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One of the most demanding tasks in astronomical image processing---in terms of precision---is the centroiding of stars. Upcoming large surveys are going to take images of billions of point sources, including many faint stars, with short exposure times. Real-time estimation of the centroids of stars is crucial for real-time PSF estimation, and maximal precision is required for measurements of proper motion. The fundamental Cram\'{e}r-Rao lower bound sets a limit on the root-mean-squared-error achievable by optimal estimators. In this work, we aim to compare the performance of various centroiding methods, in terms of saturating the bound, when they are applied to relatively low signal-to-noise ratio unsaturated stars assuming zero-mean constant Gaussian noise. In order to make this comparison, we present the ratio of the root-mean-squared-errors of these estimators to their corresponding Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio and the full-width at half-maximum of faint stars. We discuss two general circumstances in centroiding of faint stars: (i) when we have a good estimate of the PSF, (ii) when we do not know the PSF. In the case that we know the PSF, we sh

Author

Vakili, Mohammadjavad; Hogg, David W.

Published

2016

Language

EN