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The key features of the MATPHOT algorithm for precise and accurate stellar photometry and astrometry using discrete Point Spread Functions are described. A discrete Point Spread Function (PSF) is a sampled version of a continuous PSF which…

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Anisoplanatic effects can cause significant systematic photometric uncertainty in the analysis of dense stellar fields observed with adaptive optics. Program packages have been developed for a spatially variable PSF, but they require that a…

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Uncertainty in the wide-angle Point Spread Function (PSF) at large angles (tens of arcseconds and beyond) is one of the dominant sources of error in a number of important quantities in observational astronomy. Examples include the stellar…

Ultrasound imaging systems rely on accurate point spread function (PSF) estimation to support advanced image quality enhancement techniques such as deconvolution and speckle reduction. Phase aberration, caused by sound speed inhomogeneity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Wei-Hsiang Shen , Yu-An Lin , Meng-Lin Li

Point Spread Function (PSF) modeling is a central part of any astronomy data analysis relying on measuring the shapes of objects. It is especially crucial for weak gravitational lensing, in order to beat down systematics and allow one to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Joel Bergé , Sedona Price , Adam Amara , Jason Rhodes

Deblurring is a fundamental inverse problem in bioimaging. It requires modelling the point spread function (PSF), which captures the optical distortions entailed by the image formation process. The PSF limits the spatial resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-04 Denis K. Samuylov , Prateek Purwar , Gábor Székely , Grégory Paul

In the imaging process of an astronomical telescope, the deconvolution of its beam or Point Spread Function (PSF) is a crucial task. However, deconvolution presents a classical and challenging inverse computation problem. In scenarios where…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Shulei Ni , Yisheng Qiu , Yunchun Chen , Zihao Song , Hao Chen , Xuejian Jiang , Huaxi Chen

A point spread function (PSF) describes the distribution of light for a pure point source in an astronomical image due to the optics of the instrument. An accurate PSF is key for deconvolution, point source photometry and source removal.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 Ava Polzin

One of the major limitations of adaptive optics (AO) corrected image post-processing is the lack of knowledge on the system point spread function (PSF). The PSF is not always available as a direct imaging on isolated point like objects such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Romain Fétick , Laurent Mugnier , Thierry Fusco , Benoit Neichel

The first step toward doing high-precision astrometry is the measurement of individual stars in individual images, a step that is fraught with dangers when the images are undersampled. The key to avoiding systematic positional error in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-05 Jay Anderson , Ivan R. King

Deep-learning (DL)-based image deconvolution (ID) has exhibited remarkable recovery performance, surpassing traditional linear methods. However, unlike traditional ID approaches that rely on analytical properties of the point spread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Romario Gualdrón-Hurtado , Roman Jacome , Sergio Urrea , Henry Arguello , Luis Gonzalez

In the case of ground-based telescopes equipped with adaptive optics systems, the point spread function (PSF) is only poorly known or completely unknown. Moreover, an accurate modeling of the PSF is in general not available. Therefore in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-09 M. Prato , A. La Camera , S. Bonettini , S. Rebegoldi , M. Bertero , P. Boccacci

Interferometric radio astronomy data require the effects of limited coverage in the Fourier plane to be accounted for via a deconvolution process. For the last 40 years this process, known as `cleaning', has been performed almost…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

We introduce a novel framework for upsampled Point Spread Function (PSF) modeling using pixel-level Bayesian inference. Accurate PSF characterization is critical for precision measurements in many fields including: weak lensing, astrometry,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Connor Stone , Ronan Legin , Alexandre Adam , Nikolay Malkin , Gabriel Missael Barco , Laurence Perreaul-Levasseur , Yashar Hezaveh

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

A main science goal for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is to measure the cosmic shear signal from weak lensing to extreme accuracy. One difficulty, however, is that with the short exposure time ($\simeq$15 seconds) proposed, the…

This paper addresses the problem of high-resolution Doppler blood flow estimation from an ultrafast sequence of ultrasound images. Formulating the separation of clutter and blood components as an inverse problem has been shown in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-13 Duong-Hung Pham , Adrian Basarab , Ilyess Zemmoura , Jean-Pierre Remenieras , Denis Kouame

We introduce a new algorithm for interpolating measurements of the point-spread function (PSF) using stars from many exposures. The principal components of the variation in the PSF pattern from multiple exposures are used to solve for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mike Jarvis , Bhuvnesh Jain

We explore the impact of different telescope apertures on the image simulation and deconvolution processes within the context of a synthetic star field. Using HCIPy and Python programming, we modelled six telescope apertures namely…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Jyotika Roychowdhury , Kevin Derby , Daewook Kim

Accurately estimating the point spread function (PSF) of an optical system requires solving free-space wave propagation, which entails evaluating a diffraction integral. This integral is traditionally computed numerically using Fast Fourier…

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