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This paper presents an integrated modeling software to analyze the PSF of wide-field telescopes affected by misalignments. Even relatively small misalignments in the optical system of a telescope can significantly deteriorate the image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-14 Salvatore Savarese , Pietro Schipani , Giulio Capasso , Mirko Colapietro , Sergio D'Orsi , Marcella Iuzzolino , Laurent Marty , Francesco Perrotta , Giacomo Basile

(abridged) Imaging observations are generally affected by a fluctuating background of speckles, a particular problem when detecting faint stellar companions at small angular separations. Knowing the distribution of the speckle intensities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael P. Fitzgerald , James R. Graham

X-ray cone-beam computed tomography (CT) has the notable features such as high efficiency and precision, and is widely used in the fields of medical imaging and industrial non-destructive testing, but the inherent imaging degradation…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hua Zhang , Kuidong Huang , Yikai Shi , Zhe Xu

Knowledge of the atmospheric turbulence in the telescope line-of-sight is crucial for wide-field observations assisted by adaptive optics (AO), for which the Point Spread Function (PSF) becomes strongly elongated due to the anisoplanatism…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 O. Beltramo-Martin , C. M. Correia , B. Neichel , T. Fusco

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 present results of inflight calibration of the point spread function (PSF) of the Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT-S) that focuses X-ray onto the pixel array of the Soft X-ray Spectrometer system (SXS). We make a full array image of a…

I present a software tool for solving the astrometry of astronomical images. The code puts emphasis on robustness against failures for correctly matching the sources in the image to a reference catalog, and on the stability of the solutions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Eran O. Ofek

As one of the best ground-based photometric dataset, Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) has been widely used as the reference to calibrate other surveys. In this work, we present an independent validation and re-calibration of the PS1 photometry using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Kai Xiao , Haibo Yuan

The combined PSF of the BFI and the SOT onboard the Hinode spacecraft is investigated. Observations of the Mercury transit from November 2006 and the solar eclipse(s) from 2007 are used to determine the PSFs of SOT for the blue, green, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm

The point spread function (PSF) of a translation invariant imaging system is its impulse response, which cannot always be measured directly. This is the case in high energy X-ray radiography, and it must be estimated from images of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Kevin T. Joyce , Johnathan M. Bardsley , Aaron Luttman

Pansharpening is a significant image fusion technique that merges the spatial content and spectral characteristics of remote sensing images to generate high-resolution multispectral images. Recently, denoising diffusion probabilistic models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Yu Zhong , Xiao Wu , Liang-Jian Deng , Zihan Cao

The principal limitation in many areas of astronomy, especially for directly imaging exoplanets, arises from instability in the point spread function (PSF) delivered by the telescope and instrument. To understand the transfer function, it…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Alison Wong , Benjamin Pope , Louis Desdoigts , Peter Tuthill , Barnaby Norris , Chris Betters

We present a Bayesian analysis of data from the FIELDS instrument on board the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft with the aim of constraining low frequency ($\lesssim$ 6 MHz) sky in preparation for several upcoming lunar-based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Neil Bassett , David Rapetti , Bang D. Nhan , Brent Page , Jack O. Burns , Marc Pulupa , Stuart D. Bale

This paper presents a NeRF-based framework for point cloud (PCD) reconstruction, specifically designed for indoor high-throughput plant phenotyping facilities. Traditional NeRF-based reconstruction methods require cameras to move around…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Kibon Ku , Talukder Z Jubery , Elijah Rodriguez , Aditya Balu , Soumik Sarkar , Adarsh Krishnamurthy , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

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 describe a new code for the deep analysis of stellar fields, designed for Adaptive Optics Nyquist-sampled images with high and low Strehl ratio. The Point Spread Function is extracted directly from the image frame, to take into account…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Diolaiti , O. Bendinelli , D. Bonaccini , L. Close , D. Currie , G. Parmeggiani

We demonstrate that artificial bipolar structure can be detected using spectro-astrometry when the point spread function (PSF) of a point source suffers distortion in a relatively wide slit. Spectro-astrometry is a technique which allows us…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Brannigan , M. Takami , A. Chrysostomou , J. Bailey

Large-scale astronomical surveys can capture numerous images of celestial objects, including galaxies and nebulae. Analysing and processing these images can reveal intricate internal structures of these objects, allowing researchers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning , Yu Song , Nan Li , Kaifan Ji , Chenzhou Cui , Shanshan Li

The Mid Infra Red Instrument (MIRI) is one of the four instruments onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), providing imaging, coronagraphy and spectroscopy over the 5-28 microns band. To verify the optical performance of the…

Weak gravitational lensing, or weak lensing, is one of the most powerful probes for dark matter and dark energy science, although it faces increasing challenges in controlling systematic uncertainties as \edit{the statistical errors become…