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In-flight calibration of the Dawn Framing Camera II: Flat fields and stray light correction
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Submitted 31 Jan 2017
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The authors' main claim In combination with these models, our calibration method can be used to create near-seamless mosaics that are radiometrically accurate to a few percent.
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The NASA Dawn spacecraft acquired thousands of images of asteroid Vesta during its year-long orbital tour, and is now on its way to asteroid Ceres. A method for calibrating images acquired by the onboard Framing Camera was described by Schr\"oder et al. (2013; Icarus 226, 1304). However, their method is only valid for point sources. In this paper we extend the calibration to images of extended sources like Vesta. For this, we devise a first-order correction for in-field stray light, which is known to plague images taken through the narrow band filters, and revise the flat fields that were acquired in an integrating sphere before launch. We used calibrated images of the Vesta surface to construct simple photometric models for all filters, that allow us to study how the spectrum changes with increasing phase angle (phase reddening). In combination with these models, our calibration method can be used to create near-seamless mosaics that are radiometrically accurate to a few percent. Such mosaics are provided in JVesta, the Vesta version of the JMARS geographic information system.
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| s0 | The NASA Dawn spacecraft acquired thousands of images of asteroid Vesta during its year-long orbital tour, and is now on its way to asteroid Ceres. | background 1.00 | 0.18 | 0.02 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | A method for calibrating images acquired by the onboard Framing Camera was described by Schr\"oder et al. (2013; Icarus 226, 1304). | background 1.00 | 0.03 | 0.03 | asserted 0.99 |
| s2 | However, their method is only valid for point sources. | gap 0.87 | 0.11 | 0.03 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | In this paper we extend the calibration to images of extended sources like Vesta. | contribution 0.96 | 0.86 | 0.16 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | For this, we devise a first-order correction for in-field stray light, which is known to plague images taken through the narrow band filters, and revise the flat fields that were acquired in an integrating sphere before launch. | method 0.86 | 0.94 | 0.11 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | We used calibrated images of the Vesta surface to construct simple photometric models for all filters, that allow us to study how the spectrum changes with increasing phase angle (phase reddening). | method 0.69 | 0.95 | 0.09 | asserted 0.98 |
| s6 | In combination with these models, our calibration method can be used to create near-seamless mosaics that are radiometrically accurate to a few percent. | result 0.79 | 0.88 | 0.46 | asserted 0.85 |
| s7 | Such mosaics are provided in JVesta, the Vesta version of the JMARS geographic information system. | contribution 0.72 | 0.61 | 0.09 | asserted 1.00 |
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The NASA Dawn spacecraft acquired thousands of images of asteroid Vesta during its year-long orbital tour, and is now on its way to asteroid Ceres. A method for calibrating images acquired by the onboard Framing Camera was described by Schr\"oder et al. (2013; Icarus 226, 1304). However, their method is only valid for point sources. In this paper we extend the calibration to images of extended sources like Vesta. For this, we devise a first-order correction for in-field stray light, which is known to plague images taken through the narrow band filters, and revise the flat fields that were acquired in an integrating sphere before launch. We used calibrated images of the Vesta surface to construct simple photometric models for all filters, that allow us to study how the spectrum changes with increasing phase angle (phase reddening). In combination with these models, our calibration method can be used to create near-seamless mosaics that are radiometrically accurate to a few percent. Such mosaics are provided in JVesta, the Vesta version of the JMARS geographic information system.
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