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Speckle Noise is the dominant source of error in high contrast imaging with adaptive optics system. We discuss the potential for wavefront sensing telemetry to calibrate speckle noise with sufficient precision and accuracy so that it can be…

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

The results obtained by means of the photometric approach to the study of Delta Sct stars are extensively discussed. The different frequency contents of the three best candidates for asteroseismological studies (FG Vir, 4 CVn and XX Pyx)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ennio Poretti

We demonstrate that artificial bipolar structure can be detected using spectro-astrometry when the point spread function (PSF) of a point source suffers distortion in a relatively wide slit. Spectro-astrometry is a technique which allows us…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Brannigan , M. Takami , A. Chrysostomou , J. Bailey

Forthcoming space-based observations will require high-quality point-spread function (PSF) models for weak gravitational lensing measurements. One approach to generating these models is using a wavefront model based on the known telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-29 Bryan R. Gillis , Tim Schrabback , Ole Marggraf , Rachel Mandelbaum , Richard Massey , Jason Rhodes , Andy Taylor

We present an expanded and improved deep-learning (DL) methodology for determining centers of star images on HST/WFPC2 exposures. Previously, we demonstrated that our DL model can eliminate the pixel-phase bias otherwise present in these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu , Roberto Baena-Galle , Terrence M. Girard , Alejandro Cervantes-Rovira , Sebastian Todeasa

The weak-lensing science of the LSST project drives the need to carefully model and separate the instrumental artifacts from the intrinsic lensing signal. The dominant source of the systematics for all ground based telescopes is the spatial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. James Jee , J. Anthony Tyson

We have used maximum entropy eclipse mapping to recover images of the visual surface brightness distribution of the primary component of the RS CVn eclipsing binary SV Cam, using high-precision photometry data obtained during three primary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. V. Jeffers , J. R. Barnes , A. Collier Cameron , J. -F. Donati

The purpose of this HST white paper is to demonstrate that it is possible to monitor Jupiter's polar haze with HST/STIS without breaking the ground screening limit for bright objects. This demonstration rests on a thorough simulation of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Denis Grodent , Bertrand Bonfond , Jonathan Nichols

We introduce a novel framework for upsampled Point Spread Function (PSF) modeling using pixel-level Bayesian inference. Accurate PSF characterization is critical for precision measurements in many fields including: weak lensing, astrometry,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Connor Stone , Ronan Legin , Alexandre Adam , Nikolay Malkin , Gabriel Missael Barco , Laurence Perreaul-Levasseur , Yashar Hezaveh

Color-temperature relations and bolometric corrections in the HST-NICMOS F1110W, F160W and F222M and in the WFPC2 F439W, F555W and F814W photometric systems, using two different sets of model atmospheres, have been derived. This database of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Livia Origlia , Claus Leitherer

We discuss the system requirements for obtaining millimagnitude photometric precision over a wide field using small aperture short focal length telescope systems, such as are being developed by a number of research groups to search for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 G. Bakos , R. W. Noyes , G. Kovacs , K. Z. Stanek , D. D. Sasselov , Istvan Domsa

In preparation for James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a set of cross calibration programs with HST and Spitzer for suitable primary photometric standards and astrometric fields were developed. NICMOS/HST and IRAC/Spitzer photometry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rosa I. Diaz-Miller

Hyperspectral imaging enables fine-grained recognition of materials by capturing rich spectral signatures, but learning robust classifiers is challenging due to high dimensionality, spectral redundancy, limited labeled data, and strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Alexander Musiat , Nikolas Ebert , Oliver Wasenmüller

The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated time-domain multi-band ($u$, $g$, $r$, $i$, and $z$) photometric survey facility under construction. In this paper, we present a preliminary study that assesses the quality of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Yu Liu , Xiao-zhi Lin , Yong-quan Xue , Huynh Anh N. Le

Getting spectra at good signal-to-noise ratios takes orders of magnitudes more time than photometric observations. Building on the technique developed for photometric redshift estimation of galaxies, we develop and demonstrate a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gyöngyi Kerekes , István Csabai , László Dobos , Márton Trencséni

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

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

We present a method for speckle holography that is optimised for crowded fields. Its two key features are an iterativ improvement of the instantaneous Point Spread Functions (PSFs) extracted from each speckle frame and the (optional)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Schoedel , S. Yelda , A. Ghez , J. H. V. Girard , L. Labadie , R. Rebolo , A. Perez-Garrido , M. R. Morris

All observations by the aperture photometer (PHT-P) and the far-infrared (FIR) camera section (PHT-C) of ISOPHOT included reference measurements against stable internal fine calibration sources (FCS) to correct for temporal drifts in…