The Point Spread Function Reconstruction by Using Moffatlets - I
arXiv:1604.07126 · doi:10.1088/1674-4527/16/9/139
Abstract
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, including Gaussianlets, Moffatlets and EMPCA to quantify their efficiency on PSF reconstruction using four sets of simulated LSST star images. Gaussianlets and Moffatlets are two different sets of basis functions whose profiles are based on Gaussian and Moffat functions respectively. Expectation Maximization(EM) PCA is a statistical method performing iterative procedure to find principal components of an ensemble of star images. Our tests show that: 1) Moffatlets always perform better than Gaussianlets. 2) EMPCA is more compact and flexible, but the noise existing in the Principal Components (PCs) will contaminate the size and ellipticity of PSF while Moffatlets keeps them very well.
19 pages,17 figures,Accepted for publication in RAA
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