Category | Requirement | Performance | |
Point Source Catalog | |||
Photometric sensitivity | 10- at 15.8, 15.1, 14.3 mag at J, H, Ks respectively for |b|>10° | met for full unconfused sky; exceeded for most of sky |
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Photometric uniformity | <4% maximum bias in photometric zeropoint around the sky | <2% achieved | |
Photometric precision | <5% 1- for bright stars unsaturated in the 1.3 s exposure | <3% achieved | |
Astrometric accuracy | <0.5´´ 1- relative to the reference frame | <0.1´´ achieved | |
Completeness | >0.99 at 10- sensitivity limits | met | |
Reliability | >0.9995 | 0.9997 demonstrated in test areas;
no known source of unreliability in excess of specification |
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Bright star photometry (Read_1, rd_flg=1) |
<2% bias at Read_1 saturation limit (Ks~4.0 mag) <5% 1- repeatability at Read_1 faint limit (Ks~8.0 mag) <10% 1- repeatability at Read_1 saturation limit (Ks~4.0 mag) |
<4% at worst
2% achieved
2% achieved |
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Extended Source Catalog | |||
Photometric sensitivity | 10- at J<15.0, H<14.2, Ks<13.5 mag | met | |
Photometric precision | <10% 1- repeatability for H<13.8 mag | 7-10% achieved | |
Photometric uniformity | <10% maximum bias around sky | <4% achieved | |
Completeness | >0.90 for |b|>30° | met | |
Reliability | >0.80 for 10°<|b|<20° >0.99 for |b|>20° |
achieved 0.93-0.95 achieved 0.992-0.995 |
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General Survey | |||
Sky coverage | >95% | 99.998% imaged; 99.5% coverage in point sources; 98% coverage in extended source |
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Other Information | |||
Galactic Plane performance | No Requirements |