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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…

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A method for spatial deconvolution of spectra is presented. It follows the same fundamental principles as the ``MCS image deconvolution algorithm'' (Magain, Courbin, Sohy, 1998) and uses information contained in the spectrum of a reference…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Courbin , P. Magain , M. Kirkove , S. Sohy

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

An accurate model of the point spread function is required in order to estimate positions and brightnesses of stars in digitized images. The PSF of the Gaia space telescope is unusual due to the use of drift-scan mode and time-delayed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Nicholas Rowell , Michael Davidson , Nigel C. Hambly , Lennart Lindegren , Javier Castañeda , Claus Fabricius , Jose Hernández , Dafydd W. Evans

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the most powerful tools for cosmology, while subject to challenges in quantifying subtle systematic biases. The Point Spread Function (PSF) can cause biases in weak lensing shear inference when the PSF…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-13 Tianqing Zhang , Rachel Mandelbaum , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

We introduce a new software package for modeling the point-spread function (PSF) of astronomical images, called Piff (PSFs In the Full FOV), which we apply to the first three years (known as Y3) of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) data. We…

Point spread function (PSF) plays an essential role in image reconstruction. In the context of confocal microscopy, optical performance degrades towards the edge of the field of view as astigmatism, coma and vignetting. Thus, one should…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Anna Jezierska , Hugues Talbot , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Gilbert Engler

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

Recently introduced angular-memory-effect based techniques enable non-invasive imaging of objects hidden behind thin scattering layers. However, both the speckle-correlation and the bispectrum analysis are based on the statistical average…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Tengfei Wu , Jonathan Dong , Xiaopeng Shao , Sylvain Gigan

Modern Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (GSMTs) like the Extremely Large Telescope, which is currently under construction, depend heavily on Adaptive Optics (AO) systems to correct for atmospheric distortions. However, a residual blur…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Roland Wagner , Jenny Niebsch , Ronny Ramlau

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,…

A major issue in optical astronomical image analysis is the combined effect of the instrument's point spread function (PSF) and the atmospheric seeing that blurs images and changes their shape in a way that is band and time-of-observation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Sreevarsha Sreejith , Anže Slosar , Hong Wang

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

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Amara , A. Refregier , S. Paulin-Henriksson

Point-spread-function (PSF) engineering is a powerful computational imaging techniques wherein a custom phase mask is integrated into an optical system to encode additional information into captured images. Used in combination with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Sachin Shah , Sakshum Kulshrestha , Christopher A. Metzler

Images from adaptive optics systems are generally affected by significant distortions of the point spread function (PSF) across the field of view, depending on the position of natural and artificial guide stars. Image reduction techniques…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Andrea La Camera , Laura Schreiber , Emiliano Diolaiti , Patrizia Boccacci , Mario Bertero , Michele Bellazzini , Paolo Ciliegi

Even though the technology of adaptive optics (AO) is rapidly maturing, calibration of the resulting images remains a major challenge. The AO point-spread function (PSF) changes quickly both in time and position on the sky. In a typical…

The accuracy in the photometry of a point source depends on the point-spread function (PSF), detector pixelization, and observing strategy. The PSF and pixel response describe the spatial blurring of the source, the pixel scale describes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-02 Johan Samsing , Alex G. Kim

Access to knowledge of the point spread function (PSF) of adaptive optics(AO)-assisted observations is still a major limitation when processing AO data. This limitation is particularly important when image analysis requires the use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 A. Lau , R. JL. Fétick , B. Neichel , O. Beltramo-Martin , T. Fusco