arXiv:2604.22351astro-ph.IMcs.CV2026-04

新方法LORABEL无需传统观测操作,显著降低中红外成像背景噪声。

Thermal background reduction for mid-infrared imaging by low-rank background and sparse point-source modelling

论文配图:Thermal background reduction for mid-infrared imaging by low-rank background and sparse point-source modelling
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  • 基于低秩背景与稀疏点源建模,实现无须切片调制的背景抑制
  • 地面数据中降低光度误差波动,空基数据背景通量下降20至100倍
  • 适合弱源探测,尤其适用于大型望远镜等未来观测平台

地基中红外天文观测因主导的空间与时间变化背景噪声,难以准确检测和量化天体源。传统切片调制(chopping and nodding)方法在下一代极大望远镜上将不可行。为此,我们提出并评估了一种名为LORABEL的新方法,无需经典望远镜调制、源掩蔽等观测开销,提升中红外观测灵敏度。该方法在地面VISIR数据(合成注入源)与机载SOFIA数据上验证。在地基数据中,当信噪比低于5时,相比单独切片或传统切片-调制,LORABEL降低了光度误差波动,但引入偏差;在空基数据中,其使平均背景通量较传统方法降低20至100倍,同时保留大部分源通量。结果表明,LORABEL适用于更广泛的仪器观测场景,是弱源探测的有效工具。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Mid-infrared astronomy from the ground faces critical challenges in accurately detecting and quantifying sources due to the dominant spatially and time-variable background noise. Moreover, chopping and nodding, the traditional methods for dealing with these background issues, will not be technically feasible on the next generation of extremely large telescopes. This limitation requires the development of novel computational methods for a robust background reduction. We present and evaluate a novel method named LOw-RAnk Background ELimination (LORABEL) to improve the sensitivity of mid-infrared astronomical observations, without the need for classical telescope nodding, source masking, or other overheads in observing time. We applied a low-rank background-reduction strategy to (1) data taken on the ground with the VISIR with synthetically injected sources, and (2) airborne data from SOFIA. We compared the performance of our new method to classical chopping and nodding techniques, and analysed the effect on source photometry and detection precision for different observational scenarios. In regimes with a low signal-to-noise ratio (S/N $<5$) in the ground-based VISIR data, LORABEL reduces variation in the photometric error with respect to chopping differences alone and even the classical chop-nod sequence, at the cost of introducing a bias. Secondly, we demonstrate that LORABEL increases detection precision in comparison to traditional background-reduction methods. For the SOFIA dataset, we achieve a $20-100$ fold decrease in mean background flux with respect to the traditional chop-nod method while preserving most of the source flux. Our findings suggest that LORABEL is applicable to a wider range of instrumental observation, that is, both ground-based and airborne, and it is a suitable tool in the context of faint-source detection.

中红外成像背景抑制低秩建模弱源探测

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