Calibration Access and Data Handbook
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
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Ideally the in-orbit PixToPixSens file will be generated from internal 
calibration measurements using the fullframe high resolution engineering
mode. However due to their large data volume the fullframe high resolution  
data  won't be available frequently enough 
to base the in-flight generation of the PixToPixSens file 
on the high resolution data.
Therefore a different strategy has to be adopted.
The SAS task omflatgen will be used to compute the PixToPixSens 
files from low resolution internal calibration exposures (tracking off, 
BPE on), which are predominately acquired during slews. 
The analysis  can be outlined as
- Multiple exposures may be co-added to achieve 
       high enough statistics.  
- removal/flagging of bad pixels
- calculation of  average CCD frametime in the used exposures 
- calculation of average CFRR,
 i.e. the average counts per pixel per CCD-frame
- fpn?
- check dark counts and exclude bad pixel?
- calculation  of the local normalization mask(?)/value for each 
      8x8area/pixel
 e.g. by calculating the average within a sliding box of TBD width.
- local image normalization
 by dividing the pixel content by the  local average value
- eventual exclusion of large excursion regions and recalculation of
      step 4 and 5
- global normalization
 e.g. by division with the average of the local normalization values
       or by normalization to  values of a reference area/pixel.
If the  non uniformity of the calibration lamp illumination is known with
sufficient accuracy,
the inverse of the illumination pattern can be be used for uniformity 
correction and the  normalization steps  can be omitted in the data 
analysis. The non-uniformity of the calibration lamp illumination can
be derived from a comparison of the smoothed high resolution flatfield
with the large scale flatfield.
In case not sufficient high resolution flatfield data are available 
the low resolution data must be expanded into high resolution
PixToPixSens data. 
This can be achieved in three different ways, depending on the availability
of  data.
- If high resolution data are available and provide 
    sufficient statistics, these data are used to calculate the PixToPixSens
    file. A  pixel expansion is not required.
- If high resolution data are available, but the data do not provide 
    sufficient statistics or they are out of date, 
    each pixel of the low resolution data is  expanded into four subpixels
    by applying a weighting factor to each quadrant of the old pixel.
    The weighting factor is derived from full resolution images. 
- If no high resolution data are available or for the initial calibration
     procedure 
    low resolution data are expanded into full resolution data applying 
    a weighting factor of 1.0  to each quadrant  of the old pixel.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
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Michael Smith
2011-09-20