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The technique of simultaneous spectral differential imaging (SSDI) is used to image directly brown dwarfs and exoplanets around nearby stars. An analytical PSF model is first presented with numerical simulations to estimate the PSF noise…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Marois

Exoplanet imaging is a major challenge in astrophysics due to the need for high angular resolution and high contrast. We present a multi-scale statistical model for the nuisance component corrupting multivariate image series at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Théo Bodrito , Olivier Flasseur , Julien Mairal , Jean Ponce , Maud Langlois , Anne-Marie Lagrange

Direct exoplanet detection is limited by speckle noise in the point spread function (PSF) of the central star. This noise can be reduced by subtracting PSF images obtained simultaneously in adjacent narrow spectral bands using a…

X-ray spectral imaging provides quantitative imaging of trace elements in biological sample with high sensitivity. We propose a novel algorithm to promote the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of X-ray spectral images that have low photon counts.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Feng Zhu , Binjie Qin , Weiyue Feng , Huajian Wang , Shaosen Huang , Yisong Lv , Yong Chen

Supervised deep learning was recently introduced in high-contrast imaging (HCI) through the SODINN algorithm, a convolutional neural network designed for exoplanet detection in angular differential imaging (ADI) datasets. The benchmarking…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Carles Cantero , Olivier Absil , Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Direct imaging of exoplanets is crucial for advancing our understanding of planetary systems beyond our solar system, but it faces significant challenges due to the high contrast between host stars and their planets. Wavefront aberrations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-06 Brandon Y. Feng , Rodrigo Ferrer-Chávez , Aviad Levis , Jason J. Wang , Katherine L. Bouman , William T. Freeman

This work investigates symbolic regression (SR) as an interpretable alternative to black-box machine learning for the classification of stars, galaxies, and quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 17 (SDSS DR17). We conduct a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Rachit Deshpande , Shantanu Desai

The detection of exoplanets with the radial velocity method consists in detecting variations of the stellar velocity caused by an unseen sub-stellar companion. Instrumental errors, irregular time sampling, and different noise sources…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 L. A. Nieto , R. F. Díaz

The characterisation of ever smaller and fainter extrasolar planets requires an intricate understanding of one's data and the analysis techniques used. Correcting the raw data at the 10^-4 level of accuracy in flux is one of the central…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ingo P. Waldmann

Most of the high-contrast imaging (HCI) data-processing techniques used over the last 15 years have relied on the angular differential imaging (ADI) observing strategy, along with subtraction of a reference point spread function (PSF) to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist , Faustine Cantalloube , Olivier Absil

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

Direct imaging of exoplanets is a challenging task that involves distinguishing faint planetary signals from the overpowering glare of their host stars, often obscured by time-varying stellar noise known as "speckles". The predominant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-26 Chia-Lin Ko , Ewan S. Douglas , Justin Hom

We present a comprehensive analysis of the performance of noise-reduction (``denoising'') algorithms to determine whether they provide advantages in source detection on extragalactic survey images. The methods under analysis are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 V. Roscani , S. Tozza , M. Castellano , E. Merlin , D. Ottaviani , M. Falcone , A. Fontana

Our ability to observe, detect, and characterize exoplanetary atmospheres has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 20 years, aided largely by developments in astronomical instrumentation; improvements in data analysis techniques; and an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Nikolai Piskunov , Adam D. Rains , Linn Boldt-Christmas

Direct imaging of exoplanets is a challenging task as it requires to reach a high contrast at very close separation to the star. Today, the main limitation in the high-contrast images is the quasi-static speckles that are created by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Benoît Pairet , Faustine Cantalloube , Carlos A. Gomez Gonzalez , Olivier Absil , Laurent Jacques

Many ecological studies and conservation policies are based on field observations of species, which can be affected by systematic variability introduced by the observation process. A recently introduced causal modeling technique called…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-05 Shiv Shankar , Daniel Sheldon , Tao Sun , John Pickering , Thomas G. Dietterich

Despite the proven significance of hyperspectral images (HSIs) in performing various computer vision tasks, its potential is adversely affected by the low-resolution (LR) property in the spatial domain, resulting from multiple physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Chanyue Wu , Dong Wang , Hanyu Mao , Ying Li

Direct imaging is an active research topic in astronomy for the detection and the characterization of young sub-stellar objects. The very high contrast between the host star and its companions makes the observations particularly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-12 Olivier Flasseur , Théo Bodrito , Julien Mairal , Jean Ponce , Maud Langlois , Anne-Marie Lagrange

Image Rotation and Subtraction (IRS) is a high-contrast imaging technique which can be used to suppress the speckles noise and facilitate the direct detection of exoplanets. IRS is different from Angular Differential Imaging (ADI), in which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jiangpei Dou , Deqing Ren , Gang Zhao , Xi Zhang , Rui Chen , Yongtian Zhu

The measurement of exoplanet masses using the radial velocity (RV) technique is currently limited by stellar activity, which introduces quasiperiodic variability signals that must be modeled and removed to enhance the sensitivity of the RV…