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This paper presents CSST-PSFNet, a deep learning method for high-fidelity point spread function (PSF) reconstruction developed for the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST). The model integrates a residual neural network, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Peipei Wang , Peng Wei , Chao Liu , Rui Wang , Feng Wang , Xin Zhang

Accurate reconstruction of the spatial distributions of the Point Spread Function (PSF) is crucial for high precision cosmic shear measurements. Nevertheless, current methods are not good at recovering the PSF fluctuations of high spatial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-12 Tianhuan Lu , Jun Zhang , Fuyu Dong , Yingke Li , Dezi Liu , Liping Fu , Guoliang Li , Zuhui Fan

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…

The shear measurement is a crucial task in the current and the future weak lensing survey projects. And the reconstruction of the point spread function(PSF) is one of the essential steps. In this work, we present three different methods,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Baishun Li , Guoliang Li , Jun Cheng , John Peterson , Wei Cui

We present a simulation-based cosmological analysis using a combination of Gaussian and non-Gaussian statistics of the weak lensing mass (convergence) maps from the first three years (Y3) of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We implement: 1)…

The convolution of galaxy images by the point-spread function (PSF) is the dominant source of bias for weak gravitational lensing studies, and an accurate estimate of the PSF is required to obtain unbiased shape measurements. The PSF…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Martin Eriksen , Henk Hoekstra

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

We examined the anisotropic point spread function (PSF) of Suprime-Cam data utilizing dense star field data. We decomposed the PSF ellipticities into three components, the optical aberration, atmospheric turbulence, and chip-misalignment in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Takashi Hamana , Satoshi Miyazaki , Yuki Okura , Tomohiro Okamura , Toshifumi Futamase

We improve the ERA(Ellipticity of Re-smeared Artificial image) method of PSF(Point Spread Function) correction in weak lensing shear analysis in order to treat realistic shape of galaxies and PSF. This is done by re-smearing PSF and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yuki Okura , Toshifumi Futamase

We present and characterise the galaxy shape catalogue from the first 3 years of Dark Energy Survey (DES) observations, over an effective area of ~4143 deg$^2$ of the southern sky. We describe our data analysis process and our…

Current and future imaging surveys will measure cosmic shear with a statistical precision that demands a deeper understanding of potential systematic biases in galaxy shape measurements than has been achieved to date. We investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. E. Meyers , P. R. Burchat

Weak gravitational lensing requires precise measurements of galaxy shapes and therefore an accurate knowledge of the PSF model. The latter can be a source of systematics that affect the shear two-point correlation function. A key stake of…

We present galaxy--galaxy lensing (GGL) measurements from the full six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6), covering $4031\,\mathrm{deg}^2$ and used in the DES Y6 $3\times2$pt cosmological analysis. We use the MagLim++ lens…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 G. Giannini , G. Camacho-Ciurana , A. Whyley , J. Prat , J. Blazek , C. Sánchez , G. Zacharegkas , A. Alarcon , E. Legnani , A. Amon , D. Anbajagane , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , S. Bocquet , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , M. Crocce , W. d'Assignies , J. De Vicente , A. Drlica-Wagner , S. Elvin-Poole , A. Ferté , M. Gatti , D. Gruen , M. Jarvis , M. Manera , S. Mau , J. McCullough , F. Menanteau , J. Myles , A. Porredon , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , T. Schutt , M. A. Troxel , N. Weaverdyck , M. Yamamoto , B. Yin , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , H. Camacho , J. Carretero , L. N. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. M. Davis , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , C. Doux , T. F. Eifler , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , P. Giles , K. Glazebrook , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , N. Jeffrey , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , E. Krause , O. Lahav , S. Lee , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , M. Paterno , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Raveri , R. Rosenfeld , E. Sanchez , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , J. Allyn. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , M. Vincenzi , A. R. Walker , P. Wiseman , B. Yanny

Weak gravitational lensing has the potential to place tight constraints on the equation of the state of dark energy. However, this will only be possible if shear measurement methods can reach the required level of accuracy. We present a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Guldariya Nurbaeva , Malte Tewes , Frederic Courbin , Georges Meylan

The effective redshift distribution $n(z)$ of galaxies is a critical component in the study of weak gravitational lensing. Here, we introduce a new method for determining $n(z)$ for weak lensing surveys based on high-quality redshifts and…

A simple theoretical framework for the description and interpretation of spatially correlated modelling residuals is presented, and the resulting tools are found to provide a useful aid to model selection in the context of weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Barnaby Rowe

Chromatic point-spread-function (PSF) effects arise from differences between the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of stars, used to model the PSF, and galaxies, used to measure shape distortions due to weak gravitational lensing, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Federico Berlfein , Rachel Mandelbaum , Jiachuan Xu , Tianqing Zhang

Reconstruction of the point spread function (PSF) plays an important role in many areas of astronomy, including photometry, astrometry, galaxy morphology, and shear measurement. The atmospheric and instrumental effects are the two main…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-25 Pedro Alonso , Jun Zhang , Cong Liu

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

Accurate blur estimation is essential for high-performance imaging across various applications. Blur is typically represented by the point spread function (PSF). In this paper, we propose a physics-informed PSF learning framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Liqun Chen , Yuxuan Li , Jun Dai , Jinwei Gu , Tianfan Xue