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Background-Limited Operation (BLIP)

  Minimum exposure times needed for noise due to sky to dominate the readout noise (RN tex2html_wrap_inline1373 ), assuming gain of 6 tex2html_wrap_inline1199 /DN and a pixel scale of 0.24''/pix are given in Table 5.4.

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Shaun Hughes
Thu Mar 14 14:48:38 GMT 1996