Edward Brown edited figures/fig_for_inclass_nova1/caption.tex  about 9 years ago

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Consider the attached image of a nova observed with the millimeter telescope CARMA at 96 GHz (Panel A). Histograms of pixel values are shown in Panels B and C (Panel C is just a zoom-in of a region on Panel B); these are just like the histograms you made in DS9's \verb|Scale Parameters|. The pixel values after calibration are expressed as flux density per pixel (units of mJy/pixel). The plotted range ($-2$ to $36\,\mathrm{mJy/pixel}$) includes all pixels in the image.  \begin{enumerate}  \itshape  \item Estimate the average background value ($\bar{S}$) and explain your reasoning.  \item Estimate the standard deviation of the background ($\sigma$), and explain your reasoning.