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th_rms.pro

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Wed Sep 28 13:27:15 2016

th_rms

procedure th_rms, tsys, df, npol, k1, k2, xmin, xmax, no_pts, time_x, rms_y

Calculate theoretical rms expected from current configuration. Used by RADIOM for comparison with empirical radiometer equation.

theoretical radiometer equation

  rms := k1*tsys/sqrt(k2*teff*npol*df);

 
where teff is the effective integration time given by
  teff = ton*toff/(ton + toff) 
 
This code assumes ton equals toff hence
  teff = tint / 2  ; tint is the integration time
 

Contributed By: Bob Garwood from Tom Bania's original GBT IDL package

Version
$Id$

Parameters
tsys
in, required
float
system temperature in milliKelvins
df
in, required
float
Channel separation in Hz.
npol
in, required
integer
Number of polarization (or independent signals).
k1
in, required
float
backend sampling efficiency, 1.032 for 9-level autocorrelator, 1.235 for 3-level.
k2
in, required
float
Channel weighting function. 1.21 for uniform for the GBT spectrometer (sinc(x) channel response) and 2.00 for Hanning smoothed GBT spectrometer data.
xmin
in, required
float
Minimum integration time in minutes.
xmax
in, required
float
Maximum integration time in minutes.
no_pts
in, required
integer
Number of unique teff values to calculate th_rms between xmin and xmax.
time_x
out
variable
The array of integration times used.
rms_y
out
variable
The array of theoretical RMS values calculated. seconds.


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