Sky subtraction at the Poisson limit with fibre-optic multiobject spectroscopy

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 408, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2495-2510

  Sharp, R ^a   Parkinson, H ^b  

^a ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: spectrographs; Methods: data analysis; Methods: observational; Techniques: image processing

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; EFFICIENCY; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS APPROACH; FIBER-OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION:SPECTROGRAPHS; LONG DURATION; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; METHODS:OBSERVATIONAL; MULTIOBJECT SPECTROSCOPY; PRINCIPAL-COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC DEFECTS; TECHNIQUES: IMAGE PROCESSING;

SURVEYS;

EID: 78049469922     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17298.x     Document Type: Article

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