add amps as argument to add_jitter, and provide better description. A…

…lso add jitter_amps to default config

sed/config/default.yaml

@@ -31,8 +31,10 @@ dataframe:
   tof_binning: 1
   # binning factor used for the adc coordinate (2^(adc_binning-1))
   adc_binning: 1
-    # list of columns to apply jitter to
+  # list of columns to apply jitter to.
   jitter_cols: ["@x_column", "@y_column", "@tof_column"]
+  # Jitter amplitude or list of jitter amplitudes. Should equal half the digitial step size of each jitter_column
+  jitter_amps: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]
 
 energy:
   # Number of bins to use for energy calibration traces

sed/core/dfops.py

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ def apply_jitter(
             with added jitter. Defaults to None.
         amps (Union[float, Sequence[float]], optional): Amplitude scalings for the
             jittering noise. If one number is given, the same is used for all axes.
+            For normal noise, the added noise will have sdev [-amp, +amp], for
+            uniform noise it will cover the inverval [-amp, +amp].
             Defaults to 0.5.
         jitter_type (str, optional): the type of jitter to add. 'uniform' or 'normal'
             distributed noise. Defaults to "uniform".

sed/core/processor.py

@@ -1180,24 +1180,37 @@ def calibrate_delay_axis(
             else:
                 print(self._dataframe)
 
-    def add_jitter(self, cols: List[str] = None, **kwds):
+    def add_jitter(
+        self,
+        cols: List[str] = None,
+        amps: Union[float, Sequence[float]] = None,
+        **kwds,
+    ):
         """Add jitter to the selected dataframe columns.
 
         Args:
             cols (List[str], optional): The colums onto which to apply jitter.
                 Defaults to config["dataframe"]["jitter_cols"].
-            **kwds: keyword arguments passed to apply_jitter
+            amps (Union[float, Sequence[float]], optional): Amplitude scalings for the
+                jittering noise. If one number is given, the same is used for all axes.
+                For uniform noise (defualt) it will cover the inverval [-amp, +amp].
+                Defaults to config["dataframe"]["jitter_amps"].
+            **kwds: additional keyword arguments passed to apply_jitter
         """
         if cols is None:
             cols = self._config["dataframe"]["jitter_cols"]
         for loc, col in enumerate(cols):
             if col.startswith("@"):
                 cols[loc] = self._config["dataframe"].get(col.strip("@"))
 
+        if amps is None:
+            amps = self._config["dataframe"]["jitter_amps"]
+
         self._dataframe = self._dataframe.map_partitions(
             apply_jitter,
             cols=cols,
             cols_jittered=cols,
+            amps=amps,
             **kwds,
         )
         metadata = []