;; Determine an equivalent width limit given Nsig, wavelength, ;; b-value, and S/N using Equations 4-5,7,9-10 of Keeney et al. (2012). ;; ;; INPUTS ;; Nsig - significance level of limit (number of sigma) ;; lambda - observed wavelength of line (A) ;; b - b-value (km/s) ;; snpix - S/N per pixel ;; snx - S/N measured at optimal resolution ;; ;; OPTIONAL PARAMETERS ;; disp - dispersion in mA/pix (defaults to G130M value for ;; lambda <= 1425 A and G160M value otherwise) ;; bin - the number of native COS pixels that the data have been ;; pre-binned by, used to convert SNPIX to SN1 ;; xopt - optimal integration width, in (binned) pixels ;; ;; B. Keeney 02/16/12 ;; B. Keeney 06/12/14 function cos_ewlim, Nsig, lambda, b, snpix=snpix, snx=snx, $ disp=disp, bin=bin, xopt=xopt if ((n_elements(snpix) eq 0) and (n_elements(snx) eq 0)) then begin print, 'EWLIM: either SNPIX or SNX must be specified!!!' return, -1 endif if (n_elements(disp) eq 0) then disp = (lambda le 1425) ? 9.97d : 12.23d if (n_elements(bin) eq 0) then bin = 1 dx = 1d3*b*lambda / (2.998d5*disp) xopt = 1.605*dx + 5.1d*dx^(-0.25d) eta = 0.15d + xopt^(0.37d) fcx = 0.743d - 0.185d*exp(-dx/11.6d) sn1 = (bin eq 1) ? snpix : snpix / (0.15 + bin^(0.37d)) ewlim = (n_elements(snx) gt 0) ? (Nsig*disp/snx) * xopt/fcx : $ (Nsig*disp/sn1) * xopt/(eta*fcx) xopt /= bin return, ewlim end