IRC Aperture Correction Table
IRC team 2009.5.1
The file aperture-cor.dat shows the encircled energy at a
given pixel radius. It is normalized at 10 pixels for
NIR and 7.5 pixels for MIR-S/L. Those pixel numbers
correspond to the aperture with which the in-orbit
absolute calibration was carried out (see IRC Data
User Manual).
This table was created from phase 2 imaging data and
cannot be applied to phase 3 observations.
Also note that the image size of the NIR data (N2, N3,
and N4) depends on the attitude stability. The table
should not be applied for NIR data without examination
of the image of individual frames. It is strongly recommended
to create an aperture correction table from individual images
for NIR data. For MIR-S/L, the attitude stability does not
cause a serious problem in general and the table can be
applied in most cases.
pix N2 N3 N4 S7 S9W S11 L15 L18W L24
0.50 0.055 0.050 0.053 0.091 0.083 0.088 0.074 0.061 0.046
1.00 0.187 0.183 0.186 0.268 0.248 0.241 0.217 0.194 0.157
1.50 0.354 0.346 0.354 0.506 0.471 0.443 0.398 0.362 0.308
2.00 0.507 0.509 0.513 0.667 0.628 0.589 0.522 0.485 0.434
2.50 0.642 0.644 0.646 0.781 0.747 0.714 0.617 0.579 0.531
3.00 0.739 0.746 0.744 0.848 0.824 0.802 0.702 0.653 0.589
3.50 0.815 0.824 0.821 0.891 0.874 0.864 0.786 0.726 0.635
4.00 0.862 0.873 0.871 0.918 0.906 0.902 0.852 0.793 0.685
4.50 0.893 0.904 0.905 0.940 0.930 0.928 0.904 0.854 0.747
5.00 0.914 0.926 0.927 0.955 0.948 0.945 0.935 0.900 0.814
5.50 0.930 0.940 0.943 0.968 0.962 0.960 0.957 0.935 0.878
6.00 0.943 0.952 0.955 0.977 0.974 0.972 0.971 0.959 0.926
6.50 0.954 0.961 0.964 0.986 0.984 0.982 0.982 0.977 0.961
7.00 0.963 0.969 0.971 0.993 0.992 0.992 0.991 0.990 0.984
7.50 0.971 0.976 0.978 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000
8.00 0.978 0.982 0.983 1.005 1.006 1.006 1.007 1.008 1.012
8.50 0.984 0.987 0.988 1.011 1.011 1.011 1.015 1.015 1.022
9.00 0.990 0.992 0.993 1.016 1.016 1.016 1.022 1.023 1.030
9.50 0.995 0.996 0.996 1.020 1.020 1.020 1.030 1.029 1.037
10.0 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.024 1.023 1.024 1.036 1.035 1.042
10.5 1.003 1.003 1.003 1.028 1.027 1.027 1.042 1.040 1.046
11.0 1.007 1.005 1.005 1.032 1.030 1.030 1.047 1.045 1.050
11.5 1.010 1.008 1.008 1.036 1.033 1.033 1.051 1.049 1.054
12.0 1.013 1.010 1.010 1.040 1.036 1.035 1.055 1.053 1.059
12.5 1.015 1.012 1.012 1.044 1.039 1.037 1.058 1.056 1.062
13.0 1.018 1.013 1.014 1.047 1.042 1.039 1.061 1.059 1.066
13.5 1.019 1.014 1.015 1.050 1.045 1.041 1.063 1.061 1.070
14.0 1.021 1.015 1.016 1.053 1.047 1.042 1.066 1.063 1.074
14.5 1.022 1.016 1.017 1.055 1.050 1.043 1.067 1.065 1.076
15.0 1.024 1.016 1.017 1.058 1.052 1.044 1.069 1.066 1.078
Table data in a separate file: [aperture-cor.dat]