Documentations for RECTE¶
RECTE (Ramp Effect Charge Trapping Eliminator) models and corrects one of the most prominent HST/WFC3/IR systematics – the so-called “ramp effect”. The goals of this model are to improve the precision and efficiency in HST/WFC3/IR time-resolved observations. We detailed the motivations, assumptions, derivations, and applications in Zhou et al. (2017).
We also provide a python package for RECTE. This python package can be easily incorporated with exisiting HST/WFC3/IR time-resolved data reduction pipelines. This document demonstrate the installation, usage, and applications for this package. We have also prepared a few Jupyter notebooks for cookbook-style demonstrations.
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please file an issue on github or drop the developer an email.
RECTE has been used in many refereed publications, you can find the list of references here.
If you find this model useful, please consider citing
@article{Zhou2017,
author = {Zhou, Yifan and Apai, D{\'{a}}niel and Lew, Ben W. P. and Schneider, Glenn H},
doi = {10.3847/1538-3881/aa6481},
issn = {1538-3881},
journal = {AJ},
month = {mar},
number = {6},
pages = {243},
title = {{A Physical Model-based Correction for Charge Traps in the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 Near-IR Detector and Applications to Transiting Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs}},
volume = {153},
year = {2017}
}