New insights into galaxy structure from galphat- I. Motivation, methodology and benchmarks for Sérsic models

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 414, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1625-1655

  Yoon, Ilsang ^a   Weinberg, Martin D ^a   Katz, Neal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: photometry; Galaxies: statistics; Methods: data analysis; Methods: statistical; Techniques: image processing

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BENCHMARKING; CHAINS; COMPUTATION THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTOMETRY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; GALAXIES: FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS; GALAXIES: PHOTOMETRY; GALAXIES: STATISTICS; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; PHOTOMETRICS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY: DISTRIBUTIONS; TECHNIQUES: IMAGE PROCESSING;

GALAXIES;

EID: 79958156945     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18501.x     Document Type: Article

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