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Signal to Noise Ratios-The Principal Criteria of Merit

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The potential factor of merit, Zpot, (Section 1.13) although a parameter of any spectrometer gives only a rough indication of its advantages.

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Meaburn, J. (1976). Signal to Noise Ratios-The Principal Criteria of Merit. In: Detection and Spectrometry of Faint Light. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 56. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6914-9_11

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