Publications (IEEE format):


Espinosa, S., Vicuna, M. L., Mendez, R. A., Silva, J. F., and Orchard,
M., "The impact of the point spread function fitting radius on
photometric uncertainty based on the Fisher information matrix",
Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 702, Art. no. A91, EDP,
2025. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202555342.

Vicuna, M.L., Silva, J.F., Mendez, R.A., Orchard, M.E., Espinosa, S.,
Tregloan-Reed, J., "Optimal Photometry of Point Sources: Joint Source Flux 
and Background Determination on Array Detectors-from Theory to Practical 
Implementation", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific,
vol 136, 2024. doi:10.1088/1538-3873/ad0ca3.

Espinosa, S., Silva, J. F., Mendez, R. A., Lobos, R., and Orchard, M.,
"Optimality of the maximum likelihood estimator in astrometry", Astronomy
and Astrophysics, vol. 616, 2018. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201732537.

Espinosa, S., Silva, J. F., Mendez, R., and Orchard, M., "The Bayesian
Cramer-rao Lower Bound in Photometry", in Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y
Astrofisica Conference Series, 2018, vol. 50, pp. 50-51.

Mendez, R. A., Echeverria, A., Silva, J., and Orchard, M., "The Bayesian
Cramer-Rao lower bound in Astrometry", in Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y
Astrofisica Conference Series, 2018, vol. 50, pp. 23-24.

Bouquillon, S., Mendez, R. A., and Altmann, M., "The Gaia-GBOT experiment", in
Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series, 2018, vol. 50,
pp. 29-30.

Bouquillon, S., "Characterizing the astrometric precision limit for moving
targets observed with digital-array detectors", Astronomy and Astrophysics,
vol. 606, 2017. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201628167.

Bouquillon, S., Mendez, R. A., and Altmann, M., "The astrometric lessons of
Gaia-GBOT experiment", in Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica
Conference Series, 2017, vol. 49, pp. 51-51.

Mendez, R. A., Echeverria, A., Silva, J., and Orchard, M., "The Bayesian
Cramer-Rao lower bound in Astrometry", in Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y
Astrofisica Conference Series, 2017, vol. 49, pp. 52-52.

Echeverria, A., Silva, J. F., Mendez, R. A., and Orchard, M., "Analysis of the
Bayesian Cramer-Rao lower bound in astrometry. Studying the impact of prior
information in the location of an object", Astronomy and Astrophysics,
vol. 594, 2016. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201628220.

Lobos, R. A., Silva, J. F., Mendez, R. A., and Orchard, M., "Performance
Analysis of the Least-Squares Estimator in Astrometry", Publications of the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 127, no. 957, p. 1166,
2015. doi:10.1086/683841.

Mendez, R. A. and Silva, J. F., "Information and Decision Theory as applied to
astronomy: The case of astrometry and photometry", in Revista Mexicana de
Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series, 2015, vol. 46, p. 77.

Mendez, R. A., Silva, J. F., Orostica, R., and Lobos, R., "Analysis of the
Cramer-Rao Bound in the Joint Estimation of Astrometry and Photometry",
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 126, no. 942,
p. 798, 2014. doi:10.1086/678041.

Mendez, R. A., Silva, J. F., and Lobos, R., "Analysis and Interpretation of
the Cramer-Rao Lower-Bound in Astrometry: One-Dimensional Case", Publications
of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 125, no. 927, p. 580,
2013. doi:10.1086/671126.