WFPC2 CTE and Photometric Zero Points

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Jul 2007

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HST Proposal ID #11244. Cycle 16

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With charge-transfer efficiency CTE losses of several tenths of a magnitude in many current exposures, the accuracy of CTE corrections is a limiting factor in the accuracy of photometry that can be obtained with WFPC2. However, the CTE corrections in common use are five years old, and thus corrections for CTE loss on current observations are made with the dangerous assumption that CTE loss has continued growing over the past five years at the rate it grew for the instruments first eight years of service. The uncertainty caused by this assumption implies that the use of these old CTE corrections is the dominant error source in many WFPC2 images, and will become even worse in Cycle 16 as the extrapolation increases. This proposal seeks to remedy this situation by undertaking an examination of CTE using data of the Omega Cen calibration field obtained over the entire lifetime of WFPC2. The methodology has been proven to produce accurate CTE corrections indeed, they are the recommended corrections in the WFPC2 handbook and online CTE calculator.;

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