NICMOS Count Rate Dependent Non-Linearity in G096 and G141
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Since the discovery of the NICMOS count rate dependent non-linearity documented in NICMOS ISR 2005-002, additional tests have been conducted to further understand and quantify the effect. Long integrations of up to 25 minutes exhibited the same level of non-linearity as the original 1-3 minute integrations. Observations of the star P041C on high background from an internal flat field lamp provides another measure of the wavelength dependence of the nonlinearity to compliment the measures based on pure hydrogen WD models.
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