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Bias subtraction

In most cases there is no bias to subtract. Recipes attempt to remove a bias frame only if the data have variance information and were taken using a non-ND mode (i.e. where the bias has not already been subtracted in the instrument data system), whereupon a bias frame, if available, is subtracted; if, however, there is no bias calibration the recipe issues a warning issued that the computed variances may be wrong. This step occurs between the creation of the readnoise variance and adding the Poisson variance.
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ORAC-DR -- imaging data reduction
Starlink User Note 232
Malcolm J. Currie
Brad Cavanagh
Joint Astronomy Centre, Hilo, Hawaii
2004 June
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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