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| Paper: |
Unbinned MLE for Low-Count Spectra |
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371, Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV |
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423 |
| Authors: |
Arzner, K.; Guedel, M.; Briggs, K.; Telleschi, A.; Schmidt, M.; Audard, M.; Scelsi, L.; Franciosini, E. |
| Abstract: |
We numerically investigate the performances of binned and unbinned statistics in the spectrum parameter estimation problem of low-count X-ray data. The unbinned likelihood is found to perform best, and is applied to recent XMM-Newton observations of the Taurus Molecular Cloud. |
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