List of Figures

• 2.1. The layout of ISOCAM
• 2.2. ISOCAM raster observation of M51
• 2.3. ISOCAM detectors
• 2.4. Gallery of LW saturation remnants
• 2.5. Correspondence between wheel step numbers and optical components
• 4.1. LW2 photometry of HIC 89474 as a function of time since activation
• 4.2. LW2 photometry of HIC 89474 throughout the mission, corrected for the trend in orbit
• 4.3. LW dark frame
• 4.4. Evolution of 2.1 sec LW dark during the ISO lifetime
• 4.5. Difference of the mean dark currents of the odd and even line pixels of the LW detector
• 4.6. Examples of the three main glitch families
• 4.7. Upward and downward steps of flux for CAM LW
• 4.8. Transient responses in the Fouks-Schubert model
• 4.9. Comparison of the 1-D and 3-D transient model
• 4.10. Transient model for a `large' PSF
• 4.11. An example of the short term transient and the long term transient for LW detectors
• 4.12. Raster observation suffering from long term transients and the correction
• 4.13. Four examples of zodiacal background flat-fields in the LW3 filter
• 4.14. PSF measurements on different regions of the detector for the 3 $^{\prime \prime }$ pfov
• 4.15. PSF measurements on different regions of the detector for the 6 $^{\prime \prime }$ pfov
• 4.16. Comparison of the measured and the modelled PSF for the LW9 filter and the 3 $^{\prime \prime }$ pfov
• 4.17. FWHMs of the modelled PSFs
• 4.18. FWHMs of the measured PSFs
• 4.19. Distribution of pointing jitter offsets
• 4.20. The SW CVF SRF within its $\pm 1 \sigma$ confidence band
• 4.21. Different LW SRF determinations based on the observations of 4 calibration stars
• 4.22. Ghost images in three CVF observations of $\delta$ Draconis
• 4.23. The spectral dependency of the ghost reflections
• 4.24. An image of the zodiacal background taken with the CVF
• 4.25. The so-called `two-lung' shaped ghosts
• 4.26. A typical field distortion pattern
• 4.27. Wavelength dependency of the field distortion
• 4.28. Positional uncertainty due to the lens wheel jitter
• A.1. Spectral transmission $R(\lambda )$ of the SW channel of ISOCAM
• A.2. Spectral transmission $R(\lambda )$ of the LW channel of ISOCAM
• E.1. An example of deglitching in OLP
• E.2. Glitch with very long duration
• E.3. Glitch with a negative tail
• F.1. Example of a long term transient
• F.2. Examples of glitches with memory effects
• F.3. Example of a mosaic image after different steps in the SLICE processing
• F.4. Comparison of OLP and SLICE processing