Flash hyperspectral imaging of non-stellar astronomical objects

James F. Scholl; E. Keith Hege; Michael Hart; Daniel O'Connell; Eustace L. Dereniak

doi:10.1117/12.794915

5 September 2008 Flash hyperspectral imaging of non-stellar astronomical objects

James F. Scholl, E. Keith Hege, Michael Hart, Daniel O'Connell, Eustace L. Dereniak

Proceedings Volume 7075, Mathematics of Data/Image Pattern Recognition, Compression, and Encryption with Applications XI; 70750H (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.794915
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

There are certain classes of astronomical objects that have rather involved spectra that can also be a composite of a number of different spectral signatures, as well as spatial characteristics that can be used for identification and analysis. Such objects include galaxies and quasars with active nuclei, colliding / interacting galaxies, and globular cluster systems around our own Milky Way and other galaxies. Flash hyperspectral imaging adds coherence-time limited functionality so that Earth orbiting spacecraft and solar system objects such as planets, asteroids and comets can be spectrally imaged as well, as these also have both spatial and spectral structure rotating and moving within much shorter time spans. Flash hyperspectral imaging systems are, therefore, also useful for faster simultaneous spatial and spectral feature analysis. Previous work has explored spectral unmixing and other types of feature extraction of these general types of objects, but without consideration of the hyperspectral imaging system involved, neither in how the data is collected nor in how the datacube is reconstructed. We will present a proof of concept simulation of a resolved object as it is imaged through such a physically modeled imaging system and its datacube reconstructed. Finally, we provide a demonstration of the capability with astronomical data, Venus and a binary star, when constrained by our physical model of the instrumental transfer function.

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James F. Scholl, E. Keith Hege, Michael Hart, Daniel O'Connell, and Eustace L. Dereniak "Flash hyperspectral imaging of non-stellar astronomical objects", Proc. SPIE 7075, Mathematics of Data/Image Pattern Recognition, Compression, and Encryption with Applications XI, 70750H (5 September 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.794915

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