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Should I drop source shot noise from the SNR calculation when all I care about is detection (not photometric precision)?
All of the calculations for signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of sources in astronomical images include various noise terms of relevance: read noise, quantization noise, and shot noise from each of the ...
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