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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

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

Weak lensing by large-scale structure is an invaluable cosmological tool given that most of the energy density of the concordance cosmology is invisible. Several large ground-based imaging surveys will attempt to measure this effect over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Eric M. Huff , Christopher M. Hirata , Rachel Mandelbaum , David Schlegel , Uros Seljak , Robert H. Lupton

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

Cosmic shear requires high precision measurement of galaxy shapes in the presence of the observational Point Spread Function (PSF) that smears out the image. The PSF must therefore be known for each galaxy to a high accuracy. However, for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. S. Cypriano , A. Amara , L. M. Voigt , S. L. Bridle , F. B. Abdalla , A. Refregier , M. Seiffert , J. Rhodes

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

A new method is presented for determining the Point Spread Function (PSF) of images that lack bright and isolated stars. It is based on the same principles as the MCS (Magain, Courbin, Sohy, 1998) image deconvolution algorithm. It uses the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Magain , F. Courbin , M. Gillon , S. Sohy , G. Letawe , V. Chantry , Y. Letawe

We investigate the ellipticity of the point-spread function (PSF) produced by imaging an unresolved source with a telescope, subject to the effects of atmospheric turbulence. It is important to quantify these effects in order to understand…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 W. H. de Vries , S. S. Olivier , S. J. Asztalos , L. J. Rosenberg , K. L. Baker

Aims:Calibrating the point spread function (PSF) is a fundamental part of weak gravitational lensing analyses. Even with corrected galaxy images, imperfect calibrations can introduce biases. We propose an analytical framework for…

X-ray cone-beam computed tomography (CT) has the notable features such as high efficiency and precision, and is widely used in the fields of medical imaging and industrial non-destructive testing, but the inherent imaging degradation…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hua Zhang , Kuidong Huang , Yikai Shi , Zhe Xu

Accurate astrometry and photometry of saturated and coronagraphic point spread functions (PSFs) are fundamental to both ground- and space-based high contrast imaging projects. For ground-based adaptive optics imaging, differential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Marois , D. Lafreniere , B. Macintosh , R. Doyon

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

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

In a previous work we have demonstrated a novel numerical model for the point spread function (PSF) of an optical system that can efficiently model both experimental measurements and lens design simulations of the PSF. The novelty lies in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-25 Matthias Lehmann , Christian Wittpahl , Hatem Ben Zakour , Alexander Braun

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

We describe here a new full 2-D parameterization of the PSFs of the three XMM-Newton EPIC telescopes as a function of instrument, energy, off-axis angle and azimuthal angle, covering the whole field-of-view of the three EPIC detectors. It…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. M. Read , S. R. Rosen , R. D. Saxton , J. Ramirez

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.…

Point-spread-function (PSF) engineering is a powerful computational imaging techniques wherein a custom phase mask is integrated into an optical system to encode additional information into captured images. Used in combination with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Sachin Shah , Sakshum Kulshrestha , Christopher A. Metzler

In preparation of future Multi-Object Spectrographs (MOS) whose one of the major role is to provide an extensive statistical studies of high redshifted galaxies surveyed, the demonstrator Canary has been designed to tackle technical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 O. A. Martin , C. M. Correia , E. Gendron , G. Rousset , D. Gratadour , F. Vidal , T. J. Morris , A. G. Basden , R. M. Myers , B. Neichel , T. Fusco

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