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Cramer-Rao bound in detection of reversals

Geophysics 2013-02-05 v1

Abstract

We use the Cramer-Rao bound to show which short magnetic reversals can be recovered successfully from a magnetic anomaly profile. Using a simple variant of the Vine-Matthews model, we show, in particular, that errors in determining the duration of a short subchron are much smaller than errors in localizing the center of the subchron.

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@article{arxiv.1302.0486,
  title  = {Cramer-Rao bound in detection of reversals},
  author = {S. A. Ivanov and S. A. Merkuryev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.0486},
  year   = {2013}
}

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A more complete version will be published soon in "Geophysics and Aeronomy"