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Table 1.

Important variables used in this article.

Variable Description
Observational model

PSF field
Degradation operator
2-dimensional position of star i in CCD k
Number of observed stars in CCD k
N Number of observed stars in all the CCDs
nk, i Noise realisation of star i in CCD k
yk, i Square star observation stamp i on CCD k
ny Number of pixels on one dimension of yk, i
D Downsampling factor
yk, i 1-dimensional column representation of yk, i
Yk Matrix stacking all the star observations yk, i

PSF model

PSF model estimation of the observed stars Yk
Local and global number of eigenPSFs
Sk, Local and global eigenPSF matrices
Ak, Local and global weight matrices
αk, Local and global spatial constraint weights
, Πk Local and global spatial constraint dictionaries
, Local and global denoising parameters
(ek, i, ak, i) RCA graph constraint parameters
wk, i, Local and global weight vectors for
The sparsity inducing term
Φ Sparsity inducing transform

PSF recovery

ϕ Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel
NRBF Number of elements used to estimate the
RBF interpolant
RBF interpolation weights
Ak(NRBF) Weight matrix composed by the NRBF closest
Stars of a given target position
Ak, u, Local and global interpolated weight columns
For a target position u
Recovered PSF at position u

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