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Astrometric precision and knowledge of the point spread function are key ingredients for a wide range of astrophysical studies including time-delay cosmography in which strongly lensed quasar systems are used to determine the Hubble…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Geoff C. -F. Chen , Tommaso Treu , Christopher D. Fassnacht , Sam Ragland , Thomas Schmidt , Sherry H. Suyu

This paper aims at providing a comprehensive framework to generate an astrophysical scene and to simulate realistic hyperspectral and multispectral data acquired by two JWST instruments, namely NIRCam Imager and NIRSpec IFU. We want to show…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Claire Guilloteau , Thomas Oberlin , Olivier Berné , Nicolas Dobigeon

Point spread function (PSF) engineering of the emitter can code higher spatial frequency information of an image to break diffraction limit but suffer from the complexed optical systems. Here we present a robust strategy to simultaneously…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-23 Chaohao Chen , Baolei Liu , Yongtao Liu , Jiayan Liao , Xuchen Shan , Fan Wang , Dayong Jin

We employ electrostatic conversion drift calculations to match CCD pixel signal covariances observed in flat field exposures acquired using candidate sensor devices for the LSST Camera. We thus constrain pixel geometry distortions present…

Due to limited size and imperfect of the optical components in a spectrometer, aberration has inevitably been brought into two-dimensional multi-fiber spectrum image in LAMOST, which leads to obvious spacial variation of the point spread…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Jiali Xu , Qian Yin , Ping Guo , Xin Zheng

Astrometry is one of the main pillars of astronomy, and one of its oldest branches. Over the years, an increasing number of astrometric works by means of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data have revolutionized our understanding of various…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 M. Libralato , I. Argyriou , D. Dicken , M. García Marín , P. Guillard , D. C. Hines , P. J. Kavanagh , S. Kendrew , D. R. Law , A. Noriega-Crespo , J. Álvarez-Márquez

In single-molecule super-resolution microscopy, engineered point-spread functions (PSFs) are designed to efficiently encode new molecular properties, such as 3D orientation, into complex spatial features captured by a camera. To fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Hesam Mazidi , Eshan S. King , Oumeng Zhang , Arye Nehorai , Matthew D. Lew

In astronomy, upcoming space telescopes with wide-field optical instruments have a spatially varying point spread function (PSF). Specific scientific goals require a high-fidelity estimation of the PSF at target positions where no direct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Tobias Liaudat , Jean-Luc Starck , Martin Kilbinger , Pierre-Antoine Frugier

Photometric redshifts, which have become the cornerstone of several of the largest astronomical surveys like PanStarrs, DES, J-PAS or the LSST, require precise measurements of galaxy photometry in different bands using a consistent physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 Y. Jiménez-Teja , N. Benítez , A. Molino , C. A. C. Fernandes

Multi-wavelength study of extended astronomical objects requires combining images from instruments with differing point spread functions (PSFs). We describe the construction of convolution kernels that allow one to generate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-18 G. Aniano , B. T. Draine , K. D. Gordon , K. Sandstrom

Image identification is one of the most challenging tasks in different areas of computer vision. Scale-invariant feature transform is an algorithm to detect and describe local features in images to further use them as an image matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Ebrahim Karami , Mohamed Shehata , Andrew Smith

A new concept of using focus-diverse point spread functions (PSFs) for modal wavefront sensing (WFS) is explored. This is based on relatively straightforward image moment analysis of measured PSFs, which differentiates it from other…

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Image Fusion, a technique which combines complimentary information from different images of the same scene so that the fused image is more suitable for segmentation, feature extraction, object recognition and Human Visual System. In this…

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We present PyGFit, a program designed to measure PSF-matched photometry from images with disparate pixel scales and PSF sizes. While PyGFit has a number of uses, its primary purpose is to extract robust spectral energy distributions (SEDs)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Conor L. Mancone , Anthony H. Gonzalez , Leonidas A. Moustakas , Andrew Price

Pyramidal feature representation is the common practice to address the challenge of scale variation in object detection. However, the inconsistency across different feature scales is a primary limitation for the single-shot detectors based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Songtao Liu , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Nanoparticles (NPs) have proven their applicability in biosensing, drug delivery, and photo-thermal therapy, but their performance depends critically on the distribution and number of functional groups on their surface. When studying…

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

Multi-focus is a technique of focusing on different aspects of a particular object or scene. Wireless Visual Sensor Networks (WVSN) use multi-focus image fusion, which combines two or more images to create a more accurate output image that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Krishnendu K. S.

Ground-based, high-resolution bolometric (sub)millimeter continuum mapping observations on spatially extended target sources are often subject to significant missing fluxes. This hampers accurate quantitative analyses. Missing flux can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-02 Sihan Jiao , Yuxin Lin , Xiangyu Shui , Jingwen Wu , Zhiyuan Ren , Di Li

The Surface Brightness Fluctuations (SBF) Method for distance determinations of elliptical galaxies is been modeled in order to investigate the effect of the Point Spread Function (PSF). We developed a method to simulate observations of SBF…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-23 D. Gouliermis , W. Brandner , D. Butler , S. Hippler