| Issue |
A&A
Volume 405, Number 3, July III 2003
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| Page(s) | 1169 - 1176 | |
| Section | Astronomical instrumentation | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20030564 | |
| Published online | 30 June 2003 | |
Increasing the reliability of ISOCAM cross-identifications by use of a probability pattern*
1
Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Université, 67000 Strasbourg, France
2
ISO Data Centre, Science Operations and Data Systems Division, European Space Agency, Villafranca del Castillo, PO Box 50727, 28080 Madrid, Spain e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
3
CEA/DSM/DAPNIA Saclay, Service d'Astroph., L'Orme de Merisiers, Bat. 709, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Corresponding author: S. Derriere, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Received:
16
May
2002
Accepted:
13
March
2003
Abstract
The built-in play at the wheels of the ISOCAM instrument affects the accuracy of the astrometry of sources from the ISOCAM Parallel Catalogue. We present the results of different methods for cross-identifying ISOCAM sources with reference catalogues in the optical (USNO-A2.0) and in the near infrared (2MASS). For a sample of 7197 ISOCAM sources, the fraction having a real counterpart in the USNO and 2MASS catalogues was estimated to be 95% and 91% respectively. Using a nearest neighbor method for cross-identification, only 74% of the possible associations with USNO (79% with 2MASS) are retrieved. With the use of a so-called probability pattern to perform the associations, these values increase to 77% for USNO and 83% for 2MASS. In addition, the overall reliability of associations increases from 77 to 87% with USNO, and from 81 to 90% with 2MASS.
Key words: catalogs / astrometry / methods: data analysis / methods: statistical / infrared: general
Based on observations with ISO, an ESA project with instruments funded by ESA Member States (especially the PI countries: France, Germany, The Netherlands and the UK) with the participation of ISAS and NASA.
© ESO, 2003
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