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GalSim : The modular galaxy image simulation toolkit
2015
Astronomy and Computing
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GALSIM is a collaborative, open-source project aimed at providing an image simulation tool of enduring benefit to the astronomical community. ...
It provides a software library for generating images of astronomical objects such as stars and galaxies in a variety of ways, efficiently handling image transformations and operations such as convolution ...
Acknowledgments We wish to thank the two anonymous referees whose insightful comments significantly improved the paper. This project was supported in part by NASA via the Strategic University ...
doi:10.1016/j.ascom.2015.02.002
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GalSim: The modular galaxy image simulation toolkit
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2015
arXiv
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2014 pre-print arXiv:1407.7676v2 fatcat:4lwbqfjb2vfkvpraifw53b54uaOther Versions
GALSIM is a collaborative, open-source project aimed at providing an image simulation tool of enduring benefit to the astronomical community. ...
It provides a software library for generating images of astronomical objects such as stars and galaxies in a variety of ways, efficiently handling image transformations and operations such as convolution ...
Acknowledgments This project was supported in part by NASA via the Strate- ...
arXiv:1407.7676v3
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GALSIM: The modular galaxy image simulation toolkit
2018
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GalSim is a collaborative, open-source project aimed at providing an image simulation tool of enduring benefit to the astronomical community. ...
It provides a software library for generating images of astronomical objects such as stars and galaxies in a variety of ways, efficiently handling image transformations and operations such as convolution ...
Acknowledgments We wish to thank the two anonymous referees whose insightful comments significantly improved the paper. This project was supported in part by NASA via the Strategic University ...
doi:10.1184/r1/6506855
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Shear Measurement Bias Due to Spatially Varying Spectral Energy Distributions in Galaxies
2019
Astrophysical Journal
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Vand I-band images in the All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS). ...
The bias on cosmic shear measurements from CGs is computed both for parametric bulge+disk galaxy simulations and for more realistic chromatic galaxy surface brightness profiles based on Hubble Space Telescope ...
We use the modular galaxy simulation toolkit GalSim 6 ( Rowe et al. 2015) to perform the integrations, convolutions, and deconvolutions described above to simulate both the galaxy with CG and the equivalent ...
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab54cb
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On the need for synthetic data and robust data simulators in the 2020s
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2019
arXiv
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measurement methods, (2) comparing models and astrophysical simulations to observations in a manner that requires as few assumptions about the data as possible, (3) predicting observational results based ...
data) so as to lower the barrier of entry to all. ...
A key example of this type of simulator in weak lensing is the community-driven GalSim 1 package, which provides a toolkit to make flexible astrophysical image simulation possible across multiple instruments ...
arXiv:1907.07184v1
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THE THIRD GRAVITATIONAL LENSING ACCURACY TESTING (GREAT3) CHALLENGE HANDBOOK
2014
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
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To facilitate entry by people new to the field, and for use as a diagnostic tool, the simulation software for the challenge is publicly available, though the exact parameters used for the challenge are ...
This measurement requires extremely precise estimation of very small galaxy shape distortions, in the presence of far larger intrinsic galaxy shapes and distortions due to the blurring kernel caused by ...
GalSim Implementation of the Atmospheric PSF To simulate the atmospheric PSF for the challenge, we use the GalSim software that takes a lensing shear power spectrum and uses it to simulate galaxy shears ...
doi:10.1088/0067-0049/212/1/5
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Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Measuring the Survey Transfer Function with Balrog
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2020
arXiv
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2022 accepted arXiv:2012.12825v2 fatcat:ejiug7pm6fdipnhtdhekkeqlou
We systematically inject onto the single-epoch images of a random 20% subset of the DES footprint an ensemble of nearly 30 million realistic galaxy models derived from DES Deep Field observations. ...
of the photometric redshifts of distant "source" galaxies and magnification biases of nearer "lens" galaxies. ...
Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. ...
arXiv:2012.12825v1
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Characterization and photometric performance of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Software Pipeline
2017
Nippon Tenmon Gakkai obun kenkyu hokoku
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2017 pre-print arXiv:1705.01599v1 fatcat:svx5jal7rnehvoxo42stvv7yca
We have developed a Python-based, flexible framework to inject synthetic galaxies into real HSC images called SynPipe. ...
Third, the current CModel algorithm tends to strongly underestimate the half-light radius and ellipticity of galaxy with i>21.5 mag. ...
The HSC instrumentation and software were developed by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), University of Tokyo ...
doi:10.1093/pasj/psx126
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Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Measuring the Survey Transfer Function with Balrog
2022
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
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We systematically inject onto the single-epoch images of a random 20% subset of the DES footprint an ensemble of nearly 30 million realistic galaxy models derived from DES Deep Field observations. ...
of the photometric redshifts of distant "source" galaxies and magnification biases of nearer "lens" galaxies. ...
Briefly, our injection framework maps high-level simulation choices into individual object and image-level details consistent between all single-epoch images for the simulation toolkit GalSim (Rowe et ...
doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ac26c1
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Challenges for Dark Energy Science: Color Gradients and Blended Objects
2020
Zenodo
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The expected bias is estimated for the LSST using simulations of parametric galaxies and realistic galaxy images. ...
The second part of the thesis focuses on the blending challenge for the LSST where a significant fraction of the lensed galaxy images will overlap with images of other objects, affecting the accuracy of ...
We use the modular galaxy simulation toolkit GalSim 3 (Rowe et al., 2015) to perform the integrations, convolutions and deconvolutions described above to simulate both the galaxy with CG and the equivalent ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.3721437
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im3shape: a maximum likelihood galaxy shear measurement code for cosmic gravitational lensing
2013
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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2013 pre-print arXiv:1302.0183v1 fatcat:yu6a2ck6lnarna5u7lc72upp3qOther Versions
We test im3shape on the GREAT08 Challenge image simulations, and meet the requirements for upcoming cosmic shear surveys in the case that the simulations are encompassed by the fitted model, using a simple ...
We fall short of the sub-percent level requirement for upcoming surveys, which we attribute to a combination of noise bias and the mis-match between our galaxy model and the model used in the GREAT08 simulations ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This paper has been typeset from a T E X/ L A T E X file prepared by the author. ...
doi:10.1093/mnras/stt1125
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Radio–optical galaxy shape correlations in the COSMOS field
2016
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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By producing a new image from the VLA-COSMOS L-band radio visibility data that is well suited to galaxy shape measurements, we are able to extract precise measurements of galaxy position angles. ...
Comparing to corresponding measurements from the HST optical image, we set a lower limit on the intrinsic astrophysical scatter in position angles, between the optical and radio bands, of σ_α > 0.212π ...
The input sky image used for the simulation was created with the GALSIM (modular galaxy image simulation) toolkit (Rowe et al. 2015) . ...
doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2224
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Reaching for the Edge I: Probing the Outskirts of Massive Galaxies with HSC, DECaLS, SDSS, and Dragonfly
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2021
arXiv
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The tests and results from this paper represent an important step forward for accurate measurements of the outer light of massive galaxies and demonstrate that outer light measurements from DECam imaging ...
To test the robustness of outer light measurements across different data sets, we compare the surface brightness profiles of massive galaxies using four independent data sets: the Hyper Suprime-Cam survey ...
We are grateful for Dustin Lang's efforts in developing DECaLS imaging software, which makes the analysis in this paper possible. ...
arXiv:2111.03557v1
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LSST DESC Science Roadmap
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2019
Zenodo
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The SRM it is the plan that the DESC Working Groups are using to build and test the simulation, processing and analysis pipelines we need. ...
we will need to undertake for the collaboration to be ready to analyze the LSST Year 1 data, including the beginnings of a plan for LSST commissioning and SV. ...
, such as the LSST images using millions of galaxy postage stamps produced by GALSIM. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.3547566
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Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: Dark Energy Science Collaboration
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2012
arXiv
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The computing working groups span cosmological simulations, galaxy catalogs, photon simulations and a systematic software and computational framework for LSST dark energy data analysis. ...
The analysis working groups cover five key probes of dark energy: weak lensing, large scale structure, galaxy clusters, Type Ia supernovae, and strong lensing. ...
We may use codes for simple image simulations through a parameterized point-spreadfunction (e.g., GalSim), but for detailed simulations in the analysis tasks outlined in Chapter 5, we will require significantly ...
arXiv:1211.0310v1
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