ADR 0002: flux and detector normalization
Status: accepted
Optical engines return a non-negative photon-rate map in photons/s/native
detector pixel. A configured direct rate is interpreted at the detector surface;
magnitude normalization delegates to getframes radiometry. Fourier transforms
are unitary, and finite detector cropping reports captured flux instead of
renormalizing it. getframes.Camera.expose (or its optional
expose_spectral cube variant) is the only boundary that applies QE, shot
noise, read noise, gain, saturation, and digitization.