Accuracy Requirements for Empirically Measured Selection Functions
Abstract
I give formulas for the accuracy to which a selection function must be measured via Monte-Carlo injections in order to have un-biased population inference. The number of found injections scales linearly with the number of objects in the population; the coefficient in front of the linear term depends on both the distribution of injections and the inferred population distribution.
- Publication:
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Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 2019
- DOI:
- 10.3847/2515-5172/ab1d5f
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1904.10879
- Bibcode:
- 2019RNAAS...3...66F
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages