G34.3 PCA subtraction comparison

From top-left to the blue highlighted box, the 20th iteration of N pca components subtracted is shown. N goes from 1 to 19. The other plots are 'ascending' and 0-pca components with median and baseline subtraction - ask if you want more details on those. 19 iterations recovers a LOT of flux. I haven't generated the plots for flux as a function of iteration, but I have software to do that available. Things to note: at 10 iterations and higher, you start to generate negative bowls. One observation is probably independently responsible for the chunks of glitchy data present even in the 19 PCA component subtraction. While the bowls do worsen with higher number of PCA components, we also find fainter structure (e.g. those tongues to the southeast and northwest).

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