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CSST Preparations: Galaxy Completeness and S\'ersic Profile Fitting across the Wide, Deep, and Extreme Fields

Ziqi Ma , Si-Yue Yu , Taotao Fang , Jinyi Shangguan , Zhao-Yu Li , Luis C. Ho

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keywords CSST surveygalaxy completenessSersic profile fittingmock imagesmorphological biasesHST calibrationsurvey depths

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Mock CSST images calibrated to HST data establish 95 percent completeness limits of 24.4 to 28.5 magnitudes in g band for galaxies and point sources across wide, deep, and extreme fields, along with magnitude-dependent biases in Sersic fits

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The paper generates 470526 mock CSST images for 22406 simulated galaxies with stellar masses above 10^9 solar masses, with parameters drawn from HST observations spanning redshifts 0 to about 7. It applies source detection and Sersic profile fitting with three independent codes to these images in seven filters and three survey depths. The work measures how spatial extent reduces detection completeness for extended galaxies relative to point sources and tracks how lower signal-to-noise ratios at faint magnitudes produce systematic overestimates of magnitude, effective radius, and effective surface brightness together with underestimates of Sersic index and axis ratio. These effects shrink in the deeper fields. The resulting numbers supply concrete thresholds for sample selection and for judging the reliability of morphological measurements in future CSST surveys.

Core claim

By simulating realistic galaxies across the planned CSST wide, deep, and extreme fields and running source detection plus multi-code Sersic fitting on 470526 mock images, the authors show that 95 percent completeness in the g band reaches 26.3, 27.4, and 28.5 magnitudes for point sources but only 24.4, 25.9, and 27.1 magnitudes for extended galaxies. Detection remains above 95 percent out to redshift roughly 3-4 in the extreme field, redshift 1 in the deep field, and redshift 0.5 in the wide field. For fainter galaxies the reduced signal-to-noise produces average overestimates in magnitude, effective radius, and effective surface brightness and underestimates in Sersic index and axis ratio,

What carries the argument

Generation of HST-calibrated mock galaxy images followed by source detection and Sersic fitting with GALFIT, AstroPhot, and SourceXtractor++ to quantify completeness and parameter biases

If this is right

Galaxy samples selected from CSST wide-field data should be limited to roughly 24.4 mag or brighter to maintain high completeness for extended objects.
Morphological catalogs from CSST must incorporate corrections or uncertainty floors that grow for objects fainter than the 95 percent completeness limits.
Deeper exposures progressively reduce both the size of the biases and the scatter around them, making extreme-field data preferable for structural studies of faint galaxies.
Redshift-dependent completeness implies that statistical studies of galaxy populations at z greater than 1 will rely primarily on the deep and extreme fields.
Multi-code fitting results indicate that the bias directions are robust to choice of software and can be treated as a general feature of low signal-to-noise imaging.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

The surface-brightness dilution effect quantified here implies that any CSST-based size or morphology function will need explicit correction for missing low-surface-brightness galaxies at fixed total magnitude.
The same mock framework could be reused to test how adding realistic crowding or background gradients alters the reported bias trends.
These limits provide a ready benchmark for comparing CSST performance against other planned wide-field imaging facilities that target similar galaxy populations.

Load-bearing premise

The mock galaxies, whose parameters are calibrated to match real HST observations, accurately represent the true distributions, morphologies, and noise properties of galaxies that CSST will observe across 0 to z approximately 7.

What would settle it

Once real CSST imaging of the same sky areas becomes available, a direct comparison of observed versus predicted completeness curves and bias trends in magnitude, radius, and Sersic index would test whether the mock calibration holds.

read the original abstract

The upcoming imaging survey of the Chinese Space-station Survey Telescope (CSST) will deliver high-resolution imaging of an unprecedented number of galaxies for galaxy studies. To understand CSST's capability, and to support the preparation of early-science programs, we generate 470,526 mock CSST images for 22,406 simulated galaxies with $M_*>10^9 M_\odot$, whose parameters are calibrated to match real HST observations spanning photometric redshift $0<z\lesssim7$, across seven CSST filters and three planned survey depths: wide, deep, and extreme. We then perform source detection and S\'ersic fitting. For point sources, we found that the 95% completeness magnitude in the g band reaches 26.3, 27.4, and 28.5 mag for the wide, deep, and extreme fields, respectively. For extended galaxies, their spatial extent dilutes the surface brightness, leading to brighter 95% completeness magnitudes of 24.4, 25.9, and 27.1 mag. The detection completeness remains above 95% at $z\lesssim3-4$ in the extreme field, while the corresponding redshift limits are $z\approx1$ in the deep field and $z\approx0.5$ in the wide field. Using three fitting codes, GALFIT, AstroPhot, and SourceXtractor++, we quantify measurement biases and uncertainties in galaxy magnitude ($m$), effective radius ($R_e$), effective surface brightness ($\mu_e$), S\'ersic index ($n$), and axis ratio ($q$). On average, for fainter galaxies, the reduced signal-to-noise ratio leads to systematic overestimates in $m$, $R_e$, and $\mu_e$, and underestimates in $n$ and $q$. These biases, as well as the associated scatter, become progressively smaller in deeper fields. Overall, our results provide quantitative constraints on sample selection and the robustness of morphological measurements in CSST early-science and legacy surveys.

Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

This paper gives concrete 95% completeness magnitudes and Sersic bias trends for CSST's three survey depths from a large HST-calibrated mock set, which is useful for planning but rests on untested assumptions about how well those mocks match the actual telescope.

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This paper supplies specific completeness limits and Sersic bias trends for the upcoming CSST survey using a large mock catalog. The numbers should help with early science planning, but they depend heavily on how well the HST-calibrated simulations represent the real CSST data. The work generates 470,526 mock images for over 22,000 galaxies with stellar masses above 10^9 solar masses, spanning redshifts from 0 to 7. They run source detection and fit Sersic profiles with three separate codes. For point sources the 95% completeness in g-band hits 26.3, 27.4, and 28.5 mag across the three depths. Extended galaxies show brighter limits at 24.4, 25.9, and 27.1 mag because surface brightness gets diluted. They also track how detection completeness holds to higher redshifts in deeper fields. The bias analysis shows that fainter objects tend to have overestimated magnitudes, sizes, and surface brightnesses, with underestimated indices and axis ratios, and these effects shrink in deeper data. What the paper does well is the cross-check across fitting methods and the broad redshift coverage. That gives a sense of robustness for the bias directions. The main limitation is that all results trace back to mocks whose parameters and noise are tuned to HST observations. Without any reported checks that swap in CSST's actual filter transmission, PSF, or background levels, it's unclear how much the quoted values would move. The abstract also omits uncertainties on the completeness figures. This is for extragalactic astronomers who will select samples from CSST or study galaxy structure with it. A reader focused on survey preparation or morphological measurements would find the quantitative constraints practical. I recommend sending it for peer review. The topic is timely for CSST preparations, and the multi-code fitting plus large mock set provide enough substance for referees to evaluate.

Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript generates 470,526 mock CSST images of 22,406 galaxies with M*>10^9 M_⊙ whose parameters are calibrated to HST observations spanning 0<z≲7. It performs source detection and Sérsic fitting with GALFIT, AstroPhot, and SourceXtractor++ across seven filters and three survey depths, reporting 95% completeness magnitudes (point sources: g=26.3/27.4/28.5; extended: g=24.4/25.9/27.1 for wide/deep/extreme) and average systematic biases (overestimates in m, Re, μe; underestimates in n, q) that decrease in deeper fields.

Significance. If the HST-calibrated mocks faithfully reproduce CSST PSF, noise, and background statistics, the completeness limits and bias trends supply practical quantitative constraints for sample selection and morphological analysis in CSST early-science and legacy programs. The use of three independent fitting codes and the large mock volume (470k images) strengthen the robustness of the reported bias directions.

major comments (2)

Abstract: the 95% completeness magnitudes are stated as single values (e.g., 26.3 mag for wide-field point sources) without uncertainties, binning details, or the functional form used to determine the 95% threshold, which limits assessment of the precision of these central quantitative claims.
Mock generation and fitting analysis: the completeness thresholds and bias trends rest entirely on the fidelity of the HST-calibrated galaxy catalog and noise model to CSST-specific instrumental properties. No sensitivity tests are reported that vary the CSST PSF, filter curves, read noise, or sky-background statistics while holding the input galaxy parameters fixed; this assumption is load-bearing for all reported limits and bias directions.

minor comments (1)

Abstract: the statement that biases 'become progressively smaller in deeper fields' is qualitative; a quantitative measure (e.g., change in bias amplitude per field depth) would improve clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and outline the revisions we will make to strengthen the paper.

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Referee: Abstract: the 95% completeness magnitudes are stated as single values (e.g., 26.3 mag for wide-field point sources) without uncertainties, binning details, or the functional form used to determine the 95% threshold, which limits assessment of the precision of these central quantitative claims.

Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from greater transparency on the derivation of the 95% completeness thresholds. In the revised manuscript we will revise the abstract to note that these limits are obtained from magnitude-binned completeness curves (with the functional form and binning details provided in Section 3.2), and we will include approximate uncertainties derived from bootstrap resampling of the mock sample. This addition will be kept concise to respect abstract length limits while improving the precision assessment. revision: yes
Referee: Mock generation and fitting analysis: the completeness thresholds and bias trends rest entirely on the fidelity of the HST-calibrated galaxy catalog and noise model to CSST-specific instrumental properties. No sensitivity tests are reported that vary the CSST PSF, filter curves, read noise, or sky-background statistics while holding the input galaxy parameters fixed; this assumption is load-bearing for all reported limits and bias directions.

Authors: The referee correctly notes that our results depend on the fidelity of the HST-calibrated mocks to CSST instrumental characteristics. While the galaxy structural parameters are directly matched to HST observations and the PSF, noise, and background models follow published CSST specifications, we did not perform explicit sensitivity tests by independently varying those instrumental parameters. In the revised manuscript we will add a new subsection in the discussion (Section 5) that explicitly states this modeling assumption, quantifies its potential impact on the reported completeness limits and bias trends, and identifies full sensitivity tests as a valuable direction for future work. We believe this addition will adequately address the concern without requiring new simulations at this stage. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: results from forward simulation of known inputs

full rationale

The paper generates 470k mock CSST images from galaxy parameters calibrated to HST data, injects them into simulated observations across three depths, runs standard detection, then fits with GALFIT/AstroPhot/SourceXtractor++ and compares recovered parameters to the known injected values. Completeness is the empirical detection fraction of injected sources; biases are direct differences (fitted minus true m, Re, n, etc.). No equation or step reduces these outputs to the inputs by construction, no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction, and no load-bearing self-citation or uniqueness theorem is invoked. The chain is a standard, self-contained simulation study whose quantitative claims are falsifiable against the mock catalog itself.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Based on abstract only; central results rest on the fidelity of mock image generation calibrated to HST data and the assumption that Sersic profiles adequately describe the galaxies.

axioms (2)

domain assumption Simulated galaxies with parameters calibrated to HST observations accurately represent real CSST galaxies across 0<z≲7 and M*>10^9 M⊙
Used to generate the 470,526 mock images spanning seven filters and three depths
domain assumption Sersic profile fitting with GALFIT, AstroPhot, and SourceXtractor++ yields reliable measurements of m, Re, μe, n, and q
Basis for quantifying systematic biases and scatter as function of magnitude and depth

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