XMM-Newton Science Analysis System


ewavelet (ewavelet-3.12) [xmmsas_20230412_1735-21.0.0]

Future developments

• FFT routines may still need some performance optimization, as not all the functionality of the FFTW package is currently used.
• Galactic coordinates are not yet calculated, but this can change in the near future.
• Currently preference is given to small sources over extended sources if they are present near the same coordinates. It would be nice to have a good selection criterion to include also extended sources in the final source list if it is clear that the signal is not caused by the small scale source.
• More work has to be done on the error estimates of source parameters.
• Countrates are estimated assuming that the source shape is a Gaussian. Unresolved sources have the shape of the PSF. This means that for point-like source we can in future calibrate the true countrates versus the wavelet countrates, for small wavelet scales. However, this involves a lot of calibration work and/or numerical simulations.