Left: plot of the mean noise over all wavelength channels for the S4 spectral extraction of GJ 758 B in 2013-07, over the full range of principal components examined. An overall minimum is generally reached for NPC ≈ 100–250. Right: extracted companion spectra from the 2013-07 epoch for the full ﹩{N}_{\mathrm{PC}}=\{10,20,30,\ldots ,400\}﹩ sample in each wavelength channel plotted in red, with the selected optimized (NPC = {160, 170, 180, 190, 200, 225}) sub-sample plotted in green.