LWS PERFORMANCE UPDATE

OVERVIEW - Brief Discussion of Topics below

Instrument Performance Update:

Wavelength Accuracy of the LWS

Changes in NEP and Signal-to-Noise

The True Beam Size

Grating Range Scans

Data Quality and Reduction Issues:

Cosmic Ray Glitches

Fringes in LWS Data

Last update: August 1998

Steve Lord -- lord@heaven.ipac.caltech.edu