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Welcome to the Aegean wiki!

Aegean is a source finding program designed to find and characterise compact continuum radio sources. Aegean is described in this paper which should be cited if you make use of Aegean in your work.

This repository also includes a background and noise estimation tool called BANE. Which provides a method for creating background and noise images that can be used by Aegean.

Contents:

• Introduction and quick start guide
• Ideology and Terminology
• Installation and Requirements
• Aegean
  • Simple usage
  • Detailed usage
  • Output Formats
    • Priorized Fitting
    • Forced Measurements
• Other programs in this repo
  • Background and Noise Estimation (BANE)
  • Multi-resolution Image Mask for Aegean Software (MIMAS)
  • Aegean Residuals (AeRes)
  • Shrink Ray (SR6)
• Component Descriptions
  • Algorithms
  • Error Analysis
• Feedback and input
• Changelog