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From the nature of dark matter to the rate of expansion of our Universe, observations of distant galaxies distorted through strong gravitational lensing have the potential to answer some of the major open questions in astrophysics. Modeling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-18 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Ge Yang

With the increasing number of deep multi-wavelength galaxy surveys, the spectral energy distribution (SED) of galaxies has become an invaluable tool for studying the formation of their structures and their evolution. In this context,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-12 Joana Frontera-Pons , Florent Sureau , Jerome Bobin , Emeric Le Floc'h

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

Optical microscopy is an essential tool in biology and medicine. Imaging thin, yet non-flat objects in a single shot (without relying on more sophisticated sectioning setups) remains challenging as the shallow depth of field that comes with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-14 Adrian Shajkofci , Michael Liebling

Shear estimation bias from galaxy detection and blending identification is now recognized as an issue for ongoing and future weak lensing surveys. Currently, the empirical approach to correcting for this bias involves numerically shearing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Xiangchong Li , Rachel Mandelbaum

Ultrasound is widely used in medical diagnostics allowing for accessible and powerful imaging but suffers from resolution limitations due to diffraction and the finite aperture of the imaging system, which restricts diagnostic use. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Felix Duelmer , Walter Simson , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab

Investigating the link between supermassive black hole and galaxy evolution requires careful measurements of the properties of the host galaxies. We perform simulations to test the reliability of a two-dimensional image-fitting technique to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Minjin Kim , Luis C. Ho , Chien Y. Peng , Aaron J. Barth , Myungshin Im

It is anticipated that the large sky areas covered by planned wide-field weak lensing surveys will reduce statistical errors to such an extent that systematic errors will instead become the dominant source of uncertainty. It is therefore…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-22 Marc Gentile , Frederic Courbin , Georges Meylan

In multiband fusion, an image with a high spatial and low spectral resolution is combined with an image with a low spatial but high spectral resolution to produce a single multiband image having high spatial and spectral resolutions. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Unni V. S. , Pravin Nair , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Upcoming stage-IV surveys such as Euclid and Rubin will deliver vast amounts of high-precision data, opening new opportunities to constrain cosmological models with unprecedented accuracy. A key step in this process is the reconstruction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Hubert Leterme , Andreas Tersenov , Jalal Fadili , Jean-Luc Starck

In this paper, we introduce Plug-and-Play (PnP) Flow Matching, an algorithm for solving imaging inverse problems. PnP methods leverage the strength of pre-trained denoisers, often deep neural networks, by integrating them in optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ségolène Martin , Anne Gagneux , Paul Hagemann , Gabriele Steidl

Weak lensing provides a direct way of mapping the density distribution in the universe. To reconstruct the density field from the shear catalog, an important step is to build the shear field from the shear catalog, which can be quite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Haoran Wang , Jun Zhang , Hekun Li , Cong Liu

The next generation of imaging surveys, including the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), Euclid, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, will place unprecedented constraints on cosmology using weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Andy Park , Xiangchong Li , Rachel Mandelbaum , Matthew Becker

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

The electrical network reconfiguration problem aims to minimize losses in a distribution system by adjusting switches while ensuring radial topology. The growing use of renewable energy and the complexity of managing modern power grids make…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Yacine Mokhtari , Patrick Coirault , Emmanuel Moulay , Jérôme Le Ny , Didier Larraillet

We propose a new method for Point Spread Function (PSF) correction in weak gravitational lensing shear analysis using an artificial image with the same ellipticity as the lensed image. This avoids the systematic error associated with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Yuki Okura , Toshifumi Futamase

We describe a numerical algorithm which simulates the propagation of light in inhomogeneous universes, using the multiple lens-plane method. The deformation and deflection of light beams as they interact with each lens plane are computed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Premana Premadi , Hugo Martel , Richard Matzner

The spatial resolution of images of living samples obtained by fluorescence microscopes is physically limited due to the diffraction of visible light, which makes the study of entities of size less than the diffraction barrier (around 200…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Vasiliki Stergiopoulou , Subhadip Mukherjee , Luca Calatroni , Laure Blanc-Féraud

We have developed a new three-dimensional algorithm, based on the standard P$^3$M method, for computing deflections due to weak gravitational lensing. We compare the results of this method with those of the two-dimensional planar approach,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. M. P. Couchman , Andrew J. Barber , Peter A. Thomas

Classification of galaxy morphology is a challenging but meaningful task for the enormous amount of data produced by the next-generation telescope. By introducing the adaptive polar coordinate transformation, we develop a rotationally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-11 G. W. Fang , S. Ba , Y. Z. Gu , Z. S. Lin , Y. J. Hou , C. X. Qin , C. C. Zhou , J. Xu , Y. Dai , J. Song , X. Kong