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A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL REDUCTION METHOD OF LARGE-SCALE SURVEY DATABASE

  • Lee, Y. (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Kim, Y.S. (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Kang, H.W. (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Jung, J.H. (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Lee, C.H. (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Yim, I.S. (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Kim, B.G. (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Kim, H.G. (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Kim, K.T. (Chungnam National University)
  • Received : 2012.11.13
  • Accepted : 2013.01.16
  • Published : 2013.03.31
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Abstract

We present a multi-dimensional reduction method of the surveyed cube database obtained using a single- dish radio telescope in Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory (TRAO). The multibeam receiver system installed at the 14 m telescope in TRAO was not optimized at the initial stage, though it became more stabilized in the following season. We conducted a Galactic Plane survey using the multibeam receiver system. We show that the noise level of the first part of the survey was higher than expected, and a special reduction process seemed to be definitely required. Along with a brief review of classical methods, a multi-dimensional method of reduction is introduced; It is found that the 'background' task within IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) can be applied to all three directions of the cube database. Various statistics of reduction results is tested using several IRAF tasks. The rms value of raw survey data is 0.241 K, and after primitive baseline subtraction and elimination of bad channel sections, the rms value turned out to be 0.210 K. After the one-dimensional reduction using 'background' task, the rms value is estimated to be 0.176 K. The average rms of the final reduced image is 0.137 K. Thus, the image quality is found to be improved about 43% using the new reduction method.

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