The NICMOS flight software supports several detector readout modes, which take advantage of the non-destructive read capabilities of the detectors to yield the optimum signal to noise for science observations. These modes are presented in detail in this chapter. In describing these, we introduce the nomenclature used to command each of the modes in the Phase II proposal instructions.
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