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Polar shapelets
Author(s) -
Massey Richard,
Refregier Alexandre
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-2966
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09453.x
Subject(s) - physics , astrometry , cartesian coordinate system , photometry (optics) , formalism (music) , correctness , algorithm , computer science , geometry , astrophysics , mathematics , stars , art , musical , visual arts
The shapelets method for image analysis is based upon the decomposition of localized objects into a series of orthogonal components with convenient mathematical properties. We extend the ‘Cartesian shapelet’ formalism from earlier work, and construct ‘polar shapelet’ basis functions that separate an image into components with explicit rotational symmetries. These frequently provide a more compact parametrization, and can be interpreted in an intuitive way. Image manipulation in shapelet space is simplified by the concise expressions for linear coordinate transformations, and shape measures (including object photometry, astrometry and galaxy morphology estimators) take a naturally elegant form. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of astronomical survey images, and we test shapelet techniques upon real data from the Hubble Space Telescope . We present a practical method to automatically optimize the quality of an arbitrary shapelet decomposition in the presence of observational noise, pixelization and a point spread function. A central component of this procedure is the adaptive choice of the scale size and the truncation order of the shapelet expansion. A complete software package to perform shapelet image analysis is made available on the World Wide Web.

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