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A colour scheme for the display of astronomical intensity images

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2011-08-31 v2

Abstract

I describe a colour scheme that is appropriate for the screen display of intensity images. This -- unlike many currently available schemes -- is designed to be monotonically increasing in terms of its perceived brightness. Also, when printed on a black and white postscript printer, the scheme results in a greyscale with monotonically increasing brightness. This scheme has recently been incorporated into the radio astronomical analysis packages CASA and AIPS.

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@article{arxiv.1108.5083,
  title  = {A colour scheme for the display of astronomical intensity images},
  author = {D. A. Green},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.5083},
  year   = {2011}
}

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7 pages (minor typo corrected)