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Clarify variance drizzling choice
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melanieclarke committed May 6, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -82,7 +82,10 @@ in the output data model or the ``'ERR'`` extension of the FITS file.
It is expected that the output errors computed in this way will
generally overestimate the true error on the resampled data. The magnitude
of the overestimation depends on the details of the pixel weights
and error images.
and error images. Note, however, that drizzling error images produces
a much better estimate of the output error than directly drizzling
the variance images, since the kernel overlap weights do not need to be
squared for combining error values.


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