WFC3/UVIS Updated 2017 Chip-Dependent Inverse Sensitivity Values
Abstract
We present chip-dependent inverse sensitivity values recomputed for the 42 full frame filters based on the analysis of standard star observations with the WFC3/UVIS imager obtained between 2009 and 2015. Chip-dependent inverse sensitivities reported in the image header are now for the 'infinite' aperture, which is defined to have a radius of 6 arcseconds (151 pixels), and supercede the 2016 photometry header keyword values (PHOTFLAM, PHTFLAM1, PHTFLAM2), which correspond to a 0.3962 arcsecond (10 pixel) aperture. These new values are implemented in the June 2017 IMPHTTAB delivery and are concordant with the current synthetic photometry tables in the reference file database (CRDS). Since approximately 90% of the light is enclosed within 10 pixels, the new keyword values are 10% smaller. We also compute inverse sensitivities for an aperture with radius of 0.3962 arcseconds. Compared to the 2016 implementation, these new inverse sensitivity values differ by less than 0.5%, on average, for the same aperture. Values for the filters F200LP, F350LP, F600LP and F487N changed by more than 1% for UVIS1. UVIS2 values that changed by more than 1% are for the filters F350LP, F600LP, F850LP, F487N, and F814W. The 2017 VEGAmag zeropoint values in the UV change by up to 0.1 mag compared to 2016 and are calculated using the CALPSEC STIS spectrum for Vega. In 2016, the zeropoints were calculated with the CALSPEC Vega model.
- Publication:
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Space Telescope WFC Instrument Science Report
- Pub Date:
- June 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017wfc..rept...14D
- Keywords:
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- Hubble Space Telescope;
- HST;
- Space Telescope Science Institute;
- STScI;
- WFC3;
- UVIS;
- Inverse Sensitivity;
- Photometry