PSF Estimation


 * Wikipedia explanation of Point Spread Function
 * Wikipedia explanation of Airy Disk
 * Wikipedia explanation of Astronomical Seeing

Lectures and Tutorials

 * Lecture Notes of Astronomical Techniques by Robert O'Connell @ UVirgnia
 * The PDF version of the lecture notes is Here


 * Several useful notes about PSF and image analysis by Eric Neilsen@FermiLab
 * PSFs and Sampling of Images in Astronomy
 * Notes on image coaddition, PSF homogenization, and matched filters
 * Evolution of seeing in SDSS imaging runs
 * Notes on the Essentials of Astronomy Data
 * Python for Dervish and Astrotools Users (and other astronomers)
 * Image Stacking Tools for Modern Surveys@ASPC

About the PSF 'Red-Halo' or Extended Wing Effect

 * PSF far wings and "red halo" in the photometry of galaxies. One more source of errors
 * Michard 2002, A&A


 * Optical and Near-Infrared Color Profiles in Nearby Early-Type Galaxies and the Implied Age and Metallicity Gradients
 * Wu, Shao, Mo, Xia & Deng 2005, ApJ
 * Reveal the Red-Halo effect in SDSS and its effect on color profile.


 * Point spread function tails and the measurements of diffuse stellar halo light around edge-on disc galaxies
 * de Jong 2008
 * 'It will be very challenging to make accurate halo light shape and colour measurements from integrated light without very careful PSF measurements and scattered light modelling.'


 * The Faint Stellar Halos of Massive Red Galaxies from Stacks of More than 42,000 SDSS LRG Images
 * Tal & van Dokkum 2011, ApJ
 * Correctly taking the PSF halo in SDSS into account.


 * SPIDER - VII. Revealing the stellar population content of massive early-type galaxies out to 8 Re
 * La Barbera, Ferreras, de Carvalho, Bruzual, Charlot et al. 2012, MNRAS
 * Another case of correctly taking the PSF wing of SDSS into account.


 * Structure, colours, and populations of NGC 3115. Mysteries of a well-known object
 * Michard 2007, A&A
 * Michard's careful study of NGC 3115.

'Positive' Detection of Red Halo

 * V- and I-band observations of the halo of NGC 5907
 * Lequeux, Fort, Dantel-Fort, Cuillandre & Mellier 1996, A&A
 * Detection of Red Halo in Edge-on Sc galaxy NGC5907.


 * Do Blue Compact Galaxies Have Red Halos by Erik Zackrisson


 * Haloes around edge-on disc galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
 * Zibetti, White & Brinkmann 2004, MNRAS
 * Stacking of edge-on disc galaxies that reveal a red halo.


 * A faint red stellar halo around an edge-on disc galaxy in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
 * Zibetti & Ferguson 2004, MNRAS
 * Similar stacking discoveries at HUDF


 * The red haloes of SDSS low surface brightness disc galaxies
 * Bergvall, Zackrisson & Caldwell 2010, MNRAS


 * The faint outskirts of the blue compact galaxy Haro 11: is there a red excess?
 * Micheva, Zackrisson, Ostlin, Bergvall & Pursimo 2010, MNRAS
 * Red Halo around a Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy ?

About Seeing Theory

 * From Differential Image Motion to Seeing
 * Tokovinin 2002, PASP


 * Seeing, Wind, and Outer Scale Effects on Image Quality at the Magellan Telescopes
 * Floyd, Thomas-Osip & Prieto 2010, PASP


 * High resolution imaging from the ground
 * Woolf, 1982, ARA&A

PSF Function and Modelling

 * Modeling the Point Spread Function Using Principle Component Analysis
 * The master thesis of Brett Ragozzine


 * A Theoretical Investigation of Focal Stellar Images in the Photographic Emulsion and Application to Photographic Photometry
 * Moffat 1969, A&A

Applications

 * The effects of seeing on Sèrsic profiles
 * Trujillo, Aguerri, Cepa & Gutierrez 2001, MNRAS


 * The effects of seeing on Sérsic profiles - II. The Moffat PSF
 * Trujillo, Aguerri, Cepa & Gutierrez 2001, MNRAS


 * The Effects of Seeing on the Photometric Properties of Elliptical Galaxies
 * Saglia et al. 1993, MNRAS


 * Seeing deconvolution of globular clusters in M31
 * Bendinelli, Zavatti, Parmeggiani & Djorgovski 1990, AJ


 * On point spread function modelling: towards optimal interpolation
 * Berge, Price, Amara & Rhodes 2012, 'MNRAS'

Deconvolution

 * Deconvolution in Astronomy: A Review
 * Starck, Pantin & Murtagh, 2002, PASP


 * Deconvolution with a Spatially-variant PSF
 * Lauer, PASP

Lucky Imaging

 * The Point Spread Function in Lucky Imaging and Variations in seeing on short timescales
 * Baldwin, Warner & Mackay, 2008, A&A

Angular Differential Imaging

 * A New Algorithm for Point-Spread Function Subtraction in High-Contrast Imaging: A Demonstration with Angular Differential Imaging
 * Lafreniere et al. 2007, ApJ

Tools

 * WebbPSF
 * Simulated point spread functions for JWST can be produced using the WebbPSF package.


 * PSFEx-PSF Extractor
 * PSFEx extracts models of the Point Spread Function (PSF) from FITS images processed with SExtractor, and measures the quality of images. The generated PSF models can be used for model-fitting photometry or morphological analyses.
 * The reference of the software is Here
 * Model Fitting in SExtractor
 * Automated morphometry with PSFEx and SExtractor
 * Automated PSF measurement and homogenization in DESDM


 * The PSF Library of The Advanced Camera for Surveys
 * We describe the time- and position-dependent point spread function (PSF) variation of the Wide Field Channel (WFC) of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) with the principal component analysis (PCA) technique.
 * The publication on PASP can be found Here


 * TinyTim-HST PSF Modeling
 * Tiny Tim (Krist & Hook 2011) is a point spread function modeling tool which may be downloaded as a stand-alone application or run via a web interface.