Dynamic Range Beyond Bit Depth of a CMOS Image Sensor Using Interleaved Row Readout

arXiv:2606.07788 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-06-05 · Read on arXiv

Supriyo Ghosh, William Martin, Hugh R. A. Jones, Angaraj Duara, Konstantin Stefanov, Jesper Skottfelt

University of Hertfordshire, UK · University of Hertfordshire, UK · University of Hertfordshire, UK · The Open University, UK · The Open University, UK · The Open University, UK

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-06-05

Comments: 15 pages, 17 figures, accepted to RAS Techniques & Instruments

Code: https://github.com/astrosupriyo/pyROWSTACK

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Aperture — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture Photometry — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Self-consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
• Astrometry.net: Blind astrometric calibration of arbitrary astronomical images

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