Improving background estimation for faint astronomical object detection

Paul Teeninga; Ugo Moschini; Scott C. Trager; Michael H. F. Wilkinson

doi:10.1109/ICIP.2015.7350959

Improving background estimation for faint astronomical object detection

Paul Teeninga, Ugo Moschini, Scott C. Trager, Michael H. F. Wilkinson

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Estimation of the background is an essential step in automated extraction of faint, extended objects from large-scale, optical surveys in astronomy. In this paper we present an improvement on the background estimation method of a commonly used tool in this field: Source Extractor (SEx-tractor). We show that the original method suffers from bias caused by presence of extended sources, and present an alternative which greatly reduces this effect, leading to much better preservation of faint extended structures.

Originele taal-2	English
Titel	Image Processing (ICIP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Uitgeverij	IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Pagina's	1046-1050
Aantal pagina's	5
ISBN van geprinte versie	978-1-4799-8339-1
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2015.7350959
Status	Published - 1-sep.-2015

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