Astronomical Image and Data Analysis

Using information and scale as central themes, this comprehensive survey explains how to handle real problems in astronomical data analysis through a modern arsenal of powerful techniques. It treats those innovative methods of image, signal, and data proc

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ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS LIBRARY I. Appenzeller, Heidelberg, Germany G. Bomer, Garching, Germany M. Harwit, Washington, DC, USA R. Kippenhahn, Gottingen, Germany J. Lequeux, Paris, France V. Trimble, College Park, MD; and Irvine, CA, USA

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Jean-Luc Starck

Fionn Murtagh

Astronomical Image and Data Analysis With 102 Figures, Including 27 Color Figures, and 10 Tables

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Dr. Jean-Luc Starck Centre d'Etudes de Saclay Service d' Astrophysique Orme des M6risiers 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

Professor Fionn Murtagh Queen's University Belfast School of Computer Science Belfast BT7 lNN, Northern Ireland, UK

Cover picture: Five-minute exposure (five 60-second dithered and stacked images), R filter, taken with CFH12K wide-field camera (100 million pixels) at the primary focus ofthe CFHT in July 2000. The image is from an extremely rich zone of our Galaxy, containing star formation regions, dark nebulae (molecular c10uds and dust regions), emission nebulae (Ha regions), and evolved stars which are scattered throughout the field in their two-dimensiona1 projection effect. This zone is in the constellation of Sagittarius. (©Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, J.-C. Cuillandre, 2000.)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PublicationData. Starck, J.-L. (Jean-Luc), 1965Astronomical image and data ana1ysis / Jean-Luc Starck, Fionn Murtagh. p. cm. - (Astronomy and astrophysics library, ISSN 0941-7834) Inc1udes bibliographica1 references and index.

ISBN 978-3-662-04908-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-04906-8

ISBN 978-3-662-04906-8 (eBook)

1. Imaging systems in astronomy-Data processing. 1. Murtagh, Fionn. II. Title. III. Series.

QB51.3145 S73 2002 522' .0285-dc21

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