Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy

, Volume 8, Issue 4, pp 343–350 | Cite as

An analytical approximation of the hubble space telescope monochromatic point spread functions

  • O. Bendinelli
  • G. Parmeggiani
  • F. Zavatti
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Abstract

A mixture of off-centred Gaussians is used to approximate the predicted monochromatic point spread functions (PSFs) of Hubble space telescope (HST) at long wavelengths, and also, with a reduced number of parameters, the wide-band PSFs. The usefulness of the approximation in simulation and analysis of HST data is shown by means of application to image centring and convolution-deconvolution problems.

Key words

HST point spread function—image centring—image deconvolution 

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© Indian Academy of Sciences 1987

Authors and Affiliations

  • O. Bendinelli
    • 1
  • G. Parmeggiani
    • 2
  • F. Zavatti
    • 3
  1. 1.Dipartimento di AstronomiaUniversità di BolognaBolognaItaly
  2. 2.Osservatorio Astronomico di BolognaBolognaItaly
  3. 3.Dipartimento di AstronomiaUniversità di BolognaBolognaItaly

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