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. 2021 Feb 18;217(2):29. doi: 10.1007/s11214-021-00795-x
Symbol Definition
i pixel row in image
j pixel column in image
k filter number from 0 to 7
l zoom position or focal length
f focus position
mcl zoom position in motor-counts [mc]
mcf focus position in motor-counts [mc]
FLl zoom focal length [mm]
FDlf distance to target for best-focus [m]
t exposure time in seconds [s]
te extra exposure time due to smear and residual charge [s]
DN 12-bit digital-number value
DN0 12-bit digital-number value with t = 0
DN8 8-bit digital-number value after companding
D dark rate due to dark current [DN/s]
N zero-mean noise of the pixel [DN]
T temperature of the focal-plane assembly [ C]
Tamb temperature at ambient calibration [ C]
A0 light collection area of camera [m2]
Ω pixel solid-angle at the center of the array [sr]
g gain as electrons per digital-number [eDN]
λ wavelength of incident light [nm]
Fijkl flat field to correct for vignetting [unitless]
rijk(λ) bandpass efficiency [e/ph]
r¯ijk(λ) integral normalized bandpass efficiency [unitless]
r0,ijk radiometric coefficient [e/ph,nm]
βijk radiometric temperature coefficient [1/ C]