def fixed_power(snr, weighting_exponent):
    """
    Fixed version of the weighting exponent, which is from
    `Fixsen, D.J., Offenberg, J.D., Hanisch, R.J., Mather, J.C, Nieto,
    Santisteban, M.A., Sengupta, R., & Stockman, H.S., 2000, PASP, 112, 1350`.

    Parameters
    ----------
    snr : float32, 1D array
        signal-to-noise for the ramp segments

    weighting_exponent: int/float
        exponent to use for all frames/pixels 

    Returns
    -------
    pow_wt.ravel() : float32, 1D array
        weighting exponent
    """
    pow_wt = snr.copy()
    pow_wt[:] = weighting_exponent

    return pow_wt.ravel()