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Bit definition for IRAC *_bimsk.fits

Bit #    Condition
---	 --------------------------------------------
  0	 Reserved for Boolean mask (or if best practice bits set, data quality)
  1	 Reserved for future use
  2	 Optical ghost flag (to be set by post-BCD tool)
  3	 Stray light flag (to be set by post-BCD tool)
  4	 Donut (saturation) detection flag (to be set by post-BCD tool)
  5	 Muxbleed flag (to be set by post-BCD tool)
  6	 Banding flag (to be set by post-BCD tool)
  7	 Pulldown flag (to be set by post-BCD tool)
  8	 Crosstalk flag (bit 13 of dmask)
  9	 Cosmic ray hit (bit 9 of dmask, single frame radhit detection)
 10	 Latent flag (bit 5 of dmask)
 11	 Not flat-field corrected (bit 8 of dmask)
 12	 Data not very linear (to be set by future pipeline module)
 13	 Saturated (bit 10 of dmask)
 14	 Data bad and/or missing (bit 14 OR bit 11 of dmask)

Spitzer Post-BCD Mosaicer: Input parameter for Imasks

DCE_Status_Mask_Fatal_BitPattern = 32520 (bits 3, 8-14)

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