 Analogue-to-digital unit (source code)

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= Analogue-to-digital unit

= ADU
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= Data number
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An analogue-to-digital unit is a unit of a digitized <photodetector> output after electronic conversion. Its relation to collected <Electrons> is set by the <detector conversion gain>; an additive electronic offset must be removed before interpreting a count as a <light> signal.

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