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It just says “developing”. I would imagine this is code for “writing papers about”. I’m sure those papers use whatever technique is currently hot and will produ
by xevb3k 8y ago
It just says “developing”. I would imagine this is code for “writing papers about”. I’m sure those papers use whatever technique is currently hot and will produce a decent publication. I doubt they use simple statistical approaches, because that’s likely not novel or publishable.
This is all fine. However, the problem is suggesting that this is a somehow reasonable/tenable solution to solving the noise issues...
Maybe the noise can be removed by other methods, maybe the noise doesn’t matter, but magic doesn’t solve the noise issues.
- martinpw 8y ago> Maybe the noise can be removed by other methods, maybe the noise doesn’t matter, but magic doesn’t solve the noise issues. The noise definitely matters. When you are observing with a telescope you are almost by definition working at the limit of the signal to noise ratio of the instrument, otherwise you would be asked to use a less powerful instrument (since the observing time on these larger instruments is so precious). I worked on a project analyzing data from an X-ray telescope back in my research days. We spent 3 full years building an incredibly detailed model of the instrument noise, just so we could subtract it out and have confidence in our remaining signal. That was longer than the time we spent doing the actual science on the corrected data.