[daip] SNR calculations in FRING

[Z.-Q. Shen]

Hi,

I have a dumb question about the SNR calculation in FRING
at the first FFT fringe detection stage.

The presumed signal amplitude can be measured at the peak
in the delay-rate spectrum. And the noise is the RMS thermal
noise determined by the data integration time and the maximum
recording bandwidth. Then SNR is simply a ratio between both.
The baseline stacking (if applied) could reduce the noise to
eventually increase the SNR measured for each datum. Is this
exactly what written in the FRING source code? The weights
may also need to be included in a not so straightforward way.

There are essentially two different FRING modes in FRING. One
with aparm(5)=0 will do fringe fitting on each IF independently,
the other with aparm(5)>1 will solve for multi-band solutions.
No matter what choice we use, the noise estimation will always
assume a maximum bandwidth, i.e., the whole observing band.
Is this right?

Best regards from


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Zhi-Qiang Shen
The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
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Kanagawa 229-8510, JAPAN
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E-mail: zshen at vsop.isas.ac.jp
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