Bright Mask Methods


Individual Region images - clickable to "animate" through the steps of the following analysis
Core, Sub, LPC, FCJ, 1, 3, 4, 7, Durrell



The Core region: /Core.fits


The first step was to manually mask out the brighest stars and the artifacts around them (e.g. in the above image, the ring around the star in the lower left corner). This was done by generating region files that mask the appropriate areas and then converting them (via a program from Prof. Mihos) into .pl masks.

Example bad regions file for Core: /Core/Core.reg
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important note about bad regions in LPC)

The masks were generated and used as the input Bad Pixel Mask (BPM) for OBJMASK. Example: /Core/RMCore.pl


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