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In other words, the oversampled PSF is < 1.0 (as expected!), but the oversampled and distorted PSF now appears to have flux greater than unity. This is unphysical and must be incorrect.
It's not immediately clear how best to fix this: distortion is not strictly speaking flux conserving (since light can move in/out from the edges of the FOV). This is related to the imperfect approximation we use for this in webbpsf, applying the distortion as a model in the image plane rather than the pupil plane.
Simple workaround: check if it's > 1.0 and if so, limit the PSF intensity to 1.0?
This cases problems with some MIRAGE calculations, in particular, since MIRAGE checks the PSF grid is < 1.0 (after normalizing out by the oversampling**2, correctly)
The distortion model based on SIAF can in some cases result in PSFs with normalized intensity > 1:
outputs:
In other words, the oversampled PSF is < 1.0 (as expected!), but the oversampled and distorted PSF now appears to have flux greater than unity. This is unphysical and must be incorrect.
It's not immediately clear how best to fix this: distortion is not strictly speaking flux conserving (since light can move in/out from the edges of the FOV). This is related to the imperfect approximation we use for this in webbpsf, applying the distortion as a model in the image plane rather than the pupil plane.
Simple workaround: check if it's > 1.0 and if so, limit the PSF intensity to 1.0?
This cases problems with some MIRAGE calculations, in particular, since MIRAGE checks the PSF grid is < 1.0 (after normalizing out by the oversampling**2, correctly)
FYI @Skyhawk172, @obi-wan76
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