A Minimal Spanning Tree algorithm for source detection in γ-ray images

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 383, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1166-1174

  Campana, Riccardo ^a   Massaro, Enrico ^a,b   Gasparrini, Dario ^b,c   Cutini, Sara ^b,c   Tramacere, Andrea ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: observations; Methods: data analysis

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DETECTION ALGORITHM; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GAMMA-RAYS:OBSERVATIONS; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; MINIMAL SPANNING TREE; MINIMAL SPANNING TREE ALGORITHMS; RANDOM FIELDS; SOURCE DETECTION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; THEORETICAL METHODS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 38949110677     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12616.x     Document Type: Article

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