WFC3 TV3 Testing: IR Channel Baffle Scatter

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Hubble Space Telescope, Hst, Space Telescope Science Institute, Wide Field Camera 3, Wfc3, Thermal Vacuum, Baffle Scatter

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In the first TV campaign (2004), problematic scatter was seen from the IR detector's knife-edge baffle when a point source was scanned across its edge, implying that detector's baffle was installed incorrectly. With a new detector present in the second TV campaign (2007), that scatter was greatly reduced, such that only a small glint (~1% of the source energy) could be seen when a source was scanned across the baffle edge. In the current (third) TV campaign, we repeated the test that scanned a source across the knife-edge baffle, given that yet another IR detector was installed in the instrument. The results were extremely similar to those in the previous TV campaign: faint glints (~0.5 to 1%) are present when a source hits the knife edge, but no serious scatter is seen, implying that the baffle is installed correctly and functioning as intended.

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