Документ взят из кэша поисковой машины. Адрес оригинального документа : http://www.stecf.org/software/ASTROsoft/DER_SNR/der_snr.py Дата изменения: Wed Apr 28 11:32:41 2010 Дата индексирования: Mon Oct 1 23:32:54 2012 Кодировка: Поисковые слова: m 5

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def DER_SNR(flux):

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"""
DESCRIPTION This function computes the signal to noise ratio DER_SNR following the
definition set forth by the Spectral Container Working Group of ST-ECF,
MAST and CADC.

signal = median(flux)
noise = 1.482602 / sqrt(6) median(abs(2 flux_i - flux_i-2 - flux_i+2))
snr = signal / noise
values with padded zeros are skipped

USAGE snr = DER_SNR(flux)
PARAMETERS none
INPUT flux (the computation is unit independent)
OUTPUT the estimated signal-to-noise ratio [dimensionless]
USES numpy
NOTES The DER_SNR algorithm is an unbiased estimator describing the spectrum
as a whole as long as
* the noise is uncorrelated in wavelength bins spaced two pixels apart
* the noise is Normal distributed
* for large wavelength regions, the signal over the scale of 5 or
more pixels can be approximated by a straight line

For most spectra, these conditions are met.

REFERENCES * ST-ECF Newsletter, Issue #42:
www.spacetelescope.org/about/further_information/newsletters/html/newsletter_42.html
* Software:
www.stecf.org/software/ASTROsoft/DER_SNR/
AUTHOR Felix Stoehr, ST-ECF
24.05.2007, fst, initial import
01.01.2007, fst, added more help text
28.04.2010, fst, return value is a float now instead of a numpy.float64
"""
from numpy import array, where, median, abs

flux = array(flux)

# Values that are exactly zero (padded) are skipped
flux = array(flux[where(flux != 0.0)])
n = len(flux)

# For spectra shorter than this, no value can be returned
if (n>4):
signal = median(flux)

noise = 0.6052697 * median(abs(2.0 * flux[2:n-2] - flux[0:n-4] - flux[4:n]))

return float(signal / noise)

else:

return 0.0

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