Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-09-19
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted to PASP. 27 pages, 8 figures. Version with full resolution figures available at http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/user
Scientific paper
The familiar tools of Fourier analysis and Fisher matrices are applied to derive the uncertainties on photometric, astrometric, and weak-lensing measurements of stars and galaxies in real astronomical images. Many effects or functions that are ignored in basic exposure-time calculators can be included in this framework: pixels of size comparable to the stellar image; undersampled and dithered exposures; cosmic-ray hits; intrapixel sensitivity variations; positional and ellipticity errors as well as photometric errors. I present a formalism and a C++ implementation of these methods. As examples of their use, I answer some commonly arising questions about imaging strategies: What amount of dithering is ideal? What pixel size optimizes the productivity of a camera? Which is more efficient---space-based or ground-based observing?
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