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astro-ph.IM2025
A review on fundamental bounds and estimators for photometry and astrometry of celestial point sources using array detectors, from first principles
Sebastián Espinosa, Rene A. Mendez, Jorge F. Silva +1
Precise astrometric and photometric measurements of celestial point sources are fundamental to modern astronomy. These measurements, used to determine object positions, motions, an…
astro-ph.IM2023
Optimal photometry of point sources: Joint source flux and background determination on array detectors -- from theory to practical implementation
Mario L. Vicuña, Jorge F. Silva, Rene A. Mendez +3
In this paper we study the joint determination of source and background flux for point sources as observed by digital array detectors. We explicitly compute the two-dimensional Cra…