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

Tewes, M.  
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Cantale, N.  
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Courbin, F.  
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2012
Astronomy & Astrophysics

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 competitive quality factor of Q = 104, without any shear 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.

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DOI
10.1051/0004-6361/201219278
Web of Science ID

WOS:000308290100008

Author(s)
Tewes, M.  
Cantale, N.  
Courbin, F.  
Kitching, T.
Meylan, G.  
Date Issued

2012

Publisher

Edp Sciences S A

Published in
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Volume

544

Start page

A8

Subjects

gravitational lensing: weak

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methods: data analysis

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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LASTRO  
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February 27, 2013
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