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Purpose

The NICMOS Instrument Handbook is the basic reference manual for the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer and describes the instrument's properties, expected performance, operations, and calibration. The Handbook is maintained by scientists at STScI. Dr. R.I. Thompson, the Principal Investigator for NICMOS, and scientific staff at Steward Observatory and Ball Aerospace kindly provided information and test data in support of this Handbook.

We designed the document to serve three purposes:


A significant change from the first version of the NICMOS Instrument Handbook is that the fundamental source of photometric performance is now the NICMOS Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) available on the World Wide Web (see Chapter 6).

Document Conventions

This document follows the usual STScI convention in which terms, words, and phrases which are to be entered by the user in a literal way on a form are shown in a typewriter font (e.g., BRIGHT=RETURN, FP-SPLIT). Names of software packages or commands (e.g., synphot) are given in bold type.

Wavelength units in this Handbook are in microns (µm) and fluxes are mainly given in Janskys (Jy).



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