arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv 0803.0740astro-ph
收藏

球状星团NGC 6397的深度HST研究:约化方法

A Deep HST Study of the Globular Cluster NGC 6397: Reduction Methods

Jay Anderson, Ivan R. King, Harvey B. Richer, Gregory G. Fahlman, Brad M. S. Hansen, Jarrod Hurley, Jasonjot S. Kalirai, R. Michael Rich, Peter B. Stetson

摘要:

在这里,我们描述的还原方法,我们开发的研究最暗的红矮星和白矮星的外领域的NGC6397,这是观察到的\hst在2005年的126个轨道。这个数据集的特殊挑战是,最暗的恒星在单独曝光中不容易看到,因此必须特别注意将所有曝光中的信息结合起来,以便识别和测量它们。不幸的是,如果没有大量的微弱星系,就很难找到最微弱的恒星,所以我们开发了专门的工具来区分点状恒星和几乎无法分辨的星系。我们发现,人工星测试,而显然是必要的完整性确定,也可以发挥重要作用,帮助我们优化我们的发现和测量算法。虽然本文专门针对这一数据集,但许多技术都是新的,可能会在其他工作中找到应用,特别是当单个领域有大量图像时。

英文摘要:

We describe here the reduction methods that we developed to study the faintest red dwarfs and white dwarfs in an outer field of NGC6397, which was observed by \hst for 126 orbits in 2005. The particular challenge of this data set is that the faintest stars are not readily visible in individual exposures, so special care must be taken to combine the information in all the exposures in order to identify and measure them. Unfortunately, it is hard to find the faintest stars without also finding a large number of faint galaxies, so we developed specialized tools to distinguish between the point-like stars and the barely resolved galaxies. We found that artificial-star tests, while obviously necessary for completeness determination, can also play an important role in helping us optimize our finding and measuring algorithms. Although this paper focuses on this data set specifically, many of the techniques are new and might find application in other work, particularly when a large number of images is available for a single field.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑