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The Habitable-Zone Planet Finder: improved flux image generation algorithms for H2RG up-the-ramp data
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Univ Arizona, Steward ObservIssue Date
2018Metadata
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J. P. Ninan, Chad F. Bender, Suvrath Mahadevan, Eric B. Ford, Andrew J. Monson, Kyle F. Kaplan, Ryan C. Terrien, Arpita Roy, Paul M. Robertson, Shubham Kanodia, and Gudmundur K. Stefansson "The Habitable-Zone Planet Finder: improved flux image generation algorithms for H2RG up-the-ramp data", Proc. SPIE 10709, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VIII, 107092U (2 August 2018); doi: 10.1117/12.2312787; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312787Rights
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Noise and stability of current state of the art near-infrared (NIR) array detectors are still substantially worse than optical science grade CCDs used in astronomy. Obtaining the maximum signal-to-noise ratio in flux image is important for many NIR instruments, as is stable well understood data reduction and extraction. The Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF) is a near-infrared ultra stable precision radial velocity (RV) spectrograph commissioned on 10-m Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), McDonald Observatory, Texas, USA. HPF uses a Teledyne H2RG array detector. In order to achieve the high-precision (similar to 1 m/s) RV measurements from the NIR spectrum of HPF's science target stars, it is vital to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio and to accurately propagate the uncertainties. Here we present the algorithms we have developed to significantly improve the quality of flux images calculated from the up-the-ramp readout mode of H2RG. The algorithms in the tool HxRGproc presented in this manuscript are used for HPF's bias noise removal, non-linearity correction, cosmic ray correction, slope/flux and variance image calculation.ISSN
97815106197159781510619722