dc.creator Lin, K. F. en_US dc.date.accessioned 2006-06-15T14:04:45Z dc.date.available 2006-06-15T14:04:45Z dc.date.issued 1978 en_US dc.identifier 1978-RE-08 en_US dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1811/10508 dc.description Author Institution: Department of Physics, McMaster University en_US dc.description.abstract Assuming the noise at each recorded data point is random and Gaussian, the measurement error of the Line position of a spectral line is shown Co be equal to $\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \cdot (ration\;of\;noise\;to\;signal)\cdot(FWHH)^{\frac{1}{2}}$ if the line positions are determined by the Local minima of the following, expression: $C(I) = \left|\begin{array}{llllll} I-1 & &I& +& M\\ \Sigma & (S(i) + N(i)) - &\Sigma& &&(S(i) + N(i))\\ i = I - M & &i& =& I + 1 \end{array}\right|$ where S(i) is the assumed noise-free signal at data point i N(i) is the noise at: data point i and M is a chosen integer. Both the measurement error and FWHH are defined by the unit of data point. en_US dc.format.extent 79322 bytes dc.format.mimetype image/jpeg dc.language.iso English en_US dc.publisher Ohio State University en_US dc.title MEASUREMENT ERROR ON DIGITALLY RECORDED SPECTRA en_US dc.type article en_US
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