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arxiv: 2602.17205 · v2 · submitted 2026-02-19 · 🌌 astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.CO· astro-ph.GA· cs.AI

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Deeper detection limits in astronomical imaging using self-supervised spatiotemporal denoising

Yuduo Guo , Hao Zhang , Mingyu Li , Fujiang Yu , Yunjing Wu , Yuhan Hao , Song Huang , Yongming Liang
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Xiaojing Lin Xinyang Li Jiamin Wu Zheng Cai Qionghai Dai
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keywords astronomical imagingimage denoisingself-supervised learningtransformer modelJWST observationshigh-redshift galaxiesdetection limitslow-surface-brightness features
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A self-supervised transformer learns noise correlations across image exposures to push astronomical detection limits one magnitude deeper.

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The paper presents ASTERIS, a denoising method that trains itself on spatiotemporal patterns in repeated astronomical exposures instead of requiring clean reference images. By exploiting correlations between neighboring pixels and across time, the algorithm suppresses noise while leaving the point-spread function and photometry intact. Tests on simulated data show a one-magnitude gain in detection depth at 90 percent completeness and purity. When applied to real JWST exposures, the same procedure recovers three times as many redshift-greater-than-9 galaxy candidates, each roughly one magnitude fainter in rest-frame ultraviolet light than previously found.

Core claim

ASTERIS is a self-supervised transformer-based denoising algorithm that integrates spatiotemporal information across multiple exposures to reduce correlated noise in astronomical images. On mock data it improves detection limits by 1.0 magnitude at 90 percent completeness and purity while preserving the point-spread function and photometric accuracy. Applied to deep JWST images it identifies three times more redshift-greater-than-9 galaxy candidates whose rest-frame ultraviolet luminosity is 1.0 magnitude fainter than those recovered by prior methods.

What carries the argument

The ASTERIS self-supervised transformer that learns to predict and subtract spatiotemporal noise patterns directly from stacks of repeated astronomical exposures.

If this is right

  • Detection limits improve by 1.0 magnitude at fixed 90 percent completeness and purity on simulated data.
  • Point-spread function and photometric accuracy remain unchanged, allowing reliable measurements of newly detected sources.
  • Three times more redshift-greater-than-9 galaxy candidates become identifiable in existing deep JWST fields.
  • Low-surface-brightness galaxy structures and gravitationally lensed arcs become visible in both JWST and Subaru data.
  • The same procedure can be applied to any multi-epoch imaging dataset without additional labeled training data.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Future large surveys could adopt the method to extract fainter samples from the same total exposure time.
  • The approach may allow re-analysis of archival multi-epoch datasets to increase their effective depth retroactively.
  • If the noise model generalizes, similar self-supervised transformers could be trained on data from other wavelengths or instruments.

Load-bearing premise

Self-supervised learning from spatiotemporal noise correlations in multi-exposure data will generalize to real observations without introducing systematic biases in photometry, morphology, or completeness estimates.

What would settle it

Spectroscopic confirmation or independent deeper imaging of the newly reported high-redshift candidates that shows their measured fluxes and morphologies are consistent with expectations from the original noisy data.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2602.17205 by Fujiang Yu, Hao Zhang, Jiamin Wu, Mingyu Li, Qionghai Dai, Song Huang, Xiaojing Lin, Xinyang Li, Yongming Liang, Yuduo Guo, Yuhan Hao, Yunjing Wu, Zheng Cai.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Schematic overview of the ASTERIS algorithm. (A) Comparison between standard co￾addition (outlier-rejected averaging), N2N denoising, and ASTERIS denoising. The workflow is organized into four columns from left to right: input data, denoising methods, underlying principles, and conceptual denoising effect. Solid and dashed lines denote data flow and corresponding effect (gray for co-addition, blue for N2N,… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Characterization of ASTERIS using mock sources. (A) Example isolated ground-truth sources (within the red circles, TP means true positive) with a clean background. The black scale bar is 1.0 arcseconds. The resulting images produced by (B) co-addition by averaging 8 exposures with mock sources in panel A injection into JWST NIRCam F115W images (grayscale, see color bar in megajansky per steradian (MJy/sr))… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Observational validation of ASTERIS on real data. t0 is the individual exposure time and M× indicates that M exposures were used. (A to D) A crowded field observation from JWST NIRCam in F115W, with t0= 837.5 s. n is the number of sources identified by Source Extractor with fixed parameters. The images resulting from (A) co-addition of 8 × t0 exposures, (B) ASTERIS applied to 8 × t0 exposures, and (C) co-a… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Application of ASTERIS to faint high-redshift galaxy candidates in the JADES Origins Field (JOF). (A) False-color RGB composite image of the JOF NIRCam imaging processed using ASTERIS. Blue is F115W + F150W; green is F200W + F277W; red is F356W + F444W. Green boxes outline the boundaries of the F200W image footprint. The scale bar is 20 arcseconds. Diamond symbols indicate high-redshift galaxy candidates f… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

The detection limit of astronomical imaging observations is limited by several noise sources. Some of that noise is correlated between neighbouring image pixels and exposures, so in principle could be learned and corrected. We present an astronomical self-supervised transformer-based denoising algorithm (ASTERIS), that integrates spatiotemporal information across multiple exposures. Benchmarking on mock data indicates that ASTERIS improves detection limits by 1.0 magnitude at 90% completeness and purity, while preserving the point spread function and photometric accuracy. Observational validation using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Subaru telescope identifies previously undetectable features, including low-surface-brightness galaxy structures and gravitationally-lensed arcs. Applied to deep JWST images, ASTERIS identifies three times more redshift > 9 galaxy candidates, with rest-frame ultraviolet luminosity 1.0 magnitude fainter, than previous methods.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces ASTERIS, a self-supervised transformer-based denoising algorithm that integrates spatiotemporal information across multiple exposures to reduce correlated noise in astronomical imaging. Benchmarking on mock data reports a 1.0 magnitude improvement in detection limits at 90% completeness and purity while preserving the PSF and photometric accuracy. Applied to deep JWST images, the method identifies three times more redshift >9 galaxy candidates at 1.0 magnitude fainter rest-frame UV luminosity and reveals previously undetectable low-surface-brightness features.

Significance. If the central claim holds without introducing selection biases, ASTERIS could meaningfully increase the scientific return from existing and future deep imaging datasets by extending detection limits without additional exposure time. The self-supervised formulation is a practical strength for domains lacking clean ground-truth targets.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and JWST application results] The observational validation on JWST data (abstract and results section) reports a factor-of-three increase in z>9 candidates but provides only qualitative descriptions without error bars, completeness/purity estimates for the candidate selection, or explicit checks for photometric bias introduced by the denoiser. This is load-bearing for the headline claim of a 1-mag fainter luminosity limit.
  2. [Benchmarking on mock data] The mock-data benchmarks supporting the 1-mag gain (benchmarking section) do not specify how the injected source morphologies and spatiotemporal noise correlations were constructed to reproduce the full range of real JWST non-stationarities; without this, it remains possible that performance does not generalize and that faint real sources correlated with learned noise modes are suppressed.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figures] Figure captions should explicitly state the quantitative metrics (e.g., completeness, purity, magnitude limit) shown in each panel for direct comparison with the text claims.
  2. [Methods] The training details (number of epochs, learning rate schedule, exact loss formulation) are referenced but not tabulated; a concise table would improve reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive feedback, which has helped us strengthen the presentation of our results. We address each major comment below with clarifications from the full manuscript and indicate where revisions have been made.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and JWST application results] The observational validation on JWST data (abstract and results section) reports a factor-of-three increase in z>9 candidates but provides only qualitative descriptions without error bars, completeness/purity estimates for the candidate selection, or explicit checks for photometric bias introduced by the denoiser. This is load-bearing for the headline claim of a 1-mag fainter luminosity limit.

    Authors: We agree that the JWST validation section requires more quantitative support to substantiate the headline claims. The full manuscript already includes source injection tests for completeness in the results section, but we acknowledge the absence of explicit error bars, purity metrics for the z>9 selection, and direct photometric bias checks. In the revised manuscript we have added bootstrap-derived error bars on the candidate counts, completeness/purity curves from the injection tests applied to the actual JWST fields, and a photometric bias assessment comparing aperture fluxes of bright sources before and after denoising. These additions directly address the load-bearing concern and support the reported 1-mag gain. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Benchmarking on mock data] The mock-data benchmarks supporting the 1-mag gain (benchmarking section) do not specify how the injected source morphologies and spatiotemporal noise correlations were constructed to reproduce the full range of real JWST non-stationarities; without this, it remains possible that performance does not generalize and that faint real sources correlated with learned noise modes are suppressed.

    Authors: The benchmarking section constructs mocks by deriving spatiotemporal noise directly from real JWST multi-exposure stacks (including read-noise, 1/f noise, and cosmic-ray residuals) and injecting sources whose morphologies are drawn from deeper HST catalogs to match the expected size and ellipticity distributions at high redshift. We have now expanded the text with an explicit enumeration of the modeled non-stationarities and added a supplementary test showing flux recovery statistics for faint injected sources to demonstrate that correlated noise modes do not systematically suppress real signals. While these revisions improve transparency, we note that perfect replication of every real-world non-stationarity remains an inherent limitation of any simulation. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: ASTERIS self-supervised training and mock-based benchmarking form an independent validation chain

full rationale

The paper introduces a self-supervised transformer (ASTERIS) that learns spatiotemporal noise correlations directly from multi-exposure stacks. Detection-limit claims are quantified on separate mock datasets with injected sources, measuring completeness, purity, PSF preservation, and photometry at fixed thresholds. This constitutes external benchmarking rather than any reduction of outputs to fitted inputs by construction. No self-citation is invoked as a load-bearing uniqueness theorem or ansatz; the central performance numbers (1 mag gain, 3× more z>9 candidates) are reported from direct application to held-out mocks and real JWST data. The derivation therefore remains self-contained against the stated external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the domain assumption that correlated noise components are learnable via self-supervised spatiotemporal transformers without distorting astronomical signals; no free parameters or invented entities are specified in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Noise in astronomical images exhibits learnable spatiotemporal correlations across exposures that can be separated from true signals by transformer models
    This underpins the self-supervised training and the claimed preservation of PSF and photometry.

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