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  • 标题:Exploring the Brighter-fatter Effect with the Hyper Suprime-Cam
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  • 作者:William R. Coulton ; Robert Armstrong ; Kendrick M. Smith
  • 期刊名称:The Astronomical journal
  • 印刷版ISSN:0004-6256
  • 电子版ISSN:1538-3881
  • 出版年度:2018
  • 卷号:155
  • 期号:6
  • 页码:1-11
  • DOI:10.3847/1538-3881/aac08d
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:American Institute of Physics
  • 摘要:The brighter-fatter effect has been postulated to arise due to the build up of a transverse electric field, produced as photocharges accumulate in the pixels’ potential wells. We investigate the brighter-fatter effect in the Hyper Suprime-Cam by examining flat fields and moments of stars. We observe deviations from the expected linear relation in the photon transfer curve (PTC), luminosity-dependent correlations between pixels in flat-field images, and a luminosity-dependent point-spread function (PSF) in stellar observations. Under the key assumptions of translation invariance and Maxwell’s equations in the quasi-static limit, we give a first-principles proof that the effect can be parameterized by a translationally invariant scalar kernel. We describe how this kernel can be estimated from flat fields and discuss how this kernel has been used to remove the brighter-fatter distortions in Hyper Suprime-Cam images. We find that our correction restores the expected linear relation in the PTCs and significantly reduces, but does not completely remove, the luminosity dependence of the PSF over a wide range of magnitudes.
  • 关键词:instrumentation: detectors;techniques: image processing
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