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\secA{Acknowledgements}

Thanks are due to the many people who have provided assistance and
advice during the development and testing of \duchamp, particularly
Ivy Wong, Kathrin Wolfinger, Tobias Westmeier, Sara Shakouri, Mary
Putman, Cormac Purcell, Attila Popping, Tara Murphy, Enno Middelberg,
Korinne McDonnell, Malte Marquarding, Philip Lah, Russell Jurek, Simon
Guest, Jose Francisco Gomez, BiQing For, Luca Cortese, Mark
Calabretta, David Barnes and Robbie Auld. Additionally, Emil Lenc and
Anita Richards both provided valuable comments on the journal paper
that have helped the descriptions therein. I'd like to thank the
members of the ASKAP Working Group 2 (Source Finding) for their
interest and feedback - \duchamp has been considered as part of the
development of ASKAP Survey Science Projects, and this has driven
further development of the core \duchamp software.

The graphics in \duchamp are created using the
\textsc{pgplot}\footnote{http://www.astro.caltech.edu/$\sim$tjp/pgplot/}
library, FITS file access is controlled through the
\textsc{cfitsio}\footnote{http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/fitsio/fitsio.html}
library \citep{pence99}, while the world-coordinate transformations
are performed using the
\textsc{wcslib}\footnote{http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/mcalabre/WCS/index.html}
library (described in \citet{calabretta02}).

The bulk of this work was conducted as part of a CSIRO Emerging
Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, and \duchamp continues to be
maintained both as a standalone package and as part of the software
development effort for the ASKAP telescope. This work was supported by
the NCI National Facility at the ANU.



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