Handbooks Errata

Instrument Handbook Version 10.0 December 2007

Section 4.3 - end of second paragraph

incorrect:- ....when the FOM had been tilted by 16 degrees to reduce vignetting in that camera.'

correction:-....when the FOM had been tilted by 16 arcsec to reduce vignetting in that camera.'

Section 7.2.1-[i] Table 7.1

incorrect:

Saturation (ADU)3 (95% Linearity)

nic1         nic2          nic3

21,500     22,500     26,200

correct:

Saturation (ADU)3 (95% Linearity)

nic1         nic2          nic3

21,500    20,500    27,400

Section 7.2.1-[ii] Footnote 3

incorrect:

correct:

Section 7.2.4

Figure 7.8 does not show up in the html version. Please refer to page no. 112 of the pdf version of NICMOS Instrument handbook

Index

Links from alphabets at the top of index page do not work. This will be be corrected in the next version of the instrument handbook.

Data Handbook Version 7.0 April 2007

Section 4.4.2 (page 4-29 in pdf version)

Detector temperatures are stored in the NDWTMP11 and NDWTMP13 keywords in the *_spt.fits files. For Cameras 1 and 2, use NDWTMP11; for Camera 3, use NDWTMP13.

This is incorrect. Please refer to Section 4.1.3 (end of page 4-13 in pdf version) for the correct statement.

Section 5.3.2, html version

The formula for 'approximate Vega normalized magnitude' at the end of this section (5th line from the bottom) is not correct. -1 should be replaced by ^-1. The correct formula can also be seen on page no. 5-9 of the pdf version of the NICMOS Data Handbook.