Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000a%26a...364...83h&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.364, p.83-101 (2000)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Methods: Data Analysis, Surveys, Ism: Atoms, Ions, Radio Lines: Ism
Scientific paper
A new, fully automatic computer program for decomposition into Gaussian components of large 21-cm H I line surveys is described. To solve, at least partly, some problems inherent to such decompositions, special attention is paid on the following features: Several quite different solutions may often fit the observations almost equally well. To choose from these solutions, it is supposed that general properties of the hydrogen distribution are somewhat correlated at neighboring sky positions and therefore the program tries to find for corresponding profiles also similar decompositions. With increasing complexity of the observed profiles the number of Gaussians in decompositions usually grows rapidly and the values of their parameters become mutually dependent. To reduce this problem, special means have been used to keep the number of Gaussians as small as possible. The recent Leiden/Dwingeloo Survey of the galactic neutral hydrogen has been used as test data for this decomposition program. These tests have demonstrated that the program is able to decompose fully automatically all the profiles in this survey in a reasonable time, spending on an average about 1.03 s per profile on 233 MHz PII PC. The comparison of the obtained results with those by other authors shows that, in general, this program needs less Gaussians per profile than used in comparison sets. The analysis of the stability of the decomposition results seems to indicate that the major source of the uncertainties is the observational noise, but also the precise behavior of the program has certain influence on final results.
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