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In practice, one calculates the noise in a synthesized image by taking the RMS of some signal-free region.
But the theoretical thermal noise of the synthesized map can also be calculated directly from the imaging weights.
See Dan Briggs's thesis, Eqn 3.3.
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We implemented this calculation in an example script, for natural weighting and no taper.
It should be relatively straightforward to extend this to include those terms.
To DirtyImager, add a
def get_thermal_noise(
self,
weighting: str = "uniform",
robust: float | None = None,
taper_function: Callable[
[npt.NDArray[np.floating[Any]], npt.NDArray[np.floating[Any]]],
npt.NDArray[np.floating[Any]],
]
| None = None,
unit: str = "Jy/beam")routine.
Additional context
It'd be worthwhile comparing this to the calculation from CASA.
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