Object detection in multi-epoch data

DOI10.1016/J.STAMET.2008.02.003zbMATH Open1248.85003arXivastro-ph/0612707OpenAlexW2167809899WikidataQ99435308 ScholiaQ99435308MaRDI QIDQ713849FDOQ713849

Authors: G. Jogesh Babu, A. Mahabal, S. George Djorgovski, Roy D. Williams 

Publication date: 19 October 2012

Published in: Statistical Methodology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In astronomy multiple images are frequently obtained at the same position of the sky for follow-up co-addition as it helps one go deeper and look for fainter objects. With large scale panchromatic synoptic surveys becoming more common, image co-addition has become even more necessary as new observations start to get compared with co-added fiducial sky in real time. The standard co-addition techniques have included straight averages, variance weighted averages, medians etc. A more sophisticated nonlinear response chi-square method is also used when it is known that the data are background noise limited and the point spread function is homogenized in all channels. A more robust object detection technique capable of detecting faint sources, even those not seen at all epochs which will normally be smoothed out in traditional methods, is described. The analysis at each pixel level is based on a formula similar to Mahalanobis distance. The method does not depend on the point spread function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612707

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zbMATH Keywords

Mahalanobis distancechi-squareGaussian noisecoadditionfaint source detection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Statistical astronomy (85A35)

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