ETC Request ID: STIS.sp.640591

Exposure time (seconds) = 0.1000 at wavelength 4451.00 Å

gives: SNR = 7.2024 (per resolution element)

gives: Time to Saturation (for a single exposure) = 51.55 seconds

Exposure time calculation HAD WARNINGS.

WARNING MESSAGE: Result of the calculation 0.05 is less than the minimum exposure time for this detector (0.1)

WARNING MESSAGE: "Electrons per pixel due to background (0.00085) 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."


Table of Source and Noise Counts per Pixel


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Detailed Information Count rate Total counts Associated noise
(e-/s) (e-) (e-)
Counts (box 7 pixels high) (1 pix x pix) (2.0 pix resel x pix)
    Source 1,204.680 240.94 15.52
    Background 0.119 0.02 0.15
        Sky 8.964e-08 1.79e-08 1.34e-04
        Dark Current 0.119 0.02 0.15
    Read Out 29.63
Total in selected region 1,204.799 240.96 33.45
Brightest Pixel (single exposure) (at 5308.40 Å) 640.206 32.01

Global Count Rates
    Source only 957,695.004 95,769.500
    Background (sky+dark) 17,825.792 1,782.58

Encircled energy fraction 0.93


Instrument name: STIS
Mode: spectroscopic
Detector: CCD
Central Wavelength:
Grating: [G430L] R ~ 500
Aperture: 0.3X0.05ND
Gain: 1.0
# Frames: 2
Binning: dispersion: 1, spatial: 1
Dark:


Target: [point source]
Spectrum: Castelli-Kurucz Models K0V 5250 4.5
Extinction E(B-V): None
Normalization: Renormalized to vegamag = 1.33 in filter Johnson/V
Redshift: None
Emission Lines: None


Selected background:
  Sky Background:
    Level:

Table of Source and Noise Counts per Pixel


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These results were computed using: ETC version 22.2