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Methods for Averaging Spectral Line Data

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L. D. Anderson *
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Bin Liu
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Dana S. Balser
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T. M. Bania
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L. M. Haffner
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Dylan J. Linville
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Matteo Luisi
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Trey V. Wenger
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The ideal spectral averaging method depends on one's science goals and the available information about one's data. Including low-quality data in the average can decrease the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N), which may necessitate an optimization method or a consideration of different weighting schemes. Here, we explore a variety of spectral averaging methods. We investigate the use of three weighting schemes during averaging: weighting by the signal divided by the variance (intensity-noise weighting), weighting by the inverse of the variance (noise weighting), and uniform weighting. Whereas for intensity-noise weighting the S/N is maximized when all spectra are averaged, for noise and uniform weighting we find that averaging the 35%-45% of spectra with the highest S/N results in the highest S/N average spectrum. With this intensity cutoff, the average spectrum with noise or uniform weighting has similar to 95% of the intensity of the spectrum created from intensity-noise weighting. We apply our spectral averaging methods to GBT Diffuse Ionized Gas hydrogen radio recombination line data to determine the ionic abundance ratio, y +, and discuss future applications of the methodology.
Keyword:
WAY INTERSTELLAR-MEDIUM
DIFFUSE IONIZED-GAS
HE-3

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