In-flight calibration of the Cassini imaging science sub-system cameras |
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Authors: | Robert West Benjamin Knowles Sebastien Charnoz Matthew Hedman Alfred McEwen Carolyn Porco Henry Throop |
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Institution: | a Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 169-237, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA b CICLOPS/Space Science Institute, 4750 Walnut Street, Ste 205, Boulder, CO, USA c UMR AIM, Université Paris Diderot/CEA/CNRS, CEA/SAp, Centre de l’Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette, Cedex, France d Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA e CRSR, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA f Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA g Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA |
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Abstract: | We describe in-flight calibration of the Cassini Imaging Science Sub-system narrow- and wide-angle cameras using data from 2004 to 2009. We report on the photometric performance of the cameras including the use of polarization filters, point spread functions over a dynamic range greater than 107, gain and loss of hot pixels, changes in flat fields, and an analysis of charge transfer efficiency. Hot pixel behavior is more complicated than can be understood by a process of activation by cosmic ray damage and deactivation by annealing. Point spread function (PSF) analysis revealed a ghost feature associated with the narrow-angle camera Green filter. More generally, the observed PSFs do not fall off with distance as rapidly as expected if diffraction were the primary contributor. Stray light produces significant signal far from the center of the PSF. Our photometric analysis made use of calibrated spectra from eighteen stars and the spectral shape of the satellite Enceladus. The analysis revealed a shutter offset that differed from pre-launch calibration. It affects the shortest exposures. Star photometry results are reproducible to a few percent in most filters. No degradation in charge transfer efficiency has been detected although uncertainties are large. The results of this work have been digitally archived and incorporated into our calibration software CISSCAL available online. |
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Keywords: | Instrumentation Image processing Photometry Polarimetry Experimental techniques |
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