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NASA's new Wide Field Camera 3 has been built for installation during
HST Servicing Mission 4.
Equipped with state-of-the-art detectors and
optics, WFC3 will provide wide-field imaging with continuous spectral
coverage from the ultraviolet into the infrared, dramatically
increasing both the survey power and the panchromatic science
capabilities of HST.
Below, we show the relative discovery efficiencies of the
current HST cameras and WFC3. Here, the discovery efficiency is
proportional to the total system throughput at the pivot wavelength
of the broadband filters and proportional to the field of view.
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