Flatfielding and photometric accuracy of the first Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera

Details Flatfielding and photometric accuracy of the first Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera Flatfielding and photometric accuracy of the first Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera

May 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994aj....107.1904p&link_type=abstract

The Astronomical Journal, vol. 107, no. 5, p. 1904-1911

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Accuracy, Astronomical Photometry, Background Noise, Cameras, Color-Magnitude Diagram, Flat Patterns, Hubble Space Telescope, Wide Angle Lenses, Calibrating, Optical Correction Procedure, Optical Filters, Pipelines

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Long exposures with the original Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera (WFC) through the F555W and F785LP filters show gradients in the background following standard pipeline calibration. We show that these gradients also appear in stellar photometry, and thus must be predominantly the result of inaccurate flatfielding at a level of 10 to 20%. Color errors may be even larger. Applying corrections to the flatfield frames based on the background structure leads to an improved accuracy of approximately 4% for single-measurement photometry within a single CCD chip, compared to the approximately 10% accuracy suggested by previous studies. We have reanalyzed the F555W and F785LP calibration photometry to derive zero points appropriate for corrected data; these new zero points have internal consistency at a level of approximately 1.2%, based on comparison between the chip-to-chip offsets and the sky levels observed in corrected images. This indicates that relative photometry approaching 1 to 2% is achievable with the WFC. The new zero point values for corrected data are 22.90, 23.04, 23.04, and 22.96 (F555W), and 21.56, 21.64, 21.44, and 21.47 (F785LP) for chips WF1-WF4, respectively. Comparison is made with other zero points, and the applicability of 'delta flats' is briefly discussed.

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