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FacetClumps: A Facet-based Molecular Clump Detection Algorithm
Yu Jiang, Zhiwei Chen, Sheng Zheng, Zhibo Jiang, Yao Huang, Shuguang Zeng, Xiangyun Zeng, Xiaoyu Luo
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A comprehensive understanding of molecular clumps is essential for investigating star formation. We present an algorithm for molecular clump detection, called FacetClumps. This algorithm uses a morphological approach to extract signal regions from the original data. The Gaussian Facet model is employed to fit the signal regions, which enhances the resistance to noise and the stability of the algorithm in diverse overlapping areas. The introduction of the extremum determination theorem of multivariate functions offers theoretical guidance for automatically locating clump centers. To guarantee that each clump is continuous, the signal regions are segmented into local regions based on gradient, and then the local regions are clustered into the clump centers based on connectivity and minimum distance to identify the regional information of each clump. Experiments conducted with both simulated and synthetic data demonstrate that FacetClumps exhibits great recall and precision rates, small location error and flux loss, a high consistency between the region of detected clump and that of simulated clump, and is generally stable in various environments. Notably, the recall rate of FacetClumps in the synthetic data, which comprises ¹³CO (J = 1-0) emission line of the MWISP within 11.7° ≤l ≤13.4°, 0.22° ≤b ≤1.05° and 5 km s⁻¹ ≤v ≤ 35 km s⁻¹ and simulated clumps, reaches 90.2%. Additionally, FacetClumps demonstrates satisfactory performance when applied to observational data.
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