The measurement errors in the Swift-UVOT and XMM-OM

Details The measurement errors in the Swift-UVOT and XMM-OM The measurement errors in the Swift-UVOT and XMM-OM

2007-09-08

arxiv.org/abs/0709.1208v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 postscript figures, submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12549.x

The probability of photon measurement in some photon counting instrumentation, such as the Optical Monitor on the XMM-Newton satellite, and the UVOT on the Swift satellite, does not follow a Poisson distribution due to the detector characteristics, but a Binomial distribution. For a single-pixel approximation, an expression was derived for the incident countrate as a function of the measured count rate by Fordham, Moorhead and Galbraith (2000). We show that the measured countrate error is binomial, and extend their formalism to derive the error in the incident count rate. The error on the incident count rate at large count rates is larger than the Poisson-error of the incident count rate.

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