Digital stacking of photographic plates with SuperCOSMOS

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Instrumentation: Miscellaneous, Methods: Data Analysis, Techniques: Image Processing

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Photographic Schmidt plates are among the most effective tools in wide-field astronomy. One of the principal difficulties of photographic plates when compared to modern detectors is lack of image depth. We present a technique for stacking plates digitized using the SuperCOSMOS microdensitometer, aimed at maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio in faint images. The efficacy of several image combination algorithms is tested by stacking plate frames in the presence of spurious images. We find that an `average sigma clipping' type pixel rejection in conjunction with our weighting scheme is most effective in delivering a clean, high signal-to-noise ratio stack. The gain in limiting magnitude obtained from stacking is found to be consistent with that expected: DeltaM~1.5 for a stack of 16 good-quality plates.

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