Flagging and correction of pattern noise in the Kepler focal plane array

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7742, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J ^a   Caldwell, Douglas A ^b   Van Cleve, Jeffery E ^b   Clarke, Bruce D ^b   Jenkins, Jon M ^b   Cote, Miles T ^b   Klaus, Todd C ^b   Argabright, Vic S ^c  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

CCD; CCD readout; crosstalk; image analysis; Kepler; noise; pattern noise; photometer; photometry

Indexed keywords

CCD; CCD READOUT; KEPLER; NOISE; PATTERN NOISE;

ASTRONOMY; CROSSTALK; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; HIGH FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED DETECTORS; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; PIXELS; SENSORS; TIME SERIES;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 77956167539     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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