Shear Measurement with Poorly Resolved Images
Jun Zhang, Cong Liu, Pedro Alonso Vaquero, Hekun Li, Haoran Wang, Zhi Xiang Shen, Fuyu Dong · The Astronomical Journal · 2022
Abstract Weak lensing studies typically require excellent seeing conditions for the purpose of maximizing the number density of well-resolved galaxy images. It is interesting to ask to what extent the seeing size limits the usefulness of the astronomical images in weak lensing. In this work, we study this issue with the data of the DECam Legacy Survey, which is a part of the target selection program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. Using the Fourier_Quad shear measurement pipeline, we demonstrate that images with relatively poor seeing conditions (∼1.″5) can still yield accurate shear estimators. We do not find any correlation between systematic shear error and the image resolution.