Flags for photon counting / clustering

[TheFl0w]

As I understand it, the application should either use the algorithm for counting photons in frames or the algorithm for finding clusters in frames, but not both at the same time. In our last Skype meeting Jonas asked if there are any flags that are mutually exclusive and you answered there aren't any invalid combination of flags. Does that mean you want to use the normal photon counting algorithm and clustering algorithm at the same time?

[sredford]

You're right, in our way of defining the two algorithms it would not be necessary to run photon counting and clustering together, since the clustering does do the pedestal correction and calibration itself. In our memory of your algorithms:

• photon counting takes ADU signal, pedestal corrects, converts to energy and normalises to number of photons, outputting the number of photons for every pixel in the frame.
• clustering takes ADU signal, pedestal corrects, converts to energy and clusters, outputting the list of clustered pixel position and their energies.

So the two are both doing a similar job. Cheers, Sophie and Carlos