Contents

• Introduction
• Pre-launch experience
  • Saturation limits of ISOCAM
  • Saturation of LW for sources brighter than (0.6 Jy)
    • Saturation when arriving on-target
    • Optimisation of transient behaviours
  • The missing column (LW)
  • Recommendation to avoid Tint=0.28s, where possible.
  • SW flash mode
• Lessons learned in space
  • The effects of cosmic particle hits
  • Detector memory effects.
  • Memory effects due to field stop when using 12"/pixel field-of-view.
  • Blockage of Column 0 or 31 using the 6" pfov lens.
  • Shifts in source position associated with changes in optical configuration
  • Flat fields
  • Sensitivities
  • Use of Micro-scanning versus beam switching
  • CAM04 - CVF Spectral Observations
  • CAM05 - Polarization
• Observing strategies: up-dates
  • Saturation of LW for bright ( 0.6 Jy) sources
    • Details of Parallel mode
    • Overview of the Solution
    • A Schematic Example
    • Optimisation of transient behaviours
  • The missing column (LW)
    • Description of the problem
    • Suggested Solutions
• Observing time estimates
  • ISOCAM time estimator
  • The number of exposures (N )
    • Limits of N values
    • Synchronisation
  • Pointing overhead
  • Slew times
• Correction note: page by page
• Example of PGA entries
  • CAM01 - Single poiting observation
    • Old PGA entry
    • New PGA entry
  • CAM03 - Beam-switching
    • Old PGA entry
    • New PGA entry
  • CAM04 - Example for the CVF Spectral Observations
    • Old PGA entry
    • New PGA entry
  • Example for a chain of concatenated AOTs
    • Old PGA entry on target position #1
    • New PGA entry
• Acknowledgement
• Saturation Tables