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S refers to the "true" source counts and not to the source counts in the detection cell.
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We note, in passing, that the choice of an annular background region instead of circular regions used by Kashyap et al. (1994) can be justified with the following reasoning. From Eq. (5 (click here)), we see that if r=3 and 26#26 (this is valid in case of background annulus, and 27#27 is the integral of the PSF between 0 and the background outer radius), then 28#28. If r=4 and 29#29 (in case of background circle centered on the source), then 30#30. Therefore the SNR of a source in the latter case is lower.
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The 58#58 detection threshold corresponds to 1 spurious source in the whole PSPC FOV (Damiani et al. 1997b), and it is typically used when performing detections on PSPC pointed sequences. In order to study the effect of the screening procedure on the sources below the usually adopted detection threshold, we run the wavelet algorithm using the 59#59 threshold.
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