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BIN-SPECTRUM

Forms a new spectrum, with each channel formed by an average over N channels of the original. Binning starts in the first channel of each unmasked sector, and proceeds until too few channels are left for a complete bin. The unused channels are abandoned, and the sector centre frequency etc.are modified as appropriate. BIN-SPECTRUM is equivalent to a boxcar average over N channels, followed by copy of every $N^{th}$ channel into a new spectrum, with resolution bandwidth N times that of the original.

Examples:

    >> bin-spectrum<CR>
    Bin width? (channels) [  1] 2<CR>
    ..

\begin{figure}
% latex2html id marker 1319
\psfig{psfile=bin-spec.ps hoffset=60 ...
...ast two channels of the input spectrum
are discarded.}
}\end{center}\end{figure}



Jamie Leech 2004-08-16