Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 2008
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HST Proposal ID #11909. Cycle 17
Physics
Scientific paper
The on-orbit radiation environment of WFC3 will continually generate new hot pixels. This proposal performs the procedure required for repairing those hot pixels in the UVIS CCDs. During an anneal, the two-stage thermo-electric cooler {TEC} is turned off and the four-stage TEC is used as a heater to bring the UVIS CCDs up to 20C. As a result of the CCD warmup, a majority of the hot pixels will be fixed; previous instruments such as WFPC2 and ACS have seen repair rates of about 80%. Internal UVIS exposures are taken before and after each anneal, to allow an assessment of the procedure's effectiveness in WFC3, provide a check of bias, global dark current, and hot pixel levels, as well as support hysteresis {bowtie} monitoring and CDBS reference file generation. One IR dark is taken after each anneal, to provide a check of the IR detector.;
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