On Computing Upper Limits to Source Intensities.¶
Kashyap, V. L., van Dyk, D. A., Connors, A., Freeman, P. E., Siemiginowska, A., Xu, J., & Zezas, A. (2010). On Computing Upper Limits to Source Intensities. The Astrophysical Journal, 719(1), 900-914.
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- Absence Of Evidence Vs Evidence Of Absence
- Instead the non-detection is converted into an upper limit: the sensitivity curve says the instrument would have detected, with high probability, any source brighter than flux F, so the result is "any source present is fainter than F" — a measured exclusion, not silence.
This sourceStandard reference distinguishing a flux upper limit (a calibration of the detection process) from an upper bound, formalizing how a non-detection is converted into a constraint via a characterized instrument sensitivity.
- Instead the non-detection is converted into an upper limit: the sensitivity curve says the instrument would have detected, with high probability, any source brighter than flux F, so the result is "any source present is fainter than F" — a measured exclusion, not silence.
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