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most citedA candidate runaway supermassive black hole identified by shocks and star formation in its wake

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astro-ph.IM2026

Simultaneous PSF Matching via Dual Kernel Optimization

Carter Lee Rhea, Pieter Van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham +6

Standard point spread function (PSF) matching algorithms consider one image as the reference and aim to find a convolution kernel such that, when applied to the reference image, th…

astro-ph.IM2026

Hyrax: An Extensible Framework for Rapid ML Experimentation and Unsupervised Discovery in the Era of Rubin, Roman, and Euclid

Aritra Ghosh, Drew Oldag, Michael Tauraso +29

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Roman Space Telescope, Euclid, and other next-generation surveys will deliver imaging, spectroscopic, and time-domain data at scales that inc…

astro-ph.IM2026

dfcosmic: A Python package for cosmic ray removal

Carter Lee Rhea, Pieter van Dokkum, Steven R. Janssens +5

Astronomical images often show sharp features that are caused by cosmic ray (CR) hits, hot pixels, or non-Gaussian noise. L.A.Cosmic (van Dokkum 2001) is a widely used edge detecti…

astro-ph.IM2025

Using Symbolic Regression to Emulate the Radial Fourier Transform of the Sérsic profile for Fast, Accurate and Differentiable Galaxy Profile Fitting

Tim B. Miller, Imad Pasha

Galaxy profile fitting is a ubiquitous technique that provides the backbone for photometric and morphological measurements in modern extragalactic surveys. A recent innovation in p…

astro-ph.IM2025

dfreproject: A Python package for astronomical reprojection

Carter Lee Rhea, Pieter Van Dokkum, Steven R. Janssens +5

Deep astronomical images are often constructed by digitially stacking many individual sub-exposures. Each sub-exposure is expected to show small differences in the positions of sta…

astro-ph.IM2024

Realizing the potential of the Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper: Calibration methods and on-sky performance

Deborah M. Lokhorst, Seery Chen, Imad Pasha +8

The Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper is an innovative all-refracting telescope designed to carry out ultra-low surface brightness wide-field mapping of visible wavelength line emissi…

astro-ph.IM2024

Software infrastructure for the highly-distributed semi-autonomous Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper

Imad Pasha, Seery Chen, Deborah Lokhorst +6

The Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper (DSLM) is a semi-autonomous, distributed-aperture based telescope design, featuring a modular setup of 120 Canon telephoto lenses, and equal numb…

astro-ph.IM2024

The Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper: Completion of the 120-lens array

Seery Chen, Deborah M. Lokhorst, Imad Pasha +7

The Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper is a mosaic telescope comprising 120 Canon telephoto lenses, based on the design of the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. With a wide field of view, and…

astro-ph.IM2023

A robust and simple method for filling in masked data in astronomical images

Pieter van Dokkum, Imad Pasha

Astronomical images often have regions with missing or unwanted information, such as bad pixels, bad columns, cosmic rays, masked objects, or residuals from imperfect model subtrac…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 11 cited

A Recipe for Unbiased Background Modeling in Deep Wide-Field Astronomical Images

Qing Liu, Roberto G. Abraham, Peter G. Martin +9

Unbiased sky background modeling is crucial for the analysis of deep wide-field images, but it remains a major challenge in low surface brightness astronomy. Traditional image proc…

astro-ph.IM2022

The Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper: Design and First Light

Seery Chen, Deborah M. Lokhorst, Jeff Shen +4

The Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper (DSLM) is the latest evolution of the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, which turns it into the world's most powerful wide-field spectral line imager. T…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

The pathfinder Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper: Pushing the limits for ultra-low surface brightness spectroscopy

Deborah M. Lokhorst, Seery Chen, Imad Pasha +4

The pathfinder Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper is a distributed aperture telescope based off of the Dragonfly Telephoto Array with additional instrumentation (the Dragonfly "Filter-…