RESOLVE

RESOLVE refers to whether targets have been resolved to account for duplicates in overlapping Legacy Surveys (LS) imaging. The northern and southern imaging footprints overlap and are resolved to only retain targets in the northern imaging that are both at Dec. > 32.375 degrees and north of the Galactic Plane. Randoms catalogs that have been resolved are in directories named “resolve” and randoms that have not been resolved are in directories named “noresolve”. Under each “resolve”, random catalogs can take several different forms.

• REGION
• Randoms split by HEALPixel
• randoms-{seed}-{iteration}.fits: Random catalog in the LS footprint
• randoms-outside-{seed}-{iteration}.fits: Random catalog outside of the LS footprint
• randoms-allsky-{seed}-{iteration}.fits: Random catalog combined across the entire sky