Detection limits and observing strategy for very faint point sources

SAI/96-188/Doc
Version 1.0
30 August 1996

Prepared by
R.J. Laureijs, P. Ábrahám, U. Herbstmeier, U. Klaas, T. Müller,
and by the ISOPHOT Instrument Dedicated Team

• Contents
• Introduction
• Limitations
  • Overview of in-flight sensitivity limits
  • Observational limitations
    • Detector drift
    • Glitches
    • Other effects
• Recommendations on the observing strategy
  • Selection of the observing mode
  • Optimising observation parameters
• Reference documents