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ISAAC Readnoise

ISAAC uses the same formulae for calculating the readnoise variance as Michelle i.e.


\begin{displaymath}RNE = \frac{RN}{\sqrt{\frac{N_{ND} * ( N_{ND} + 1 )}{12 * ( N_{ND} + 1 )}}} \end{displaymath}

and


\begin{displaymath}V_{RN} = \frac{RNE^{2}}{N_e * gain^{2}} \end{displaymath}

where RNE is the readnoise per exposure, in electrons, RN is the readnoise in electrons, and NND is the number of non-destructive reads, Ne is the number of exposures per integration, and gain is the detector gain in electrons per ADU.



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ORAC-DR -- spectroscopy data reduction
Starlink User Note 236
Paul Hirst
Brad Cavanagh
Joint Astronomy Centre, Hilo, Hawaii
October 2005
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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