Left Panel: The mean of the NC across the 100 simulations is presented in the red line and blue dots for the Monte Carlo NC (MCnc) and the analytical NC respectively as a function of the experimental noise.

Both methods produced identical results thus the curves are perfectly superimposed. The corresponding red dashed lines and blue crosses denote the [5 95] percentiles of the distribution across the 100 simulations. Right Panel: scatter plot of the Monte Carlo noise estimates and analytical noise ceiling estimates.