This is the FULL plot for the efficiency of the GIRAFFE arclamp. We display the QC1 parameter lamp_effic which is the average (mean intensity/EXPTIME) flux of all emission lines, in ADU/sec, for all fibres except for the SIMCAL fibres.

This plot monitors the HC data taken in high resolution (H525.8B, all slits, box 1-5) and low resolution (L543.1, Medusa1 and 2 only, boxes 6 and 7).

Sufficient flux in the arclamp exposures is quite critical for the quality of the dispersion solution. An intensity drop increases the rms of the dispersion solution significantly (see rms plot under "wavelength calibration", around epoch 2007-10).