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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

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

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 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

The ultimate goal of the "Pi of the Sky" apparatus is observation of optical flashes of astronomical origin and other light sources variable on short timescales. We search mainly for optical emission of Gamma Ray Bursts, but also for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-02 Lech Wiktor Piotrowski

The knowledge of the exact structure of the optical system PSF enables a high-quality image reconstruction in fluorescence microscopy. Accurate PSF models account for the vector nature of light and the phase and amplitude modifications.…

Weak gravitational lensing, or weak lensing, is one of the most powerful probes for dark matter and dark energy science, although it faces increasing challenges in controlling systematic uncertainties as \edit{the statistical errors become…

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

Accurate knowledge of the telescope's point spread function (PSF) is essential for the weak gravitational lensing measurements that hold great promise for cosmological constraints. For space telescopes, the PSF may vary with time due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhaoming Ma , Gary Bernstein , Alan Weinstein , Michael Sholl

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

Point-spread-function (PSF) engineering is a well-established computational imaging technique that uses phase masks and other optical elements to embed extra information (e.g., depth) into the images captured by conventional CMOS image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Sachin Shah , Matthew Albert Chan , Haoming Cai , Jingxi Chen , Sakshum Kulshrestha , Chahat Deep Singh , Yiannis Aloimonos , Christopher Metzler

We introduce a new software package for modeling the point-spread function (PSF) of astronomical images, called Piff (PSFs In the Full FOV), which we apply to the first three years (known as Y3) of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) data. We…

Radiative transfer effects need to be taken into account when analysing spectral line observations. When the data are not sufficient for detailed modelling, simpler methods are needed. The escape probability formalism (EPF) is one such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Mika Juvela

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 point spread function reflects the state of an optical telescope and it is important for data post-processing methods design. For wide field small aperture telescopes, the point spread function is hard to model, because it is affected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 Peng Jia , Xiyu Li , Zhengyang Li , Weinan Wang , Dongmei Cai

We provide a detailed exploration of the connection between choice of coaddition schemes and the point-spread function (PSF) of the resulting coadded images. In particular, we investigate what properties of the coaddition algorithm lead to…

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

Precise centroid estimation plays a critical role in accurate astrometry using telescope images. Conventional centroid estimation fits a template point spread function (PSF) to the image data. Because the PSF is typically not known to high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Chengxing Zhai , Mike Shao , Renaud Goullioud , Bijan Nemati

Lensless imaging stands out as a promising alternative to conventional lens-based systems, particularly in scenarios demanding ultracompact form factors and cost-effective architectures. However, such systems are fundamentally governed by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Jiesong Bai , Yuhao Yin , Yihang Dong , Xiaofeng Zhang , Chi-Man Pun , Xuhang Chen