Kavli Affiliate: Katrin Heitmann
| First 5 Authors: Masaya Yamamoto, Katherine Laliotis, Emily Macbeth, Tianqing Zhang, Christopher M. Hirata
| Summary:
One challenge for applying current weak lensing analysis tools to the Nancy
Grace Roman Space Telescope is that individual images will be undersampled. Our
companion paper presented an initial application of Imcom – an algorithm that
builds an optimal mapping from input to output pixels to reconstruct a fully
sampled combined image – on the Roman image simulations. In this paper, we
measure the output noise power spectra, identify the sources of the major
features in the power spectra, and show that simple analytic models that ignore
sampling effects underestimate the power spectra of the coadded noise images.
We compute the moments of both idealized injected stars and fully simulated
stars in the coadded images, and their 1- and 2-point statistics. We show that
the idealized injected stars have root-mean-square ellipticity errors (1 – 6) x
10-4 per component depending on the band; the correlation functions are >= 2
orders of magnitude below requirements, indicating that the image combination
step itself is using a small fraction of the overall Roman 2nd moment error
budget, although the 4th moments are larger and warrant further investigation.
The stars in the simulated sky images, which include blending and chromaticity
effects, have correlation functions near the requirement level (and below the
requirement level in a wide-band image constructed by stacking all 4 filters).
We evaluate the noise-induced biases in the ellipticities of injected stars,
and explain the resulting trends with an analytical model. We conclude by
enumerating the next steps in developing an image coaddition pipeline for
Roman.
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