Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Feb 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996rftu.proc..679d&link_type=abstract
International Conference on X-ray Astronomy and Astrophysics: Röntgenstrahlung from the Universe, p. 679 - 680
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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X-Ray Images: Data Processing
Scientific paper
The authors have developed a method based on wavelet transforms (WT) to detect efficiently sources in PSPC X-ray images. The multiscale approach typical of WT can be used to detect sources with a large range of sizes, and to estimate their size and count rate. Significance thresholds for candidate detections (found as local WT maxima) have been derived from a detailed study of the probability distribution of the WT of a locally uniform background. The use of the exposure map allows good detection efficiency to be retained even near PSPC ribs and edges. The algorithm may also be used to get upper limits to the count rate of undetected objects. Simulations of realistic PSPC images containing either pure background or background+sources were used to test the overall algorithm performances, and to assess the frequency of spurious detections (vs. detection threshold) and the algorithm sensitivity. Actual PSPC images of galaxies and star clusters show the algorithm to have good performance even in cases of extended sources and crowded fields.
Damiani Ferruccio
Maggio Antonio
Micela Giuseppina
Sciortino Salvatore
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