\contentslabel
[\thecontentslabel]1.25cm \titlerule*[.5pc]. \thecontentspage\contentslabel[\thecontentslabel]1.25cm \thecontentspage[]\contentslabel[\thecontentslabel]1.25cm \titlerule*[.5pc]. \thecontentspage[]

Preprocessingyourdata

Thissectioniswhereyouprepareyourdatatobeprocessed,youhavetomakesurethatallyourimageshavethesamegridsize,samespatialresolution,lesspossiblequantityofoutliersabdnoiseandsamecoordinatesystem.Now,whatarethosethings?Samegridsizemeansthatyourimagesmusthavethesamepixelsize,inthedatasetweareprocessingwedon’thavetoworryaboutthis,thepixelsizeis0.0396arcsec/pixel.Now,spatialresoultion,eachimagehasit’sownspatialresolutiondependingonthefilterthatwasusedtogettheobservation,thenumberthatyouwillbelookingforistheFWHMthatdescribesthePSFofeveryimage.WhenyouhavealltheFWHMforalltheimagesyoushouldchoosethelargestwhichcorrespondstothepoorestspatialresolutionandcreateaconvolutionkernelwithTinyTimoruseagaussiankernelcalculatedwithAstropyandconvolvealltheimageswiththatkernel.ThisexactlywhatIdid,ifyoulookatimage\ref{img:conv},youwillseethebeforeandafterconvolution.Intable\ref{tab:dos}youcanseehowIchosethenumberfortheFWHM.