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Archival Legacy Investigations of Circumstellar Environments (ALICE): Statistical assessment of point source detections

Perrin, Marshall D.; Pueyo, Laurent; Choquet, Élodie +5 more

The ALICE program, for Archival Legacy Investigation of Circumstellar Environment, is currently conducting a virtual survey of about 400 stars, by re-analyzing the HST-NICMOS coronagraphic archive with advanced post-processing techniques. We present here the strategy that we adopted to identify detections and potential candidates for follow-up obs…