Fig. 1

Results for the synthetic datasets simulated with a Gaussian background rate function. The L-curves computed for one typical synthetic dataset along with the point corresponding to the chosen optimal smoothness parameter are shown in (a). The estimated background rate function for all 100 synthetic catalogs for each type of model listed in Table 1 is presented in (b-f). The true background rate function and the 10, 90 percentile bounds of estimates for each model are also shown