Publications by Nicolas Cantale

Firedec: a two-channel finite-resolution image deconvolution algorithm

Nicolas Cantale, Malte Tewes, Georges Meylan, Frédéric Courbin, Pascale Jablonka

We present a two-channel deconvolution method that decomposes images into a parametric point-source channel and a pixelized extended-source channel. Based on the central idea of the deconvolution algorithm proposed by Magain et al. (1998, ApJ, 494, 472), t ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

Disc colours in field and cluster spiral galaxies at 0.5 less than or similar to z less than or similar to 0.8

Nicolas Cantale, Georges Meylan, Frédéric Courbin, Pascale Jablonka

We present a detailed study of the colours of late-type galaxy discs for ten of the EDisCS galaxy clusters with 0.5 less than or similar to z less than or similar to 0.8. Our cluster sample contains 172 spiral galaxies, and our control sample is composed o ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

Image Deconvolution for the Study of Galaxy Stellar Populations and for Gravitational Lensing

Nicolas Cantale

EPFL2014

COSMOGRAIL: the COSmological MOnitoring of GRAvItational Lenses XIII. Time delays and 9-yr optical monitoring of the lensed quasar RX J1131-1231

Nicolas Cantale, Malte Tewes, Georges Meylan, Frédéric Courbin

We present the results from nine years of optically monitoring the gravitationally lensed z(QSO) = 0.658 quasar RX J1131-1231. The R-band light curves of the four individual images of the quasar were obtained using deconvolution photometry for a total of 7 ...

Edp Sciences S A2013

Image analysis for cosmology: results from the GREAT10 Galaxy Challenge

Nicolas Cantale, Malte Tewes, Frédéric Courbin, Marc Gentile, Guldariya Nurbaeva, Richard Massey

In this paper, we present results from the weak-lensing shape measurement GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 2010 (GREAT10) Galaxy Challenge. This marks an order of magnitude step change in the level of scrutiny employed in weak-lensing shape measureme ...

Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford2012

A fast empirical method for galaxy shape measurements in weak lensing surveys

Nicolas Cantale, Malte Tewes, Georges Meylan, Frédéric Courbin

We describe a simple and fast method to correct ellipticity measurements of galaxies from the distortion by the instrumental and atmospheric point spread function (PSF), in view of weak lensing shear measurements. The method performs a classification of ga ...

Edp Sciences S A2012

VLT adaptive optics search for luminous substructures in the lens galaxy towards SDSS J0924+0219

Nicolas Cantale, Malte Tewes, Georges Meylan, Frédéric Courbin

The anomalous flux ratios between quasar images are suspected of being caused by substructures in lens galaxies. We present new deep and high-resolution H and Ks imaging of the strongly lensed quasar SDSS J0924+0219 obtained using the ESO VLT with adaptive ...

2011

Inkjet Printing of SU-8; A Case Study for Microlenses

Alcherio Martinoli, Vahid Fakhfouri, Dmitri Boiko, Jürgen Brugger, Edoardo Charbon, Grégory Mermoud, Nicolas Cantale, Joo Yeon Kim

This paper describes a novel method to fabricate polymer MEMS based on the inkjet printing of SU-8, with a special emphasis on integrated micro-optical lens arrays. Inkjet control parameters are optimized in order to enable a stable and reproducible ejecti ...

2008