Software Description
For a detailed description of the BLOBCAT software, covering the implemented algorithms, required program inputs, and output data products, please see the following paper:
- BLOBCAT: Software to Catalogue Flood-Filled Blobs in Radio Images of
Total Intensity and Linear Polarization
C. A. Hales, T. Murphy, J. R. Curran, E. Middelberg, B. M. Gaensler, R. P. Norris
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 425(2):979-996, 2012
Links: arXiv, SAO/NASA ADS, ASCL (code), SAO/NASA ADS (code)
Example Application
Please see the following paper for an example application of BLOBCAT to a radio polarization survey (Section 5.1), including an improved method for calculating positional uncertainties (Section 5.2):
- ATLAS 1.4 GHz Data Release 2 - I. Observations of the CDF-S and ELAIS-S1
fields and methods for constructing differential number counts
C. A. Hales, R. P. Norris, B. M. Gaensler, E. Middelberg, K. E. Chow, A. M. Hopkins, M. T. Huynh, E. Lenc, M. Y. Mao
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 441(3):2555-2592, 2014
Links: arXiv, SAO/NASA ADS
Instructions for Using BLOBCAT
A readme file containing instructions for running the BLOBCAT software is provided as part of the download package.
