Errors Associated with Fitting Gaussian Profiles to Noisy Emission-Line Spectra

Ayres, Thomas R.; Lenz, Dawn D.

Abstract

Landman, Roussel-Dupre, and Tanigawa developed prescriptions to predict profile fitting errors for Gaussian emission lines perturbed by white noise. We show that their scaling laws can be generalized to more complicated signal-dependent "noise models" of common astronomical detector systems. (SECTION: Instrumentation and Data Analysis)

1992 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
IUE 118