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Feature Detection in Radio Astronomy using the Circle Hough Transform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2013

C. Hollitt  and
M. Johnston-Hollitt
C. Hollitt*
Affiliation:
School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
M. Johnston-Hollitt
Affiliation:
School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
*
CCorresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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While automatic detection of point sources in astronomical images has experienced a great degree of success, less effort has been directed towards the detection of extended and low-surface-brightness features. At present, existing telescopes still rely on human expertise to reduce the raw data to usable images and then to analyse the images for non-pointlike objects. However, the next generation of radio telescopes will generate unprecedented volumes of data making manual data reduction and object extraction infeasible. Without developing new methods of automatic detection for extended and diffuse objects such as supernova remnants, bent-tailed galaxies, radio relics and halos, a wealth of scientifically important results will not be uncovered. In this paper we explore the response of the Circle Hough Transform to a representative sample of different extended circular or arc-like astronomical objects. We also examine the response of the Circle Hough Transform to input images containing noise alone and inputs including point sources.

Keywords

radio continuum: generaltechniques: image processing
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 29 , Special Issue 3: Source Finding and Visualisation , 2012 , pp. 309 - 317
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2012

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