== PSPHOT Kron Measurements investigation == This page describes some investigations comparing the Kron radius and magnitudes measured by psphot Outline (most sections TODO) * Overview of the Issue * Data Sample * Recipe Choices * Default: Smooth, apply window function, apply weight function * No Window * No weight * No Window no weight, no smooth * No Window no weight, no smooth * Results == Results == === Kron Radius Histograms === The following images contain histograms of the measured Kron Radius for various recipe combinations. * Green "Expected" Kron Radius for the simulated galaxy * Grey Kron Radius measured by SExtractor (provided by Peter Draper) * Red Kron Radius measured by psphot Default recipe: Measure on smoothed image, gaussian weighting, window function [[Image(kr.default.png)]] Window function no weighting [[Image(kr.noweight.png)]] Weighting no window [[Image(kr.nowin.png)]] No Window No weight [[Image(kr.noweight.nowin.png)]] No window no weighting no smoothing [[Image(kr.nosmooth.noweight.nowin.png)]] === Difference In Kron Radius === Default Recipe [[Image(dkr.v.kr.default.png)]] [[Image(dkr_kr.v.kr.default.png)]] Window Function no weighting [[Image(dkr.v.kr.noweight.png)]] [[Image(dkr_kr.v.kr.noweight.png)]] Weighting, no window [[Image(dkr.v.kr.nowin.png)]] [[Image(dkr_kr.v.kr.nowin.png)]] No window, no weighting [[Image(dkr.v.kr.noweight.nowin.png)]] [[Image(dkr_kr.v.kr.noweight.nowin.png)]] No window, no weighting, no smoothing [[Image(dkr.v.kr.nosmooth.noweight.nowin.png)]] [[Image(dkr_kr.v.kr.nosmooth.noweight.nowin.png)]] === Difference in Kron Magnitude === Default Recipe [[Image(dkm.v.kr.default.png)]] [[Image(dkm.v.km.default.png)]] Window Function no weighting [[Image(dkm.v.kr.noweight.png)]] [[Image(dkm.v.km.noweight.png)]] Weighting, no window [[Image(dkm.v.kr.nowin.png)]] [[Image(dkm.v.km.nowin.png)]] No window, no weighting [[Image(dkm.v.kr.noweight.nowin.png)]] [[Image(dkm.v.km.noweight.nowin.png)]] No window, no weighting, no smoothing [[Image(dkm.v.kr.nosmooth.noweight.nowin.png)]] [[Image(dkm.v.km.nosmooth.noweight.nowin.png)]] === Statistics === {{{ Statistics for various recipe combinations ------------------------------------------ Fractional Difference in Kron Radius ( KR_SExtractor - KR_psphot ) / KR_Sextractor All KR Recipe mean stdev min max median Npts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- default -0.201895 0.490706 -20.0476 0.924053 -0.103559 113705 nowin -0.2036380 0.689935 -165.129 0.909 -0.253494 113701 noweight -0.245435 0.83742 -129.597 0.900042 -0.143933 112929 noweight.nowin -0.245726 0.834698 -129.597 0.948736 -0.226174 112930 nosmooth.noweight.nowin -0.123882 0.830385 -101.242 0.921227 0.00175791 113087 Mean and meidan Kron raddii are closest to SExtractor with all of our various recipe choices off but the standard deviation is lowest with our default recipe. This set of objects includes small values of KR which psphot does not measure well (Minimum KR_psphot in this sampe is 7.1) ( KR_SExtractor - KR_psphot ) / KR_Sextractor KR_SE > 10 Recipe mean stdev min max median Npts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- default -0.0250245 0.22567 -4.66826 0.924053 -0.032233 42142 nowin -0.0257794 0.2263675 -4.576 0.909 -0.0291643 42140 noweight -0.0402723 0.287004 -3.22148 0.900042 -0.0437856 42074 noweight.nowin -0.0410538 0.287949 -4.44391 0.948736 -0.0435108 42078 nosmooth.noweight.nowin 0.0934499 0.53906 -101.242 0.921227 0.00175791 42138 Considering sources with SE kron radii above 10 the smallest stdev is also with the default recipe. The window function appears to have has little effect on the statistics. The biggest improvement is provided by the smoothing --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kron Magnitude KM_SExtractor - KM_psphot All KR Recipe mean stdev min max median Npts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- default 0.0144785 0.192932 -5.144 4.495 0.003226 113705 nowin 0.0150963 0.1902736 -3.777 4.584 0.002172 113701 noweight -0.0860446 0.700536 -8.964 4.529 -0.004648 112929 noweight.nowin 0.0131 0.220402 -5.862 4.514 0.00044 112930 nosmooth.noweight.nowin -0.014707 0.215786 -5.733 4.725 -0.03339 113087 KM_SExtractor - KM_psphot KR_SE > 10 pixels Recipe mean stdev min max median Npts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- default -0.0229234 0.172541 -5.144 4.139 -0.001218 42142 nowin -0.0217864 0.1680391 -3.777 4.584 -0.0061890 42140 noweight -0.12206 0.674331 -7.844 3.337 -0.006119 42074 noweight.nowin -0.0268161 0.187884 -4.832 4.514 -0.000118 42078 nosmooth.noweight.nowin -0.065724 0.175386 -4.684 4.725 -0.035954 42138 }}}