SIRTF IRAC Test Data, Ghost Image Data
Ghost Image
This is a crosstalk between channels affect.
A bright point source in one channel causes a ghost image in another channel that
is not viewing the source. The worst case is a source in channel 3 causing a ghost
in channel 4 of 0.04% of the channel 3 intensity (according to Hora et al). SSC
will provide an estimate of the level.
To create our test ghost images we took a 256 x 256 pixel section in the lower left
corner of the big WFPC2 image (x=50, y=50) and for channels 1, 2, & 3, multiplied
the intensity by 0.01%. For channel 4, we multiplied the intensity by 0.04%.