On-orbit Calibration of the Carruthers GCI: Radiometric Sensitivity

arXiv:2606.22705 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-08-15 · Read on arXiv

Alex Zhang, Heather Filippini, Gonzalo Cucho-Padin, Lara Waldrop, John Clarke, Pratik Joshi, Parisa Karimi, Martin M. Sirk

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-08-15

Updated: 2026-08-18

Comments: Preprint, under review at Space Science Reviews

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 47× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Aperture — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Regularization — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fidelity — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• International Ultraviolet Explorer — 2× in this paper
• Inverse Problem — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Narrow Field Imager — 2× in this paper
• Wide Field Imager — 2× in this paper
• alpha — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• General Catalogue of Variable Stars — 1× in this paper
• Next Generation Spectral Library — 1× in this paper

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