Fig. 8
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Distribution functions for photon noise. The Poisson distributions with mean N (top) give the probability for k photons being received from a light source (such as a reflecting planet). The Skellam distributions (bottom) give the probability for the difference of two independent Poisson-distributed variables, describing the polarized fluxes Q and U.
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