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Table 1

FWHM of the PACS PSF for several important cases.

Mode AMA BS 70 μm BS 100 μm R 160 μm



FWHM PA FWHM PA FWHM PA
° ° ° °
Prime 10″s−1 +63 5.20× 5.56 6.54 × 6.78 10.38 × 11.97 6.1
Prime 20″s−1 +63 5.41 × 5.72 6.66 × 6.89 10.55 × 12.08 9.1
Prime 60″s−1 +63 5.70 × 9.05 61.7 6.84 × 9.81 61.8 11.39 × 13.37 41.2
Parallel 20″s−1 +42 5.44 × 6.51 30.8 6.62 × 7.44 31.1 10.29 × 12.20 8.5
Parallel 20″s−1 −42 5.31 × 6.68 −26.5 6.53 × 7.56 −27.0 10.37 × 12.27 −3.4
Parallel 60″s−1 +42 5.85 × 12.58 43.7 6.99 × 13.15 43.9 10.90 × 14.09 27.7
Parallel 60″s−1 −42 5.69 × 12.74 −36.9 6.87 × 13.41 −37.1 11.01 × 14.53 −23.7

Parallel 20″s−1 +42,−42 5.74 × 6.26 0.4 6.98 × 7.42 −2.9 10.46 × 12.27 3.1
Parallel 60″s−1 +42,−42 8.80 × 9.60 −4.4 9.73 × 10.69 −3.8 11.51 × 13.65 5.3

Notes. Two-dimensional Gaussian fits were used to derive the FWHM for the small and large axes. For noticeably non-round PSF cores, the position angle east of the spacecraft Z direction is noted. The array to map angle (AMA) of the scan is also specified. The maps used to derive the FWHM were created by photProject with a map pixel size 1″ and pixfrac=1. Entries above the line refer to single direction scans, showing the in-scan elongation for fast scan and for Parallel mode. Entries below the line refer to co-added Parallel mode crossed scans, where a cross-like PSF emerges from co-adding the two elongated PSFs.

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