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arxiv: astro-ph/0603365 · v1 · submitted 2006-03-14 · 🌌 astro-ph

Matched Filters for Source Detection in the Poissonian Noise Regime

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keywords detectionnoisepoissonianappliedcatalogconvolutioncreationdata
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A procedure is described for estimating an optimum kernel for the detection by convolution of signals among Poissonian noise. The technique is applied to the detection of x-ray point sources in XMM-Newton data, and is shown to yield an improvement in detection sensitivity of up to 60% over the sliding-box method used in the creation of the 1XMM catalog.

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