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| | 3 | == May 17, 2012 == |
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| | 5 | Following up on Nigel's work on false positive/star correlations, I used the most recent finalsynthtest footprint reduction to match false positives (the 19624 detections that have good flags, are qf perfect, and are above the 5-sigma limit, but are only detected one time) against the stars in the synthetic catalog (to avoid bright stars that have erroneous PS1 REFCAT magnitudes) |
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| | 7 | [[Image(false_positive_star_cor.png,400px)]] |
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| | 9 | Given the clear distribution of detections near bright stars, I placed a cut to isolate the detections that are correlated with the bright star (log10(R) < (g*_synthcat - 10) / -7.0; g*_synthcat < 15). This cut catches 6864 of the false detections, suggesting ~1/3 of the remaining false positives are associated with false detections around bright stars. |
