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1st International round robin on EL imaging: automated camera calibration and image normalisation
Results from the first international Round Robin on electroluminescence (EL) imaging of PV devices
are presented. 17 Laboratories across Europe, Asia and the US measured EL images of ten commercially available
modules and five single-cell modules. This work presents a novel automated camera calibration and image scaling
routine. Its performance is quantified through comparing intensity deviation of corrected images and their cell average.
While manual calibration includes additional measurement of lens distortion and flat field, the automated calibration
extracts camera calibration parameters (here: lens distortion, and vignetting) exclusively from EL images. Although it
is shown that the presented automated calibration outperforms the manual one, the method proposed in this work uses
both manual and automated calibration. 501 images from 24 cameras are corrected. Intensity deviation of cell averages
of every measured device decreased from 10.3 % (results submitted by contributing labs) to 2.8 % (proposed method),
For three images the image correction produced insufficient results and vignetting correction failed for one camera,
known of having a non-linear camera sensor. Surprisingly, largest image quality improvements are achieved by
spatially precise image alignment of the same device and not by correcting for vignetting and lens distortion. This is
due to overall small lens distortion and the circumstance that, although vignetting caused intensity reduction of more
than 50%, PV devices are generally positioned in the image centre in which vignetting distortion is lowest
The Digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS) II: Photometric Calibration
We present the photometric calibration technique for the Digitized Second
Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS), used to create seamless catalogs of
calibrated objects over large sky areas. After applying a correction for
telescope vignetting, the extensive plate overlap regions are used to transform
sets of plates onto a common instrumental photometric system. Photometric
transformations to the Gunn gri system for each plate, for stars and galaxies,
are derived using these contiguous stitched areas and an extensive CCD imaging
library obtained for this purpose. We discuss the resulting photometric
accuracy, survey depth, and possible systematic errors.Comment: 25 pages, 13 figures. Accepted to AJ. Some figures shrunk or missing
to limit file size; the full paper is available at
http://www.sdss.jhu.edu/~rrg/science/papers/photometrypaper.ps.g
In-orbit Vignetting Calibrations of XMM-Newton Telescopes
We describe measurements of the mirror vignetting in the XMM-Newton
Observatory made in-orbit, using observations of SNR G21.5-09 and SNR
3C58 with the EPIC imaging cameras. The instrument features that complicate
these measurements are briefly described. We show the spatial and energy
dependences of measured vignetting, outlining assumptions made in deriving the
eventual agreement between simulation and measurement. Alternate methods to
confirm these are described, including an assessment of source elongation with
off-axis angle, the surface brightness distribution of the diffuse X-ray
background, and the consistency of Coma cluster emission at different position
angles. A synthesis of these measurements leads to a change in the XMM
calibration data base, for the optical axis of two of the three telescopes, by
in excess of 1 arcminute. This has a small but measureable effect on the
assumed spectral responses of the cameras for on-axis targets.Comment: Accepted by Experimental Astronomy. 26 pages, 18 figure
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