Wednesday, March 21, 2012

1203.4429 (M. Tewes et al.)

A fast empirical method for galaxy shape measurements in weak lensing surveys    [PDF]

M. Tewes, N. Cantale, F. Courbin, T. D. Kitching, G. Meylan
We describe a simple and fast method to correct ellipticity measurements of galaxies from the distortion by the instrumental and atmospheric point spread function (PSF), in view of weak lensing shear measurements. The method performs a classification of galaxies and associated PSFs according to measured shape parameters, and corrects the measured galaxy ellipticites by querying a large lookup table (LUT), built by supervised learning. We have applied this new method to the GREAT10 image analysis challenge, and present in this paper a refined solution that obtains the highly competitive quality factor of Q = 142, without any power spectrum denoising or training. Of particular interest is the efficiency of the method, with a processing time below 3 ms per galaxy on an ordinary CPU.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4429

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