deblend

lsst.meas.extensions.scarlet.deblend(mExposure, footprint, config)

Deblend a parent footprint

Parameters:

mExposure : lsst.image.MultibandExposure

• The multiband exposure containing the image, mask, and variance data

footprint : lsst.detection.Footprint

• The footprint of the parent to deblend

config : ScarletDeblendConfig

• Configuration of the deblending task

Returns:

blend : scarlet.Blend

The scarlet blend class that contains all of the information about the parameters and results from scarlet

skipped : list of int

The indices of any children that failed to initialize and were skipped.

spectrumInit : bool

Whether or not all of the sources were initialized by jointly fitting their SED’s. This provides a better initialization but created memory issues when a blend is too large or contains too many sources.