Persistence and count-rate non-linearity in the HST WFC3 IR detector

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7731, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Deustua, Susana ^a   Long, Knox S ^a   McCullough, Peter ^a   Riess, Adam G ^a,b   Mackenty, John ^a   Kimble, Randy ^c   Baggett, Sylvia M ^a   Hilbert, Bryan ^a   Hill, Robert J ^c,d   Pavlovsky, Cheryl ^a   Petro, Larry D ^a  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Conceptual Analytics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Count rate Non Linearity; IR detector; Persistence; WFC3

Indexed keywords

FIRST YEAR; HGCDTE; HGCDTE DETECTORS; IR DETECTOR; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; NON-LINEARITY; ON-ORBIT; PERSISTENCE; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; WFC3;

INFRARED DETECTORS; LINEARIZATION; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE TELESCOPES;

DETECTORS;

EID: 77958145255     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857582     Document Type: Conference Paper

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