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We revisit the impact of finite time responses of bolometric detectors used for deep observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Until now, bolometer transfer functions have been accounted for through a two-step procedure by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 A. Basyrov , N. O. Stutzer , J. G. S. Lunde , H. K. Eriksen , E. Gjerløw , D. J. Watts , I. K. Wehus

The detection of point-sources in microwave maps is a critical step in the analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data. If not properly removed, these sources have adverse effects on the estimation of the power-spectrum and/or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-14 R. Vio , P. Andreani

Planned wide-field weak lensing surveys are expected to reduce the statistical errors on the shear field to unprecedented levels. In contrast, systematic errors like those induced by the convolution with the point spread function (PSF) will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-23 M. Gentile , F. Courbin , G. Meylan

Observations of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) B-mode polarization provide a way to probe primordial gravitational waves and test inflationary predictions. Extragalactic point sources become a major source of contamination after…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Yi-Ming Wang , Wen-Zheng Chen , Yang Liu , Si-Yu Li , Hong Li

We suggest novel statistics for the CMB maps that are sensitive to non-Gaussian features. These statistics are natural generalizations of the geometrical and topological methods that have been already used in cosmology such as the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 D. Novikov , Hume A. Feldman , Sergei F. Shandarin

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.…

Estimation of the sky signal from sequences of time ordered data is one of the key steps in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data analysis, commonly referred to as the map-making problem. Some of the most popular and general methods…

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We study the morphology of convergence maps by perturbatively reconstructing their Minkowski Functionals (MFs). We present a systematics study using a set of three generalised skew-spectra as a function of source redshift and smoothing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 D. Munshi , T. Namikawa , J. D. McEwen , T. D. Kitching , F. R. Bouchet

We propose a solution to the image deconvolution problem where the convolution kernel or point spread function (PSF) is assumed to be only partially known. Small perturbations generated from the model are exploited to produce a few…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-04 Se Un Park , Nicolas Dobigeon , Alfred O. Hero

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

Optical astronomical images are strongly affected by the point spread function (PSF) of the optical system and the atmosphere (seeing) which blurs the observed image. The amount of blurring depends both on the observed band, and on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 Hong Wang , Sreevarsha Sreejith , Yuewei Lin , Nesar Ramachandra , Anže Slosar , Shinjae Yoo

The point spread function (PSF) is fundamental to any type of microscopy, most importantly so for single-molecule localization techniques, where the exact PSF shape is crucial for precise molecule localization at the nanoscale. However,…

The angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies is a key tool to study the Universe. However, it is blind to the presence of non--Gaussianities and deviations from statistical isotropy, which instead can be…

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We propose a machine learning approach to the blind detection of extragalactic point sources on maps of the temperature anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background. Using realistic simulations of the microwave sky as seen by Planck, we…

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We propose a novel method for the extraction of unresolved point sources from CMB maps. This method is based on the analysis of the phase distribution of the Fourier components for the observed signal and unlike most other methods of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Naselsky , D. Novikov , Joseph Silk

Cosmic shear measurements rely on our ability to measure and correct the Point Spread Function (PSF) of the observations. This PSF is measured using stars in the field, which give a noisy measure at random points in the field. Using Wiener…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Amara , A. Refregier , S. Paulin-Henriksson

We consider the simultaneous deblurring of a set of noisy images whose point spread functions are different but known and spatially invariant, and the noise is Gaussian. Currently available iterative algorithms that are typically used for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Vio , J. Nagy , L. Tenorio , W. Wamsteker

We present a variational Bayesian method of joint image reconstruction and point spread function (PSF) estimation when the PSF of the imaging device is only partially known. To solve this semi-blind deconvolution problem, prior…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-03-18 Se Un Park , Nicolas Dobigeon , Alfred O. Hero

We implement and further refine the recently proposed method (Kashlinsky, Hern\'andez-Monteagudo & Atrio-Barandela, 2001 - KHA) for a time efficient extraction of the power spectrum from future cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , A. Kashlinsky , F. Atrio-Barandela

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…

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