Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-12-02
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.368:497-510,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages; submitted to MNRAS; code freely available at http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~diehl/WVT/index.html with user manual, exampl
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10125.x
We present a technique to adaptively bin sparse X-ray data using weighted Voronoi tesselations (WVTs). WVT binning is a generalisation of Cappellari & Copin's (2001) Voronoi binning algorithm, developed for integral field spectroscopy. WVT binning is applicable to many types of data and creates unbiased binning structures with compact bins that do not lead the eye. We apply the algorithm to simulated data, as well as several X-ray data sets, to create adaptively binned intensity images, hardness ratio maps and temperature maps with constant signal-to-noise ratio per bin. We also illustrate the separation of diffuse gas emission from contributions of unresolved point sources in elliptical galaxies. We compare the performance of WVT binning with other adaptive binning and adaptive smoothing techniques. We find that the CIAO tool csmooth creates serious artefacts and advise against its use to interpret diffuse X-ray emission.
Diehl Steven
Statler Thomas S.
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