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Accurate modelling of the effective point spread function (ePSF) is essential for high-precision photometry and astrometry, particularly in undersampled imaging regimes. In this work, we build on a well-established ePSF modelling framework…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Emma Godden , Katherine M. Blundell

This Point spread function (PSF) plays a crucial role in many computational imaging applications, such as shape from focus/defocus, depth estimation, and fluorescence microscopy. However, the mathematical model of the defocus process is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Renzhi He , Yan Zhuang , Boya Fu , Fei Liu

The intra-halo light (IHL) is the diffuse stellar component that surrounds galaxies, groups, and clusters. Its formation is intimately linked to the hierarchical assembly of the system, making it a key tracer of galaxy evolution. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-02 L. P. Garate-Nuñez , A. S. G. Robotham , S. Bellstedt , L. J. M. Davies

We present a catalog of extended low-surface-brightness galaxies (LSBGs) identified in the Wide layer of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP). Using the first ${\sim}$200 deg$^2$ of the survey, we have uncovered 781…

Galaxy imaging surveys observe a vast number of objects that are affected by the instrument's Point Spread Function (PSF). Weak lensing missions, in particular, aim at measuring the shape of galaxies, and PSF effects represent an important…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 T. Liaudat , J. Bonnin , J. -L. Starck , M. A. Schmitz , A. Guinot , M. Kilbinger , S. D. J. Gwyn

Point spread function (PSF) engineering is vital for precisely controlling the focus of light in computational imaging, with applications in neural imaging, fluorescence microscopy, and biophotonics. The PSF is derived from the magnitude of…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-22 Aleksey Valouev

Mid-infrared images frequently suffer artifacts and extended point spread functions (PSFs). We investigate the characteristics of the artifacts and the PSFs in images obtained with the Infrared Camera (IRC) onboard AKARI at four…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ko Arimatsu , Takashi Onaka , Itsuki Sakon , Shinki Oyabu , Yoshifusa Ita , Toshihiko Tanabé , Daisuke Kato , Fumi Egusa , Takehiko Wada , Hideo Matsuhara

We present a multi-wavelength catalog in the Subaru-XMM Deep Field (SXDF) as part of the Spitzer Large Area Survey with Hyper-Suprime-Cam (SPLASH). We include the newly acquired optical data from the Hyper-Suprime Cam Subaru Strategic…

As part of the astrometric Hubble Space Telescope (HST) large program GO-12911, we conduct an in-depth study to characterize the point spread function (PSF) of the Uv-VISual channel (UVIS) of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), as a necessary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 J. Anderson , L. R. Bedin

An undersampled point spread function may interact with the microstructure of a solid-state detector such that the total flux detected can depend sensitively on where the PSF center falls within a pixel. Such intra-pixel sensitivity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tod R. Lauer

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kenneth J. Mighell

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

We present revised point-spread functions (PSFs) for the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). These PSFs provide a robust estimate of the light diffracted by the meshes holding the entrance and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Stefan Hofmeister , Daniel Wolf Savin , Michael Hahn

Modeling the Point Spread Function (PSF) of wide-field surveys is vital for many astrophysical applications and cosmological probes including weak gravitational lensing. The PSF smears the image of any recorded object and therefore needs to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 Jörg Herbel , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier , Aurelien Lucchi

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

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) presents significant potential for high-precision astrometry. In this study, we show that the point spread function (PSF) modeled by the discrete PSF with Multi-Gaussian function can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jialu Nie , Peng Wei , Zihuang Cao , Yibo Yan , Chao Liu , Hao Tian , Xin Zhang , Haijun Tian

Point-spread function (PSF) estimation in spatially undersampled images is challenging because large pixels average fine-scale spatial information. This is problematic when fine-resolution details are necessary, as in optimal photometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Teresa Symons , Michael Zemcov , James Bock , Yun-Ting Cheng , Brendan Crill , Christopher Hirata , Stephanie Venuto

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…

The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is an optical/near-infrared multi-fiber spectrograph with 2394 science fibers, which are distributed in 1.3 degree diameter field of view at Subaru 8.2-meter telescope. The simultaneous wide wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Hajime Sugai , Naoyuki Tamura , Hiroshi Karoji , Atsushi Shimono , Naruhisa Takato , Masahiko Kimura , Youichi Ohyama , Akitoshi Ueda , Hrand Aghazarian , Marcio Vital de Arruda , Robert H. Barkhouser , Charles L. Bennett , Steve Bickerton , Alexandre Bozier , David F. Braun , Khanh Bui , Christopher M. Capocasale , Michael A. Carr , Bruno Castilho , Yin-Chang Chang , Hsin-Yo Chen , Richard C. Y. Chou , Olivia R. Dawson , Richard G. Dekany , Eric M. Ek , Richard S. Ellis , Robin J. English , Didier Ferrand , Décio Ferreira , Charles D. Fisher , Mirek Golebiowski , James E. Gunn , Murdock Hart , Timothy M. Heckman , Paul T. P. Ho , Stephen Hope , Larry E. Hovland , Shu-Fu Hsuc , Yen-Shan Hu , Pin Jie Huang , Marc Jaquet , Jennifer E. Karr , Jason G. Kempenaar , Matthew E. King , Olivier Le Fèvre , David Le Mignant , Hung-Hsu Ling , Craig Loomis , Robert H. Lupton , Fabrice Madec , Peter Mao , Lucas Souza Marrara , Brice Ménard , Chaz Morantz , Hitoshi Murayama , Graham J. Murray , Antonio Cesar de Oliveira , Claudia Mendes de Oliveira , Ligia Souza de Oliveira , Joe D. Orndorff , Rodrigo de Paiva Vilaça , Eamon J. Partos , Sandrine Pascal , Thomas Pegot-Ogier , Daniel J. Reiley , Reed Riddle , Leandro Santos , Jesulino Bispo dos Santos , Mark A. Schwochert , Michael D. Seiffert , Stephen A. Smee , Roger M. Smith , Ronald E. Steinkraus , Laerte Sodré , David N. Spergel , Christian Surace , Laurence Tresse , Clément Vidal , Sebastien Vives , Shiang-Yu Wang , Chih-Yi Wen , Amy C. Wu , Rosie Wyse , Chi-Hung Yan

This paper presents a thousand passive spiral galaxy samples at $z=$ 0.01-0.3 based on a combined analysis of the Third Public Data Release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP PDR3) and the GALEX-SDSS-WISE Legacy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 Rhythm Shimakawa , Masayuki Tanaka , Connor Bottrell , Po-Feng Wu , Yu-Yen Chang , Yoshiki Toba , Sadman Ali