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Next: Modes of Operation Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Field of View . Thermal excitation of charge carriers from the valence to the conduction band creates a dark current signal which may vary with position in the array, and also has temporal shot noise variation. ... In a device devoid of localized defects which give rise to individual dark current spikes , most dark current arises from electrons generated at interface states at the surface. ...

Next: Standard orientation Up: Preprocessing Previous: Bias correction . In a similar manner, long dark exposures of the same exposure time can be averaged to produce the DARK frames. ... Use the command COMPUTE/IMAGE to multiply the images by the exposure time and to add back the value for FLAT_BKG . ... Often, BIAS and DARK contain no large - scale structure. ... The commands AVERAGE/IMAGE and AVERAGE/WEIGHT offer number of options to compare the images and filter particle hits. ...

Next: About this document Up: Improved Prescription Retrieval and Previous: Prescription Retrieval . ... We have a small amount of funding from ST ScI to provide a HST-specific point spread function generation code. ... It will be available as a stand-alone application, generating PSFs in an interactive session. These can be exported as FITS or binary format files for use in restoration. ... The code will also be available as a FORTRAN subroutine that can be called directly by a user code. ...

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O ptimal transport : T heory and A pplications . ... Names of participants of the OTARIE project are underlined . ... That code was never made public. ... WANN (Weighted Approximate Nearest Neighbors) is a library of C++ classes for weighted nearest neighbor search: given the set P of points p 1 , p 2 , , p N endowed with weights w 1 , w 2 , , w N and a query point q , find p k such that | ... WANN is part of a multipurpose library for numerical transport optimization developed in the OTARIE project. ...

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The XV_VTDF is a viewer for TDF format files (extension to TIFF 6.0 format for storage of high-resolution satellite data). More information about TDF format and relevant topics, as well as satellite data in this format you may receive from Space Monitoring Information Support lab (Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia) . ... XV_VTDF <filename> - load TDF file at startup (default size) . ... The XV_VTDF operates with fixed-size satellite images in TDF format. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

... commands . ... data_spectrum <name> : data in "spectrum" format . ... Repeat command to add additional mask regions. sigma is the s.d. to apply to the data within the region to be masked. ... Repeat command to add additiona continuum regions. ... cont_reg_clear : Clear current continuum regions . ... The observed spectrum is then multipled by this filter to obtain a new spectrum for use by SFIT. cont_sigma : Computes standard deviation of data in continuum regions and applies it to current data . ...

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