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IRAC Instrument Handbook - IRSA - California Institute of Technology

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<strong>Instrument</strong> Description 12 Detectors<br />

<strong>IRAC</strong> <strong>Instrument</strong> <strong>Handbook</strong><br />

proportional to the exposure time, and the graph would show a straight line. In fact, the arrays were<br />

driven past their saturation levels, and the shape <strong>of</strong> the curve up to 90% <strong>of</strong> the saturation level was fitted<br />

with a polynomial for the linearization module in the pipeline.<br />

Table 2.3: <strong>IRAC</strong> Channel characteristics.<br />

Chan Effective<br />

λ<br />

(µm)<br />

Bandwidth<br />

(µm)<br />

Average<br />

transmission<br />

(ηI)<br />

Minimum<br />

in-band<br />

transmission<br />

Peak<br />

transmission<br />

1 3.550 0.750 (21%) 0.676 0.563 0.748<br />

2 4.493 1.015 (23%) 0.731 0.540 0.859<br />

3 5.731 1.425 (25%) 0.589 0.522 0.653<br />

4 7.872 2.905 (36%) 0.556 0.450 0.637

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