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| | 3 | == May 18, 2012 == |
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| | 5 | After discussing the star associated false detections with Bill, he pointed me to psphot improvements he's been making that should minimize these false detections. I updated my psphot build to include these improvements, and reran the footprint tests: |
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| | 7 | [[Image(finalsynthphottest_comparison.png,400px)]] |
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| | 9 | || Reduction || All N=1|| All N=12 || Good flags N=1 || Good flags N=12 || QF Perfect N=1 || QF Perfect N=12 || 5-sigma N=1 || 5-sigma N = 12 || |
| | 10 | || finalsynthtest|| 154929|| 408109|| 119739 || 401649 || 54689 || 388950 || 19624 || 382736 || |
| | 11 | || Bill'spsphot || 145235|| 406848|| 110048 || 399959 || 47408 || 386648 || 13983 || 380477 || |
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| | 13 | [[Image(ghost_comparison_photsynth.png,400px)]] |
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| | 15 | This improvement to psphot does seem to remove these star associated detections, with an improvement of ~6000 5-sigma detections, and a clear residual pattern around stars in the FPA comparison plot. |
