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    MakeCatalog: surface brightness limit and removed mag limit · 1f6a7c17
    Mohammad Akhlaghi authored
    Previously the surface brightness limit and magnitude limit were
    defined in terms of a fixed projected area (arcsec^2) and the S/N of
    the objects or clumps. But in the first case, the projected area
    should not be used since noise is only dependent on the pixel and the
    pixel is the unit of our data-collection. Its physical or projected
    size are irrelevant. In the latter case, the area used to find the S/N
    was not clear and thus this value was very unrealistic. Therefore I
    tried to explain how to use number counts (from the outputs of
    MakeCatalog) in order to estimate the limiting magnitude.
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