IRAC Instrument Handbook - IRSA - California Institute of Technology

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IRAC Instrument Handbook
Appendix H. List of Tables
TABLE 2.1: IRAC IMAGE QUALITY PROPERTIES. ........................................................................7
TABLE 2.2: IRAC DETECTOR CHARACTERISTICS. ....................................................................11
TABLE 2.3: IRAC CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS. ......................................................................12
TABLE 2.4: USEFUL QUANTITIES FOR IRAC SENSITIVITY CALCULATIONS. .........................17
TABLE 2.5: BACKGROUND BRIGHTNESS IN IRAC WAVEBANDS. ...........................................18
TABLE 2.6: FOWLER NUMBERS FOR IRAC FRAMES .................................................................19
TABLE 2.7: IRAC HIGH-DYNAMIC-RANGE (HDR) FRAMESETS................................................19
TABLE 2.8: IRAC POINT-SOURCE SENSITIVITY, LOW BACKGROUND (1σ,
µJY)....................19
TABLE 2.9: IRAC POINT-SOURCE SENSITIVITY, MEDIUM BACKGROUND (1 σ, µJY). ............20
TABLE 2.10: IRAC POINT-SOURCE SENSITIVITY, HIGH BACKGROUND (1 σ, µJY). ................20
TABLE 2.11: MAXIMUM UNSATURATED POINT SOURCE (IN MJY), AS A FUNCTION OF IRAC
FRAME TIME. .........................................................................................................................24
TABLE 3.1: CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DITHER PATTERNS....................................................28
TABLE 4.1: THE PHOTOMETRIC CALIBRATION AND ZERO MAGNITUDE FLUX FOR IRAC. .36
TABLE 4.2: IRAC NOMINAL WAVELENGTHS AND BANDWIDTHS. .........................................40
α
TABLE 4.3: COLOR CORRECTIONS FOR POWER-LAW SPECTRA, F ν ∝ν
.............................40
TABLE 4.4: COLOR CORRECTIONS FOR BLACKBODY SPECTRA. ............................................40
TABLE 4.5: COLOR CORRECTIONS FOR ZODIACAL LIGHT SPECTRUM..................................41
TABLE 4.6: COLOR CORRECTIONS FOR NGC 7023 (PAH-DOMINATED) SPECTRUM. .............42
TABLE 4.7: IRAC APERTURE CORRECTIONS. ............................................................................54
TABLE 4.8: IRAC EXTENDED SOURCE PHOTOMETRICAL CORRECTION COEFFICIENTS. ....59
TABLE 4.9: IRAC SURFACE BRIGHTNESS CORRECTION FACTORS. ........................................59
TABLE 5.1: BANDWIDTH CORRECTION COEFFICIENTS. ..........................................................77
TABLE 6.1 SAMPLE IRAC FILE NAMES. ......................................................................................98
TABLE 7.1: DEFINITION OF BITS IN THE “PMASK”.................................................................. 105
TABLE 7.2: DEFINITION OF BITS IN THE “IMASK”. ................................................................. 106
TABLE 7.3: WARM MISSION RESIDUAL IMAGE DURATIONS................................................. 118
TABLE 7.4. COEFFICIENTS FOR CHANNEL 1 & 2 GHOST LOCATIONS. ................................. 126