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All electronic imaging devices require calibration in order to be used for quantitative work in photometry and spectroscopy. It is important to understand how the properties of the detector can be measured and how the behavior of the detector affects photometric and spectroscopic analyses. This chapter describes important steps in these calibrations in terms of CCDs, but the same considerations apply to other array detectors. Signal-to-noise expressions for array instruments are also developed.
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(2008). Characterization and calibration of array instruments. In: Electronic Imaging in Astronomy. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76583-7_9
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