binadapt creates adaptively smoothed background subtracted and exposure corrected images. For each unmasked pixel, the program will average neighboring pixels within a circle of increasing radius until a selected number of counts is reached. The original pixel is then given the average surface brightness for the pixels within the circle. Binning by pixels can be selected. This task combines the former SAS tasks adapt and binimage into a single task.
Warning and requirements: binadapt was part of the singular esas package integrated into the SAS, but was made a standalone task for SAS-21. It is limited to work within the esas data reduction scheme. This is especially true with respect to the structure and names of the input files. In particular, binadapt assumes that other tasks from the package, like mosspectra, mosback, and if desired combimage must have been successfully run for the exposures to be used.
