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REGION
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These randoms have not been resolved by the desitarget_ code.
Resolving in this sense means only retaining northern points in
northern bricks in the northern portion of the Legacy Surveys footprint and
only retaining southern points in the southern bricks in the southern portion.
southern bricks in the southern portion of the Legacy Surveys footprint.

``REGION`` can have the value ``north`` or ``south``.

See also:

* Section 4.1.3. of `the desitarget paper`_.
* The `documentation on the Legacy Surveys website`_.

.. _desitarget: https://github.com/desihub/desitarget
.. _`the desitarget paper`: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023AJ....165...50M/abstract
.. _`documentation on the Legacy Surveys website`: https://www.legacysurvey.org/dr9/files/#region-randoms-randoms-region-1-fits

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1

    randoms-noresolve-{seed}-{iteration}.fits: Random catalog in the LS footprint REGION <randoms-noresolve-seed-iteration>