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MOPEX User's Guide - IRSA

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Chapter 8. Basic Concepts in <strong>MOPEX</strong><br />

<strong>MOPEX</strong> User’s <strong>Guide</strong><br />

There are a number of basic concepts in <strong>MOPEX</strong> that are repeatedly used by a number of<br />

modules. This section describes the following:<br />

• Tiling<br />

• Outlier Detection<br />

• Single Frame Outlier Detection<br />

• Multiframe Temporal Outlier Detection<br />

• Dual Outlier Detection<br />

• Box Outlier Detection<br />

• Image Segmentation<br />

• Image Interpolation<br />

• Background Matching Algorithm<br />

• PRF fitting in <strong>MOPEX</strong><br />

• The Spitzer Point Reponse Function (PRF)<br />

• Aperture Photometry<br />

• Uncertainty Estimation<br />

• User List Creation for APEX<br />

8.1 Tiling<br />

There is no precise limit to the size of a mosaic that <strong>MOPEX</strong> will produce. However, large<br />

datasets may encounter computer memory limitations, so most <strong>MOPEX</strong> modules employ Tiles to<br />

reduce the number of pixels that need to be considered at one time.<br />

Tiles are subsections of the final mosaic image. The size of tiles is set by the user, based on the<br />

computer memory considerations. It should be small enough so that all input images overlapping<br />

one tile can be held in memory without swapping. <strong>MOPEX</strong> first produces the tiles for each final<br />

mosaic image with the tile sizes specified by the user. Then all the tiles are glued together into a<br />

single mosaic image by the Mosaic Combine module.<br />

The first step is estimation of the tile geometry. The interpolated and co-added images are defined<br />

on the same Fiducial Image Frame (FIF; see e.g. §4.3.4). The suggested tile sizes in the x- and y-<br />

directions Tile Max X and Tile Max Y are parameters in a number of modules. If both FIF<br />

dimensions NAXIS1 and NAXIS2 are smaller than Tile Max X and Tile Max Y, correspondingly,<br />

then there is only one output co-added image.<br />

Basic Concepts in <strong>MOPEX</strong> 179<br />

Tiling

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