Do we see false detections on the MD fields? Do we get funny problems with the histogram plots like we do with SAS?

Viewing the Detections

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XY27 is the same chip that I used before for investigating false detections, here it is for this image:

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XY25

The distribution of the false detections appears a bit different for this MD field - previously, there would be entire cells that were just bad. This doesn't seem to happen like it did for the SAS footprint.

Histograms

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This is a zoom of XY27 in ds9. The numbers correspond to the cells that I investigate down below. Some of these cells had a lot of streakies/and/or/false detections for SAS footprint, but it isn't so bad for this field.

I plotted a histogram of pixel/sqrt(variance) for each of the cells. The colors are as follows:

• 1 = red
• 2 = orange
• 3 = gold
• 4 = yellow
• 5 = green
• 6 = darkgreen
• 7 = blue
• 8 = violet

This already looks a lot different than what was seen for SAS footprint.

Plotting each of the cells separately and plotting the same with the x axis flipped shows that it's way more symmetric than for SAS:

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All of these plots are for the single chip stage. I am working on doing similar investigations for the stack stage.