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Nov 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009wfc..rept...27b&link_type=abstract
Instrument Science Report WFC3 2009-28, 12 pages
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Hubble Space Telescope, Hst, Space Telescope Science Institute, Wide Field Camera 3, Wfc3
Scientific paper
This report summarizes the results obtained from the SMOV IR FSM (Filter Select Mecha- nism) and internal lamp check proposals, programs designed to verify the operability of the IR filter wheel and the health of the primary and backup IR internal lamps. A tungsten flatfield was taken in each filter of the wheel, excluding the grisms. The wheel performed as expected and all data were successfully acquired. The resulting flatfield features, e.g the scratches, areas of lower QE, bad and unresponsive pixels, were similar to those seen in ground testing. However, some flatfields (F098M, F130N, F132N, and F167N) showed what appear to be glints and reflections at the few percent level or less, possibly caused by a light leak around the diffuser paddle used to acquire the internal flatfields. The output flux of both lamps is 6-10% higher than it was on the ground, likely due to the lamps run- ning hotter in the space environment than they did in the thermal vacuum test chamber. The relative output of the primary to spare lamp is the same as it was on the ground, to within 1-2%. On a more general note, the behavior of the early reads in the IR multiaccum files could benefit from a closer investigation: there appears to be a significant non-lin- earity in sequences where the first two reads are taken within 5 seconds or less of each other.
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