Detection of faint extended sources in hyperspectral data and application to HDF-S MUSE observations

Circum-Galactic Medium surrounding galaxies has been punctually detected, but its morphology remains largely unknown. The Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) spectro-imager provides for the first time both spectral and spatial resolution to spatially map such features. The problem lies in the statistical detection of faint spatially-extended sources in massive hyperspectral images such as provided by MUSE, and has not been previously handled. This paper presents a statistical detection method based on hypothesis testing tackling this problem. The proposed strategy is step-by-step validated over alternative ways with simulations. Then, results on MUSE observations are presented.

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