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Signal-to-Noise ratio of pointing measurement, e.

As described in MTDN109.2 a S/N of >10 at the peak of a FIVEPOINT measure keeps the vector error of the positional determination of the source below 0.1. We assume that prudent observing techniques will keep this contribution to the error budget at this level.



Iain Coulson
Wed Mar 12 15:06:27 HST 1997