2012/12/07 by B. K. Alpert, R. D. Horansky, Alpert, B. K. +13
Physics and Astronomy · #Data Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) #astro-ph.IM #nucl-ex #physics.data-an
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1212.1738
5 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
arxiv created 2012/12/07 · arxiv updated 2012/12/11
We introduce a filter-construction method for pulse processing that differs in two respects from that in standard optimal filtering, in which the average pulse shape and noise-power spectral density are combined to create a convolution filter for estimating pulse heights. First, the proposed filters are computed in the time domain, to avoid periodicity artifacts of the discrete Fourier transform, and second, orthogonality constraints are imposed on the filters, to reduce the filtering procedure's sensitivity to unknown baseline height and pulse tails. We analyze the proposed filters, predicting energy resolution under several scenarios, and apply the filters to high-rate pulse data from gamma-rays measured by a transition-edge-sensor microcalorimeter.