Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Add the Poisson noise from the zero exposure dark current (=bias value) #1372

Merged
merged 1 commit into from Aug 19, 2021

Conversation

julienguy
Copy link
Contributor

Add the Poisson noise from the zero exposure dark current in the read noise.
A good estimate of this Poisson noise variance is the master bias value (which had the electronic pedestal subtracted), after multiplication by the gain (to convert ADUs to electrons).

This correction increases the read noise std deviation by 10% for the blue cameras. It explains the variation of the measured read noise rms with the CCD row or column.

The average ratio of the noise measured in the active region of the CCDs to its estimate based on the overscan columns and the master bias and darks is now of 0.994,0.985,0.985 in BLUE,RED
and NIR CCDs respectively.

See https://desi.lbl.gov/DocDB/cgi-bin/private/ShowDocument?docid=6431.

@julienguy julienguy requested a review from akremin August 12, 2021 21:20
@coveralls
Copy link

Coverage Status

Coverage increased (+0.009%) to 26.3% when pulling 4c482c4 on improved-rdnoise into 9d1e9e3 on master.

Copy link
Member

@akremin akremin left a comment

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Apologies I didn't notice this request until now. The changes looks good

@akremin akremin merged commit 63856e7 into master Aug 19, 2021
@akremin akremin deleted the improved-rdnoise branch August 19, 2021 00:08
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

None yet

3 participants