; the purpose of this function is to take as input a series of bin
; boundaries and return the bin centers
; created by Robert Lillis ((rlillis@ssl.Berkeley.edu)
Function bin_centers, bin_edges
nbins = n_elements (bin_edges) -1
return, bin_edges[0: nbins -1]+ 0.5*(bin_edges[1:*] -$
bin_edges [0: nbins -1])
end