collaborators

5 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Updates to WFC3/UVIS Encircled Energy Values in Select Filters

Anne O'Connor, Jennifer Mack, Varun Bajaj

We present updated encircled energy (EE) curves for a subset of UVIS filters. These are derived from a reanalysis of the drizzled Point Spread Function (PSF) data underlying the cu…

astro-ph.IM2026

New Time-Dependent WFC3/IR Inverse Sensitivities

Annalisa Calamida, Mariarosa Marinelli, Varun Bajaj +2

We present new time-dependent inverse sensitivities for the WFC3/IR channel. These were calculated using the sensitivity change slopes measured by \citet{2024wfc..rept....6M} and p…

astro-ph.IM2026

Testing and Validation of the Updated Pixel-Based Non-Linearity Calibration File for WFC3/IR

K. Huynh, V. Bajaj, M. Marinelli +3

The WFC3\IR channel has an innate non-linear response to incident photons, which is corrected for in the calwf3 pipeline with the NLINFILE reference file. The 2009 solution is base…

astro-ph.IM2026

WFC3/UVIS Geometric Distortion -- Time Evolution of Linear Terms w.r.t Gaia

Anne O'Connor, Varun Bajaj, Jennifer Mack +1

We align more than 7,400 WFC3/UVIS exposures to the Gaia DR3 catalog to examine the time evolution of the linear terms (shift, rotation, scale and skew) of the geometric distortion…

astro-ph.IM2025

Pixel-Based Non-Linearity Correction for the WFC3 IR Detector

Sachindev S. Shenoy, Ky Huynh, Varun Bajaj +1

The current non-linearity correction for the Wide Field Camera 3 Infrared (WFC3/IR) channel is based on ground-based data acquired during WFC3's Thermal Vacuum 3 (TV3) testing camp…