Photometric flats: An essential ingredient for photometry with wide field imagers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5493, Issue , 2004, Pages 453-459

  Selman, Fernando J ^a  

^a La Silla Observatory   (Chile)

Author keywords

Flat field; Least squares; Photometric flats; Photometry; Wide field camera

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DATA REDUCTION; DETECTORS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TELESCOPES;

FLAT FIELDS; PHOTOMETRIC FLATS; VARIATIONS; WIDE-FIELD CAMERAS;

PHOTOMETRY;

EID: 10444268063     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551357     Document Type: Conference Paper

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