| 1 | == P3.22 Instrument flat field, detector linearity and bad pixels == |
| 2 | • **Phase** : 3 |
| 3 | • **Status** : Draft |
| 4 | • **Category** : Daytime calibration (C3) |
| 5 | • **Recurrence** : every day, with setup on request. |
| 6 | • **Duration** : 20 minutes per configuration |
| 7 | **Description** |
| 8 | • Instrument flat field, detector linearity, and bad pixels. |
| 9 | **Prerequisites** |
| 10 | **Procedure** |
| 11 | • Use the calibration flat-field source. |
| 12 | • This calibration is performed illuminating the detector uniformly using the instrument FF lamp, for each filter. |
| 13 | • It is expected that the detector FF depends on filters, final accumulated charge in the pixels. Thus, a series of exposures will be taken at different count levels (realized via ND filters and/or DIT) for each filter setup. In this case, the template takes the background frames automatically. Comparing different count rates at constant DIT will also yield a linearity map of the detector. |
| 14 | **Success criteria** |
| 15 | • 95% luminous uniformity at large scale. |
| 16 | • 99% luminous uniformity at pixel-to-pixel scale 10-2. |
| 17 | • Large scales filtered out, only small detector scale will remain. Effect of the large-scale flat field on DBI (rescaling in flux & wavelength) has negligible impact on DBI performances. |
| 18 | **Notes** |
| 19 | • Same as activity 7.9 in AD4 |
| 20 | **LBTO support** |
| 21 | • Support from LBTI/LBTO? |
| 22 | **Associated SHARK-NIR personnel** |
| 23 | • JF, LM, MdP |
| 24 | **Date performed and by whom** |