Photometric Aperture Corrections for the ACS/SBC
Abstract
We present aperture correction tables for the Advanced Camera for Surveys Solar Blind Channel (ACS/SBC). As part of a campaign to improve the instrument calibrations, we observed the white dwarf J132811.4+463050 using three filters (F125LP, F140LP, F150LP). The observed point spread functions (PSFs) contain more flux in the wings than Tiny Tim models, which can underestimate aperture corrections by as much as 9%, when compared with the observed fluxes. The updated aperture correction tables will be provided to the ReDCaT team so that they can be used in pysynphot and HST's Exposure Time Calculator.
- Publication:
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Instrument Science Report ACS 2016-5
- Pub Date:
- September 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016acs..rept....5A
- Keywords:
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- Hubble Space Telescope;
- HST;
- Space Telescope Science Institute;
- STScI;
- ACS;
- photometry;
- p hotometry;
- Solar Blind Channel