Blobcat: Software to catalogue flood-filled blobs in radio images of total intensity and linear polarization

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 425, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 979-996

  Hales, C A ^a,b   Murphy, T ^a   Curran, J R ^a   Middelberg, E ^c   Gaensler, B M ^a   Norris, R P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catalogues; Methods: data analysis; Methods: statistical; Surveys; Techniques: image processing; Techniques: polarimetric Surveys

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; FLOODS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; POLARIZATION;

CATALOG; FLUX DENSITIES; LINEAR POLARIZATION; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; PERFORMANCE; RADIO IMAGES; TECHNIQUE: POLARIMETRIC SURVEY; TECHNIQUES: IMAGE PROCESSING; TECHNIQUES: POLARIMETRIC;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84865383591     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21373.x     Document Type: Article

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