Re: spectra of extended objects

From: Douglas Burke (dburke@head-cfa.harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2001 - 11:45:59 EST


Ben Maughan wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I was wondering what methods people have been using to extract spectra
> of extended objects, as the thread only deals with point-like sources,
> and it appears that the psextract script is the same?
> Thanks
> Ben Maughan

The software exchange page at
http://asc.harvard.edu/cgi-gen/contributed_software.cgi (homepage at
http://asc.harvard.edu/swapmeet_top.html) contains Alexey Vikhlinin's calcrmf
tool which allows you to weight the responses by a surface-brightness profile.

A discussion of extended sources is on the todo list for the threads.

Doug

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