Restoration of Images of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 Taken with the Deep Impact High Resolution Instrument

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Apr 2007

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The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 119, Issue 854, pp. 427-436.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Comets: Individual (9P/Tempel 1), Methods: Data Analysis, Techniques: Image Processing

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In 2005 July, the NASA Deep Impact mission successfully completed a flyby of comet 9P/Tempel 1. A flaw in the prelaunch calibration system resulted in an inability to accurately focus the telescope's High Resolution Instrument, resulting in a significant loss of resolution. However, because of the nature of the blurring process, much of the high-frequency information is retained and can be recovered using deconvolution. We discuss the data-processing requirements and noise modeling needed prior to deconvolution and compare a few popular deconvolution algorithms. All of the algorithms give very similar results. More importantly, we find that none of the algorithms correctly handle the errors resulting from the data compression used on board the spacecraft to compress the 16 bit CCD data to 8 bits prior to transmission of the image to the ground. We present a modification to the Richardson-Lucy deconvolution algorithm that we have successfully used to account for these compression errors.

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