... A number of corrections must be made to WFPC2 data to obtain the best possible photometry. Some of these, such as the corrections for UV throughput variability, are time dependent , and others, such as the correction for the geometric distortion of WFPC2 optics, are position dependent . ... The most important time-dependent correction is that for the contamination of the CCD windows, which affects primarily UV observations. ... Assuming a 2 pixel aperture, the corrected counts are given by: . ...
Next: Adaptive, Lossless Compression of 2-D Astronomical Images . ... While many techniques have been used to compress integer data, compressing floating-point data presents a number of additional problems. We have implemented a scheme for compressing floating-point images that is fast, robust, and automatic, that allows random access to pixels without decompressing the whole image, and that generally has a scientifically negligible effect on the noise present in the image. ...