The Completeness and Reliability of Threshold and False-discovery Rate Source Extraction Algorithms for Compact Continuum Sources

The process of determining the number and characteristics of sources in astronomical images is so fundamental to a large range of astronomical problems that it is perhaps surprising that no standard procedure has ever been defined that has well-understood properties with a high degree of statistical...

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Main Authors: Huynh, M., Hopkins, A., Norris, R., Hancock, Paul, Murphy, T., Jurek, R., Whiting, M.
Format: Journal Article
Published: CSIRO 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38548