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In this paper we address a very relevant problem in astronomy, the estimation of the intensity of a source, in our case far galaxies in astronomical images, embedded in additive noise and selected by their observed intensity. We use a Bayesian approach that takes into account the distribution in intensity of the galaxies, that can be well described in parametric way as a power law with an unknown...
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