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What's the meaning of negative fluxes in source photometry? [message #93177]

Sun, 08 May 2016 22:07

Sonu Tabitha
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I generated a synthetic image with one source (Gaussian PSF) with a peak flux intensity of 10Jy. At lower signal to noise ratios I got some false detction having negative fluxes. What is the meaning of negative fluxes actually?

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		What's the meaning of negative fluxes in source photometry? By: Sonu Tabitha on Sun, 08 May 2016 22:07
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