Persistence in the WFC3 IR Detector

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As is the case for most if not all modern IR arrays, bright sources observed with the IR detector in WFC3 leave faint residual images in subsequent exposures. This image persistence has been observed not only in dithered exposures by one observer of a single target within an orbit but also and more often in exposures of a different target by another observer in subsequent orbits. The amount of image persistence in the WFC3 IR detector is a function of the degree of photo-generated charge saturation of a pixel and time since the pixel was (over)exposed. The persistence decays roughly as a power law with time, and is typically 0.3 e s-1 for a pixel that was highly saturated 1000 s earlier. Here, we show examples of persistence which have been observed and characterize the effect. We also describe ways for observers to find the pixels that are likely to have been affected by persistence, and to mitigate the effects of persistence when planning observations and reducing their data.

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