List of Figures

• 2.1. Dataset A: simulated ACIS data, binned by 4
• 2.2. Dataset A: simulated ACIS data at full resolution
• 2.3. Dataset B: ACIS-S observation of 3C 295, adaptively smoothed
• 2.4. Dataset C: HRC-I observation of 3C 273, smoothed
• 2.5. Dataset D: Chandra Deep Field South with source detections overlaid
• 4.1. celldetect with default parameters (dataset A, example 1)
• 4.2. celldetect results with ellsigma=5 (dataset A, example 2)
• 4.3. celldetect with lower detection threshold (dataset A, example 3)
• 4.4. celldetect on extended emission (dataset B, example 1)
• 4.5. Spurious edge detections by celldetect (dataset B, example 2)
• 4.6. Eliminating edge detections in celldetect with an exposure map (dataset B, example 2)
• 4.7. Detecting close extended sources with celldetect (dataset C, example 1)
• 4.8. Detecting large extended sources with fixed cell size in celldetect (dataset C, example 2)
• 5.1. False Detection Rates from celldetect for ACIS-I Field of View
• 5.2. False Detection Rates from celldetect for the Inner Region of HRC-I
• 5.3. False Detection Rates from celldetect for the Outer Region of HRC-I
• 6.1. celldetect Cell Size as a Function of Off-axis Angle for HRC-I
• 8.1. vtpdetect with default parameters (dataset A, example 1)
• 8.2. vtpdetect results with ellsigma=5 (dataset A, example 2)
• 8.3. vtpdetect on extended emission (dataset B, example 1)
• 8.4. Detecting close extended sources with vtpdetect (dataset C, example 1)
• 9.1. Sample Voronoi Tessellation in vtpdetect
• 9.2. vtpdetect: Normalized Flux Distribution
• 9.3. vtpdetect: Flux Distribution Residuals
• 9.4. Simulated vtpdetect Data, $\sigma = 1^\prime$
• 9.5. Simulated vtpdetect Data, $\sigma = 4^\prime$
• 9.6. vtpdetect: Simulated Data Residuals, $\sigma = 1^\prime$
• 9.7. vtpdetect: Simulated Data Residuals, $\sigma = 4^\prime$
• 11.1. wavdetect with default parameters (dataset A, example 1)
• 11.2. wavdetect results with ellsigma=5 (dataset A, example 2)
• 11.3. wavdetect on extended emission (dataset B, example 1)
• 11.4. wavdetect with and without an exposure map (dataset B, example 2)
• 11.5. Detecting close extended sources with wavdetect (dataset C, example 1)
• 11.6. Detecting close extended sources with additional scales in wavdetect (dataset C, example 2)
• 12.1. A wtransform Correlation Map
• 12.2. Comparison of two wrecon fluxscales
• 12.3. Cell Size Map from wrecon, fluxscales = 1
• 12.4. Cell Size Map from wrecon, fluxscales = "3 4"