Preliminary Analysis Plan
This is due Monday Feb. 12, and is meant as an informal first pass at
what and how you plan as a group to analyze the Hubble Deep Field
data. You can compose and present this plan as a group, but be clear
how tasks are to be divided between members of the group. The point is
to get you thinking about the full process, and about how you should
proceed.
This is a very large and open-ended problem. You must be realistic and
limited in your scope, while at the same time being inventive and
exploratory. You do not have to finesse any of the following issues,
but you may choose (as an individual or group) to concentrate on some
limited aspect(s) of the problem. Or, you can come up with as complete
an anlysis as possible at a more preliminary level.
Some basic issues you should consider:
- Algortihms (these are all inter-related at some level)
- Detection. (Peak, threshold, smoothing, filtering, a combination, other?)
- Splitting or combinning detections into 'objcects.' What is a discrete source?
- Image size and shape characterization. What parameters?
- Photometry.
- Pipe-line: How are you going to combine and coordinate different
approaches and stages of the analysis?
- Cross checks and simulations: How are you going to check and test
your methods? Analytic expectations?
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