Issue |
A&A
Volume 387, Number 1, May III 2002
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Page(s) | 347 - 355 | |
Section | Numerical methods and codes | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20020289 | |
Published online | 15 May 2002 |
Optimal extraction of multiple overlapping spectra using a maximum entropy algorithm
1
Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, avenue de Cointe 5, 4000 Liège, Belgium
2
Astronomical Observatory of Kyiv University, Observatorna St. 3, UA-04053 Kyiv, Ukraine e-mail: khmil@observ.univ.kiev.ua
Corresponding author: J. Surdej, surdej@astro.ulg.ac.be
Received:
13
November
2001
Accepted:
30
January
2002
A general algorithm of slit spectra extraction for a system of point-like sources (e.g. multiple lensed images of a quasar) has been developed, assuming that the point-spread function (PSF) induced by the measuring instrument and/or atmosphere and the positions of the spectra relative to the CCD frame are unknown. The main idea of the algorithm is to successively apply the maximum entropy method to each set of parameters, such as the spectra, the PSF, and the spectra positions, in order to iteratively improve their values. The algorithm uses all the a priori knowledge about the spectra (e.g. flux positivity, flux ratios between the components, astrometry, etc.) to compute the initial parameter sets. The main features of the algorithm, its implementation, as well as some important aspects of its practical use, are discussed in detail. Two sets of simulated spectroscopic data have been built in order to show the most characteristic properties of the algorithm and to justify its aplication to the spectra extraction of the gravitational lens system Q1009-0252 A & B (= LBQS1009-0252 A & B). Further applications of the algorithm are suggested.
Key words: techniques: image processing / techniques: spectroscopic
© ESO, 2002
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