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Field-distortion Correction

The ISAAC instrument exhibits field distortion amounting to 2.5 pixels in the corners of the detector. If not corrected, mosaics with large dithers have multiple images in the overlap regions. Therefore recipes resample the image applying the published polynomial mapping. This correction also improves the registration. The sky co-ordinates are also corrected for the distortion.
[ISAAC/_DEFINE_DISTORTION_TRANSFORMATION_,
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ORAC-DR -- imaging data reduction
Starlink User Note 232
Malcolm J. Currie
Brad Cavanagh
Joint Astronomy Centre, Hilo, Hawaii
2004 June
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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