EXSdetect: Extended X-ray Source Detection
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An X-ray source detection algorithm, optimally designed to detected faint extended sources, making use of Voronoi tessellation and Friend-of-Friend technique.
Please refer to Liu et al. 2012 for details.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
![An example: 000336-525853 field as observed by SWIFT XRT An example: 000336-525853 field as observed by SWIFT XRT](Files/000336-525853.jpg)
Sweep line Voronoi construction algorithm
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Voronoi Tessellation with the sweep line algorithm (Fortune 1986) implemented in python.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
![Animation of the sweep line algorithm, from wikipedia Animation of sweep line algorithm](Files/Fortunes-algorithm.gif)