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Published 2009 | Published
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AWAIC: A WISE Astronomical Image Co-adder

Abstract

We describe a new image co-addition tool, AWAIC, to support the creation of a digital image atlas from the multiple frame exposures acquired with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). AWAIC includes preparatory steps such as frame background matching and outlier detection using robust frame-stack statistics. Frame co-addition is based on using the detector's Point Response Function (PRF) as an interpolation kernel. This kernel reduces the impact of prior-masked pixels, enables the creation of an optimal matched filtered product for point source detection, and most important, it allows for resolution enhancement (HiRes) to yield a model of the sky that is consistent with the observations to within measurement error. The HiRes functionality allows for non-isoplanatic PRFs, prior noise-variance weighting, uncertainty estimation, and includes a ringing-suppression algorithm. AWAIC also supports the popular overlap-area weighted interpolation method, and is generic enough for use on any astronomical image data that supports the FITS and WCS standards.

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© 2009 Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The authors thank Roc Cutri for guidance and support. This work was carried out at the California Institute of Technology, with funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, under contract to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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