I had my quasi-weekly call with Dustin Lang (Perimeter) today, in which we discussed how to represent the differences between images, or represent models of images. I am obsessing about how to model distortions of spectrograph calibration images (like arcs and flats), and Lang and I endlessly discuss difference imaging to discover time-variable phenomena and moving objects. One thing Lang has observed is that sometimes a parametric model of a reference image makes a better reference image for image differencing than the reference image itself. Presumably this is because the model de-noises the data? But if so, could we just use a band-limited non-parametric model say? We discussed many things related to all that.
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