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What is a Spectrum?

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2011-11-29 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Authors: Adam S. Bolton , Stephen Bailey , Joel Brownstein , Parul Pandey , David Schlegel , Yiping Shu
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Abstract

This contribution describes the "spectro-perfectionism" algorithm of Bolton & Schlegel (2010, PASP, 122, 248) that is being implemented within the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), in terms of its potential to deliver Poisson-limited sky subtraction and lossless compression of the input spectrum likelihood functional given raw CCD data.

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@article{arxiv.1111.6525,
  title  = {What is a Spectrum?},
  author = {Adam S. Bolton and Stephen Bailey and Joel Brownstein and Parul Pandey and David Schlegel and Yiping Shu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.6525},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, no figures; to be published in the proceedings of ADASS XXI

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