ETC Request ID: STIS.im.720208

Exposure time (seconds) = 1.5000

gives: SNR = 620.3221

gives: Time to Saturation (for a single exposure) = 1.94 seconds

gives: Optimum SNR = 699.1545

Exposure time calculation HAD WARNINGS.

WARNING MESSAGE: "Electrons per pixel due to background (0.034) is less than the recommended threshold of 20 electrons to avoid poor charge transfer efficiency (CTE). We suggest you consider CTE mitigation strategies described in the STIS Instrument Handbook."



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Detailed Information Count rate Total counts Associated noise
(e-/s) (e-) (e-)
Counts (circle with radius 0.231 arcsec)
    Source 262,836.984 394,255.48 627.90
    Background 4.524 6.79 2.60
        Sky 3.251 4.88 2.21
        Dark Current 1.273 1.91 1.38
    Read Out 98.39
Total in selected region 262,841.507 394,262.26 635.57
Brightest Pixel (single exposure) 61,722.752 46,292.06

Global Count Rates
    Source only 328,546.230 492,819.344
    Background (sky+dark) 47,816.621 71,724.93

Background per unit area
    Sky Background (arcsec-2) 19.457 29.186
    Dark Current (arcsec-2) 7.600 11.400

Extraction region
circle with radius 0.231 arcsec
    Effective Sky Area (pixels) 66.83
    Fraction of flux 0.80
    Fraction of flux in brightest pixel 0.19
Effective Wavelength 7225.94 Å


Instrument name: STIS
Mode: imaging
Detector: CCD
Aperture: F28X50LP
Gain: 4.0
# Frames: 2
Binning: 1
Dark:


Target: [point source]
Spectrum: Kurucz Models K0V 5250 4.5
Extinction E(B-V): None
Normalization: Renormalized to vegamag = 11.76 in filter Johnson/V
Redshift: None
Emission Lines: None


Selected background:
  Sky Background:
    Level:


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These results were computed using: ETC version 23.2