265 research outputs found
Bayesian Analysis of Many-Pole Fits of Hadron Propagators in Lattice QCD
We use Bayes' probability theorem to analyze many-pole fits of hadron
propagators. An alternative method of estimating values and uncertainties of
the fit parameters is offered, which has certain advantages over the
conventional methods. The probability distribution of the parameters of a fit
is calculated. The relative probability of various models is calculated.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, Latex with espcrc2.sty, uuencoded compressed tar
file contains 7 Latex files: 1 with the paper and 6 with the figures. Talk
presented at LATTICE96(spectrum
Noise Variance Estimation In Signal Processing
We present a new method of estimating noise
variance. The method is applicable for 1D and 2D signal
processing. The essence of this method is estimation of the scatter
of normally distributed data with high level of outliers. The
method is applicable to data with the majority of the data points
having no signal present. The method is based on the shortest
half sample method. The mean of the shortest half sample
(shorth) and the location of the least median of squares are
among the most robust measures of the location of the mode. The
length of the shortest half sample has been used as the
measurement of the data scatter of uncontaminated data. We
show that computing the length of several sub samples of varying
sizes provides the necessary information to estimate both the
scatter and the number of uncontaminated data points in a
sample. We derive the system of equations to solve for the data
scatter and the number of uncontaminated data points for the
Gaussian distribution. The data scatter is the measure of the
noise variance. The method can be extended to other
distributions
Fast Direct Plane-to-Plane Coordinate Transformations
A set of highly efficient coordinate transformations has been derived to convert between Cartesian coordinates in two different projection planes. The gain in execution speed is as great as a factor of 20 compared to the twoâstep process of going from Cartesian coordinates in one plane to the celestial coordinates, and then to Cartesian coordinates in the second plane. The new coordinate transformations are successfully used by the Spitzer Space Telescope mosaicker MOPEX
Spectral Density on the Lattice
Spectral density in the pseudoscalar and vector channels is extracted from
the SU(2) lattice quenched data. It is shown to consist of three sharp poles
within the energy range accessible on the lattice.Comment: 38 pages, uuencoded tar-compressed ps-fil
Mosaicking with MOPEX
We present MOPEX - a software package for image mosaicking and point source extraction. MOPEX has been developed for the pitzer Space Telescope. This paper concentrates on the mosaicking aspects of the package. MOPEX features the use of several interpolation techniques, coaddition schemes, and robust and flexible outlier detection based on spatial and temporal filtering. A number of original algorithms have been designed and implemented in MOPEX. Among them is direct plane-to-plane coordinate transformation, which allows at least an order of magnitude speed up in performing coordinate transformation by bypassing the sky coordinates. The dual outlier detection makes possible outlier detection in the areas of even minimal redundancy. Image segmentation based on adaptive thresholding is used for object detection, which is part of outlier detection. Efficient use of computer memory allows mosaicking of data sets of very deep coverage of thousands of images per pointing, as well as areas of sky covering many square degrees. Although designed for Spitzer data, MOPEX does not require any Spitzer-specific fits header keywords to run, and can be applied to other data, that have standard header information on the image geometry and pointing. The package is available for distribution at http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/postbcd/
Point Source Extraction with MOPEX
MOPEX (MOsaicking and Point source EXtraction) is a package developed at the
Spitzer Science Center for astronomical image processing. We report on the
point source extraction capabilities of MOPEX. Point source extraction is
implemented as a two step process: point source detection and profile fitting.
Non-linear matched filtering of input images can be performed optionally to
increase the signal-to-noise ratio and improve detection of faint point
sources. Point Response Function (PRF) fitting of point sources produces the
final point source list which includes the fluxes and improved positions of the
point sources, along with other parameters characterizing the fit. Passive and
active deblending allows for successful fitting of confused point sources.
Aperture photometry can also be computed for every extracted point source for
an unlimited number of aperture sizes. PRF is estimated directly from the input
images. Implementation of efficient methods of background and noise estimation,
and modified Simplex algorithm contribute to the computational efficiency of
MOPEX. The package is implemented as a loosely connected set of perl scripts,
where each script runs a number of modules written in C/C++. Input parameter
setting is done through namelists, ASCII configuration files. We present
applications of point source extraction to the mosaic images taken at 24 and 70
micron with the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) as part of the Spitzer
extragalactic First Look Survey and to a Digital Sky Survey image. Completeness
and reliability of point source extraction is computed using simulated data.Comment: 20 pages, 13 Postscript figures, accepted for publication in PAS
Bayesian curve fitting for lattice gauge theorists
A new method of extracting the low-lying energy spectrum from Monte Carlo
estimates of Euclidean-space correlation functions which incorporates Bayesian
inference is described and tested. The procedure fully exploits the information
present in the correlation functions at small temporal separations and uses
this information in a way consistent with fundamental probabilistic hypotheses.
The computed errors on the best-fit energies include both statistical
uncertainties and systematic errors associated with the treatment of
contamination from higher-lying stationary states. Difficulties in performing
the integrals needed to compute these error estimates are briefly discussed.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, uses espcrc2. Talk presented at the
Workshop on Lattice Hadron Physics, Colonial Club Resort, Cairns, Australia,
July 9-18, 200
Efficient Mosaicking of Spitzer Space Telescope Images
A parallel version of the MOPEX software, which generates mosaics of infrared astronomical images acquired by the Spitzer Space Telescope, extends the capabilities of the prior serial version. In the parallel version, both the input image space and the output mosaic space are divided among the available parallel processors. This is the only software that performs the point-source detection and the rejection of spurious imaging effects of cosmic rays required by Spitzer scientists. This software includes components that implement outlier-detection algorithms that can be fine-tuned for a particular set of image data by use of a number of adjustable parameters. This software has been used to construct a mosaic of the Spitzer Infrared Array Camera Shallow Survey, which comprises more than 17,000 exposures in four wavelength bands from 3.6 to 8 m and spans a solid angle of about 9 square degrees. When this software was executed on 32 nodes of the 1,024-processor Cosmos cluster computer at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a speedup of 8.3 was achieved over the serial version of MOPEX. The performance is expected to improve dramatically once a true parallel file system is installed on Cosmos
Filtering of Signal Dependent Noise Applied to MIPS Data
Linear filtering and usual nonlinear median filtering are not effective for signal-dependent noise removal. We apply here an approximate decoupling of signal and noise by means of a nonlinear transform. The transform is followed by a linear filter and the corresponding inverse transform. This procedure allows us to mitigate the signal-dependent noise in the images obtained by the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS), 70ÎŒm imaging band
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