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Deconvolution of Images Taken with the Suzaku X-ray Imaging Spectrometer
We present a non-iterative method to deconvolve the spatial response function
or the point spread function (PSF) from images taken with the Suzaku X-ray
Imaging Spectrometer (XIS). The method is optimized for analyses of extended
sources with high photon statistics. Suzaku has four XIS detectors each with
its own X-ray CCD and X-Ray Telescope (XRT) and has been providing unique
opportunities in spatially-resolved spectroscopic analyses of extended objects.
The detectors, however, suffer from broad and position-dependent PSFs with
their typical half-power density (HPD) of about 110''. In the authors' view,
this shortcoming has been preventing the high collecting area and high spectral
resolution of Suzaku to be fully exploited. The present method is intended to
recover spatial resolution to ~15'' over a dynamic range around 1:100 in the
brightness without assuming any source model. Our deconvolution proceeds in two
steps: An XIS image is multiplied with the inverse response matrix calculated
from its PSF after rebinning CCD pixels to larger-size tiles (typically 6''x
6''); The inverted image is then adaptively smoothed to obtain the final
deconvolved image. The PSF is modeled on a ray-tracing program and an observed
point-source image. The deconvolution method has been applied to images of
Centaurus A, PSR B1509-58 and RCW 89 taken by one XIS (XIS-1). The results have
been compared with images obtained with Chandra to conclude that the spatial
resolution has been recovered to ~20'' down to regions where surface brightness
is about 1:50 of the brightest tile in the image. We believe the spatial
resolution and the dynamic range can be improved in the future with higher
fidelity PSF modeling and higher precision pointing information.Comment: 21 pages, accepted for publication in PASJ. A PS file with
original-quality figures is available at
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~sugizaki/preprint/pasj3256/sugizaki_No3256.p
Abelian maximal pattern complexity of words
In this paper we study the maximal pattern complexity of infinite words up to
Abelian equivalence. We compute a lower bound for the Abelian maximal pattern
complexity of infinite words which are both recurrent and aperiodic by
projection. We show that in the case of binary words, the bound is actually
achieved and gives a characterization of recurrent aperiodic words
Behavior of various complexity functions
AbstractFor a nonempty closed set Ω⊂AN with 2≤#A<∞, we consider 3 complexity functions of k=0,1,2,…: (1)(block complexity) pΩBL(k):=#Ω|{0,1,…,k−1},(2)(maximal pattern complexity) pΩ∗(k):=supS⊂N,#S=k#Ω|S,(3)(minimal pattern complexity) p∗Ω(k):=infS⊂N,#S=k#Ω|S, where # denotes the number of elements in a set, and Ω|S is the restriction of Ω to S⊂N. If pΩ∗(k)=p∗Ω(k)(k=0,1,2,…) holds, then the above 3 complexities coincide and are called uniform complexity, denoted by pΩ(k).Behaviors of these 4 complexity functions are discussed
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