To overcome the limitations of ground-based telescopes in spatial resolution and imaging quality, recent researchhas concentrated on image super-resolution (SR) reconstruction. This approach aims to enhance ground-bas...To overcome the limitations of ground-based telescopes in spatial resolution and imaging quality, recent researchhas concentrated on image super-resolution (SR) reconstruction. This approach aims to enhance ground-basedimages by recovering “space-based-like” images with higher spatial resolution and more detailed structuralinformation, without the need for expensive space-based observations. The training of SR models typically relieson large-scale, high-quality paired datasets of ground-based and space-based images. However, the acquisition ofsuch data is highly costly, which significantly limits the widespread application of these models. Based on this,this paper proposes using realistic synthetic galaxy images generated by IllustrisTNG cosmological simulation toreplace real space-based images and constructs a training dataset for image SR tasks, TNG-RealSR. To verify thevalidity of this dataset, we selected five mainstream lightweight SR models for evaluation. The results show thatTNG-RealSR exhibits good applicability in the task of galaxy image SR, providing reliable data support forrelated research. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to apply cosmological simulation-generatedsynthetic galaxy images to the field of galaxy image SR, demonstrating the feasibility of deep learning methodsbased on synthetic data for astronomical image enhancement tasks. This provides a low-cost and efficient solutionfor improving data quality in future large-scale surveys. The dataset is available online at http://gffzz188fe103f8f1460ascqnvuqw66pf96bco.ffgz.tsg.suse.edu.cn/jiaweimmiao/TNG-RealSR.展开更多
From the mid-19th century to the end of the 20th century, photographic plates served as the primary detectors for astronomical observations. Astronomical photographic observations in China began in 1901, and over a ce...From the mid-19th century to the end of the 20th century, photographic plates served as the primary detectors for astronomical observations. Astronomical photographic observations in China began in 1901, and over a century, a total of approximately 30,000 astronomical photographic plates were captured. These historical plates play an irreplaceable role in conducting long-term, time-domain astronomical research. To preserve and explore these valuable original astronomical observational data, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory has organized the transportation of plates, taken during nighttime observations from various stations across the country, to the Sheshan Plate Archive for centralized preservation. For the first time, plate information statistics were calculated. On this basis, the plates were cleaned and digitally scanned, and finally digitized images were acquired for 29,314 plates. In this study, using Gaia DR2 as the reference star catalog, astrometric processing was carried out successfully on 15,696 single-exposure plates, including object extraction, stellar identification,and plate model computation. As a result, for long focal length telescopes, such as the 40 cm double-tube refractor telescope, the 1.56 m reflector telescope at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, and the 1m reflecting telescope at Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, the astrometric accuracy obtained for their plates is approximately 0."1–0."3. The distribution of astrometric accuracy for medium and short focal length telescopes ranges from 0."3 to 1."0. The relevant data of this batch of plates, including digitized images and a stellar catalog of the plates, are archived and released by the National Astronomical Data Center. Users can access and download plate data based on keywords such as station, telescope, observation year, and observed celestial coordinates.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,grant No.U1731128).
摘要To overcome the limitations of ground-based telescopes in spatial resolution and imaging quality, recent researchhas concentrated on image super-resolution (SR) reconstruction. This approach aims to enhance ground-basedimages by recovering “space-based-like” images with higher spatial resolution and more detailed structuralinformation, without the need for expensive space-based observations. The training of SR models typically relieson large-scale, high-quality paired datasets of ground-based and space-based images. However, the acquisition ofsuch data is highly costly, which significantly limits the widespread application of these models. Based on this,this paper proposes using realistic synthetic galaxy images generated by IllustrisTNG cosmological simulation toreplace real space-based images and constructs a training dataset for image SR tasks, TNG-RealSR. To verify thevalidity of this dataset, we selected five mainstream lightweight SR models for evaluation. The results show thatTNG-RealSR exhibits good applicability in the task of galaxy image SR, providing reliable data support forrelated research. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to apply cosmological simulation-generatedsynthetic galaxy images to the field of galaxy image SR, demonstrating the feasibility of deep learning methodsbased on synthetic data for astronomical image enhancement tasks. This provides a low-cost and efficient solutionfor improving data quality in future large-scale surveys. The dataset is available online at http://gffzz188fe103f8f1460ascqnvuqw66pf96bco.ffgz.tsg.suse.edu.cn/jiaweimmiao/TNG-RealSR.
基金supported by the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan(grant No.21511104100)the Global Common Challenge Special Project(grant No.018GJHZ2023110GC)the China National Key Basic Research Program(grant No.2012FY120500)。
摘要From the mid-19th century to the end of the 20th century, photographic plates served as the primary detectors for astronomical observations. Astronomical photographic observations in China began in 1901, and over a century, a total of approximately 30,000 astronomical photographic plates were captured. These historical plates play an irreplaceable role in conducting long-term, time-domain astronomical research. To preserve and explore these valuable original astronomical observational data, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory has organized the transportation of plates, taken during nighttime observations from various stations across the country, to the Sheshan Plate Archive for centralized preservation. For the first time, plate information statistics were calculated. On this basis, the plates were cleaned and digitally scanned, and finally digitized images were acquired for 29,314 plates. In this study, using Gaia DR2 as the reference star catalog, astrometric processing was carried out successfully on 15,696 single-exposure plates, including object extraction, stellar identification,and plate model computation. As a result, for long focal length telescopes, such as the 40 cm double-tube refractor telescope, the 1.56 m reflector telescope at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, and the 1m reflecting telescope at Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, the astrometric accuracy obtained for their plates is approximately 0."1–0."3. The distribution of astrometric accuracy for medium and short focal length telescopes ranges from 0."3 to 1."0. The relevant data of this batch of plates, including digitized images and a stellar catalog of the plates, are archived and released by the National Astronomical Data Center. Users can access and download plate data based on keywords such as station, telescope, observation year, and observed celestial coordinates.