Optics and Precision Engineering, Volume. 29, Issue 10, 2330(2021)

Identification of cosmic rays in Chang’e’s lunar-based ultraviolet telescope images

Qi LIU1...2, Jing WANG1,3,*, Mao-hai HUANG1,2, and Jian-yan WEI12 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Space Astronomy and Technology, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing000, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100049, China
  • 3Guangxi Key Laboratory for Relativistic Astrophysics, School of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning50004, China
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    Cosmic rays interfere with target recognition and extraction and this is a common phenomenon detected in charge-coupled device (CCD) and complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor images taken in space. In this study, we proposed a recognition algorithm based on stellar astrometry for space astronomical images, enabling us to extract a total of 29 731 cosmic-ray events in the 230 CCD images taken by the Chang'e-3 Lunar-based Ultraviolet telescope (LUT). On the one hand, this number was 11.14% more than the one detected by traditional Laplace algorithm, which was primarily because of events detected with a shape similar to a star. On the other hand, our algorithm failed for only 1.93% of the cases detected by the Laplace algorithm. Among these failed cases, 48.64% were stars, indicating misidentification by the Laplace algorithm. In addition, although peaks appeared at a higher value, the distribution of the electron deposition on the LUT CCD was comparable with those reported for the two Hubble Space Telescope CCDs. With a two-dimensional distribution of the incident angle of cosmic rays on the CCD surface, we identified significant excesses in two directions, which could be understood by a smaller equivalent aluminum thickness of the Chang 'e-3 lander. Finally, we built a public library of cosmic rays recorded by the LUT CCD by extracting the patterns of all the detected cosmic rays, which might be useful for future space telescope image simulation systems.

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    Qi LIU, Jing WANG, Mao-hai HUANG, Jian-yan WEI. Identification of cosmic rays in Chang’e’s lunar-based ultraviolet telescope images[J]. Optics and Precision Engineering, 2021, 29(10): 2330

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    Paper Information

    Category: Modern Applied Optics

    Received: Jan. 21, 2021

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Nov. 23, 2021

    The Author Email: WANG Jing (wj@nao.cas.cn)

    DOI:10.37188/OPE.20212910.2330

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