2012MNRAS.421.2251W -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 421, 2251-2263 (2012/April-2)
Ubercalibration of the Deep Lens Survey.
WITTMAN D., RYAN R. and THORMAN P.
Abstract (from CDS):
We describe the internal photometric calibration of the Deep Lens Survey, which consists of five widely separated fields observed by two different observatories. Adopting the global linear least-squares (`ubercal') approach developed for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we derive flat-field corrections for all observing runs, which indicate that the original sky flats were non-uniform by up to 0.13 mag peak-to-valley in z band, and by up to half of that amount in BVR. We show that the application of these corrections reduces spatial non-uniformities in corrected exposures to the 0.01–0.02 mag level. We conclude with some lessons learned in applying ubercal to a survey structured very differently from SDSS, with isolated fields, multiple observatories and shift-and-stare rather than drift-scan imaging. Although the size of the error caused by using sky or dome flats is instrument and wavelength dependent, users of wide-field cameras should not assume that it is small. Pipeline developers should facilitate routine application of this procedure, and surveys should include it in their plans from the outset.
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2012 The Authors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2012 RAS
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methods: statistical - techniques: photometric - surveys
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