Source Extractor for Dummies v5
B.W. Holwerda
TL;DR
This paper provides an updated user manual for SEXtractor, a widely-used software tool for detecting astronomical sources in FITS images, including new features, clearer explanations, and improved illustrations.
Contribution
It offers a comprehensive, user-focused update to the SEXtractor manual, enhancing usability and understanding for astronomers.
Findings
Enhanced explanations and illustrations of SE parameters
Increased manual length and detail
Improved clarity and usability
Abstract
Source Extractor for Dummies is a user manual for the SEXtractor (Bertin and Arnouts 1996) software package for the detection of astronomical sources in fits-files of fields. It has seen much use as a quick tool and is constantly updated with new features. This fifth installment of the user manual is to catch up with these updates and improve explanations and illustration of SE parameters. The manual was written by a user, not a developer and may be incomplete, inaccurate or clearly copied from the official manual v2.3. In short: more pages, more text, less spelling-errors and don't panic. full pdf at: http://www-int.stsci.edu/~holwerda/se.html
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TopicsAstronomical Observations and Instrumentation