Astrometric properties
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Astrometric fits and residuals |
Catalogue generation
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A description of the catalogue content |
Crosstalk
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Data Processing
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Information related to data processing and various VISTA documents |
Detector dark current
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Day and night time measurements of dark current |
Filter Set
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Filter transmission curves, detector QE characteristics and AB magnitude conversions |
Flat Stability
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Summary of the behaviour of flats along the VISTA timeline and across the detector units. |
Known Issues
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Summary of known issues on VISTA data |
Linearity/saturation
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Overview of detector linearity measures and saturation |
Naming Convention
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Persistence
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Photometric properties
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Recent measurements of photometric properties |
Pixel sizes
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Variation of x-y pixel scale as a function of position |
Sky brightness variation
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Measured sky brightness from recent VISTA observations |
Sky subtraction
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Description of sky subtraction strategies and algorithms |
Spikes and Halos
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VISTA bright stars suffer two types of artefact produced by the telescope optics |
Stacking
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Analysis of noise properties on stacked images |
The VISTA Autoguider: predicting magnitudes from 2MASS photometry
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The results of comparing 2MASS (JHK) and SDSS (i') photometry |
Tile Generation
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Description on tile images, how they are created and issues. |
VISTA gain/read noise
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Recent VISTA read and gain noise measurements |
VISTA performance
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VISTA re-acquisition test
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Offsets in re-acquiring the same field from night-to-night |
VISTA sensitivity and Colour terms
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Throughput and sensitivity, ab-initio versus reality and colour terms |