images. Theoretical Point Spread…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Ruelas-Mayorga , L. J. Sanchez , J. Olivares , C. Allen , A. Poveda , R. Costero , A. Nigoche-Netro

Continuous wavefront sensing on future space telescopes allows relaxation of stability requirements while still allowing on-orbit diffraction-limited optical performance. We consider the suitability of phase retrieval to continuously…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 Hyukmo Kang , Kyle Van Gorkom , Jess Johnson , Ole Singlestad , Aaron Goldtooth , Daewook Kim , Ewan S. Douglas

We present a performance test of the Point Spread Function deconvolution algorithm applied to astronomical Integral Field Unit (IFU) Spectroscopy data for restoration of galaxy kinematics. We deconvolve the IFU data by applying the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Haeun Chung , Changbom Park , Yong-Sun Park

We have shown that the vector of the point spread function (PSF) lexicographical presentation belongs to the left side conjugated null space (NS) of the autoregression (AR) matrix operator on condition the AR parameters are common for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Yuriy A. Bunyak , Roman N. Kvetnyy , Olga Yu. Sofina

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

For the next generation of radio interferometric telescopes it is of paramount importance to incorporate wide field-of-view (WFOV) considerations in interferometric imaging, otherwise the fidelity of reconstructed images will suffer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-04 J. D. McEwen , Y. Wiaux