Review of NICMOS Performance

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Aug 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998nicm.rept...14c&link_type=abstract

Instrument Science Report NICMOS-98-014, 16 pages

Computer Science

Performance

Hubble Space Telescope, Hst, Space Telescope Science Institute, Nicmos

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We summarize the performance of the NICMOS instrument and compare the observed with the expected (pre-launch) capabilities. A discussion on the measured sensitivity, the observed sky and thermal backgrounds, the photometric performance and stability, and the image quality is presented. NICMOS has achieved or exceeded the pre-launch performance in most areas, with substandard performance occurring only in some specialized modes of operation. As an example, typical 3 s detection limits for a 5 orbit observation with NIC2 are 1.47 mJy arcsec-2 in F110W, 1.67 mJy arcsec-2 in F160W, and 12.6 mJy arcsec- 2 in F222M.

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