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MOPEX User's Guide - IRSA

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AP = a i ⋅ I i<br />

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

Basic Concepts in <strong>MOPEX</strong> 215<br />

Aperture Photometry<br />

i<br />

Equation 8.26<br />

which is the sum of the products of the pixel values Ii weighted with the exact area overlap ai.<br />

If the image is in surface brightness units (FITS keyword BUNIT = MJy/sr or<br />

microJy/square_arcsec), it computes the results in the units of micro-Jy.<br />

Optionally, if Use Annulus is selected, the background B can be estimated and subtracted from<br />

the aperture photometry for each point source. It is estimated within an annulus of a user<br />

specified size, as<br />

B = Operation (Pixels with R >= Inner Radius and R

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