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FORS2: Sky Flats and Rotator Effect


Median Twilight Image

(all frames normalized by their median before averaging; frames before April 2002 corrected for 4-port structure)

Median of Normalized Twilight Images at Rotator Angle 0 Median of Normalized Twilight Images at Random Rotator Angle Time Frame and Rotator Angle Distribution

B_UT1_2CCD: 256 frames

June 2004 - December 2005

(distribution of rotator angles)

U_UT1_2CCD: 264 frames

June 2004 - December 2005

(distribution of rotator angles)

       

B_UT4_2CCD: 289 frames

April 2002 - October 2003

(distribution of rotator angles)

U_UT4_2CCD: 199 frames

April 2002 - October 2003

(distribution of rotator angles)

       

(uncorrected median twilight image)

B_UT4: 199 frames

June 2001 - March 2002

(distribution of rotator angles)

(uncorrected median twilight image)

U_UT4: 117 frames

June 2001 - November 2001

(distribution of rotator angles)

       

(uncorrected median twilight image)

B_UT2_B: 125 frames

December 2000 - May 2001

(distribution of rotator angles)

(uncorrected median twilight image)

U_UT2_B: 88 frames

December 2000 - May 2001

(distribution of rotator angles)

       

(uncorrected median twilight image)

B_UT2_A: 155 frames

May 2000 - December 2000

(distribution of rotator angles)