Bugs: dmfilth
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Bugs
When using POISSON method, the distribution varies from true Poisson distribution slightly.
The DIST method assumes positive, integer counts
(15 Mar 2012)
Bugs
When using POISSON method, the distribution varies from true Poisson distribution slightly.
This is only detectable with many (hundreds) of runs.
The DIST method assumes positive, integer counts
(15 Mar 2012)
The tool will fail if this method is used with exposure-corrected images or if there are negative pixels in the source or background regions.
unix% dmstat "events.fits[sky=region(source.reg)]"
EVENTS_IMAGE(x, y)
min: -2.0534541607 @: ( 4620.5 4868.5 )
max: 63.77072525 @: ( 4588.5 4876.5 )
cntrd[log] : ( 5.7060806841 5.973494067 )
cntrd[phys]: ( 4586.1486455 4876.2879525 )
sigma_cntrd: ( 6.3023091173 6.8273372496 )
good: 70
null: 40
Bugs fixed in CIAO 4.4
The following is a list of bugs that were fixed in the CIAO 4.4 software release.
The tool uses same random seed for each source. (28 Sep 2011)
dmfilth is re-initializing the random seed to the same value for each source/background pair in the stack. This makes the filled values highly correlated (if not identical).
The bug also affects the rand=0 case, where the system time is chosen as the seed. dmfilth only gets the system time once, then resets the seed to the same time value for each source.

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