Detection of Optical Ghost in the HST ACS Solar Blind Channel Filter 122M

Details Detection of Optical Ghost in the HST ACS Solar Blind Channel Filter 122M Detection of Optical Ghost in the HST ACS Solar Blind Channel Filter 122M

Jun 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007acs..rept....5c&link_type=abstract

Instrument Science Report ACS 2007-005, 7 pages

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Hubble Space Telescope, Hst, Space Telescope Science Institute, Advanced Camera For Surveys, Acs, Sbc, F122M, Mama Detector, Optical Ghost, Image Quality

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We report the detection of an optical ghost in the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Solar Blind Channel (SBC). The ghost was first detected in deep imagery of two Herbig Ae stars, HD 169142 and HD 100453, using filter F122M in April and June of 2006, respectively. The ghost was then verified in two different epochs (June 2002 and March 2003) of archival calibration imaging of the reference white dwarf star HS 2027+0651, which is a known single source. After detailed analysis of the above data, we show that the ghost has a consistent offset and position angle for the four sets of images and does not depend on spacecraft orientation. The mean energy of the ghost is about 0.82% of the energy of the primary target and is located 19° to the left of the positive y-axis of the geometrically corrected detector frame at a distance of about 4 to 4.5 arcsec (160-180 pixels) from the peak of the primary target. The ghost is consistent with a reflection between the back and front sides of the F122M filter. The variation in the distance to the nearest edge and the elongation of the ghost is consistent with the variation in refractive index of the filter substrate over its passband.

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