1. Fastcc: fast colour corrections for broadband radio telescope data
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Peel, Mike W., Genova-Santos, Ricardo, Dickinson, C., Leahy, J. P., López-Caraballo, Carlos, Fernández-Torreiro, M., Rubiño-Martín, J. A., and Spencer, Locke D.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
Broadband receiver data need colour corrections applying to correct for the different source spectra across their wide bandwidths. The full integration over a receiver bandpass may be computationally expensive and redundant when repeated many times. Colour corrections can be applied, however, using a simple quadratic fit based on the full integration instead. Here we describe fastcc and interpcc, quick Python and IDL codes that return, respectively, colour correction coefficients for different power-law spectral indices and modified black bodies for various Cosmic Microwave Background related experiments. The codes are publicly available, and can be easily extended to support additional telescopes., Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure. Published in RNAAS
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- 2022
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