https://github.com/timstaley/coelacanth

Codes for EMCCD and Lucky-Imaging Analysis
https://github.com/timstaley/coelacanth

astronomy drizzle-algorithm electron-multiplying-ccd emccd optical-astronomy

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Codes for EMCCD and Lucky-Imaging Analysis

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/timstaley/coelacanth
• Owner: timstaley
• License: other
• Created: 2014-06-11T13:40:56.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-06-24T15:56:48.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-22T11:11:29.164Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Topics: astronomy, drizzle-algorithm, electron-multiplying-ccd, emccd, optical-astronomy
• Language: C++
• Size: 473 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: Readme.md

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#Coelacanth

###Codes for EMCCD and Lucky-Imaging Analysis

![logo](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Coelacanth-bgiu.png)

*There's life in the old fish yet.*

#### What is this?

*Coelacanth* is an ongoing effort to refactor and document a collection of C++

codes I wrote for lucky-imaging data-reduction and analysis, as described in 

my [PhD thesis]. 

The hope is that it might be useful to others: either in whole, in part, or as

a cautionary lesson in how we used to do things.

#### What's the fish got to do with it?

Codes for EMCCD and lucky-imaging analysis == *COELA* , 

but 'coelacanth' is more memorable. 

That, and [C++03] is a bit of a dinosaur.

#### So what's buried in there?

- A framework for performing complex multi-coordinate-system pixel arithmetic on 

  two-dimensional pixel arrays.

- A minimal, C++-style implementation of the [FITS] image-file format, 

  complete with bit-packing decompression.

- A basic but reasonably performant implementation of the [Keys81]  algorithm for 

  [bicubic interpolation].

- Routines for bright-speckle location via cross-correlation with a carefully 

  tuned PSF core model.

- A simple (translation-only) but reasonably performant implementation of the 

  [Drizzle] algorithm.

- High-performance Monte-Carlo simulation code for simulating EMCCD data from 

  light-intensity maps (built on [UNURAN]).

- Fitting routines for extracting [EMCCD] parameters from raw data.

- A full (multi-threaded) lucky-imaging pipeline, including: 

    - Asynchronous file-buffering and decompression

    - Calibration routines for constructing per-pixel histograms from dark-frames 

      data

    - Image debias / flat-fielding routines built upon the EMCCD calibration

    - Photon-thresholding for faint targets

    - Various routines for multi-EMCCD data-synchronisation and mosaic building.

    

- A set of decomposable, [DRY]-principle-adherent CMake build scripts.

- Four years of sweat and C++ related tears.

#### This sounds useful. How do I get started?

Unfortunately there's no documentation yet, and progress is slow as this 

is effectively a side-project.

However, if you're interested in digging in, do [get in touch] and I'll help

out if I can.

[C++03]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B03

[Drizzle]: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002PASP..114..144F

[bicubic interpolation]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicubic_interpolation

[DRY]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself

[EMCCD]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-coupled_device#Electron-multiplying_CCD

[FITS]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS

[get in touch]: http://timstaley.co.uk/

[Keys81]: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=1163711

[UNURAN]: http://statmath.wu.ac.at/unuran/

[PhD thesis]: http://uk.arxiv.org/abs/1404.5907